Whitepapers

This section presents the original documentation written by Dr. Nikolai Durov, which fully describes all parts of TON.

Original documentation

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Please note that here and later the code, comments and/or documentation may contain parameters, methods and definitions of “gram”, “nanogram”, etc, that are a legacy of the original TON code, developed by Telegram. Gram cryptocurrency was never issued. The currency of TON is Toncoin and the currency of TON testnet is Test Toncoin.

• TON Whitepaper

  TON Whitepaper – a general description of TON(The Open Network) Blockchain.

• TON Virtual Machine

  TON Virtual Machine description.

• TON Blockchain

  Telegram Open Network Blockchain description (may include outdated information).

• Catchain Consensus Protocol

  Description of the Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) Consensus protocol employed by TON Blockchain while creating new blocks.

• Fift Documentation

  Description of Fift language and how to use it in TON.

Translations

• [RU] korolyow/ton_docs_ru — TON Whitepapers in Russian. (this version made by community, TON Foundation can't guarantee quality of translation)
• [CN] awesome-doge/the-open-network-whitepaper — TON Whitepapers in Chinese. (made by community, TON Foundation can't guarantee quality of translation)