Author: TechFlow
With Bitcoin soaring, the market has embarked on a journey to find new narratives and opportunities.
However, since there are no new narratives in the short term, a good approach for the bull market is to adjust the internal structure of the narrative.
For example, migrating EVM applications to the TON ecosystem.
2 days ago, tokens in the TON ecosystem saw a broad rally, with some rising over 100% in X days, and HMSTR rising over 70% in a day... The market has started to focus on the TON ecosystem and Telegram-related applications again.
Relevant research also shows that the daily transaction volume of the TON blockchain has grown 12-fold in the past year, from 100,000 to 1.2 million.
But one problem that the TON ecosystem has faced all along is that TON technology xxxxx x, making it difficult to xxxxx.
And yesterday, the TON network expansion project TAC completed a $6.5 million seed round, led by Hack VC and Symbolic Capital; with participation from Primitive, Paper Ventures, Karatage, Animoca Ventures, Spartan Capital, TON Ventures and Ankr.
One of the key functions of this project is to help TON and Telegram users access Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) applications within the app; conversely, it can also be understood that EVM-based applications can be seamlessly migrated to the TON ecosystem.
At this juncture, it would be interesting to explore the interconnectivity of resources within the crypto ecosystem, allowing capital and applications to move seamlessly, which might uncover some opportunities.
We quickly looked at the design of TAC to help everyone get an early understanding.
The Migration Lubricant for EVM Applications
In the blockchain world, the prosperity of an ecosystem often depends on the richness of its applications and the activity of its users. TON, as a star project closely related to Telegram, has always been the focus of attention.
However, despite TON's large potential user base, the development of its ecosystem has faced a significant obstacle: the incompatibility with mainstream Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) applications.
TON's unique architecture, while bringing efficiency and low-cost advantages, has also created a technological divide between it and the EVM ecosystem. This means that a large number of mature DeFi, NFT and Web3 applications cannot run directly on TON, limiting the expansion speed of the ecosystem.
For developers, migrating existing EVM applications to TON often requires a significant amount of refactoring work, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also increases the risk of errors.
When the heterogeneous but holding TG's huge traffic (not to mention the quality of the traffic) TON, meets the EVM-based projects that are eager to migrate their ecosystems to capture incremental traffic, in simple terms, they want to carry out a migration, but it is not smooth, and friction occurs frequently.
And once the opportunity window is missed, they can only watch the cake being eaten by applications within the TON ecosystem.
So you can easily understand the intention of TAC, which is to provide an elegant solution to the above-mentioned problems. TAC, short for TON Application Composer, is essentially a "weaver" of TON applications; its core goal is to become a bridge between the EVM applications and the TON ecosystem.
With TAC, developers can deploy their EVM applications to the TON network at almost zero cost, while users can use their familiar TON wallets to directly interact with these applications.
An apparently not bad and imaginative narrative has been written on the project's website:
Tonify your dAPPs.
From the official information, with TAC, the experience you can achieve is:
- Native TON experience: Access EVM applications directly from your TON wallet, with the familiarity and security you trust;
- Simple integration: Migrate your EVM application to TON without rewriting code or learning new frameworks;
- Proxy applications: Automatically generated smart contracts on the TON and EVM networks enable direct communication between TON wallets and EVM applications;
However, it's easier said than done. Let's take a look at the technical details of TAC and how it plans to deliver on its promises.
Proxy-ization, Unlocking Cross-Chain Potential
Regarding how TAC plans to do this, the innovation lies in its "Proxy Apps" concept.
Simply put, these proxy applications serve as the "avatars" of EVM smart contracts on the TON network, automatically handling cross-chain communication and state synchronization. For developers, this means they can maintain their existing Solidity codebase without having to learn new programming languages or rewrite application logic. For users, they can access the rich EVM application ecosystem seamlessly on the Telegram platform with billions of users.
In more detail, these proxy applications are not just simple messaging tools, but a complete cross-chain protocol implementation.
When a developer deploys an EVM application to the TAC platform, the system will automatically generate the corresponding proxy contracts on the TON network. These proxy contracts are like the "doppelgangers" of the EVM application on the TON network, able to precisely replicate all the functionality and state of the original application.
Let's understand this process through a concrete example: Suppose a developer wants to migrate a popular DEX application from Ethereum to the TON network. In the traditional approach, this would require a complete rewrite of the smart contracts, and the state synchronization between the two networks would also need to be considered. With TAC, the entire process becomes remarkably simple: the developer only needs to submit the original Solidity contract to the TAC platform, and the system will automatically generate the corresponding TON proxy contract and establish the communication bridge between the two networks.
Another technical highlight of TAC is its innovative state synchronization mechanism. Traditional cross-chain solutions often require complex consensus mechanisms to ensure data consistency, which not only increases the complexity of the system, but may also introduce security risks. TAC adopts a technology called "state mirroring", which uses smart event listening and state replication to ensure that the proxy contracts on TON can reflect the state changes of the EVM contracts in real-time. This design not only improves the reliability of the system, but also greatly reduces the cost of cross-chain operations.
For developers, the significance of TAC goes far beyond the convenience at the technical level. It is actually creating a new development paradigm: write once, deploy anywhere.
Developers can continue to use the familiar Solidity language and development tools, without needing to learn the specific technology stack of TON. The SDKs and API interfaces provided by TAC make the entire deployment and management process as simple as installing a plugin. This "low-threshold" solution is likely to become a key factor in driving the next wave of DApp innovation.
What's more noteworthy is TAC's breakthrough in user experience. Traditional cross-chain applications often require users to hold tokens of multiple networks to pay transaction fees, which is a significant barrier for ordinary users. TAC cleverly solves this problem: users only need to hold TON tokens to interact with any EVM application deployed through TAC. This seamless user experience is of great significance for promoting the mass adoption of Web3 applications.
However, any technological innovation faces challenges. For TAC, one of the biggest challenges is how to ensure system security while maintaining high efficiency. TAC has adopted a multi-layered security architecture, including smart contract auditing, state verification, and fault recovery mechanisms, to ensure the security of cross-chain operations. In addition, TAC has also introduced an innovative governance mechanism, allowing the community to participate in important protocol upgrade decisions, which provides important safeguards for the long-term development of the project.
Outlook and Roadmap
The project's Official Twitter shows that TAC will release its testnet during the Devcon event in Bangkok; but the specific process and rules for participation have not yet been made public on the official website.
However, according to the usual practices of projects, TAC may also have various social media attention, testnet interaction, token transfers, and encouragement of end-users and incentives for developers during the testnet phase, which is the inevitable path for a platform-type infrastructure project.
The mainnet launch of the current project is planned for Q1 next year. During this window period, whether the project can become popular depends on whether the overall crypto bull market can continue, and on the subsequent performance of the Ton ecosystem.
The craze for click-to-earn games has passed, and most projects have experienced varying degrees of user attrition and declining popularity after the token launch hype.
Whether TAC can bridge more gameplay EVM applications to the Ton ecosystem and nourish this soil that has been temporarily dried up, remains to be seen.
