ICYMI: Degen Meetup 2.0 in Singapore is happening on Friday, Sept 20, 2024

Hosted by TON Voices advisor Luke Belmar, this full-day event brings together four of the biggest internet communities: Capital Club, TON Society, Jupiter, and CORE.

Enjoy insightful keynotes, deep dives into decentralization, and the chance to connect with crypto’s top minds. Hear from speakers like Jack Booth, TON Society Co-Founder, Ian Wittkopp, Partner at TON Ventures, and Vlad Kamyshov, CEO of EVAA Protocol.

Less than 100 NFT tickets are now available. Don’t miss your chance to be part of one of crypto's hottest events. Buy your ticket now!

The TBook Campaign Quest is Live: Learn and Earn!

Learn by earning with a DeFi strategy shared in Thursday’s livestream by Vlad, the DeFi Lead at TON Foundation. Farm yield, earn SBTs, and unlock exclusive airdrops.

Join the Late Night DeFi Campaign on TON and engage with six top-tier projects in staking, borrowing, lending, and trading. Earn SBTs and claim the TON Society airdrop with @tbookincentive.

Don't miss your chance to be part of TON's DeFi revolution — start your journey now!

Join the Global Hackers League Bootcamps!

19 cities, 3 days, real-world connections, and the chance to build the next unicorn apps. Join one of the 19 IRL Hackers League Bootcamps happening worldwide, starting from October 11th. Meet, pitch, and compete in the $2M online TON Hackathon.

Find your city and get started!

❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!

Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.

This was surprising for several reasons: 

1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”. 

2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.

3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. 

Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.

Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.

All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.

However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon. 

I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes ?

TON Events Digest ?

Featuring TON events that are happening offline and online around the globe during this week ?

This week is the week of Korea ??*TON is presented with a booth at the main conference and is featured across numerous side events.
? Summit: Blum, Yescoin, TONX & TON Innovators ? Click
?TON @Korea Blockchian Week ? Click
?TON Asia - Seoul ? Click
?TON Discovery Day (Helena is speaking here) ?*** Click

Not only that, but there is also the EthWarsaw conference happening where TON Syndicate ambassadors are hosting a great line up of the events.
*? Cookie3 x NOKS x TON Poland @ ETHWarsaw ? Click
? Teleport to TON Warsaw ? Click
? Gaming. Redefined: Warsaw. Elympics on TON ?*** Click

TON Syndicate members are also hosting:*? TON Vietnam 1st Builders' Meetup: Open the gateway for TON builders ?*** Click

?? TON Society Hong Kong hosted an AMA with Binance
? TON Society CIS are hosting a Silent SBT campaign

Live streaming from the Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul *❤️***
Nick, the CEO at TBook is talking with Ekin, the founder of TON Society and Helena, the Head of Community at TON Society.

Tune in right now on Telegram, X, or Youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKguAP9hxgU

YouTube

Korea Blockchain Week | TON Society and TBook Live Talk

TON Society chatting with TBook about Korea, DeFi, next activations, and activists.

Digital Resistance Space #FREEDUROV

Listen the TON France activists space with @redotoken and Mahdi Farimani, founder of Onton now.

https://x.com/ton_france/status/1829202472768024800

*? There’re 3 million of us so far*

We defend our freedom and nobody can stop us!

Join #DigitalResistance and sign the Open Letter now: https://t.me/tgresistancebot/letter

Everyone’s voice matters.

#FREEDUROV✊

TON x Arkham AMAIn May, TON partnered with Arkham, a blockchain analytics platform,to bring useful crypto data to millions through a Telegram Mini App.

Join us this Wednesday at 16:00 UTC to learn why Arkham deployed a Telegram Mini App and what opportunities does Arkham provide for researchers, builders, and the TON Ecosystem.

Speakers:
▪️Miguel Morel, Arkham Co-Founder & CEO
▪️Ekin Tuna, Director of Growth at TON Foundation
▪️Ömür Çataltepe, Global BD Lead at TON Foundation

? June 12, 2024. 16:00 UTC

??? Set a reminder here.