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10 $PX x 5 lucky ones

1. leave your wallet under X post
2. you have to be subscribed to me

Here is the X post:
https://x.com/the_links_en/status/1878912485455225091

Project Token 💎

A token is a vital element of a crypto project and serves multiple purposes. Let’s explore the main ones:

📊 Economic Model and Incentivizing Participants
The token is used to create an incentive system that motivates users to participate in the project, contribute to its development, share information about the project, and educate others.

🚀 Functionality Within the Ecosystem
A token can act as an internal currency or a means of accessing the platform's products, services, and features. For example, it may be used to pay transaction fees, commissions, or activate certain functions in applications.

🗳 Governance Mechanism
In many crypto projects, tokens are used for voting on key decisions regarding the project’s development. This approach ensures decentralized governance and allows users to participate in decision-making processes.

🪙 Fundraising
Token issuance (e.g., through ICOs or IEOs) enables projects to raise funds for their development by offering investors the opportunity to participate in the ecosystem and potentially earn returns in the future.

👥 Community Building and Engagement
Having a token can stimulate the creation of an active community around the project. Token holders are invested in the project’s success, as its growing popularity often directly impacts the token's value.

All of this makes the token a crucial tool for the development, scaling, and long-term success of a crypto project. The key is to maintain balance.

#ECOSYSTEM #TOKEN #KNOWLEDGE #TON

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Anonymity?

The other day, the databases with wallets, Telegram ID and other metadata were leaked. The topic is relevant, so let's run through the basics that any self-respecting person from the modern society of degen should know.

As soon as you link one of your wallets to TMA (Telegram Mini Apps), you give the application the opportunity to create a link:

Telegram ID - wallet address

But no, in fact, the link can be much deeper:

Telegram ID - wallet address - IP address - device ID*

*device ID - your device identifier, can be built on the basis of device fingerprint.

If you connect the wallet to the site, then the Telegram ID disappears from this link, but everything said below is still relevant.

Having a database of such links, you can install wallets that belong to one person. And this can already be used for different purposes, for example, to filter out twinks or track whale wallets, etc.

Some applications create Telegram ID - wallet address links on-chain, leaving the ID in the transaction comment. Perhaps someone does this intentionally, and someone due to lack of knowledge. One way or another, keep in mind that all this is also collected by third parties and will be sold.

Often, when you make a transfer to the exchange, you need to specify some identifier in the comment. And if you interact with the exchange with several wallets, but with the same identifier, this also allows you to link wallets to one person.

Real-life example - swap coffee

Let's look at an example of how swap coffee saves information about you in its databases.

Recently, they decided to hold a competition, which consists in the fact that when exchanging a certain amount, a snowflake flies out, which you need to tap, after which the star counter increases.

So, this snowflake counter is linked not to one wallet, but probably to several wallets. This is easily verified using two browsers and two different wallets.

That is, they somehow save these links and can most likely restore which wallets belong to you.

As long as all this information is stored by services, not in the public domain, everything is fine, the user does not care. But at some point, leaks are sure to happen or someone starts selling this data. And then users start to be unhappy, because now anyone can see all 10 of your wallets.

After all, blockchain is not about anonymity 😭

#TON #ANON #TONNEL #LEAK

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Launchpools. Why give away coins for free?

The benefits of using a launchpool for developers are several:

🟢Project advertising. First of all, this is, of course, advertising for the project. Launchpools are often organized on large platforms that already have a large number of users. Thanks to this, the project gets access to a wide audience and the opportunity for large-scale promotion.

🟢A launchpool helps to form the first community around the project. Users who have received tokens are interested in the further development of the project and the growth of the price of these tokens.

🟢If a project is launched through a well-known launchpool, this increases trust in it. Users see that the project has been verified and selected, which reduces the risk of ragpool or other fraud.

🟢A launchpool allows you to distribute tokens among real users, not speculators or large investors. This creates a more honest and decentralized distribution, which is important for the sustainability of the project.

