Orbs’ Tal Kol and Tonkeeper’s Oleg Andreev become new TON Foundation ambassadors
Prominent Web3 enthusiasts and The Open Network (TON) community activists took on new roles in its flourishing ecosystem. With the appointment of new ambassadors and board members, novel community-driven initiatives for users and developers of The Open Network (TON) are on the menu.
TON Foundation names Tal Kol, Oleg Andreev as ambassadors
According to the official announcement shared by The TON Foundation representatives, two crypto and blockchain veterans have become The Open Network (TON) ambassadors.
Technical co-founder of Orbs Network and co-founder of Hexa, Tal Cole, known as a collaborator on The Open Network (TON), has been granted ambassador status. Oleg Andreev, co-founder of Tonkeeper and lead developer of the TON blockchain, will also become a TON ambassador in November 2022.
Steve Yun, founding member of the TON Foundation, is excited by the new addition to TON’s team of ambassadors:
Tal and Oleg have earned the title of TON Ambassadors. It serves as an acknowledgment of the contribution and dedication they have displayed to the community as a whole.
As covered by U.Today previously, in September 2022, Orbs Network made headlines with its expansion into The Open Network (TON) blockchain. Orbs therefore became the first-ever non-EVM blockchain in the TON ecosystem.
In addition, the Orbs Network has supported the $250 million Ton Ecosystem Fund initiative that launched last April. orbs is also a mate Funding program of TON developers.
Kingsway Capital’s Manuel Stotz becomes TON Foundation board member
Basically, TON ambassadors are responsible for promoting proactive dialogue among the key players in the industry, reinforcing TON blockchain’s values, such as decentralization, transparency and user-friendliness.
In addition, Manuel Stotz of VC heavyweight Kingsway Capital became a board member of The Open Network (TON). In this role, he follows Bill Qian of Cypher Capital, who gained board member status last September.
Manuel Stotz, incoming board member of the TON Foundation, is deeply humbled by the new mission and finds its challenging yet inspiring:
Kingsway is proud to be an investor in TON and support a growing TON ecosystem dominated by missionaries, not mercenaries. Digital freedom and property rights will be one of the best reasons to protect and invest in the coming years. I am proud to support this mission as an incoming board member of the TON Foundation.
In 2022, The Open Network (TON) ecosystem smashed through a number of landmark milestones on its way to technical supremacy and massive adoption between various generations of cryptocurrency users.
In addition to launching an anonymous peer-to-peer marketplace, TON’s first core native cryptocurrency Toncoin (TON) was listed on Huobi (HT) and KuCoin (KCS), two tier-1 Asian centralized exchanges.
TON supercharges the economics of Telegram’s tokenized username marketplace. Every user can purchase a “vanity alias” with TON coins in a seamless, transparent, fair and inclusive manner.
TON price surges to new local highs, catalyzed by the next phase of adoption and integration into end-user retail services.
Following the crash of Telegram’s rival WhatsApp, the coin witnessed a double-digit upsurge on Oct. 25, 2022.
That being said, The Open Network (TON) solidifies its stance as a scalable, low-cost, fast and resource-efficient hosting platform for smart contracts. With the market still stuck in bearish recession, The Open Network (TON) blockchain is all set to on-board next generation decentralized applications from all trending segments.
