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.

[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.

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.

Generally speaking, nothing new about another trend hyped by the foolish community like so called memecoins with another wave started with the last two years called AI tokens. What is new is that we have Ton network that can be described as the haven for memecoins developers, if not saying all shitcoins inventors. I doubt that we can find another utility rather than developping memetokens at top of Ton and lunch it in nonsense apps developed at top of telegram. Nice combination imo.

[Hanadawa]

Generally speaking, nothing new about another trend hyped by the foolish community like so called memecoins with another wave started with the last two years called AI tokens. What is new is that we have Ton network that can be described as the haven for memecoins developers, if not saying all shitcoins inventors. I doubt that we can find another utility rather than developping memetokens at top of Ton and lunch it in nonsense apps developed at top of telegram. Nice combination imo.

When the TON Blockchain was first released, I thought it would be a promising project, built in collaboration with Telegram-CMIWW. I've tried making transactions on the TON network, and I found them to be very smooth and fast. I thought Ton would have many uses and become a competitor to Solana. However, currently, the TON coin is ranked 30th on the CMC and has shown no progress other than being a place to produce meme coins, which I consider completely useless. There's absolutely nothing new about this blockchain. I could say the Ton network is a hidden gem, but given its current development, it seems Ton will become just another useless altcoin.

[tbterryboy]

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.

Generally speaking, nothing new about another trend hyped by the foolish community like so called memecoins with another wave started with the last two years called AI tokens. What is new is that we have Ton network that can be described as the haven for memecoins developers, if not saying all shitcoins inventors. I doubt that we can find another utility rather than developping memetokens at top of Ton and lunch it in nonsense apps developed at top of telegram. Nice combination imo.

It must be the owners are the ones that hyping it because it was their business and some people are just riding it to benefit as well. In fact, a lot now knows the agenda of them and are now hating them for poisoning the market. They also hate the fact that they have been taken advantage if they invested at them before blindly. But TON is not new anymore.

We are in fact on the age of AI now and the projects under TON like the tap tap game is not being talked about anymore. New trend is the haven of the meme coins but another haven of them must be the Hyper liquid exchange now. TON still have a utility project built on them. One example is the Telegram casinos. Let us only see if there is more to come. So don't lose hope yet.

[Kavelj22]

Generally speaking, nothing new about another trend hyped by the foolish community like so called memecoins with another wave started with the last two years called AI tokens. What is new is that we have Ton network that can be described as the haven for memecoins developers, if not saying all shitcoins inventors. I doubt that we can find another utility rather than developping memetokens at top of Ton and lunch it in nonsense apps developed at top of telegram. Nice combination imo.

When the TON Blockchain was first released, I thought it would be a promising project, built in collaboration with Telegram-CMIWW. I've tried making transactions on the TON network, and I found them to be very smooth and fast. I thought Ton would have many uses and become a competitor to Solana. However, currently, the TON coin is ranked 30th on the CMC and has shown no progress other than being a place to produce meme coins, which I consider completely useless. There's absolutely nothing new about this blockchain. I could say the Ton network is a hidden gem, but given its current development, it seems Ton will become just another useless altcoin.

As long as telegram founder is promoting it, the cryptocurrency will keep its status in the market. The cooperation with telegram network can be a great success for both if they run the wallet for the sole purpose to perform electronic payments using Ton through telegram wallet. Nothing would be wrong with developing more shitcoins at top of it because this will rise the need for Ton as transactions gaz. But by adding more cryptocurrencies to the telegram wallet, Ton remains useful only for those who need it to pay fees for Ton token transfers.

Btw, ranking #30 at coinmarketcap is not a bad rating by all means. But I am pretty sure this because of the promising cooperation with telegram. Otherwise, the network will have value drop fast.