The Gateway

The Open Network Conference
hosted by TON Society

The Open Network Conference
hosted by TON Society

The Open Network Conference
hosted by TON Society

The Gateway is the premier annual event for the TON Community. Our mission, powered by TON blockchain, is to put crypto in every pocket by acting as a gateway to Web3 for millions of Telegram users. The Gateway brings the TON ecosystem together to collaborate and drive this mission forward.

CREATORS

COMMUNITY

BUILDERS

ECOSYSTEM

STARTUPS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

INVESTORS

PRESENTATIONS

GAMERS

PRESS AND KOLS

EVERYONE

NETWORKING

Agenda

1 November

8:30

Registration and exploring the exhibition area

Main Gateway Building

10:15

Opening of the Gateway

Jack Booth, Co-Founder, TON Society

10:30

TON’s Multi-Directional Future

Steve Yun, President, TON Foundation

10:45

TON x Telegram

Andrew Rogozov, CEO, TOP

11:05

Quantum Leap of the Ecosystem

Anthony Tsivarev, Director of EcoDev, TON Foundation

11:20

TON Core: Сhallenges on the road to 500M users

Kirill Emelyanenko, TON Core

11:35

Panel: Path to Decentralization

TON Society, TON Foundation, TON Studio, TON Core

12:10

How TON GameFi is Changing the Game

Inal Kardan, TON Ventures, Partner

12:20

Notcoin & Beyond

Sasha Plotvinov, CEO, Open builders

12:30

Panel: Present and Future of Tap-to-Earn

Dogs, Yescoin, Blum, Gamee

12:50

Catizen: Why TON Games are the Future of GameFi

Tim Wong, Chairman of Catizen Foundation

13:00

Gaming on TON

Yat Siu, Co-Founder & Chairman, Animoca Brands

13:10

USDt on TON

Alessandro Giori, Senior strategic partnership manager, Tether

13:20

Gasless payments on TON

Oleg Andreev, CEO, Ton Apps

13:30

Stablecoin adoption on TON

Victor Mendes, Director of BD, TOP

13:40

How Visa is building a bridge between TON and buying a doughnut

Nikola Plecas, Senior Director, Global Head of GTM & Product Commercialization, Visa Crypto & Egor Avetisov, CBDO, Co-Founder Holders

14:00

Lunch break

Networking area

15:00

Overview of DeFi on TON in 2024

Vlad Degen, DeFi Lead, TON Foundation

15:20

DeDust keynote

Nick, CEO, DeDust

15:30

LayerZero x TON

Alex Chiocchi, Head of Product, LayerZero Labs

15:40

RFQ & DEX aggregation

Martin Masser, CBDO, STON.fi

15:50

Panel: DeFi on TON

Evaa, LayerZero, DeDust, StonFi, Tonstakers, Bemo

16:10

BTC on TON: Vision and Future

Roman Krutovoy, Infrastructure Lead, TON Foundation

16:20

TON Teleport BTC

Roman Nguyen, Chief Technical Officer, RSquad Blockchain Lab

16:30

Panel: BTC in Telegram

BTC Teleport, FBTC, Stacks, HexTrust

16:50

TON: Innovation drivers in 2025

Ian Wittkopp, TON Ventures, Partner

17:00

TON: A Thesis for The Community-Integrated Blockchain

Mason Nystrom, Partner, Pantera Capital

17:10

Perspective sectors on TON for VC and Exchanges

Binance Labs, Kenetic Capital, Pantera Capital, TON Ventures, KuCoin, Bitget

17:30

TON memecoins: the next big thing in crypto?

Alena Shmalko, Ecosystem Lead, TON Foundation

17:40

Panel: TONs of memes: how do memecoins help TON blockchain grow?

