Weekly News Digest for June 2–8, 2025
▪️Plush Pepe floor price hit 3600 TON.
▪️The fully diluted market cap of Telegram NFT gifts on TON topped $100 million.
▪️XAUt0, an omnichain Tether Gold version backed by physical gold, launched on major blockchains starting with TON.
▪️Anatoly Makosov celebrated his 35th birthday and published a bugfix report after a brief block generation halt on TON masterchain.
▪️Plush Pepe NFT collection on TON ranked 5th among all NFT collections by value.
▪️For $MY's first birthday, MyTonWallet announced a week of free swaps for holders of 500+ $MY.
▪️Tonguard added TON token support, expanding analytics for TON token activity and risks.
▪️TonKeeper plans to launch crypto cards soon.
▪️PenguClash on TON gathered 1.9M users on its waitlist, becoming a top gaming project and boosting blockchain gaming hype.
▪️TON NFT trading volume on June 2, 2025 hit $777.8K (2nd among blockchains after Ethereum); with off-chain trades, it reached $3.5M (1st among all blockchains).
▪️Telegram’s new update adds: sending private messages to channels, trimming voice messages, tabbed topics in groups, sending high-res photos, and polls with up to 12 options.
▪️Tonkeeper launched Tonkeeper Academy, an educational resource on tracking TON transactions, hashes, tracing, and message flow.
▪️Interview released with Martin Masser, Head of Development at TON Foundation: about TMA, stickers, and TON’s path to mass adoption.
▪️A bug in Telegram blocks owners of anonymous +888 numbers from accessing accounts after renting them out, crashing their price to nearly 100 TON.
▪️Sticker market cap reached $10M.
▪️Coinmarketcap for gifts is coming soon, with portfolio valuation, gift breakdown, and market metrics.
▪️Telegram announced new contests for Android devs, with winners joining the team and earning up to $1M/year.
▪️xRocket exchange launched a web interface for trading from any device.
▪️giftstat.com will exclude Portals volumes due to massive wash trading (one egg resold 592 times at 2,400 TON), to keep stats accurate.
▪️Interview released with Manny Stotz, President of TON Foundation.
▪️Major Russian banks and telecoms stopped using Telegram for customer service due to a new ban.
▪️Gift market cap hit a record $100M.
▪️Palace platform reached 100,000 users.
▪️Sasha Plotvinov’s Not Games project launched.
▪️Marketapp added Telegram Connect for NFT event notifications, including price range alerts.
▪️On June 30, Not Games will add a crafting system for items and profile decorations from game cards.
▪️The total amount of TON received by Fragment since the beginning of 2025 is 34.38 million TON ($110 million). Channel and bot owners have withdrawn 18.65 million TON ($59.7 million or 54.2%), which means the platform’s wallets have a net accumulation of 15.73 million TON ($50.3 million or 45.8%).
▪️Leading Asian developer Reitar Logtech will buy $1.5B in Bitcoin.
▪️CZ (Changpeng Zhao) proposes a new type of decentralized exchange with a dark pool.
▪️Ross Ulbricht, founder of the infamous darknet market Silk Road, received an anonymous donation of 300 BTC ($31.4M) to his official address.
▪️Elon Musk announced the launch of the XChat messaging app.
▪️Metaplanet bought 1,088 BTC for $114M, now holding a total of 8,888 BTC.
▪️Major Georgian tour operator Tripzy started accepting crypto from tourists from Russia and other CIS countries.
▪️In May 2025, DEXs hit a record 25% share of total spot crypto trading volume.
▪️Strategy bought 705 BTC at $106,495 each, totaling $75.1M.
▪️Unicambio, one of Portugal’s largest currency companies, integrated Ripple Payments.
▪️Analysts say the Ethereum Pectra update with EIP-7702 made wallets vulnerable—hackers are exploiting it for thefts.
▪️Nervos Network’s blockchain ecosystem for dApps was hacked for $3M.
▪️The Blockchain Group will vote on June 10 to raise €10B in capital for BTC purchases.
▪️Spanish coffee chain Vanadi Coffee plans to invest over $1.1B in Bitcoin.
▪️Pump․Fun plans to launch its own token and raise $1B via ICO.
▪️Moscow Exchange started trading BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF futures (IBIT).
▪️Trump family’s World Liberty Financial held an airdrop—every wallet in the WLFI token sale got 47 USD1.
▪️Today, an unknown whale bought 108,278 ETH ($283M) OTC and staked 46,311 ETH right after.
▪️Michael Saylor’s Strategy started selling orange Bitcoin ties for $80 each in its online store.
▪️The Blockchain Group will vote June 10 on raising €10B for BTC purchases.
▪️Russia’s Central Bank “recommended” banks detect crypto exchange transfers made from corporate cards of shell companies.
▪️Tether is shifting focus from the US to emerging markets.
▪️Chinese company Webus filed with the US SEC to raise $300M for an XRP reserve and Ripple Payments integration.
▪️JPMorgan plans to offer loans backed by crypto ETFs.
▪️South Korean media alliance K Wave Media plans a $500M stock sale to buy BTC.