Opinion by: Tracy Jin, Chief Operating Officer of Mexc
While the Ethereum remains the main infrastructure for the Defi and Smart contract innovation, it still has not resolved its most important promise: mass adoption. After nearly a decade of development, Ethereum-based apps are very complex, fragmented and expensive for the average user.
The open network (ton) rises in a completely different future, and that is already present inside the Telegram.
Over 900 million users worldwideThe Telegram is the largest active layer of society in crypto, and ton is the only blockchain native to it. This is not just about the development of decentralized applications; It’s about making Web3 lose UX in the best possible way.
From the concept to the layer of culture
Blockchain was conceived in 2018 to include the Telegram’s messaging platform, TON took the time to establish a foothold because infrastructure and ecosystems were built. By 2024, the ecosystem had experienced a parabolic adoption curve, assisted by Tether’s decision in May to launch USDT (USDT) in the chain.
This year, Ton has strengthened its position as an important cog in the Omnichein scene. A major purse upgrade in March helped, adding trade and ton staking for more than 100 million telegram wallet users. In the last two years, Ton has also introduced important infrastructure to tons of DNS, storage and ton proxy, which supports decentralized domains, storage and privacy solutions.
Today, the open network is comfortable fulfilling the promise of stealing the extensive Telegram user base to the Million -million web3 in a way that feels more on the web2. More than 150 million accounts were created on tons, with the network average of 2 million sun -day -day transactions. The number of active monthly wallets also stands around 2-million marks. These are solid benchmarks, but they do not make tons the most popular blockchain ecosystem. Not yet.
What ton is different
Tonnely does not sell an ecosystem. It provides tools to the user that they already know how to use, with a crypto running under the hood. The Telegram Wallet, now available to millions of users around the world, turns tokens from speculative instruments to available units within chats, channels, games and P2P experiences.
What do we know about the future of crypto onboarding and sunny use? It gets effortlessly -, and most current friction points, from gas fees to private key storage, can be avoided. It does not require a crystal ball to glean it. Internet history tells you that web3 will follow the web2 arch: better UX, less complexity and deep integration and integration -with products and services in a single interface.
What else do we know about the next wave of a blockchain-focused blockchain adoption? It is driven by the chains that abstract complexity – uninhabited -onboarding – and fast, inexpensive and deeply integrated with existing web2 platforms. These are the characteristics that the first generations of intelligent contract chains such as the Ethereum, which are members of a multi-year scaling challenge, cannot provide. Nor can it be called the next Gen chains that are highly measured but lack of a web2 distribution channel. Only tons, with its native integration in the billion-powerful telegram messenger, defines all of these boxes.
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We bring it back to mini apps, the key to mainstreaming tons. If there is an advantage the blockchain has more than its rivals, it is a native integration with the 900-million base of the telegram user. Mini apps, such as Notcoin, Hamster Kombat and Catizen, are onboard millions of users, many of which they do not realize that they have begun to use blockchain infrastructure. These are the real stress tests in the world what can look like scalable, low-friction web3.
While Ethereum is talking about onboarding the following billion users since 2018, Ton has been doing so quietly – a meme, a microtransaction, one tap at a time. Conversely, Ethereum apps such as Uniswap or Aave require browser extensions, seed phrases and a understanding of gas mechanics – obstacles are still not measured for the average mainstream user. Be the Solana and BNB chain, despite faster networks and larger total amounts locked, relying on external wallets and web3 onboarding flows. Tons of bypasses of these frictions.
A new criteria for conducting
Ton increases coincide with a broader move to the crypto industry. Global trust in traditional platforms destroys, and attention is moving to ecosystems that offer self-custody, interoperability and fluid UX. While L2S and Rollups compete with the Ethereum scale, tons builds where most layers 1 cannot reach -within a native, sun -day interface.
The broader crypto community also experiences fatigue from over-engineered UX, imaginary volatility and onboarding fractures. Ton, on the contrary, rides the wave of the Mini App Boom – a format that is popular in Asia through platforms like WeChat – is now becoming a global standard of behavior. Ton’s ability to embed crypto in daily habits gives it a unique advantage over this mobile-first reality.
In addition, Ton has proven that elastic. During The arrest of Pavel Durov In 2024, the platform continued to work independently – a sign of its growing decentralization. The Telegram also started preparing for the worst cases, ensuring that the infrastructure does not rely on a single creature.
TON can specify the next blockchain period
Where does this momentum lead? Based on the current rates of adoption, TON can reach more than 2.6 million -day -active users in 2026 and exceeds 10 million to 2027. Two years ago, that number was under 40,000. By contrast, the Ethereum remained stable around 420,000 daily active accounts, while Solana’s recent explosion to more than 5 million was fueled by high-volume airdrops and memecoin activities.
Tons are not likely to be the largest chain in raw numbers next year. But its growth was built differently. While Solana’s spikes are driven by speculation and incentives, TON is based on gem, such as tipping, gaming and payments, repeated millions of times within a familiar interface.
No other app is as crypto-friendly or crypto-native as telegram. Not only is this the favorite blockchain app enabled worldwide, but it is the fourth most popular messenger app in the world. And the blockchain that empowers its mini apps is ton. No other blockchain has access to this type of distribution network, which is why, when it comes to the future of the blockchain adoption, all roads lead to tonnes.
If this is Expansion began With US market gains traction, TON can add millions -million users who are currently on platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook. The American market remains one of the most competitive and highly regulated crypto environments, but the Friction UX’s Friction of TON, the mobile-first design and Deep Telegram integration offers it a unique advantage. Positioning itself as a platform for creators, micro-transactions and folk monetization, TON can unlock a market managed by Ethereum and unnoticed by many other chains.
By 2027, Ethereum could still lead defi. Solana can dominate onchain liquidity and trading. But if the TON continues its current path, it will have another one: the day -to -day layer of the Internet. A blockchain uses not to think about it – because it’s there, inside apps they’ll never close.
Opinion by: Tracy Jin, Chief Operating Officer of Mexc.
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