I am Steve the president of Tong Foundation since the beginning of ton ecosystem the expansion of the ecosystem was led by the community I am one of those hundreds of community members who contributed to the foundation of our ecosystem I am honored today and happy and excited to present to you our vision and our take at our method option blockchain communities today struggle to reach method option because we do not have enough use cases we focus too much on technology we offer complex user experience and most importantly do not have a reliable and strategic distribution Channel Mass adoption requires our crypto products to be easy simple intuitive compelling and accessible we are here to announce our three layer approach to Method option first ton blockchain is at the bottom of this whole partnership it is a scalable blockchain capable of serving billions of users that protects our right to ownership and privacy that acts as a guarantor of decentralization next we have the telegram mini apps ecosystem where first time in history users are able to interact with decentralized applications without having to download a separate app but still experience a native user experience we have a trending apps app store which is a channel where in the telegram Bots and mini apps can be embedded in every message on Telegram telegram users leveraging the social networks will bring virality to the experience of decentralized applications creating a social and social network effect sending notifications directly to telegram users project owners will now be able to retain high level of user engagement most importantly to connect the bridge between the users 800 million users of telegram and the blockchain we have the wallet tongue-based wallet integrated deeply within the telegram messenger is able to eliminate the barrier to entry in accessing decentralized applications you are able to onboard your users users are able to use decentralized applications with one or two clicks together we make crypto easy simple intuitive reliable amazing and incredible telegram provides the platform and the access to 800 million massive user base wallet provides the seamless user experience that people expect in this in this age all powered by a decentralized network tone blockchain our mission it is our mission to put crypto in every pocket we make crypto fev as texting let me demonstrate how this might feel for you imagine I have to send ten dollars to a partner living in the other part of the planet it's fast convenient intuitive and effortless my partner John here is able to receive ten dollars worth of ton coin directly within the telegram messenger without having to download another app or to bother with backing up a complex process of seed phrase now we are excited to announce to you that a non self-custody version of our wallet on telegram tone space is now available to the public starting today telegram users will able to own and manage their digital assets data and their identity ton space is a web 3 gateway to Telegram between telegram users telegram mini apps we are inviting all web free users and web 2 to come and experience our wallet on Telegram the wallet is able to enable all depth developers to interact with the telegram users without going through any friction I am so happy and excited and honored that to announce this and it is our culmination of hundreds of people their efforts and tiers in making this into a reality on behalf of ton Community I would like to thank all community members to achieve this finally with all the key components in the ecosystem ready and in place we are now ready to scale to billions of users now I it is my pleasure to introduce to you the chief investment officer of telegram John Hyman hi everybody and thank you very much Steve firstly a couple of quick questions for the audience how many of you please show of hands are active users of telegram great and how many of you are our valued premium users that's great and I'd encourage the rest of you to please have a look at what our premium service offers thank you I'm very excited to be here today to talk about the future of decentralized Technologies on telegram as you know telegram was the original developer of the Tom blockchain we wanted to create a scalable and flexible blockchain platform that would be suitable for onboarding hundreds of millions of users of large social media platforms such as Telegram we are very happy to see how the community is now running and managing the technology the new developments in wallet over the past year alone have attracted hundreds of new developers to telegram's mini app platform among all the major social media Platforms in the world telegram is the only one with an open platform for building web 3 mini apps the mini app platform that we have includes seamless support for user authorization payments and notifications and of course telegrams crypto Centric audience is ideal for web 3 apps to gain users telegram is one of the fastest growing and sizable mobile apps in the world as you can see we have over 800 million monthly active users and we are highly confident in that in the next three to five years we'll be able to double that telegram is especially popular in Emerging Markets where crypto is both crucial and highly used the telegram ton integration is already a proven model in 2022 it took a group of developers using ton just five weeks to launch fragment from scratch fragment is the first decentralized Marketplace for users to own rights to their usernames on a major platform as collectibles fragment massively outperformed our own high expectations in telegram usernames alone it's netted 120 million dollars since Inception and it's also created a very vibrant Aftermarket For example there's been a 27 times increase in the value of the anonymous number Holdings it's the first time in history that social media users have been able to buy bid for and resell their usernames true ownership of digital identities is now here on Telegram and ton but now let's talk about the present and what's really exciting as Steve mentioned as of today telegram starts working with the ton Foundation to integrate and promote web3 and Tom Technologies telegram plans to exclusively rely on ton for enabling new web 3 features in its apps the first step is already available to all users in the latest version of telegram today as you can see all users who have installed wallet on telegram can access the wallet right from the main menu and starting in November we'll roll out this wallet to the main menu and the attach menu for users globally except in the US and a number of countries this will be the most the deepest integration ever of a cryptocurrency wallet into a web 2 platform and we're excited for everyone to try it additionally as part of the partnership we will include Priority Access to the telegram ad platform for Tom based projects and for ton partners the telegram ads platform is a new tool our team created that is currently only available to a limited group of advertisers access to this platform will give Tom projects and partners a reached over 37 000 active crypto communities across Telegram and obviously the hundreds of millions of users that telegram has as you can see we are highly confident that within three to five years we will have one and a half billion or more users let's just put that in context if telegram were a country it would be the largest country in the world probably the most affluent and certainly the most crypto-centric and with that I'll leave it to Steve to sum up the ambition of Tom foundation and time community is to onboard 500 million users to taunt within the next five years this is 33 times the total number of Unchained users today and double more than double the number of crypto owners globally Now to celebrate our historic moment I would like to invite you to try and experience the wallet on telegram by scanning this QR code on behalf of ton Community we invite you to our journey to mass adoption for the freedom of ownership welcome to Tong community