TON Blockchain Test Network — files and resources

News

• 14.04.2020: Changes described in the next item have been enabled at 16:12 GMT. All unupgraded full nodes, validators and clients stopped working. If you experience this, please upgrade.
• 10.04.2020: IMPORTANT: Changes have been introduced into the block format. Please upgrade all validators, full nodes, lite-clients and TONLib instances. Old software may stop working 13.04 when the new features are enabled.
• 05.04.2020: Improved performance of validators running on weaker machines by removing debug-only checks. Please upgrade your validators to continue the heavy-load testing of the testnet. Consider deploying validators on higher-performance servers.
• 31.03.2020: Added new TON Configuration Parameter HOWTO describing how to create configuration parameter proposals and vote for or against them.
• 01.03.2020: Added new TON DNS documentation describing the steps needed to register a TON DNS subdomain *.temp.ton for your TON Site.
• 11.02.2020: TON Sites are now integrated with TON DNS, TON Sites documentation updated.
• 13.12.2019: TON VM has been updated to support new PRNG instructions. All validators have to be recompiled and upgraded.
• 15.11.2019: The maximal size of ext_message broadcast has been raised to 16 KiB, so that larger smart contracts may be deployed from any (upgraded) full node.
• 15.11.2019: The minimal validator stake has been lowered to 10,001 test Grams.
• 15.11.2019: Test network has been relaunched. All previously created accounts and smart contracts no longer exist.

README and HOWTOs

• README
  General information, compilation and installation instructions for the Lite Client
• HOWTO
  Step-by-step instructions for creating a new smart contract with the aid of the Lite Client
• FullNode-HOWTO
  Step-by-step instructions for setting up a Full Node in the TON Blockchain Test Network
• Validator-HOWTO
  Step-by-step instructions for upgrading a Full Node to a Validator
• TonSites-HOWTO
  Step-by-step instructions to set up a proxy for accessing TON Sites or to creating new ones
• DNS-HOWTO
  Step-by-step instructions to register your own TON DNS domain, for example for your TON Site
• ConfigParam-HOWTO
  Step-by-step instructions to create configuration parameter proposals and vote for or against them

Files and resources

• Blockchain explorer
  Simple blockchain explorer for the TON Blockchain Test Network (testnet)
• GitHub repository ton-blockchain/ton
  A GitHub repository with the complete source of the test version of TON Blockchain Software, including Light Client, Full Node and Validator for TON Blockchain.
• ton-lite-client-test1.config.json
  Configuration file for the TON Blockchain Test Network Lite Client
• ton-global.config.json
  Global configuration for the TON Blockchain Test Network, required by Full Nodes
• ton-global-lite-client.config.json
  Combination of ton-global.config.json and ton-lite-client-test1.config.json, useful for Ton Sites and other TON Services
• Third-party TON-based projects
  A list of projects on TON submitted for the Telegram blockchain competition.

Documentation

• ton.pdf
  TON Whitepaper – a general description of TON Network and TON Blockchain
• tvm.pdf
  TON Virtual Machine description
• tblkch.pdf
  TON Blockchain description (may include outdated information)
• fiftbase.pdf
  A brief introduction to the Fift programming language
• catchain.pdf
  Description of BFT Consensus protocol employed by TON Blockchain while creating new blocks
• smc-guidelines.txt
  Guidelines and best practices related to implementation of TON Blockchain smart contracts