Anyone calling $TON → $GRAM “rebrand” clearly failed basic history class
This isn’t a rebrand. Telegram didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to get creative. They’re reclaiming what the SEC literally stole from them years ago . GRAM was always the name. Always the ticker. Always the endgame. What you’ve been calling $TON for few years was a survival mechanism imo
And now that Telegram is powerful enough to finish what they started, suddenly everyone has opinions.
The people screaming loudest about “community ownership” are the same people who need Telegram’s 1B MAU to make their bags worth anything. You cannot always have it both ways. You don’t get to use Telegram’s distribution as your exit liquidity and then cry about decentralization when Telegram makes a decision.
TON is the legacy. But legacy is what you try to build to survive , not just what you die protecting. $GRAM was always coming. Won’t sound like I knew , but Durov just waited until the ecosystem was strong enough to handle the truth.
The only question that matters now is embarrassingly simple:
Are you on the train or watching it leave?
Toncoin (TON) -> Gram (GRAM)
Community vote is live.
Since Telegram took a leading role in TON's development, the chain got 10× faster, fees 6× lower.
And now Telegram proposes one more change: renaming Toncoin to Gram - the name from the original TON White Paper that never left the codebase.
Vote here -> https://t.co/TH8DTmXJ61
What absolutely blows my mind is I burned $30 000 of sol, at least, over 3 separate tx and 3 separate weeks by aping and irrevocably burning proofv3 and the ppl immediately dumped and ppl still have the nerve to whinge and moan I didn't do enough for proofv3.
guys,
that's literally 3/5 my entire income over that period
poof
like, you're welcome? sit down? shut the fuck up?
@STACCoverflow Jarett, I’m sorry bro.
But in this space, it feels like you can’t really trust anyone or build anything real. Most people just want to use you and take what they can.
Like they say, all that glitters is not gold.
I’ve learned that the hard way many times in this space.
>Rusia quiso controlarlo.
>Francia lo arrestó.
>Pero nunca entregó los datos de un solo usuario. 🤯
>Ese es Pavel Durov.
>Nació en San Petersburgo y estudió lingüística.
>Con solo 22 años creó VKontakte desde su habitación universitaria: el “Facebook ruso”.
>La llevó a más de 100 millones de usuarios y se convirtió en multimillonario.
>El Kremlin le exigió los datos de activistas ucranianos.
>Él respondió públicamente con una foto de un perro con hoodie y dijo: NO. 💀
>Le quitaron su empresa por la fuerza.
>En 2014 lo vendió todo y huyó de Rusia esa misma noche.
>Se quedó apátrida.
>Sin país.
>Sin hogar.
>Vagando por Europa, el Caribe y Emiratos con solo una mochila.
>Pero antes de irse ya había creado Telegram: una mensajería que ningún gobierno pudiera espiar.
>Rusia la prohibió en 2018.
>Duró dos años intentando matarla y perdió. 🚀 >Francia y Emiratos intentaron hackear su iPhone.
>No lo doblegaron.
>En agosto de 2024, Francia lo detuvo al bajar de su jet privado.
>12 cargos criminales.
>Todo internet se levantó: Elon Musk, Snowden y miles más.
>Él no se quebró.
>Telegram generó 540 millones de dólares en ganancias mientras su fundador estaba preso.
>En 2025 le levantaron la prohibición de viajar.
>Sigue sin bandera pero con principios de acero. “Prefiero ser libre y apátrida que rico y controlado.”
>Pavel Durov no es solo un CEO.
>Es una maldita leyenda. 🔥
Whenever you see me say repeatedly how blessed and appreciative I am of some of the things that happened to me and the kind words yall say I truly
Mean it.
Never in a million years did I think I would be here doing this in the way I’m doing it.
Man I use to run doordash, uber eats, and grubhub all at once.. 7 days a week for minimum 7 hours a day just to make a way and have some sort of freedom.
Some days as you see I would make $27 in nearly 7 hours, some weeks $400+ after working 7 hours each day.
A regular job was never meant for me and i dropped out of college after 1 semester..
So I had to figure SOMETHING out
It Was the most unpopular thing to do in my family and my parents hated it , friends mocked me and even said I’d do uber for the rest of my life and wouldnt amount to shit.
Despite that I worked tirelessly for YEARS doing this until I figured it out here a couple years ago.
There was max depression the whole time and feeling like I had zero purpose in life just killed me every day… but something told me to just keep fucking going man.
Mind you, zero connections, zero help from family, and zero knowledge of how to do
Shit.. but i just said you know what.. I need to save my myself and I need to change the course of my immediate family’s lives.. so ima just try and see where I land and if i fail so fuckin what, i did it with fuckin honor.
I know the struggle, I know rock bottom, I know the value of a dollar… i never take ANY of this shit for granted.
For the first time ever in my life, if I were to breathe my last breath I can do so happily knowing I may have lit the fire for the next generation in my family, gave them hope, showed them there is a way out, and gave them enough to take care of themselves.
Thank you God for this life.. I couldnt have dreamt this any better.
Oh and btw..
I aint done yet.
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