TON (Telegram Open Network) is a blockchain platform created by brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the founders of Telegram, with the goal of creating a high-speed and scalable infrastructure for data exchange and payments on the Internet. TON supports smart contracts and distributed applications (dApps), which allows you to automate the fulfillment of conditions and obligations. The platform includes multiple interoperable blockchains, providing flexibility and high performance, allowing it to process millions of transactions per second.