⭐️ TON goes into summer mode
⚫️ By mid-summer, crypto activity has predictably slowed down, and TON is no exception. After the loud MTONGA announcements, the ecosystem has shifted into wait-and-see mode: major product launches have become rare, while Pavel Durov is busy with another court hearing in France over the Telegram case.
⚫️ Things have also gone quieter on the core development side. The community has already noticed that after the announcement of TON Foundation’s dissolution, activity in TON’s main GitHub repository dropped noticeably. Still, some updates are happening.
⚫️ For example, a mandatory update for validators and node operators is scheduled for July 13, and a validator vote on new parameters is expected on July 15. The main part of the release is a new data exchange mechanism between nodes: TON should start passing information through the network faster, making the sub-second transactions launched in April more stable.
⚫️ There is also a small but welcome update around TON Sites. ENS domains like example.eth can now point to websites hosted on TON infrastructure. In other words, the owner of a .eth domain can use it as an entry point to a TON site.
⚫️ Other than that, there is not much to discuss for now. No wonder even the intern behind Telegram’s X account has switched to TikTok, where they are posting clips of themselves playing Counter-Strike. Well, it looks like the whole ecosystem has really entered summer mode — so we recommend you taking a break too. Judging by the news cycle, now is probably the best time.
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