[ANN] Free TON - quick introduction and important links

[bubbalex]

Free TON is an ultra-fast next generation blockchain capable of handling millions of transactions per second. It is notable for its security and scalability, and is friendly both for ordinary users and large startups. Do you think that only Ethereum can accommodate countless smart contracts and tokens of different formats? No, Free TON is a huge distributed supercomputer, which due to its technical characteristics can give a forum to all current top blockchains.

Free TON was officially launched on May 7, 2020, when approximately 1000 community members signed the "Declaration of Decentralization". The project has nothing to do with the activities of Telegram Group Inc., although it is based on the blockchain protocol, which was developed by the famous programmer Nikolai Durov and can be used by anyone, because the code is publicly available on Github. Many people consider Free TON to be a fork of TON, but it is not, because the TON was never launched.

What about architecture?

The basis is a decentralized operating system called "TON OS", which is a kind of middleware interface (layer) between users and the blockchain network itself. It is possible to draw an elementary parallel with the computer: the blockchain is "hardware" and "TON OS" is Windows for users.

For application development on TON OS there is a whole set of tools: compilers with Solidity, C++, databases, SDK, etc.

Another feature of the OS is the TON Surf user interface which is similar to the Linux interface. It has several ready-made secure applications: browser, wallet and chat.

"TON OS" is open source software that can be modified and improved by anyone. Decentralization, it is.

Full article: https://shrp.link/ykr48


General links:
Website - https://freeton.org/
Wallet - https://ton.surf/main
Explorer - https://ton.live/main
Github - https://github.com/tonlabs
Twitter - https://twitter.com/CommunityTon
Medium - https://medium.com/freeton
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/free-ton
Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/TONCRYSTAL/
Telegram - https://t.me/TONCRYSTAL
Whitepapper - https://freeton.org/dod
Forum - https://forum.freeton.org/


Extra:
TON Surf Wallet for storing TON Crystal tokens: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=189845
Voting guide for Jurors on Gov.Freeton.Org: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=189854.0
Global Community Subgovernance Introduction: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=189842
What is Sub-Governance in Free TON and why it is needed: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=189840
ANN Thread EN: https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=173773

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[FreeTON.House]

FreeTON.House - news about Free TON community. Interviews, contetsts, new technologies. Welcome and read!

[bubbalex]

FreeTON.House - news about Free TON community. Interviews, contetsts, new technologies. Welcome and read!

Welcome to the Altcoinstalks! 

[weborsha]

So glad that there's an entire board about Free TON on this forum! I am crazy about Free TON network, it is so fast! Any transaction takes no longer that a second. Couldn't believe it until tried myself)

[Alex077]

                                               
                                                Dive into Free ТОН
                                                     
Recently, we help African Hackathon meeting. You can know more about smart-contract and how to start developing in Free TON:

    YouTube   

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   Information that will be useful to you:

    Free TON Developer Quick Start Guide 
 https://www.notion.so/Free-TON-Developer-Quick-Start-Guide-13e6b53b31324deb871fa7b0e094f69e

[Alex077]

New proposal has been accepted by Governance on-chain voting

#124 Decentralized PR Contest Date Extension  — Due to necessary enhancements of DePress DeBot, it’s proposed to change the dates of the contest.

Updated time-frame: 12th of February, 2021 - 12th of March, 2021, 23:59 UTC.

Platforms to be excluded from contest submissions: any blogging platforms (Facebook, Medium, Patreon etc) and UGC-driven sites that don’t have editorial policy for publishing texts.

https://forum.freeton.org/t/community-decentralized-pr-contest/7089/55?u=xlr25t

[Alex077]

extraTON Project closed. See details below.

We would like to thank you for your great support on the forum. The proposal of extraTON partnership - it's probably the most warmly topic recently with extremely positive reviews. Now we know for sure that we did everything for a reason and created relevant and popular products.

But, unfortunately, nobody of the FreeTON project administering at the moment considered it necessary to express themselves in the forum thread....https://extraton.io/

[Alex077]

Bitcoin.com Exchange Announcements

Dear Traders.

To give you the opportunity to ask anything you've ever wanted to know about Free TON, we're hosting an AMA with some key figures behind the decentralized community.

When?
February 23rd from 17:00 UTC - 18:00 UTC

Where?
The Bitcoin.com Exchange Telegram Channel 

We're looking forward to your questions!

The 5 best questions, will receive $20 TON.

[weborsha]

A nice article about Free TON was published at Cryptonomist by its co-founder and editor-in-chief Amelia Tomasicchio.
The article is about how the project was born back in May 2020 and how it is being developed now. Enjoy reading it here:
https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2021/02/20/free-ton-decentralized-crypto/

[Alex077]

    TON Weekly Meetup #42. Ethereum Bridge announcement

Dear Free TON Community, we invite you to join our Weekly Meeting today, February 23 at 12.00 UTC. There will be important updates today!

Agenda for today

1. Ethereum Bridge announcement
2. Subgovernances updates
3. FT Academy announcement

:microphone:Q&A section

1. From call participants
2. From YouTube
3. From those who wrote questions to us with the hashtag #WM42

     YouTube link 

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:warning:Reminder! If you cannot join this time, then you can drop your question in the chat using the hashtag #WM42, and we will try to answer it on the Livestream.

[weborsha]

🚀Don't forget to participate following contest:

💎#124 Decentralized PR Contest Date Extension (https://gov.freeton.org/proposal?proposalAddress=0:af18e302e96a714e29338fad951939d136f36c4d9cda80b59f1bff860c4133c3)  — Due to necessary enhancements of DePress DeBot, it’s proposed to change the dates of the contest.

💎 (https://gov.freeton.org/proposal?proposalAddress=0:cdabaeba55664ae5bfd96b3385c0d71e62bfdc3d5f9132529860cc186c946a96)#128 Contest Proposal: DeSupport 2020 (https://gov.freeton.org/proposal?proposalAddress=0:f6f6b8762afce8e058c124d91c7c0471100acb6f53f0cd08417f02a3f4e86caa) — This contest was created to motivate “helpers and evangelists” (“Supporters”) to bring Free TON ideas to the masses in chat groups, online forums and who helped moderators with tasks that solved “Community problems”. They help the community voluntarily on a daily basis, their contribution to the development of the community is invaluable.

[lesnik_utsa]

Forum - https://forum.freeton.org/

Indeed, FREE TON is not just a blockchain, but a whole ecosystem. It's a great solution to create a whole section on our forum, but don't forget about the forum of the blockchain itself - More than 10 local sections, more than 1100 created topics - active discussions of contests and paramount information

[Alex077]

Free TON Weekly Meetup #49. General updates

April 13, we are going to invite you our Free TON Weekly Meetup #49 at 12.00 UTC (14.00 CET)

Agenda

1.  General updates
2.  Tonseed.com presentation
3.  Tech Contest Participant Guideline (Github Workflow)
4.  Tech updates

Q&A section

1. From call participants
2. From YouTube
3. From those who wrote questions to us with the hashtag #WM49

YouTube link

Reminder! If you cannot join this time, then you can drop your question in the chat using the hashtag #WM49, and we will try to answer it on the Livestream.

[lesnik_utsa]

Dear Free TON Community - FREE TON Academy Sub-governance is formed

The mission of the Free TON Academy Sub-governance is to create and support an Academy of Free TON Community education, conduct educational events, produce training courses and teaching materials that will help a wide range of people around the world to learn about Free Ton, self-governed decentralized communities, and modern blockchain technologies.

Free TON Academy announces the launch of the Jury Selection Contest. We kindly invite everyone to participate.
Submission deadline - 23:00 UTC, 22 April.