{"id":20974,"date":"2025-02-07T10:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/community-outraged-by-strengthening-of-tons-monopoly-in-telegram\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:31:47","slug":"community-outraged-by-strengthening-of-tons-monopoly-in-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/community-outraged-by-strengthening-of-tons-monopoly-in-telegram\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Outraged by Strengthening of TON’s ‘Monopoly’ in Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telegram developers have mandated that all third-party crypto wallets must exclusively use the TON Connect protocol to connect to The Open Network. This was disclosed by a representative of the TON Foundation to Cointelegraph<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new requirement is part of an exclusive agreement<\/a>, under which all mini-apps in the messenger’s ecosystem can only use the TON blockchain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Third-party developers must implement the changes by February 21, including contract migration and asset bridging. After this date, support for all protocols except TON Connect will cease.<\/p>\n

Applications with cross-chain functionality will not be banned.<\/p>\n

The TON Connect<\/a> protocol is a “universal authorization standard” for interaction between applications and the TON blockchain. It allows users to log in using a wallet instead of the standard login and password combination.<\/p>\n

According to a TON Foundation representative, the changes will not affect the Wallet offered to Telegram users as the default option:<\/p>\n

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“The Wallet in Telegram will not be affected as it is based on TON and only supports TON Connect for interaction with dapps<\/span>.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some third-party developers have expressed frustration over both the exclusive restrictions and the timeline for implementing the changes.<\/p>\n

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“The fact that they gave their partners \u2014 developers working on Telegram \u2014 only a few days to adapt makes the process quite challenging. This could significantly undermine trust in Telegram and what it once represented,” noted Tim Delhaes, founder of the mini-app Grindery Wallet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to him, the team is considering the prospect of leaving the ecosystem, even though their product meets the requirements.<\/p>\n

Back in January, the TON team reported<\/a> on the number of wallets and the earnings of mini-app developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Telegram developers have mandated that all third-party crypto wallets must exclusively use the TON Connect protocol to connect to The Open Network. This was disclosed by a representative of the TON Foundation to Cointelegraph.\u00a0 The new requirement is part of an exclusive agreement, under which all mini-apps in the messenger’s ecosystem can only use the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[130,1138,723,1364],"class_list":["post-20974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-decentralization","tag-opinions","tag-telegram","tag-the-open-network"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"86","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}