18:00

Сlosing of the Day 1

Show More

2 November

9:00

Networking and exploring the exhibition area

Main Gateway Building

11:00

TON Stablecoin Opportunity

Toe Bautista, Research Analyst, GSR

11:10

Phygital use cases for Web3 builders

Alyona Kuchynska, Head of Communications and Networking, Daos Hub

11:20

Embracing the Imminent Web3 Application Era: Why & How

Veronica Wong, CEO & Co-founder, SafePal

11:30

Collaborative Growth in the TON Ecosystem

Alessia Baumgartner, Business Partner-Ecosystems, DWF Labs

11:40

Tonscan.com: lessons learned from 1.5 years building on TON

Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, CTO, Tonscan.com

11:50

Blum: Decentralized Crypto App in Telegram

Vlad Smerkis, Co-founder & CMO, Blum

12:00

App Ratings and Promotion: Community-Driven Catalog

Oleg Illarionov & Vladimir Makhov, founders, TON App

12:07

TON Diamonds: How an artist launches a successful project on TON

Pokras Lampas

12:12

How TON blockchain helps unite hearts

Vladimir Makhov, founder, TON Dating

12:15

TONX: SuperApp Platform Layer Empowering a 950M-User Ecosystem

Wego C, Co-Founder, TONX

12:25

Axelar: Onboard any asset and application to TON

Georgios Vlachos, Co-founder of Axelar Network and Director of Axelar Foundation

12:35

Raffle for the Gateway attendees from sponsors

12:45

TON Tech Roadmap 2025

Alex Melman, TON Core

12:55

New tools for developers

Andrey Pfau, TON Core

13:05

Talk about FunC. Or not FunC?

