Ton Ecology Wind Rising: A Quick Overview of 14 New Round Foundation Grant Projects

Author: Nan Zhi, Odaily Planet Daily

Yesterday, the TON Foundation announced the latest Grant project list to support innovations in social Web3, gaming, DeFi, and other fields. The launch of Notcoin on Binance and OKX has further boosted the popularity of Ton ecosystem projects. Odaily Planet Daily will interpret the business of this round's 14 Grant projects in this article.

GameFi

Jump Trade

Business: Jump Trade is currently positioned as an NFT marketplace, supporting asset issuance, trading, and auctions. In terms of asset issuance, it is currently involved in the issuance of ten games, mostly NFTs with a total of 10,000 units priced from a few dollars to several dozen dollars; for trading, it has currently opened trading for MCL BALL NFT, Raddx Cars, and Hurley Avatar, with auctions also limited to these three.

The reason for receiving this TON Grant is officially stated as "a Telegram mini-app developer currently developing three games: Classic Puzzle Game, Cards 21, and Basketball Shots." There is currently no direct entry or introduction for these three games.

EdChess

Business: EdChess is an embedded chess game within Telegram, aimed at providing a new experience for chess players. In addition to learning, training, and education, it introduces monetization features in the game, allowing users to link their TON wallets or transfer TON tokens to a dedicated wallet, but details on how to use cryptocurrencies have not yet been disclosed.

Platforms and Community Tools

XPLUS

Business: XPLUS is an application that integrates entertainment and learning, aiming to bring users from Web2 to Web3 through immersive trading simulation games. XPLUS hopes to test user skills in these games, learn new strategies, and experience market excitement in a risk-free environment.

Users can earn tokens XCOIN during the game participation process and redeem them for governance token $X in the future.

Currently, the main interface of XPLUS includes four games:

The Top 8 Titans: Guess which token will drop the most in 15 seconds (left image below);

Shark Battle Royale: Guess the TON price after 30 seconds (right image below);

Two pure lottery games: Harvest Shake and Capsule Shakega.

tbook

Business: A project task platform similar to Galxe, Zealy, etc., which will provide token allocation scheme evaluation, data analysis, and a one-stop token governance platform for Web2 and Web3 projects. It has not officially launched yet and is about to introduce its first project.

vSelf

Business: vSelf is a brand community service platform that believes current brands face severe challenges, including weakened customer contact, difficulty in targeting customers, and understanding new types of customers. vSelf plans to provide easy-to-use Web3 tools for brands to enhance loyalty, manage customer relationships, and conduct omnichannel digital marketing.

SocialFi

Moons.so

Business: An embedded social platform within Telegram, users can join various niche organizations and communities, freely discuss topics, news, and play games.

Token: Currently, there is a platform token MOON, which users can earn through join-to-earn, engage-to-earn, quest-to-earn (i.e., joining communities and discussing topics), among other methods. Additionally, Moons.so provides a large portal for other mini-games, allowing users to participate and earn MOON tokens and other project tokens.

TELE

Business: Officially defined as social infrastructure, from the information currently available, it is essentially a one-click token issuance platform, where KOLs or users can deploy tokens through TELE, and participants pay to mint tokens, with deployers receiving 90% of the fees. TELE will soon launch a trading market for these tokens.

DeFi

Thunder Finance

Business: A one-stop liquidity mining platform that supports developers in quickly creating liquidity mining pools. There is currently no further information available.

United Finance

Business: United Finance aims to provide users with a way to quickly wrap assets and earn passive income. After users wrap their assets, United Finance will help them invest tokens into yield-generating strategies and automatically allocate profits. The main product of this protocol is wuTON, a yield-bearing token supported by TON. Other categories are still under development.

Nexton

Business: Nexton aims to become the Jito of the TON chain, allowing users to stake their TON to earn Nexton NFTs and profit from staking and arbitrage gains.

Infrastructure

Symbiosis

Business: Symbiosis is an established decentralized cross-chain protocol that has completed over 1.2 million cross-chain transactions, with a total amount exceeding $1.4 billion. Symbiosis currently supports cross-chain transactions between TON and 27 other chains, allowing all assets from various EVMs to be crossed to TON.

Koala

Business: A cross-chain solution that allows users to interact with other networks using TON tokens through Koala's unified platform, without needing to hold the native tokens of each chain.

Trading Market

MuggleLink

Business: A Web3 payment gateway aimed at providing mobile payment solutions for 1.8 million unbanked individuals. Users can directly pay with cryptocurrencies like USDT and BTC, and MuggleLink will directly cash out to merchants through its MugglePay SDK. It eliminates intermediaries and supports global payments but charges a 1% settlement fee.

Bion

Business: A brand goods trading market where users can purchase a range of branded products such as beauty (e.g., Nykka), apparel (e.g., adidas), electronics (e.g., dell), with the feature of inviting other users to purchase and earning cryptocurrency commissions.

Conclusion

From a technical and product perspective, the above projects do not have particularly innovative features or highlights. The only advantage still lies in Telegram's large user base and viral capabilities, making projects with "viral" dissemination potential, such as XPLUS and Moons.so, more worthy of attention.