How to use Ton? DDAO explains.

3 min readJan 30, 2023

Intro

To start, let’s say Open Network is a part of one biggest social network in the world Telegram which consist around 700 millions people.

Be sure to understand Open Network and Telegram not same, it is completely different projects which exist and building in synergy.

In the past two weeks on Open Network (TON) have been created 2 000 000 accounts which is just around 0.3% of the whole growing potential.

How use Ton?

1.Buy $TON.

Of course to use Ton Blockchain you have to some amount of $TON which is a native token of Open Network. You need to pay with this token for transactions in the network same as in ETH Network.

Where you can find $TON?

CEX (Centralized exchanges)

DEX (Decentralized exchanges)

Uniswap — the biggest DEX according volumes.
PancakeSwap — the most popular DEX on BNB-Chain.
Biswap — on of the popular DEX on BNB-Chain.

Bank card

Mercuryo — easy option to buy $Ton with your bankcard.
Neocrypto — one more option to buy it with a bankcard.

You have some coins of $TON? Awesome, now we go to the next step.

What is the next?

2.Install the required Dapps.

Download the Tonkeeper, Tonhub, Ton Wallet to your phone (iOS/Android).
For the example we’ll use Tonkeeper (iOS/Android).

Click on the Receive button to copy your TON address and transfer coins from the exchange to your wallet. If you purchased coins through the Tonkeeper app, you can skip this step.

Go to the Browser tab and select DeDust.

Click on Connect wallet in the window that appears.

Now you are authorized on the exchange. Enter the amount of any token that you want to exchange in the input field and click Swap. Please note that you must leave at least 0.5 TON on the balance on the network commission. Most of the spent coins will return to your wallet.