$TON might onboard 300M users in 3 years
but it won’t be memecoins or farming that powers that growth.. it’ll be clean UX, native swaps, and infra that actually works
and the protocol owning that flow right now is $STON
this one’s flying under radar. A thread: 🧵👇
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$TON is the most asymmetric bet of this cycle.
You're not betting on another L1.
You're betting on Telegram becoming a sovereign fintech OS.
It's already has 1B+ users and they plan to onboard 30% of that userbase to TON in next 3 years.

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All while quietly laying the rails for that shift.
Just look at the pattern:
â–¸ Mini-Apps now settle via TON
â–¸ xAI deal and Kuchika bank integration
â–¸ Native in-chat swaps & 140+ fiat onramps live
â–¸ USDT & tokenized gold (XAUtâ‚€) inside Telegram wallet

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Historically, such inflection points reward the clearest conviction.
â–¸ Uniswap during ETH's DeFi wave
â–¸ Jupiter during SOL meme season
Which means the base liquidity layer on TON becomes the highest-leverage bet here

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The clearest exhibit of that thesis : @ston_fi
It's the native swap layer of Telegram's financial system.
One tap inside Telegram → pick your token → swap.
No friction.
No extensions.
No seed phrases.
Just a clean easy UX

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âž± Market Monopoly
At time of writing, STON handles over 54% of TON's DEX volume and 82% of total trader share.
â–¸ $6.1B+ in cumulative volume
â–¸ 5.4M wallets
â–¸ 26M+ swaps
It's not competing for mindshare.
It owns the flow.

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âž± The Growth Curve
UNI and JUP became default liquidity layers for their chains:
â–¸ JUP: ~1M MAU vs 300M SOL wallets
â–¸ UNI: ~18.4M MAU vs 250M+ ETH wallets
Now imagine 30% of Telegram’s 1B users onboard to TON (~300M)
Even with just 5% adoption, STON would serve 15M MAU - putting it in Uniswap territory
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And that's achievable.
Since both UNI/JUP initially faced friction with Wallet installs and Learning curve.
STON skips all of that.
It's embedded directly inside Telegram.
No wallets. No extensions. No friction.
So it has native access to 1B+ users by default.
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âž± Tokenomics
$STON is the native token and recently got listed on CEXs like KuCoin.
STON is the utility token powering the protocol STON is live on centralized exchange Kucoin STON isn’t just a token.. it’s the backbone of the ecosystem.
It fuels key protocol functions and will play a central role in governance. Yes, DAO is coming

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Comparing valuations of similar infrastructure projects
â–¸ UNI: 7.19B
â–¸ JUP: 3.19B
â–¸ RAY: 1.17B
â–¸ STON: 79M
STON is undervauled compared to other infra-layer DEXs.
If it continues to dominate TON’s flow, current valuation leaves plenty of room imo

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STON isn't sleeping on liquidity either. A full TVL flywheel appears to be in motion here
the program just has been updated.
• Hold tsUSDe by staking USDe → tsUSDe price appreciation + Ethena rewards + extra APY
• Provide liquidity in tsUSDe/USDe pool → trading fees + extra APY
LPs are quite eating well.

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âž± Dev-Side Flywheel
STON’s SDK gives Mini-Apps one-click access to all TON liquidity.
One integration → full pool access → atomic execution.
As Mini-Apps scale, STON becomes the liquidity backend by default.
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Final Thesis
STON is what Uniswap would’ve been if it launched inside Telegram, not a browser.
â–¸ Native rails
â–¸ Built-in UX
â–¸ No friction
â–¸ Liquidity flywheel
â–¸ Growing protocol fees
All happening on TON. Quietly.
That’s a wrap!
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