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The Open Network (TON), the blockchain of the popular messaging app Telegram, has reached 100 million users, a surge driven by the success of Telegram gaming apps like Dogizen. A CryptoQuant report confirmed the news, finding over 100 million unique wallets with non-zero wallet balances, representing an astonishing 23x increase since the start of the year, when TON had just 4.3 million active users. The growth of the blockchain has been like no other in 2024, and Dogizen is set to lead the next leg of its ascent by redefining the scope of gaming on the platform while simultaneously expanding its reach with its world-first Telegram ICO. TON: Chain of the year? TON has achieved something that very few networks do: it has entered the ranks of the top Layer-1 chains and stayed there. Its success owes to its integration within a messaging app with nearly 1 billion users, making the barriers to entry far lower than anywhere else within crypto. Users have their own TON wallet built into Telegram, meaning they can begin holding crypto without going through the usual hassle of exchanges, downloading additional wallets, and the other traditional frictions within this process. Mini-apps, namely tap-to-earn games, have also been a huge factor in the growth of TON. Notcoin, the originator of the T2E genre, started a revolution that has since seen games like Hamster Kombat and Catizen net player counts north of 300 million, with hordes of Telegram users picking up crypto applications for the first time thanks to the ability to earn crypto by playing games. TON’s status as a Web3 onboarding machine is likely to fuel growth further as time goes on. One of crypto’s main imperatives is adoption in no-coiner circles, and Dogizen could massively aid this. Telegram’s first ICO: Onboarding the next billion…

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