A Gateway to Decentralized Services Telegram will offer a searchable registry of decentralized services from its applications, providing a list of the most popular apps, as well as recommendations based on the user’s history of choices. These steps can make Telegram a gateway to blockchain-based projects for the masses — similar to how Google Play and the App Store currently work for centralized applications. Uses of TON as a Cryptocurrency In addition to payments for all digital and physical assets sold by individual merchants within the Telegram ecosystem and on other projects integrated with TON, the TON coins (Grams) will be used as: › Commission («gas») paid to TON nodes («validators») for processing transactions and smart contracts; › Stakes deposited by validators to be eligible to validate transactions and generate new blocks and coins; › Capital lent out to validators in exchange for a share of their reward; › Voting power required to support or oppose changes in the parameters of the protocol; › Payment for services provided by apps built on the platform (TON Services); › Payment for storing data securely in a decentralized way (TON Storage); › Payment for registering blockchain-based domain names (TON DNS) and hosting TON-sites (TON WWW); › Payment for hiding identity and IP addresses (TON Proxy); r bypassing censorship imposed by local ISPs (TON Proxy). › Payment fo All of these services can be free for the users since the application owners may choose to cover the corresponding fees, and adopt a freemium or an advertisement-based business model. 14 / 23