TON Blockchain: Hidden Gem or Overhyped? Let’s Debate Its Future in 2025

[asriloni]

The only reason why TON had so much hype back then was mainly because of the growing popularity of Telegram. As Telegram was booming, a lot of people naturally believed TON would become a strong use-case coin tied directly to that ecosystem. But as time goes by, Telegram started getting flooded with scammers, fake mining tools and all sorts of questionable projects. That alone affected trust and the overall quality of the space and it indirectly slowed down the momentum TON was building.

The true reason why TON had grown so much was due to the its tap tap dapps. It let people to earn coin that can be exchanged for stable coin by only doing tap tap on their telegram apps. It attracted three digits millions people to use it everyday with the hope they could earn some money from it.

However, when TON gets faded and mostly of tap tap dapps are just effort wasting. People gave up and moved away from TON. It's basically a blockchain that got hyped due to the its tap tap coin mining. It's not caused by the popularity of telegram itself. 

This blockchain is being used for farming only, and it's only a overhyped blockchain.

[m2017]

Hey fellow crypto enthusiasts! 👋

With the altcoin market heating up again, I’ve been diving deep into TON Blockchain (The Open Network), and honestly, it’s got me intrigued. Originally birthed by Telegram’s team and now community-driven, TON promises high scalability, ultra-fast transactions, and a vision to onboard millions into Web3. But here’s the million-dollar question: Is TON poised to break out, or is it just riding the hype train? Let’s unpack this together!

I believe TON is simply profiteering from Telegram users. So, is this project technically much different from some meme token? I don't think so. Therefore, I don't see any potential in "high scalability, ultra-fast transactions, and so on". I believe the potential power lies in Telegram's user base, to whom TON is being unobtrusively pushed, and the coin is being integrated into the messenger's infrastructure. In other words, this isn't a dummy project with a useless coin; rather, the coin is becoming relevant within Telegram. Gradually, the influence and value of this coin could grow (as happened, for example, with BNB).

I have mixed feelings about this coin: on the one hand, TON is hyping up the platform by leveraging Telegram's reputation, but on the other, within the messenger ecosystem, this coin is useful, which suggests that its value (not only from a financial perspective, but also in terms of its usefulness to users) could increase over time.

[Kavelj22]

I have mixed feelings about this coin: on the one hand, TON is hyping up the platform by leveraging Telegram's reputation, but on the other, within the messenger ecosystem, this coin is useful, which suggests that its value (not only from a financial perspective, but also in terms of its usefulness to users) could increase over time.

All what I can see is Ton hyped by telegram large user base, but what is the real use case gor it? Almost nothing but facilitating the process to create more shitcoins (memecoins in particular). Telegram use to cooperate with Ton blockchain but this doesn't mean it was their only option to integrate a friendly use wallet for payments within the app. As you can see, the wallet actually supports more altcoins to encourage users to use it, but I doubt they swapped their alts to Ton unless those staking memecoins developped at top of Ton.

[bitgolden]

I have mixed feelings about this coin: on the one hand, TON is hyping up the platform by leveraging Telegram's reputation, but on the other, within the messenger ecosystem, this coin is useful, which suggests that its value (not only from a financial perspective, but also in terms of its usefulness to users) could increase over time.

All what I can see is Ton hyped by telegram large user base, but what is the real use case gor it? Almost nothing but facilitating the process to create more shitcoins (memecoins in particular). Telegram use to cooperate with Ton blockchain but this doesn't mean it was their only option to integrate a friendly use wallet for payments within the app. As you can see, the wallet actually supports more altcoins to encourage users to use it, but I doubt they swapped their alts to Ton unless those staking memecoins developped at top of Ton.

It's not different today than it was two years ago. When it first came out, notcoin was great because it was basically the first one (or at least first hyped one) where you could do stuff at telegram and automatically be getting rewarded for it, the entire system was new and people loved it.

But looking back on it now, a thousand of those happened since then and it is not a new thing anymore, we shouldn't be shocked about it anymore. I understand the desire for it, but it is not a new thing at all.