Aleksandr Kirsanov, TON Core

13:25

Tact & Dev Tools

Anton Trunov, Compiler & Smart Contracts Lead, TON Studio

13:35

Webhooks by TON API

Oleg Illarionov, CTO Tonkeeper

13:45

dTON: From Blockchain WTF to Asset OMG

Andrey Tvorozhkov, Сo-founder, dTON

14:00

Lunch break

Networking zone

15:15

Telegram Mini Apps Achievements and 2025 Plans

Gleb Vorontsov, Head of Telegram Mini Apps, TON Studio

15:25

Gatto: How to build GameFi on Telegram Mini Apps

Mariia Foikht, Community manager, PlayT

15:35

Insights from the TMA traffic: 600+ apps audience research

Vadim Sterlin, CEO&Founder, Adsgram

15:45

Sign: The biggest airdrop in Web3

Xin Yan, CEO, Sign

15:55

Web3 Gaming and Beyond: Cocos Meets TON and Telegram

Luna, CMO of Cocos Studio

16:05

TON as the best ecosystem for teams: support and incentive programs

Alena Shmalko, Ecosystem Lead, TON Foundation

16:20

Panel: The Open League Winners

Tradoor, Hipo, Torch, Crouton

16:40

Ton Accelerator: The Application Thesis

Sophia Rusconi, Head of Acceleration & Sami Al-Abed, Head of DeFi

16:47

The Future of CEXes for Smart Traders: HashKey Global and Asset Safety

Ben El-Baz, Managing Director at HashKey Global

17:00

Hackers League

Ekin Tuna, Co-founder, TON Society

17:10

How to make TON great: Lessons from a seed investor in Eth, Sol, and Dot

Jehan Chu, Founder, Kenetic

17:20

Raffle for the Gateway attendees from sponsors

17:30

Group photo and closing of the conference

17:40

Networking and exploring the exhibition area

19:30

The Gateway Official Afterparty

Networking and celebrating

Show More

1 November

8:30

Registration and exploring the exhibition area

Main Gateway Building

10:15

Opening of the Gateway

Jack Booth, Co-Founder, TON Society

10:30

TON’s Multi-Directional Future

Steve Yun, President, TON Foundation

10:45

TON x Telegram

Andrew Rogozov, CEO, TOP

11:05

Quantum Leap of the Ecosystem

Anthony Tsivarev, Director of EcoDev, TON Foundation

11:20

TON Core: Сhallenges on the road to 500M users

Kirill Emelyanenko, TON Core

11:35

Panel: Path to Decentralization

TON Society, TON Foundation, TON Studio, TON Core

12:10

How TON GameFi is Changing the Game

Inal Kardan, TON Ventures, Partner

12:20

Notcoin & Beyond

Sasha Plotvinov, CEO, Open builders

12:30

Panel: Present and Future of Tap-to-Earn

Dogs, Yescoin, Blum, Gamee

12:50

Catizen: Why TON Games are the Future of GameFi

Tim Wong, Chairman of Catizen Foundation

13:00

Gaming on TON

Yat Siu, Co-Founder & Chairman, Animoca Brands

13:10

USDt on TON

Alessandro Giori, Senior strategic partnership manager, Tether

13:20

Gasless payments on TON

Oleg Andreev, CEO, Ton Apps

13:30

Stablecoin adoption on TON

Victor Mendes, Director of BD, TOP

13:40

How Visa is building a bridge between TON and buying a doughnut

Nikola Plecas, Senior Director, Global Head of GTM & Product Commercialization, Visa Crypto & Egor Avetisov, CBDO, Co-Founder Holders

14:00

Lunch break

Networking area

15:00

Overview of DeFi on TON in 2024

Vlad Degen, DeFi Lead, TON Foundation

15:20

DeDust keynote

Nick, CEO, DeDust

15:30

LayerZero x TON

Alex Chiocchi, Head of Product, LayerZero Labs

15:40

RFQ & DEX aggregation

Martin Masser, CBDO, STON.fi

15:50

Panel: DeFi on TON

Evaa, LayerZero, DeDust, StonFi, Tonstakers, Bemo

16:10

BTC on TON: Vision and Future

Roman Krutovoy, Infrastructure Lead, TON Foundation

16:20

TON Teleport BTC

Roman Nguyen, Chief Technical Officer, RSquad Blockchain Lab

16:30

Panel: BTC in Telegram

BTC Teleport, FBTC, Stacks, HexTrust

16:50

TON: Innovation drivers in 2025

Ian Wittkopp, TON Ventures, Partner

17:00

TON: A Thesis for The Community-Integrated Blockchain

Mason Nystrom, Partner, Pantera Capital

17:10

Perspective sectors on TON for VC and Exchanges

Binance Labs, Kenetic Capital, Pantera Capital, TON Ventures, KuCoin, Bitget

17:30

TON memecoins: the next big thing in crypto?

Alena Shmalko, Ecosystem Lead, TON Foundation

17:40

Panel: TONs of memes: how do memecoins help TON blockchain grow?

18:00

Сlosing of the Day 1

Show More

2 November

9:00

Networking and exploring the exhibition area

Main Gateway Building

11:00

TON Stablecoin Opportunity

Toe Bautista, Research Analyst, GSR

11:10

Phygital use cases for Web3 builders

Alyona Kuchynska, Head of Communications and Networking, Daos Hub

11:20

Embracing the Imminent Web3 Application Era: Why & How

Veronica Wong, CEO & Co-founder, SafePal

11:30

Collaborative Growth in the TON Ecosystem

Alessia Baumgartner, Business Partner-Ecosystems, DWF Labs

11:40

Tonscan.com: lessons learned from 1.5 years building on TON

Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, CTO, Tonscan.com

11:50

Blum: Decentralized Crypto App in Telegram

Vlad Smerkis, Co-founder & CMO, Blum

12:00

App Ratings and Promotion: Community-Driven Catalog

Oleg Illarionov & Vladimir Makhov, founders, TON App

12:07

TON Diamonds: How an artist launches a successful project on TON

Pokras Lampas

12:12

How TON blockchain helps unite hearts

Vladimir Makhov, founder, TON Dating

12:15

TONX: SuperApp Platform Layer Empowering a 950M-User Ecosystem

Wego C, Co-Founder, TONX

12:25

Axelar: Onboard any asset and application to TON

Georgios Vlachos, Co-founder of Axelar Network and Director of Axelar Foundation

12:35

Raffle for the Gateway attendees from sponsors

12:45

TON Tech Roadmap 2025

Alex Melman, TON Core

12:55

New tools for developers

Andrey Pfau, TON Core

13:05

Talk about FunC. Or not FunC?

