ton token economy

About this tag
The ton token economy tag covers discussions about Toncoin (TON) and its role in decentralized infrastructure, particularly within Telegram's Cocoon platform. Cocoon is a confidential compute DePIN that uses TON as payment for AI inference services running on third-party GPUs with Intel TDX trusted execution environments. Content explores how TON incentivizes hardware providers and enables private AI workloads, linking the token's utility to real-world compute markets. The tag focuses on TON's economic model in enterprise-grade, privacy-preserving cloud services rather than general cryptocurrency trading or speculation.
  1. Telegram Cocoon: Confidential Compute DePIN for Private AI Inference

    Telegram’s Cocoon went live this week, instantly turning the messaging giant into a player in the AI infrastructure market by launching a decentralized, TON‑backed marketplace that routes inference requests to third‑party GPUs running inside trusted execution environments (TEEs) — notably Intel...