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Orbs, a public, open, decentralized blockchain infrastructure and a major player in the Telegram Open Network ($TON) ecosystem, has released its $TON Access service to the general public.
By using HTTP requests to the blockchain state from the browser, $TON Access functions as a decentralized, remote procedure call (RPC) provider tailored to the needs of $TON decentralized applications (dApps), according to information from Orbs shared with Finbold on March 23.
After a successful beta testing period during which over 100,000 unique users per month made an average of 1.9 million queries per day, $TON Access has now been released to the general public.
$TON Access has been developed as an alternative RPC provider in response to the centralization problems experienced by some of the most widely used decentralized applications on Ethereum.
$TON Acess explained
$TON Access is a decentralized RPC network that dApps may use to prevent introducing a centralized point of failure into otherwise decentralized projects.
Orbs Network, which powers $TON Access, is a decentralized blockchain ecosystem that uses Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus to manage an estimated $100 million in staked assets.
$TON Access makes it simple for developers to integrate an RPC endpoint into their dApps by providing a small code snippet that can be pasted directly into the dApp’s client code. This service works with $TON’s most widely used RPC protocols, including TonCenter HTTP API v2, TonHub HTTP API v4, and Raw ADNL Proxy.
$TON.vote, the official $TON DAO governance platform, and $TON.api, the top $TON blockchain explorer, also use $TON Access. Megaton Finance, the most significant decentralized exchange on $TON by TVL, also uses $TON Access.
Orbs is working on dApp development
Notably, the Orbs team has been hard at work creating dApps on the $TON platform, which the $TON Foundation has approved.
In light of $TON’s growing integration with the Telegram messaging software, the business thinks it will soon become the blockchain of mass adoption.
Notably, back in February, Orbs hosted $TON’s Hackathons in London and Tel Aviv, the first-ever worldwide hackathon for $TON, with a $250,000 prize pool.