Forwarded the original title: Interpretation of TAC: TON ecological enthusiasm is reignited, allowing EVM applications to migrate seamlessly as a lubricant

As Bitcoin soared, the market began a journey of finding new narratives and opportunities.

However, since there are no new narratives in the short term, a good approach for the bull market is to adjust the structure within the existing narrative.

For example, migrating EVM applications to the TON ecosystem.

Two days ago, tokens in the TON ecosystem experienced a general rise. For instance, X increased by over 100% within a day, and HMSTR rose by more than 70% intraday… The market began to focus on the TON ecosystem and Telegram-related applications again.

Relevant research also shows that the daily transaction volume of the TON blockchain has increased 12-fold in the past year, from 100,000 to 1.2 million.

However, a problem that the TON ecosystem has always faced is that TON technology is difficult to implement.

Yesterday, TON network expansion project TAC completed a US$6.5 million seed round of financing, led by Hack VC and Symbolic Capital; with participation from Primitive, Paper Ventures, Karatage, Animoca Ventures, Spartan Capital, TON Ventures and Ankr.

An important function of this project is to help TON and Telegram users access Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) applications within the application; conversely, it can also be understood that applications with EVM technical architecture can be seamlessly migrated to the TON ecosystem.

At this point, facilitating resource exchange within the crypto ecosystem will allow funds and applications to move seamlessly, which may also create new opportunities.

We’ve taken a quick look at TAC’s design to help you understand it in advance.

Facilitating EVM Application Migration

In the blockchain world, an ecosystem’s prosperity often depends on the richness of its applications and user activity. TON, as a star project closely related to Telegram, has always attracted much attention.

However, despite TON’s huge potential user base, its ecosystem developmetn faces a major obstacle: incompatibility with mainstream Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) applications.

While TON’s unique architecture brings advantages of high efficiency and low cost, it also creates a technical gap with the EVM ecosystem. This means that many mature DeFi, NFT, and Web3 applications cannot run directly on TON, limiting the ecosystem’s expansion speed.

For developers, migrating existing EVM applications to TON often requires extensive refactoring, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also increases the risk of errors.

When TON, which is heterogeneous but has huge TG traffic (not to mention traffic quality), meets EVM architecture projects eager for ecosystem migration to capture incremental traffic, the migration process is not smooth and friction occurs frequently.

Missing this window of opportunity means watching the market share being consumed by applications within the TON ecosystem.

This explains the intention behind TAC, which aims to provide an elegant solution to these problems. TAC, short for TON Application Composer, essentially acts as a bridge between EVM applications and the TON ecosystem.

Through TAC, developers can deploy their EVM applications onto the TON network at almost zero cost, while users can interact with these applications directly using their familiar TON wallet.

The project’s website presents an appealing narrative with room for imagination:

Tonify dAPP.

According to official information, TAC offers the following experiences:

Native TON experience: Access EVM applications directly from your TON wallet, with the familiarity and security you trust;

Simple integration: Access EVM applications to TON without rewriting code or learning a new framework;

Proxy Application: Automatically generated smart contracts on TON and EVM networks enable direct communication between TON wallets and EVM applications;

However, implementation is more challenging than it sounds. Let’s examine TAC’s technical details and how it delivers on its promises.

Proxy Mechanism: Unlocking Cross-Chain Potential

TAC’s innovation primarily lies in its “Proxy Apps” concept.

In simple terms, these proxy applications act as “avatars” of EVM smart contracts on the TON network, automatically handling cross-chain communication and state synchronization. For developers, this means retaining their original Solidity codebase without learning a new programming language or rewriting application logic. For users, it enables seamless access to a rich EVM application ecosystem on Telegram, a platform with hundreds of millions of users.

More specifically, these proxy applications are not mere messaging tools but complete cross-chain protocol implementations.

When a developer deploys an EVM application to the TAC platform, the system will automatically generate the corresponding proxy contract on the TON network. These proxy contracts are like “doppelgangers” of EVM applications on TON, accurately replicating all functions and states of the original applications.

To illustrate this process, consider a developer wanting to migrate a popular DEX application from Ethereum to the TON network. Traditionally, this would require a complete smart contract rewrite and addressing state synchronization issues between the two networks. With TAC, the process becomes remarkably simple: developers only need to submit the original Solidity contract to the TAC platform, which automatically generates the corresponding TON proxy contract and establishes a communication bridge between the networks.

Another technical highlight of TAC is its innovative state synchronization mechanism. Traditional cross-chain solutions often require complex consensus mechanisms to ensure data consistency, increasing system complexity and potential security risks. TAC employs a technology called “state mirroring” to ensure the proxy contract on TON reflects the state changes in real time through intelligent event monitoring and state replication. This design enhance system reliability, which significantly reducing the cross-chain operation costs.

For developers, TAC means far more than technical convenience. It actually creates a new development paradigm: write once, deploy on multiple chains.

Developers can continue to use the familiar Solidity language and development tools without learning TON’s specific technology stack. TAC’s SDK and API interface simplify the entire deployment and management process, making it as easy as installing a plugin. This “low-barrier” solution is likely to become a key factor in driving the next wave of DApp innovation.

Even more noteworthy is TAC’s breakthrough in user experience. Traditional cross-chain applications often require users to hold tokens from multiple networks to pay transaction fees, a significant obstacle for ordinary users. TAC cleverly solves this problem: users only need TON tokens to interact with any EVM application deployed through TAC. This seamless user experience is crucial for promoting widespread adoption of Web3 applications.

However, like any technological innovation, TAC faces challenges. One of the biggest is ensuring system security while maintaining high efficiency. TAC adopts a multi-layer security architecture, including smart contract auditing, state verification, and failure recovery mechanisms to ensure cross-chain operation security. Additionally, TAC has introduced an innovative governance mechanism allowing community participation in important protocol upgrade decisions, providing a crucial safeguard for the project’s long-term development.

Outlook and Roadmap

The project’s official tweet shows that TAC will launch its test network during Devcon in Bangkok. However, the official website currently lacks specific participation procedures and rules.

As with typical project rollouts, TAC may engage in various activities during the test network period, including social media campaigns, network interaction tests, and token transfers. This approach aims to attract end-users and motivate developers—a common strategy for platform infrastructure projects.

The project’s mainnet launch is slated for Q1 next year. Its popularity during this crucial window will hinge on two factors: the continuation of the overall crypto bull market and the performance of the TON ecosystem.

The era of “click-to-earn” games has waned, with most projects experiencing user attrition and declining interest after their initial coin offering hype.

It’s yet to be determined whether TAC can successfully bridge EVM applications to the TON ecosystem, introducing fresh gameplay elements and revitalizing this temporarily stagnant landscape.

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