Cons:

🔴Users can participate in the launch pool solely to receive tokens, but not be interested in the project itself. This creates the risk of a lack of a loyal community.

🔴Pressure on the token price. After the launch pool is completed, many participants can immediately sell the tokens they received, which leads to a sharp decrease in their value on the market.

Are native memecoins ($NOT, $DOGS) starting to have utilities or do they just want to bury people deeper in them?

For those who like to read, here is a short article about the native memecoin $DOGS from Learn ByBit.

Have you participated in launch pools before? Did you get any? What will you do with the coins you receive? Immediately into the glass or HODL? 👀

#TON #NOT #EARN #BUILD #DOGS #CLAY

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EARN — the first launchpool on TON (from Notcoin)

🪙A launchpool is a platform or tool that allows users to invest their assets to participate in new projects and receive rewards. Usually, to participate, you need to freeze your funds for a while.

At the time of writing, the launch of the first $BUILD token is ending on the EARN platform. An interesting feature is that to participate in the launchpool and receive $BUILD tokens, you do not need to freeze funds, just connect a wallet that has TON, $NOT or $DOGS.

$BUILD — this is a utility token @community_bot, which supports the development of open source tools (there is really written that way, we are not making anything up)

Some of the token use cases:

🩷In business cases, $BUILD will be used as the main token (probably meaning that to create a company on the platform, $BUILD will be needed)

🩷The platform's income will be used to support the growth of the ecosystem

🩷Grants to stimulate open source development

✈️It looks like you can already launch your own companies in the community bot, as there is a special section with a template to fill in.

So, are we waiting for another big token with support from the collective telegram?😟

#TON #NOT #EARN #BUILD

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⚔ KINGY GM BATTLE or $WP presale

We tried to study all the existing information on this presale application.

We would like to draw attention to the 5th point of the rules:

5. Multipliers are distributed from the weakest team to the strongest (x1.5, x1.375, x1.25, x1.125, x1).

Thus, you can get +50% of contributions from the start. To do this, you need to try to ensure that the token you choose is at the end of the list on the current day.

Here's what most likely awaits us

Firstly, there is a cell for new tokens on the main page, which means that other tokens will appear, the testing phase is probably underway now.

Secondly, in the statistics tab there is an empty section with tasks. And this means that tasks may appear. That is, another potential way of monetization.

Thirdly, there is a 10% referral, which generally allows inflams to earn without risks, so at some point the channel will start shilling.

And finally, presale from Vudi, he will not ragpul and all that.

By the way, initially 1 WP = 1 USDT, let's remember this so that we can return in the future.

Our current result

For several days in a row, we threw 1 $GM in the presale. As you can see from the screenshot, we managed to accumulate 54 $WP, and we threw in only 50 $KINGY and 3 $GM, which is about 48 USDT. We will continue to participate and will try to catch the x1.5 multiplier.

If you don't want to participate, just stay on the same page with us! 🍿

#TON #KINGY #GM #ARBUZ #DFC #M5 #WP #SCAM

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From clickers to donations.

Gamification when launching new coins or how you can now collect a pre-sale and sell hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ads?

Gamification uses basic human needs for competition, achieving goals and receiving a reward.

Players-investors are involved in the process, periodically make donations in the hope of x's (this will be discussed in the next article).

Those who are not ready to donate, watch ads, subscribe to groups, are traffic, which also brings money to the application. In this category, it is important to filter out bots during the distribution of tokens, otherwise everything will go to hell.

Both are involved in the process, feel part of the project, help promote it, share referral links with friends, and infls with their subscribers.

In total, we have three components:
💥emotional attachment
💥social element
💥multi-channel monetization.

If all the pieces of the puzzle fit together, you get aces. The developers' task is to come up with a simple and understandable mechanic with regular micro-donations.

