TON blockchain launches on-chain encrypted messaging feature

The Open Network (TON) has released an on-chain encrypted messaging feature, according to a July 3 announcement from the network’s developer, TON Foundation. The caller diagnostic allows for backstage messages to beryllium sent betwixt TON users. 

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— TON (@ton_blockchain) July 3, 2023

TON is simply a blockchain web forked from codification created by the Telegram instant messaging app team. Telegram abandoned the project successful July 2020, earlier a mainnet was ever launched. However, it open-sourced TON’s code earlier leaving, allowing others to proceed gathering upon the enactment it had done.

The existent network, called “TON,” was built by the TON Foundation. The instauration claims that the web provides greater scalability and transaction throughput than different options successful the Web3 ecosystem portion besides remaining decentralized.

TON has ever allowed users to nonstop messages successful transactions. But successful the past, these messages were wholly public. The caller diagnostic allows users to encrypt these messages extremity to end, making them readable lone by the intended recipient.

TON halfway developer Anatoly Makosov claimed the diagnostic was created to let for the “personalization” of transactions:

“When sending Toncoin, Jettons, oregon NFTs connected TON you person ever been capable to see a substance for the recipient specified arsenic ‘for coffee’ oregon ‘happy birthday’, thereby personalising the interaction. Now this fashionable diagnostic [...] is disposable with afloat encryption.”

Makosov added that it besides would beryllium utile if an “apocalypse” occurs that causes accepted messenger servers to fail. In this case, TON tin service arsenic a “reliable” and “safeguarded” method to pass privately.

Encrypted messages are presently disposable utilizing respective retail wallet apps, including MyTonWallet, OpenMask and TON Wallet. The diagnostic volition besides beryllium added to mobile wallet Tonkeeper “in upcoming updates,” the announcement stated.

In May, the TON Foundation launched a $25 cardinal accelerator program to promote app developers to physique connected the network. In November, an autarkic improvement squad created a Telegram trading bot to onboard users to TON.