The TON token has risen more than 100% in the last week. This huge increase coincided with several statements by Pavel Durov about his plans to create a blockchain ecosystem and integrate it with Telegraph.
BeInCrypto asked market participants to explain what is driving TON growth and what to expect.
Why is the price of TON rising?
All experts interviewed agreed on one thing:the main cause was MTONGA(Make it TON Great Again) is a performance by Pavel Durov.
Kirill Pistsov, Director of Product Development at FINAMIt is believed that the market perceived Durov’s announcement of direct network management and the role of the main licensee as a sign that Telegram will integrate and expand the TON ecosystem.
He added that the announcement of a reduction in wages was an additional development of the market, indicating an increase in the activities of users and developers within the Internet.
Alexander “RocketMan” Shepelev, founder of xRocketprovides a similar assessment . He remembers that in the early days, the people of the area did not agree with the announcement. It was waiting for interesting and useful news for a long time, but nothing happened.
In fact, some things were wrong or were cut short before they started.
“Apparently, without Durov’s intervention, ‘no crocodile can be caught, no coconut can grow.’ And now, things are going as well as they were during the TON era, in the most distant year of 2024,” says Shepelev.
Therefore, when Pistsov and Shepelev emphasize Durov’s role as a catalystFedorov is looking at the development plan that made payments, exchanges, and microtransactions possible directly within Telegram apps.
Construction Can Take Care of the Property
Andrey Fedorov supports his analysis with concrete figures. Following news about MTONGA, the daily turnover on STON.fi has grown to more than $40 million in recent days, from about $1.5 million a week ago. This represents an increase of more than 26 times.
“This is an important sign: architecture is starting to attract attention and withstand real property,” he emphasizes.
The expert focuses mainly on the development of what he calls the field of execution, or architecture. Most of the activity in TON does not happen on DEX pages, but within wallets, bots, mini-apps, and games.
In this model, the part of the solution that provides payment and action “under the hood,” where the user interacts with the known interface, is growing.
Meanwhile, TON is already undergoing stress tests, including at meme coin waveour source adds. Things like this clearly show whether the blockchain can handle emergencies and ensure its stable operation.
And here, TON is already showing great progress, mainly due to its immediate activities.
Alexander Shepelev commented on the official topic. Telegram established several concessions, which cost 100 million TON.
He believes that the hype surrounding the Telegram gift greatly increased Durov’s TON reputation. This practice is based on the assumption that collectors and speculators were buying stars using gift coins and not through the Quick Payment Method and using TON.
“Selling the stock at the current price would be short-lived, but sending the authorized and staking these tokens is a very good idea. Does this make the network centralized? Maybe. Will it worsen the environment? I don’t think so. The authorized reward goes into clear hands, and no one will use them to influence the price of the exchange or the tokens that have been collected are believed.”
Risks and Prospects
Our contributors disagree in their long-term analysis.
Pistsov warns that the rise has been too sharp, so there is already a lot of speculation and FOMO among the capital flowing into altcoins. The potential for local improvement after this move remains high.
Shepelev is taking a wait-and-see approach. He said that the community always notices TON Foundation and other doubts. Now, Durov wants to take the role of the main driver of the environment.
“Soon we will find out what comes out of this,” he concludes.
Fedorov takes a long view and creates realistic expectations. Looking to the future, a key vector is TON’s transformation into a core product for mass markets within Telegraph.
They expect transactions to be an invisible part of users, transaction fees and exchanges to be built directly into products, and the growth of the ecosystem to come from Telegram-style apps, not traditional DeFi.
The end
The growth of TON 100% every week was due to several reasons: involvement of Durov, reduction of wages, and reconstruction of infrastructure. However, scholars place different emphasis on these factors.
Pistsov points to the speculative sector and warns of the risk of manipulation. Shepelev points to a real increase in user activity but is taking a wait-and-see approach.
Fedorov sees this not as a valuable meeting, but as the beginning of the transformation of TON into a business center of the Telegram ecosystem.
The market is reacting less to promises than to actual steps, including the introduction of approvals, reductions in wages, and increases in sales.
However, only time will tell if this growth is sustainable.
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