TON blockchain introduces an on-chain encrypted messaging characteristic

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TON releases an on-chain messaging characteristic

The Open Community (TON) introduced the discharge of its on-chain encrypted messaging characteristic on Monday, July third.

In a tweet from the community’s developer, TON Basis, the brand new characteristic makes it potential for personal messages to be despatched between TON customers.

TON Basis Introduces Encrypted Transaction Messages👇💎https://t.co/HXKtk0gxKC pic.twitter.com/0z1z4E5ku1

— TON 💎 (@ton_blockchain) July 3, 2023

TON is the blockchain community forked from the code created by the social media big Telegram. Telegram left the mission in 2020, and the TON Basis took over previous to the mainnet launch. 

In response to the TON Basis, the TON blockchain supplies better scalability and transaction throughput than different choices within the Web3 ecosystem. The muse additionally added that TON stays a decentralised blockchain. 

The blockchain makes it potential for customers to ship messages in transactions. Nevertheless, the messages had been beforehand utterly public. The brand new on-chain encrypted characteristic now makes it potential for customers to encrypt their messages end-to-end, enabling solely the recipients to learn the messages. 

Whereas commenting on this newest cryptocurrency information, TON core developer Anatoly Makosov, acknowledged that the brand new characteristic permits for the “personalization” of transactions. Makosov mentioned;

“When sending Toncoin, Jettons, or NFTs on TON you may have at all times been in a position to embrace a textual content for the recipient comparable to ‘for espresso’ or ‘glad birthday,’ thereby personalising the interplay. Now this in style characteristic […] is obtainable with full encryption.”

TON might function a dependable methodology to speak privately

Makosov identified that if an apocalypse happens that renders the standard messenger servers ineffective, TON might function a dependable and safeguarded methodology to speak privately. 

Web3 customers take pleasure in encrypted messages on numerous retail pockets apps, together with MyTonWallet, OpenMask and TON Pockets. The TON Basis mentioned the characteristic could be added cell pockets Tonkeeper quickly. 

This newest improvement comes just a few weeks after the TON Basis launched a $25 million accelerator for rising initiatives. This system, referred to as the TON Accelerator Program, will present funding, mentorship, and different sources to assist initiatives construct within the TON ecosystem.

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