Aleksandr Kirsanov, TON Core

13:25

Tact & Dev Tools

Anton Trunov, Compiler & Smart Contracts Lead, TON Studio

13:35

Webhooks by TON API

Oleg Illarionov, CTO Tonkeeper

13:45

dTON: From Blockchain WTF to Asset OMG

Andrey Tvorozhkov, Сo-founder, dTON

14:00

Lunch break

Networking zone

15:15

Telegram Mini Apps Achievements and 2025 Plans

Gleb Vorontsov, Head of Telegram Mini Apps, TON Studio

15:25

Gatto: How to build GameFi on Telegram Mini Apps

Mariia Foikht, Community manager, PlayT

15:35

Insights from the TMA traffic: 600+ apps audience research

Vadim Sterlin, CEO&Founder, Adsgram

15:45

Sign: The biggest airdrop in Web3

Xin Yan, CEO, Sign

15:55

Web3 Gaming and Beyond: Cocos Meets TON and Telegram

Luna, CMO of Cocos Studio

16:05

TON as the best ecosystem for teams: support and incentive programs

Alena Shmalko, Ecosystem Lead, TON Foundation

16:20

Panel: The Open League Winners

Tradoor, Hipo, Torch, Crouton

16:40

Ton Accelerator: The Application Thesis

Sophia Rusconi, Head of Acceleration & Sami Al-Abed, Head of DeFi

16:47

The Future of CEXes for Smart Traders: HashKey Global and Asset Safety

Ben El-Baz, Managing Director at HashKey Global

17:00

Hackers League

Ekin Tuna, Co-founder, TON Society

17:10

How to make TON great: Lessons from a seed investor in Eth, Sol, and Dot

Jehan Chu, Founder, Kenetic

17:20

Raffle for the Gateway attendees from sponsors

17:30

Group photo and closing of the conference

17:40

Networking and exploring the exhibition area

19:30

The Gateway Official Afterparty

Networking and celebrating

Show More

1 November

8:30

Registration and exploring the exhibition area

Main Gateway Building

10:15

Opening of the Gateway

Jack Booth, Co-Founder, TON Society

10:30

TON’s Multi-Directional Future

Steve Yun, President, TON Foundation

10:45

TON x Telegram

Andrew Rogozov, CEO, TOP

11:05

Quantum Leap of the Ecosystem

Anthony Tsivarev, Director of EcoDev, TON Foundation

11:20

TON Core: Сhallenges on the road to 500M users

Kirill Emelyanenko, TON Core

11:35

Panel: Path to Decentralization

TON Society, TON Foundation, TON Studio, TON Core

12:10

How TON GameFi is Changing the Game

Inal Kardan, TON Ventures, Partner

12:20

Notcoin & Beyond

Sasha Plotvinov, CEO, Open builders

12:30

Panel: Present and Future of Tap-to-Earn

Dogs, Yescoin, Blum, Gamee

12:50

Catizen: Why TON Games are the Future of GameFi

Tim Wong, Chairman of Catizen Foundation

13:00

Gaming on TON

Yat Siu, Co-Founder & Chairman, Animoca Brands

13:10

USDt on TON

Alessandro Giori, Senior strategic partnership manager, Tether

13:20

Gasless payments on TON

Oleg Andreev, CEO, Ton Apps

13:30

Stablecoin adoption on TON

Victor Mendes, Director of BD, TOP

13:40

How Visa is building a bridge between TON and buying a doughnut

Nikola Plecas, Senior Director, Global Head of GTM & Product Commercialization, Visa Crypto & Egor Avetisov, CBDO, Co-Founder Holders

14:00

Lunch break

Networking area

15:00

Overview of DeFi on TON in 2024

Vlad Degen, DeFi Lead, TON Foundation

15:20

DeDust keynote

Nick, CEO, DeDust

15:30

LayerZero x TON

Alex Chiocchi, Head of Product, LayerZero Labs

15:40

RFQ & DEX aggregation

Martin Masser, CBDO, STON.fi

15:50

Panel: DeFi on TON

Evaa, LayerZero, DeDust, StonFi, Tonstakers, Bemo

16:10

BTC on TON: Vision and Future

Roman Krutovoy, Infrastructure Lead, TON Foundation

16:20

TON Teleport BTC

Roman Nguyen, Chief Technical Officer, RSquad Blockchain Lab

16:30

Panel: BTC in Telegram

BTC Teleport, FBTC, Stacks, HexTrust

16:50

TON: Innovation drivers in 2025

Ian Wittkopp, TON Ventures, Partner

17:00

TON: A Thesis for The Community-Integrated Blockchain

Mason Nystrom, Partner, Pantera Capital

17:10

Perspective sectors on TON for VC and Exchanges

Binance Labs, Kenetic Capital, Pantera Capital, TON Ventures, KuCoin, Bitget

17:30

TON memecoins: the next big thing in crypto?

