New Telegram App Launches on TON Blockchain, Looking to Reward Users’ Engagement With Crypto Rewards

Key highlights:

• They’re launching this new app called ShareON on Telegram that’s aiming to reward you for spreading quality content.
• Basically, if you come across an awesome video or article and share it around, you can earn some crypto tokens.
• To keep things fun, they’ve added a game element where you can track your progress on leaderboards and collect achievements. In just a short time since launch, hundreds of thousands of people have already joined up, and billions of messages have been shared.

The TON blockchain has seen significant growth in recent weeks with the launch of several innovative mini-apps. Two that really took off include the privacy-focused TONNEL Network and the viral clicker game Notcoin. Now, another promising project called ShareON has entered the scene, looking to incentivize content sharing and social interactions on Telegram.

Rewarding users for spreading quality content

ShareON – incubated by a pioneer in decentralized Web3 content aggregation and distribution, ReadON – is a new Telegram mini app that launched on Telegram Messenger utilizing the TON blockchain in the background. The goal of ShareON is to reward users with crypto tokens simply for engaging with interesting content and spreading it to their social networks. As anyone who uses Telegram frequently knows, there is a treasure trove of engaging content worth spreading each day. ShareON aims to formalize and incentivize this natural human behavior.

The concept is quite simple – users browse and come across compelling articles, videos, or other media. With a few taps in ShareON, they can then share this content to selected Telegram channels or chats. If others in their network also find it worthwhile and engage with the post, the original sharer will receive a small crypto reward.

ShareON Telegram Bot Interface. Source: ShareON

An engaging game element

To keep the experience fun and gamified, users will accumulate these crypto tokens in their ShareON wallets over time. They can then view breakdowns of top performers, track their progress on leaderboards, or make comparisons against friends. Status and achievements will be awarded as certain token milestones are hit. This should help motivate ongoing engagement within the app.

Under the hood, the TON blockchain ensured these token rewards and interactions could be recorded and verified in a decentralized manner. The project’s founders rightly identified Telegram as a fertile ground for content discovery and sharing. By building on TON and integrating directly into Telegram’s robust ecosystem, ShareON hit the ground running with a ready audience.

Early success points to a bright future

In the few short weeks since its launch, ShareON has already proven wildly popular according to the development team. Hundreds of thousands of users have joined the platform and billions of messages shared. If this level of organic growth persists, it could end up being one of the most used decentralized apps to date.

With users incentivized to authentically engage with high-quality articles and media, ShareON shows real potential to surface the best content floating around Telegram. Only time will tell if the concept truly takes hold, but all signs so far point to ShareON playing a key role in the blossoming TON ecosystem. As more users interact with DApps like ShareON, Notcoin, and TONNEL Network, mainstream awareness and adoption of the TON blockchain stands to grow exponentially.

So what does this growing influx of activity on the TON blockchain mean for the price of its native TON cryptocurrency, Toncoin? At the time of writing, TON coin is trading around $2.27 – up over 9% in the past month according to CoinCodex.