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2026-05-06 21:57:44 UTC

CapitMonet on Nostr: Telegram just replaced the TON Foundation and became the network’s largest ...

Telegram just replaced the TON Foundation and became the network’s largest validator.

Fees dropped 6x. New dev tools. New infrastructure. All announced by Durov in a single post.

The market priced it +60% in a week.

The pitch:
consumer crypto at internet scale.
Hundreds of millions of Telegram users with wallets, bots, mini apps, and near-zero transaction costs already in their pocket.

The catch:
Durov says Telegram becoming the largest validator “strengthens decentralization.”

That sentence is doing a lot of work.

TON was always a distribution story.
Now it’s also a governance story.

And increasingly, the same entity controls both.

#TON #Telegram #Crypto