TON CRYSTAL
We, the undersigned TON Crystal Community, Validators and Developers, hereby announce the launch of TON Crystal Blockchain upon the principles and terms stated in this Declaration of Decentralization.
TON is a protocol proposed and developed by Dr. Nikolai Durov. We, the TON Crystal Developers
are grateful for Nikolai’s
contribution to the TON protocol and wish him to continue
developing it as part of a wider community effort.
Since we believe in freedom of speech, in information sharing, and in free software, we have
decided to give the power
back to the community and unanimously proclaim the launch of
the TON Crystal blockchain and the TON Crystal Crystal (or
TON for short) as its native
token.
On the 3rd day of January 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the following inside the Bitcoin genesis block: “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”, and then launched the first decentralized money.
Today, more than 10 years later, and more than ever, it is obvious that we need equal economic opportunities for The People of this world; and a new, more effective way to govern public finance — without influence from political elites.
The protocol represents an opportunity to create a massively scalable network benefiting hundreds of millions of people. Centered around smart contracts with easy to use tools for developers and users, it can promote free trade, equal opportunities, censorship resistance and cooperation during an unprecedented threat from a pandemic and an economic crisis.
To allow continuous debugging and
To drive wide adoption of decentralized solutions by
To accommodate future development scenarios
To ensure that original protocol developers can participate once it is permitted
To ensure uniform development of a single network and to discourage unnecessary forking
TON Crystal, launched by the principles described in this Declaration, is deemed to be fully decentralized.
The undersigned fully understand and acknowledge that any and all services, efforts, and other commitments that they declare hereunder in support of TON Crystal blockchain, as well as any and all TONs that they may receive as a result thereof, will only be provided after Free TON is sufficiently decentralized as described below. No undersigned party has promised any TONs to any other party in exchange for any services except those expressly described in this Declaration. Any transfer of TONs by the parties must be approved through a vote by holders of TONs until TON Crystal decentralization is achieved.
Under the terms of this Declaration all parties agree, declare, and commit to undertake every effort possible to achieve decentralization of TON Crystal from day one of its main network launch as described below.
The decentralization of a proof-of-stake blockchain network is achieved on many levels: protocol governance, software development, validation stakes, user interface and so on. This is how fault tolerance, collusion deterrence and censorship resistance are achieved.
A vast majority of TONs are being distributed among many users in the simplest way possible in order for them to participate in staking so as to prevent any single party from influencing network activities.
Several independent Validators are participating in network consensus; and, at least 13 independent stakes are validating masterchain and workchain blocks with the requisite computer resources continuously, and such that no single validator or other party that is technically able to participate in staking has more than 1/3 of all TONs available. Several teams of Developers are working on the protocol design, including its specifications, core software, compilers, languages and interfaces. By signing this Declaration, the undersigned parties agree to take an active role in one or several of these activities, thereby directly contributing to TON Crystal Decentralization.
“We must be Free not because we claim Freedom, but because we practice it.” - William Faulkner