By the way, an existing coin can be used as donations, as it was in Catizen, microtransactions of ~$1 (0.1-0.2 TON) like in Cubes, or stars like in Major.

And a little advertising

Vudi (top ru infl) recently launched a pre-sale game for the $WP token, the idea is that you need to choose one of the presented tokens and donate. THAT'S IT! That's all the mechanics. So far, many have not yet figured out that this is really a pre-sale, so we are opening your eyes. Vudi is launching a new token! We'll be throwing in the equivalent of 1 TON per day from a public wallet and see what happens.

#TON #KINGY #GM #ARBUZ #DFC #M5 #WP #SCAM

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Memepads

The sole purpose of a memepad is to make money, not to make you rich.

🎰 Nowadays every second project has their own memepad.

BigPump, Blum, WAGMI, and now GraFun. All new memepads are built on the basis of tonfun contracts in such a way that if a token is created on one of these memepads, then it is available on any other.

For example, if a token is created on GraFun, then theoretically it can be found on Blum or BigPump.

💰 Memepads make money on commissions. Usually, you leave 1% of the purchase amount in the form of commissions during the bonding curve. Some memepads have implemented integration with DEX, that is, after listing, you can continue trading without leaving the mempad. In this case, DEX shares part of the commissions with the mempad.

But there is one "but", all these platforms compete with each other for your attention and, of course, for the commissions left when buying tokens. The task of the mempad is to keep you, to give you a convenient and pleasant interface... But in reality, we have what we have, there is not even a normal chart anywhere, the abandoned Gaspump still looks much stronger. Therefore, mempads should not stop, they need to continue developing, come up with new solutions, try and implement crazy ideas.

🤔 Keep in mind that only a few trade in plus on mempads, this happens, among other things, because of the huge amount of scam. The other day, Nick (dedust founder) started discussing the problem...
We are waiting for solutions to combat scams! On GasPump, blocking part or all of the creator's coins was considered a good practice. In GraFun on BNB, for example, there is the option of sending part of the coins to a treasury, which is then managed by the DAO.

#TON #memepad #Blum #BigPump #GraFun #WAGMI

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The Open League Comments

A week ago we received a badge to participate in The Open League, we didn't read the rules and metrics at all. As it turned out, they managed to change rules, and edits are made almost every day.

What is our strategy for this season? Everything is very simple, we will not chase volume, but will distribute liquidity among several wallets. And let's hope that the drop will be similar to last season, when they distributed separately for volume and separately for TVL.

To get 10,000 points in the league, you can:

1. Swap (swap.coffee, rainbow) $200k in the USDT/AquaUSD stable pair, it costs about $100, the exchange fee for this pair on Dedust is only 0.05% (for comparison, TON/USDT is 0.1%, and the standard fee for other tokens is 0.25%). A little later, we will try to estimate the feasibility of these actions.

2. Put 2,000 USDT in one of the protocols, for example, in the USDT/AquaUSD pair on TONCO.

We like the second option more, since there are no losses on commissions.

At the time of writing the post, 59th place has exactly 10,000 points. And last season, 59th place by volume was worth $300 and $500 for TVL. So we're thinking about it.

Be careful, first you need to get a badge, and then make exchanges to increase your volume or TVL. The rules also say that you need to get a badge to participate in the league no later than 5 days before the end. And here is a link to the leaderboard.

#TOL #TON #retrodrop #airdrop

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What is Aqua Protocol? 🙂

#AquaUSD #AquaXP #AQUA

Aqua Protocol represents a significant liquidity layer within the TON ecosystem. By collateralizing tokens from liquid staking protocols, low-risk LP tokens, and RWA, Aqua Protocol issues its own stablecoin AquaUSD, backed by over 200% collateral. (source)

AquaUSD is a decentralized, over-collateralized stablecoin. This means that control over the stablecoin is "almost" in the hands of the community who (unlike USDT, where all coins are under the control of Tether), anyone can mint new AquaUSD by providing collateral to the protocol. Why "almost"? Because the developers probably have access to smart contracts and the ability to modify them. But since we do not understand the technical details of the implementation, we have to trust the developers and auditors.

