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 Animoca Brands invests in Telegram’s TON blockchain protocol and becomes its largest validator as it eyes GameFi development on the platform.
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 Web3 investment firm Animoca Brands is set to become the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="largest" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/largest.html">largest</a> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="validator" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/validator.html">validator</a> of Telegram’s TON (The Open Network) <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="blockchain" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/blockchain.html">blockchain</a> and plans to deliver <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="blockchain" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/blockchain.html">blockchain</a>-based games to the messaging app’s 800 million strong user base.
 An announcement shared with Cointelegraph outlined how the partnership will involve the provision of funding, research, and an analytics platform for third-party TON ecosystem applications.&nbsp;
 The value of Animoca’s investment was not disclosed at the time of publishing, but part of the investment is understood to have been made directly into Toncoin, which has been staked as part of the validator agreement.
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 Animoca has carried out extensive market research on TON’s wider ecosystem focused on the platform’s ability to drive cryptocurrency and GameFi adoption.
 The firm plans to strategically support TON Play, a gaming infrastructure project based on the TON <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="blockchain" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/blockchain.html">blockchain</a>. The infrastructure allows gaming applications to be built on TON and launched on Telegram, as well as port existing web-based games to the messaging app.
 Ton Play will enable developers to deliver games to some 800 million Telegram users through its web application and the mobile app’s PlayDeck bot - which allows users to browse a catalog of mobile games.
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 Telegram's PlayDeck bot allows users to browse a catalog of mobile games. Animoca plans to deliver blockchain-based games through the channel.
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 Animoca will also explore the ability to port a selection of its gaming titles and applications from its portfolio of over 400 Web3 projects to Telegram.
 Animoca Brands Research has also developed its own TON Analytics Dashboard, which gathers a variety of metrics from TON’s open internet ecosystem, which includes TON Blockchain, TON DNS, TON Storage and TON Sites.
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 Animoca Brands Research has created a live dashboard monitoring key networks of the TON ecosystem.&nbsp;
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 TON Foundation director of growth Justin Hyun said the analytics platform and in-depth research reports provided by Animoca will play an important role in infusing Web3 functionality into the everyday experiences of Telegram users.
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 Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu said the investment in TON is aligned with the firm’s efforts to drive adoption and the transition of Web2 to Web3.
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 “Taking part in the network’s validation underlines our faith in the successful realization of the vision behind the TON project as it looks to bring Web3 into the mainstream.”
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 Siu added that Animoca has identified significant growth potential of gaming within the TON ecosystem and intends to drive the development of TON-based games over the next few years.
 The partnership with TON is the second instance of Animoca becoming a <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="validator" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/validator.html">validator</a> of a proof-of-stake <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="blockchain" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/blockchain.html">blockchain</a> protocol in Nov. 2023. The firm joined fan token <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="blockchain" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/blockchain.html">blockchain</a>&nbsp;Chiliz Chain as a <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="validator" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/validator.html">validator</a>&nbsp;for its native&nbsp;proof-of-stake authority protocol on Nov. 14.
 Chiliz Chain is the backbone of Socios.com, which operates a plethora of fan tokens for some of the biggest global football and sports teams. Europe’s most loved football clubs and several household sports brands have tapped into the solution to power Web3 fan tokens and other blockchain-based offerings.
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Animoca becomes largest validator of Telegram's TON blockchain

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