{"id":43219,"date":"2021-05-26T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43219"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:40:31","slug":"forklog-releases-guide-to-the-free-ton-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/forklog-releases-guide-to-the-free-ton-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"ForkLog releases guide to the Free TON ecosystem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ForkLog presents a special project, &#8216;The Heir to Telegram Open Network: how Free TON works a year after the mainnet launch&#8217;. We studied Free TON, the successor to Pavel Durov&#8217;s blockchain project, and gathered all the most important details about its key elements. From the series you will learn:<\/p>\n<ul class=\\\"wp-block-list\\\">\n<li>why Free TON is, in fact, several interconnected blockchains of different types.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\\\"wp-block-list\\\">\n<li>how validators work and how to participate in staking TON Crystal through depools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\\\"wp-block-list\\\">\n<li>why contests are needed in Free TON, and how to become a participant or a judge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\\\"wp-block-list\\\">\n<li>how the community develops the project through sub-governances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a separate article we provide a list of useful links for anyone who wants to learn more about Free TON, join the community, or become a project partner.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, entrepreneur Pavel Durov planned to create a blockchain platform Telegram Open Network (TON) and integrate it with the Telegram messenger.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the network in October 2019 was hindered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result, Durov announced Telegram&#8217;s withdrawal from the TON project, though its developers managed to publish the source code for all major elements of the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, more than twenty organizations and teams, some of which had participated in TON&#8217;s development, founded Free TON. The main network of the new project was launched on May 7, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ForkLog presents a special project &#8216;The Heir to Telegram Open Network: how Free TON works a year after the mainnet launch&#8217;. We studied Free TON, the successor to Pavel Durov&#8217;s blockchain project, and gathered all the most important details about its key elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"3","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1777,1422],"class_list":["post-43219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-everscale","tag-toncoin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"3","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43219","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=43219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43221,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43219\/revisions\/43221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}