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Hey everyone! Last month, we dedicated our efforts to researching large collections on TON, and we have some exciting developments to share with you. Let's start with some context: TON's asynchronous architecture naturally leads developers to use sharded architectures for their smart contracts. This also holds true for the current NFT standard in TON, where each NFT is represented as a separate smart contract. While this approach helps distribute the load on smart contracts, it presents some challenges for developers: 1. Deployment of an NFT collection with 1 million items results in the deployment of 1 million + 1 contracts. 2. Managing multi-NFT operations becomes a significant challenge. However, we didn't let these challenges deter us. Our team has worked hard to find an innovative solution that allows for the deployment of extremely large collections of NFTs at a very affordable cost. While doing it entirely on-chain proved impractical, we found an excellent compromise by combining on-chain and off-chain storage of data. Here's the basic idea: we introduce a new state for NFTs, which we call "virtual NFTs." The data for these virtual NFTs, including ownership and metadata, is stored off-chain, while on-chain, we keep a Merkle tree root containing all the NFTs in the collection. When the first transfer of a virtual NFT occurs, it gets minted on-chain, and from that point forward, it becomes indistinguishable from classical NFTs. This approach offers numerous benefits: 1. Creation of truly massive collections, even up to 1 billion items. 2. Collection deployment comes at a fixed price, independent of its size. 3. Collection deployment costs are incredibly low, akin to deploying a normal empty collection (almost free). 4. The "claiming" of virtual NFTs is very affordable, comparable to a standard transfer. 5. Full compatibility with the existing NFT standard and mechanics. 6. The implementation on marketplace platforms is relatively straightforward. We are thrilled to announce that today we have published this new approach as the Compressed NFT Standard. Alongside this, we have released reference contract implementations and an off-chain storage server. We eagerly await your feedback and comments on our standard draft. Thank you for your continuous support, and let's work together to shape the future of NFTs on TON!

Monthly digest of TON Footsteps. With a slight delay, we've compiled a more comprehensive list of the most exciting news from the TON Footsteps ecosystem component, covering the period from June 25 to July 19 (almost a month): 👥 Content: • TON Dev Study - Learn send_mode and fees through Sandbox tests You can view the videos via the links in the playlist: 📹 FunC & Blueprint 🎓 Documentation: • Step-by-step explanation for TON DNS subdomains system • Update TON FunC Lessons with Blueprint SDK • Detailed description of initialization stage for TVM 📊Dev tooling: • Testnet coins faucet bot for Telegram 📥 Software Development Kit: • C# SDK for TON • Dart/Flutter SDK for TON We aim to stick to our regular publishing schedule in the future, but given the not so active past month, we have not witnessed any explosive developments. ❗️Please take five minutes of your time and complete the survey of feedback form. This way, we can become even better! ❗️ #ton_footsteps

🔨Dev tools updates blueprint v0.11.0 - Added an options field to the tact variant of CompilerConfig, which is of the same type as the options of the TACT compiler, and includes fields such as debug, experimental, etc - Updated TACT to 1.1.3

🎉 We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new statistics tool in the TON Footsteps ecosystem component! This addition reinforces our commitment to transparency, showcasing our openness and honesty at every step of our operations. Presenting three key insights: • Total number of completed and paid-out footsteps: Through to the flash-grant system, nearly 100 ideas from the community have been implemented • Total funds spent on all footsteps: Continuously growing, surpassing $120,000 • Average reward per footstep: Fluctuates around $2,000 These data-driven insights have led us to recognize the following important trends: • Our community is growing actively, indicating high satisfaction with our services • Users are dynamically interacting with our platform, exploring various facets of TON Footsteps • The volume of footsteps continues to increase, affirming our efficiency and reliability Step 1: Developing new features and capabilities, taking into consideration the valuable feedback from our community Step 2: Enhancing the comfort of the community's interaction with the system Step 3: Enhancing our user interface to provide a more convenient and intuitive user experience It's quite important that this tool was development in the Footstep #184, about which we talked in the previous post. ❗️Please take five minutes of your time and complete the survey of feedback form. This way, we can become even better! ❗️ #ton_footsteps

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Hey guys! A while ago, we started improving the previously unfinished TON Ledger App, and we are now close to the finish line! It's still not released and may require some further improvements, but you can check out its development branch here. One of the main new features is the support for the upcoming Ledger Stax device. Please also see the attached screenshot of the new UI.

Biweekly digest of TON Footsteps. Over the past two weeks, we have gathered the most exciting news from the TON Footsteps ecosystem component: 💎 Significant steps aiding ecosystem development: • Ton Developers Program You can read more in the footstep and the corresponding file documenting this work. It will be launched within a month. • Reproducible research of TON Footsteps Statistical data of the TON Footsteps component, reflecting all metrics for full transparency. You can read more in the repository. 👥 Content: One milestone has been completed in each of the onboarding footsteps. You can view the videos via the links: - Buy TON Fast - Mastering Crypto Wallets 🎓 Documentation: • Documentation for Get Methods (Getters) in TON Blockchain • Step-by-Step Guide for Launching Liteserver 📊Development: • Dart library for TON Connect 2.0 #ton_footsteps

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🔨Dev tools updates blueprint v0.10.0 - Added two optional fields to the CompilerConfig: preCompileHook?: () => Promise and postCompileHook?: (code: Cell) => Promise. The former one gets called before any compilation of the respective contract happens, the latter one - after any compilation with the compiled code cell (they are called both during the build command and when calling the compile function for the respective contracts) - Changed the run command to only show .ts scripts create-ton v0.5.0 - Updated template's blueprint to 0.10.0, sandbox to 0.11.0 - Changed template's jest config to ignore the dist directory