Best of Consensus Hong Kong: Can Telegram Be the Next Super App?
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
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Summary
TON Foundation board member Steve Yun and TON Society co-founder Jack Booth weigh in on the future of Telegram as a Web3 super app.
TON Foundation board member Steve Yun and TON Society co-founder Jack Booth joined CoinDesk Live at Consensus Hong Kong to discuss Telegram’s path to becoming the ultimate Web3 super app and TON’s pivotal role in that transformation.
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| 0:00.0 | Joining us now at the desk is Tahn board member Steve Ewan and TAN Society co-founder Jack Booth. Hello. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello. Thanks for having us. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello. Hello. We know that you have been very busy, busy folks. |
| 0:22.6 | So let's just start this by laying a foundation. |
| 0:25.6 | I know years ago, Telegram was going to launch Taun, and then there were some challenges with that, |
| 0:30.6 | and then the group of Independence launched Todd, and now here we are talking about us, |
| 0:35.6 | talking about it. |
| 0:36.6 | Give us a brief history. How did we get here? |
| 0:39.3 | So, as you know, Tone was designed and created by Telegram. |
| 0:46.3 | And when they were forced to give up the development, they open source the whole code base. |
| 0:53.3 | And from then, community members like myself picked up the baton and to continue the development. |
| 0:58.6 | And in 2023, we created a TAN Foundation in Switzerland, and we enter into an exclusive agreement with Telegram |
| 1:05.4 | to basically leverage Telegram to get Tone blockchain into MESS adoption. |
| 1:15.6 | Now, talk to us a little bit about the Telegram partnership. I know a lot of the headlines have really been focused on gaming on Telegram, |
| 1:20.6 | but talk to us a little bit about that. Is that your main focus or are there other ways that |
| 1:24.6 | TAN integrates with Telegram? |
| 1:25.6 | So Telegam launched the Telegram Mini app platform, and we integrated Tone-based wallet inside |
| 1:32.3 | Telegram. |
| 1:33.3 | So basically, it allows an experience of on-chain applications without downloading a separate |
| 1:40.3 | wallet or another application. |
| 1:42.3 | So it's not clunky as the website version, but it's totally |
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