I believe everyone still remembers the crazy telegram mini-game storm last year, but this wave came to an abrupt end after the Ton ecosystem released their official meme Dogs.
According to Ton's plan, the first step is to develop mini-programs as the basic framework to support the game ecosystem; the next step should be to develop community tools to support the meme ecosystem~
Originally, the meme season of the Ton ecosystem should have a head-on confrontation with Solana at the end of 24.
However, there are unexpected events, and their first official meme dogs collapsed the Ton chain because there were too many people who claimed it.
At first, Dogs attracted 53 million people to participate with the foundation of telegram's one billion users worldwide. After the airdrop, there were 4.5 million holders, making it the world's largest TGE.
But the good times didn't last long. After Dogs was listed on major exchanges, users' crazy withdrawals directly squeezed the Ton chain (see: TON chain collapsed? No new blocks have been released for a long time), so the subsequent actions on meme gradually died down.
After several months of development, the architecture of Ton should be almost upgraded now, right?
Dogs also released a roadmap for the first half of 2025, which aroused endless market imagination~
In the roadmap, Dogs announced that it would expand its ecology from all aspects such as games/charity/practical tools/community, and Ton’s official Twitter was also actively interactive:
It is highly likely that the meme ecological tools made by Ton will take the lead in Dogs~
However, I am still very optimistic about the potential of the Ton ecosystem. After all, as a telegram backed by 1 billion users, it is still very imaginative to create memes.
And now the price of the token is undervalued, maybe it is a good time to build a position~
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