What does over-collateralized with more than 200% collateral mean? This means that for every minified AquaUSD, there is at least 2 USDT equivalent in the protocol, at the moment, liquid staking tokens stTON, tsTON and hTON (these are the tokens you get when staking TON) and USDT- and TON-SLP (Storm Trade LP) can be provided as collateral to the protocol.

Now let's figure out the difference between AquaXP, AquaUSD and AQUA.

1. AquaXP - a token that was created as a reward for testnet and farming tasks. At the moment, it can be bought in the exchanger, or received for providing liquidity in the AquaUSD/USDT pool, or through AquaXP staking.

2. AquaUSD is over-collateralized stablecoin, it can be bought in an exchanger at a rate of one to one to USDT. Or AquaUSD can be minted in the protocol, for this you need to add a collateral to the protocol.

3. AQUA - this will be the protocol's governance token, i.e. a regular project token with its own tokenomics. AquaXP from the first point is needed just to exchange for AQUA.

Any questions left? Ask in the comments, let's try to figure it out together 🧑‍🏫

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CEX - Centralized Exchange.

CEX (centralized exchange) is a traditional platform that is managed by a centralized organization. On CEX exchanges, all transactions occur within the platform, and users trust their funds to the exchange, which acts as an intermediary. You trust the platform, it has full control over your account, can help you recover your password, or they can block your account, so be careful, use trusted platforms.

🔃 CEX on TON

xRocket - quite a good and mature product, supports several major cryptocurrencies and several dozen tokens. There are various tools inside that will allow you to create checks, paid subscriptions to the channel, distribute coins in the chat to random people or send to a specific person and much more. The project has a collection of NFTs with utilities in the form of reduced fees and a drop of tokens that are listed (added) to the exchange.

cryptobot - another fairly popular platform, has similar functionality. Also quite intuitive and clear, supports a larger number of cryptocurrencies and only one token.

Go in, poke the buttons, look at the functionality, compare platforms, don't be afraid to top up your account with a couple of TON, create a check and send it to a friend. This way you can get a feel for what it is and how it works.

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Current activities

Notes:

*️⃣DYOR about coin and avoid scam
*️⃣Staking
*️⃣What is Aqua Protocol?
*️⃣Memepads
*️⃣Launchpools

Coming soon:

*️⃣DEX, CEX, Wallets
*️⃣NFT marketplaces
*️⃣How to earn TON without initial deposit
*️⃣Landing protocols
*️⃣Digital hygiene
*️⃣Conservative investing
*️⃣Coins evolution
*️⃣Free money (tap and farm app's)
*️⃣DAO myths
*️⃣Telegram stars
*️⃣Explorers
*️⃣Coin analysis
*️⃣Feed

👋 If you have any ideas or proposals, you are more than welcome to leave them in comments.

📎 This post will be updated and structured based on published notes and articles.

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Staking

📊 Staking is the process of blocking coins for a certain period, in which the owner of the coins transfers them to the service, and the service usually issues a reward for this.

An analogue could be a deposit in a bank, you open a deposit and transfer money there, as a reward you receive a percentage of the deposit amount, depending on the type of deposit and the interest rate. There is competition both among banks and among cryptocurrency services, each one beckons with its goodies, some have a higher percentage, and some can withdraw their coins at any time. Be careful, study the service to which you transfer your funds.

Where does the staking reward come from?

💎 TON is a Proof-of-Stake network, which means that security and stability are provided by validators, who must own a large number of toncoins. In short, by sending your TON for staking, as a rule, you transfer them to validators, they receive a commission for transactions within the blockchain and share part of the profit with you. You can read more details here and here.

