TON Cracks Open the Floodgates: Telegram’s Blockchain Launches ‘TON Factory’ for Turbocharged DEX and Game Builders
Telegram’s TON blockchain just dropped a developer grenade—TON Factory, a no-permission playground for spinning up decentralized exchanges and gaming protocols. Move over, legacy finance; the bots are building the casino now.
The pitch? One-click deployment, pre-audited templates, and a ‘fail-fast’ ethos that’ll have VC-funded web2 startups sweating into their pitch decks. Because nothing says ‘disruption’ like cutting out the middleman—and the compliance department.
Cynical bonus: Wall Street’s still trying to tokenize real estate while crypto casually reinvents liquidity pools. Priorities.
Broxus powers TON Factory with its proprietary tech
The underlying architecture uses Broxus’ Tycho protocol, which integrates the TVM with a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) consensus mechanism.
This hybrid design is intended to achieve near-instant finality and high throughput, reportedly handling up to 35,000 transactions per second (TPS), a benchmark that could position TON Factory as a serious competitor to other layer-1 and layer-2 scaling solutions.
According to the firm, TON Factory also supports custom TVM chain deployments and offers tailored scaling solutions, helping ambitious teams drive the ecosystem forward.
Broxus is a long-standing developer in the TON space, known for creating vital DeFi tools such as FlatQube (a decentralized exchange), Octus Bridge (a cross-chain bridge), and Ever Wallet.
Venture giants pour $400M into TON as ecosystem matures beyond messaging
Interest in the TON blockchain continues to grow. In March 2025, the TON Foundation announced over $400 million in venture capital investments into the ecosystem.
Prominent investors included Sequoia Capital, Ribbit, Benchmark, Draper Associates, Kingsway, Vy Capital, Libertus Capital, CoinFund, SkyBridge, Hypersphere, and Karatage, all of whom purchased Toncoin as part of the investment round.
At the time of writing, Toncoin (TON)—the native token of The Open Network—is trading at $3.22, down about 1% over the past 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
TON, originally developed by Telegram’s founders, now operates as an independent decentralized network. It supports the creation of mini apps and other blockchain-based services integrated within the Telegram ecosystem.
TON blockchain serves as the sole blockchain infrastructure in Telegram’s ecosystem
Before the launch of TON Factory, Telegram had made an announcement that as part of an exclusivity agreement, TON would serve as the messaging app’s ecosystem’s only blockchain infrastructure.
Based on the statement, Telegram committed to making TON the only blockchain technology provider for Telegram.
A separate statement on TON’s blog said that Telegram users would become the primary beneficiaries of that standardization, as it would provide them with a predictable, stable experience and strengthened protection against fraud.
Additionally, the new agreement mandated that all games and Telegram mini apps that included cryptocurrency features migrate to the TON blockchain.
“TON will now be the only blockchain infrastructure used by all Telegram mini-apps,” TON said on X. In addition, as they marked their beginning, it was recommended that all mini-apps that did not use TON migrate by February 21, 2025.
Furthermore, TON Connect had become the sole wallet integration protocol for all Telegram mini apps, excluding bridging scenarios, according to TON Foundation president Manuel Stotz.
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