Alena Shmalko, Ecosystem Lead, TON Foundation

17:40

Panel: TONs of memes: how do memecoins help TON blockchain grow?

18:00

Сlosing of the Day 1

Show More

2 November

9:00

Networking and exploring the exhibition area

Main Gateway Building

11:00

TON Stablecoin Opportunity

Toe Bautista, Research Analyst, GSR

11:10

Phygital use cases for Web3 builders

Alyona Kuchynska, Head of Communications and Networking, Daos Hub

11:20

Embracing the Imminent Web3 Application Era: Why & How

Veronica Wong, CEO & Co-founder, SafePal

11:30

Collaborative Growth in the TON Ecosystem

Alessia Baumgartner, Business Partner-Ecosystems, DWF Labs

11:40

Tonscan.com: lessons learned from 1.5 years building on TON

Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, CTO, Tonscan.com

11:50

Blum: Decentralized Crypto App in Telegram

Vlad Smerkis, Co-founder & CMO, Blum

12:00

App Ratings and Promotion: Community-Driven Catalog

Oleg Illarionov & Vladimir Makhov, founders, TON App

12:07

TON Diamonds: How an artist launches a successful project on TON

Pokras Lampas

12:12

How TON blockchain helps unite hearts

Vladimir Makhov, founder, TON Dating

12:15

TONX: SuperApp Platform Layer Empowering a 950M-User Ecosystem

Wego C, Co-Founder, TONX

12:25

Axelar: Onboard any asset and application to TON

Georgios Vlachos, Co-founder of Axelar Network and Director of Axelar Foundation

12:35

Raffle for the Gateway attendees from sponsors

12:45

TON Tech Roadmap 2025

Alex Melman, TON Core

12:55

New tools for developers

Andrey Pfau, TON Core

13:05

Talk about FunC. Or not FunC?

Aleksandr Kirsanov, TON Core

13:25

Tact & Dev Tools

Anton Trunov, Compiler & Smart Contracts Lead, TON Studio

13:35

Webhooks by TON API

Oleg Illarionov, CTO Tonkeeper

13:45

dTON: From Blockchain WTF to Asset OMG

Andrey Tvorozhkov, Сo-founder, dTON

14:00

Lunch break

Networking zone

15:15

Telegram Mini Apps Achievements and 2025 Plans

Gleb Vorontsov, Head of Telegram Mini Apps, TON Studio

15:25

Gatto: How to build GameFi on Telegram Mini Apps

Mariia Foikht, Community manager, PlayT

15:35

Insights from the TMA traffic: 600+ apps audience research

Vadim Sterlin, CEO&Founder, Adsgram

15:45

Sign: The biggest airdrop in Web3

Xin Yan, CEO, Sign

15:55

Web3 Gaming and Beyond: Cocos Meets TON and Telegram

Luna, CMO of Cocos Studio

16:05

TON as the best ecosystem for teams: support and incentive programs

Alena Shmalko, Ecosystem Lead, TON Foundation

16:20

Panel: The Open League Winners

Tradoor, Hipo, Torch, Crouton

16:40

Ton Accelerator: The Application Thesis

Sophia Rusconi, Head of Acceleration & Sami Al-Abed, Head of DeFi

16:47

The Future of CEXes for Smart Traders: HashKey Global and Asset Safety

Ben El-Baz, Managing Director at HashKey Global

17:00

Hackers League

Ekin Tuna, Co-founder, TON Society

17:10

How to make TON great: Lessons from a seed investor in Eth, Sol, and Dot

Jehan Chu, Founder, Kenetic

17:20

Raffle for the Gateway attendees from sponsors

17:30

Group photo and closing of the conference

17:40

Networking and exploring the exhibition area

19:30

The Gateway Official Afterparty

Networking and celebrating

Show More

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