Token staking

📈 Staking of native tokens works in exactly the same way, only you block (transfer for storage) not tokens, but some other tokens. And the reward is usually allocated by an interested party, this could be the owner of the project or some kind of large holder. By the way, the pool of rewards can be completely different, it depends only on the implementation, these can be tokens, several different types of tokens, NFTs, participation in closed chats and DAOs.

What problems does token staking solve?
1. Reducing the number of tokens in circulation
2. Attracting new users and advertising
3. Encouraging holders

Do not confuse staking and farming; in farming, liquidity is usually provided (we recently wrote about liquidity) and the received LP tokens are staked.

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LP - Liquidity Provider

🪙 LP tokens are tokens that a liquidity provider receives on a DEX (dedust or stonfi). Any user can become a liquidity provider; to do this, you need to select the pair of tokens you would like to replenish, for example TON/jUSDT, and the number of tokens you want to add to the pool. For simplicity, we will assume that the current exchange rate is 1 TON = 2 jUSDT, and you want to replenish the pool by 1 TON. To replenish the pool, you must have at least 2 jUSDT in your wallet. At the time of replenishment, 1 TON and 2 jUSDT will leave your wallet, and in return you will receive LP tokens (this is proof that your funds are in the pool), with them you can do everything that you do with regular coins, for example , send to a friend, freeze, burn or exchange back.

🔄 When exchanging back, you can receive TON and jUSDT in a different quantity, this will depend on the rate, and the rate, in turn, depends on the volume of sales and purchases within this pair. The more jUSDT exchanged for TON, the less TON will be in the pool and the higher its value will be and vice versa.

What do you get from providing liquidity?

💵 As a rule, DEX takes a commission for exchange transactions, keeps part of it for itself, and distributes part among liquidity providers in proportion to their contribution to the pool. Thus, if after some time the rate returns to the original rate (1 TON = 2 jUSDT) and you decide to withdraw your liquidity back, then you will receive 1 TON, 2 jUSDT and another commission that DEX shared with you.

📊 It is worth understanding that the more liquidity there is in a pair, the weaker the exchange rate changes during exchange operations within this pair. The more stable, in a sense, the coin is. Therefore, coin creators are often concerned with the issue of liquidity. We remind you that there is an instruction that will allow you to conduct an initial analysis of the token for fraud.

May you always have enough liquidity

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DYOR (do your own research)

In recent days, many new coins (tokens) have been appearing on TON, unfortunately, almost all of them are scams. What information is worth knowing about the newly appeared coin and what rug pull is you will find out below.

Rug pull is a type of fraud in which scammers withdraw all or most of the liquidity from the exchanger, after which you cannot exchange the purchased coins or the rate drops several dozen times.

A quick DYOR you can do:

🔎 Check that changes cannot be made to the coin contract:
enter the coin contract address on the website https://minter.ton.org/
If the rights to change are not revoked, then the owner can mint more coins.

💸 It’s worth checking where the LP tokens are located (the tokens that the liquidity provider receives in the exchanger). If they are on some wallet, this means that the owner of the tokens can extract liquidity from the exchanger at any time. Typically, LP tokens are blocked for some period of time or are completely burned forever.

🐳 An important step is to check the top holders of the token; it is advisable to understand how much they can influence the rate. If these are fresh wallets, then be careful, it smells like a scam. However, often separate wallets are used for more transparent tokenomics (part for marketing, part for airdrop, etc.)
More advanced scammers can scatter the coin across several wallets in such a way that they will not be visible in the top.
Usually, coins can be bought at different exchangers, so in the top you will also see the addresses of exchangers.

🥷Distinctive features of scammers:
1. The coin is created from a new wallet, which has been replenished with 200-500 TON.
2. The rights to change the coin contract can be revoked, but LP tokens are in the creator’s wallet and he promises to block and burn them soon.
3. TON were received from a wallet that has already participated in similar schemes.
4. The description of the coin promises some complex utilities and uses buzzwords.

Be careful
DYOR

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