On March 19, TON Blockchain officially released meme pre-sale information on social media platforms. Participants are required to send at least 10 TON to the designated address. Subsequently, on-chain detective ZachXBT stated that the official TON blockchain twitter account had been compromised, and TON Foundation Chairman @steveyun ton retweeted to confirm the stolen information. Currently, this scam tweet has been deleted.

It is worth noting that, The rhetoric released after TON was stolen was a meme pre-sale. Maybe previous pre-sales were just about project rugs, but now you also have to worry about hackers.

The ecology takes off, hackers target the "giant unpopular public chain" TON

From DefiLlama and CoinMarketCap It can be seen from the data that TON seems to be a "giant and unpopular public chain" - the total market value has been among the top 20 for a long time, but the 24-hour transaction volume is always outside the 100th place; the TVL is only 53M under the new high, and it cannot be ranked among the public chains. Top 50; MC/TVL valuation has reached an astonishing 293, which is 33 times that of Ethereum.

And this "unpopular public chain" has been selected as a dedicated blockchain by the Telegram advertising platform. The official will share the revenue with channel owners, and content creators will be able to cash in their Toncoin, or reinvest it into promoting and upgrading their channel. Channel owners in these countries will receive 50% of the revenue Telegram makes from showing ads on their channels.

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In addition to the increase in usage scenarios, Binance also launched a TON contract on March 1, which undoubtedly helped the price of TON rise even more. Double that, and at the time of writing, the TON price is $3.7. Affected by this, many tokens in the TON ecosystem have also experienced considerable gains.

Hackers will always "Big Fish" took action. When the TON ecosystem was developing well, it seized the hot spot of meme pre-sale hype and took action on TON.

Last weekend, the success of the pre-sale issuance by BOME brought about a wave of meme pre-sale craze. The "myth of wealth creation" encouraged the FOMO community and stud pre-sale meme coins. Even though most pre-sale projects have a lifespan of only one day, and there are even many rugs, there are projects like SLERF that allow most retail investors to earn ten times or a hundred times.

Other public chains have also begun to imitate the "payment for pre-sale" meme. On March 16, Fenture AI, the AI DeFi asset management on Sui and Aptos, named "cannot lose to Solana and Aptos Launch" and opened the pre-sale of the meme currency DRATINI. Subsequently, on March 17, AptosLaunch and Avalanche also launched meme pre-sales. There are even "cross-chain pre-sales". On March 17, Derivatives Monke, a platform focusing on Syncus Fi and ZKasino, announced the opening of pre-sales. Participants can send Ethereum to designated addresses through the bridge.

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At present, pre-sales are still a high-risk model, and BlockBeats reminds readers to pay attention to risk screening.

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