today's telegram update: in-app nfts mintable on TON

increasingly, i am feeling like telegram is where the puck is going and it's mostly invisible to US users

This is true.

But most devs on telegram don’t want to build on TON because it sidelines them from all the EVM liquidity.

If Telegram finally migrates TON to an EVM-compatible chain it’s checkmate.

It won’t at least in the next few years.

There are critical fundamental tradeoffs that let TON scale easily in trade for external call atomicity.

DeFi there is localized at a single contract at time.
No flash loans possible. Tx may span across multiple blocks.

It’s weird, but it got lot of users.

Evm-like TON L2 might solve this