Basics
What TON is, how the network works, foundations and first steps.
24 articles
- Basics May 16, 2026
Gas Stations on TON: Battery, Gasless and W5
How USDT moves on TON without holding TON: Tonkeeper Battery, @wallet Gasless flow, W5 sponsored transactions, and how it compares to ERC-4337 paymasters.
- Basics May 16, 2026
How to sell TON and cash out: 2026 guide
Five working routes to sell TON for fiat in 2026: Crypto Bot P2P, Wallet in Telegram, centralised exchanges, DEX-to-off-ramp, and OTC. Fees and risks compared.
- Basics May 16, 2026
How TON Sharding Works — 2026 Guide
Masterchain, workchains and shardchains: how TON splits load, dynamic split/merge, how Catchain differs from standard PoS, and what users actually feel.
- Basics May 16, 2026
TEP-74: TON Jetton Standard Deep Dive
Technical deep dive into TEP-74: jetton master + wallet pattern, transfer messages, forward fees, mint/burn, get-methods, and how jetton differs from ERC-20.
- Basics May 16, 2026
TON Storage and TON Proxy: the decentralized web in 2026
How TON's decentralized-web stack works — Storage, Proxy, .ton sites, the economics of paid hosting and an honest take on real adoption in 2026.
- Basics May 16, 2026
Tonviewer vs TonScan: which explorer to choose
Comparing TON's two main block explorers in 2026: UX, data depth, APIs, failed-tx debugging and phishing trace workflows. Decision matrix per use case.
- Basics May 16, 2026
USDT on TON: complete guide 2026
How the USDT jetton on TON works, how it differs from ERC-20 and Tron USDT, where to use it, how gas is paid, and which risks to keep in mind.
- Basics May 16, 2026
What is a jetton and how it works: 2026 guide
Jetton is the TON token standard. How it differs from ERC-20, what jetton-master and jetton-wallet do, how to verify authenticity, and why DEXes use pTON.
- Basics May 14, 2026
Acton v1.0 — Foundry for TON: the complete guide (2026)
Acton v1.0 from TON Foundation shipped on May 11, 2026: a single Rust CLI that replaces blueprint, sandbox, Misti and func.
- Basics May 14, 2026
Tolk: TON smart contract language — intro for FunC/Tact devs
Tolk is the next-gen TON smart contract language and Acton's default. TypeScript-style syntax, strong typing, pattern matching.
- Basics May 14, 2026
ton.app: TON ecosystem catalogue in 2026
What ton.app is, how to use it to find legitimate TON apps, how to avoid phishing clones, and how publishers can get listed in the catalogue.
- Basics May 14, 2026
What you can buy with TON: real services in 2026
Where TON is actually spent in 2026: Telegram NFT gifts, .ton domains, Premium, SMM, P2P freelance, gaming, donations, merch, charity.
- Basics Apr 22, 2026
How to buy TON (Toncoin) in 2026: 5 routes
Spot exchanges, P2P, on-ramps, in-wallet purchase and USDT swaps — fees, limits and KYC trade-offs side by side for a global buyer.
- Basics Mar 10, 2026
History of TON: from the Gram ICO failure to the 2026 ecosystem
How Telegram raised $1.7B in the Gram ICO, lost to the SEC and left the blockchain to the community. The full TON timeline from 2017 to the 2026 ecosystem
- Basics Feb 19, 2026
TON fees: how they're calculated and why so low (2026)
What makes up a TON fee — gas, storage, forward, action. Real 2026 numbers, comparison with Ethereum and Solana, how to save and why TON is cheap.
- Basics Feb 16, 2026
TON mainnet vs testnet: what they are and how to switch
How TON mainnet differs from testnet, how to switch Tonkeeper to testnet, where to get free testnet TON and why developers and curious users care about the.
- Basics Feb 14, 2026
What is TON: a complete guide to the Toncoin blockchain
Architecture of The Open Network, differences from Ethereum, the Telegram connection, Toncoin tokenomics and the current state of the ecosystem
- Basics Feb 4, 2026
TON Connect: what it is, why it matters and how it works
TON Connect is the standard linking wallets to dApps on TON. How the protocol works, supporting wallets, the difference from WalletConnect
- Basics Jan 28, 2026
How to create a TON wallet in 5 minutes: step-by-step
Set up a TON wallet from scratch — Wallet in Telegram, Tonkeeper, MyTonWallet. Comparison, seed-phrase verification
- Basics Jan 17, 2026
Why TON is not EVM-compatible and what it means for users
TON uses TVM instead of the Ethereum Virtual Machine — why it was designed that way, what it costs and gains the user, and which TON-EVM bridges exist in 2026.
- Basics Jan 12, 2026
.ton domains: how to register, sell and use them in 2026
A complete guide to TON DNS: dns.ton.org auctions, prices, 0.015 TON renewal, NFT-domains, selling on Fragment and getgems.io, and Telegram usernames.
- Basics Jan 6, 2026
Reading TON transactions in TonScan: 2026 guide
Walking through TonScan and Tonviewer step by step: how to find a transaction by hash, what every field means, how to read messages, jetton transfers
- Basics Dec 23, 2025
TON for developers: FunC, Tact and Tolk in 2026
The smart contract languages used on TON in 2026 — FunC, Tact, Tolk. Which to pick as a beginner, how they differ, what tooling you need and where to learn.
- Basics Dec 14, 2025
How to bridge from Ethereum to TON: a user's guide
A practical guide for Ethereum users: moving USDT, ETH and other tokens to TON via bridges, which wallets to use