Google Play market and Apple'southward AppStore volition reportedly soon feature the Telegram Open up Network (TON) operating system (Bone), an end-to-terminate open-source infrastructure that allows developers and users to piece of work with the TON blockchain.

The TON OS will soon go available on smartphones and personal computers for mainstream users, a source close to Telegram told Russian news agency RBC on April 29. TON Bone is not an alternative to existing operating systems, but will serve as an add-on for devices, making them able to back up blockchain applications.

Big plans for the future

The source said that with TON OS, users can create applications that are automatically compatible with the blockchain platform. They expect that, in the hereafter, the Bone will back up applications with numerous functions, including transacting various avails including cryptocurrencies:

"When it comes to finance or voting, decentralized management can solve a huge number of issues with abuse, management efficiency, denizen interest. Modest businesses will be able to reduce costs by using a secure chat for participants, managing assets of this business organisation and contractual relations of the parties."

Google and Apple tree did not immediately reply to Cointelegraph's request for comment on the forthcoming listings.

Going forward amongst a legal battle with the SEC

Previously, developers of the TON blockchain told Cointelegraph that they were even so considering launching TON, despite Telegram'due south ongoing legal battle against the The states Securities and Commutation Commission. Telegram is seeking to appeal a U.S. federal court's ruling in favor of the SEC to halt the distribution of the platform's native Gram tokens.

Fedor Skuratov, a spokesperson for TON Community Foundation, told Cointelegraph:

"The community was prepare for this (or another) scenario. We take several options, including the launch of TON past TCF [TON Customs Foundation]. I volition say more, no one (no one) tin prevent the launch of TON by whatever other entity, person or community, cause TON is a decentralized open-source solution. Already, at that place are 2 different test networks, and within the community, there is at least one grouping planning to launch."

Meanwhile, after years of unsuccessful efforts to cake Telegram in Russian federation, the land'southward government is now because lifting the ban, as the app'south creator Pavel Durov agreed to interact with authorities on tackling the coronavirus.