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When TAC Mainnet went live on July 15th, it marked more than just the birth of another L1. It opened the door to a completely new way to distribute DeFi, not through websites, wallets, and Web3 UX, but through the messaging app used by over a billion people every day - Telegram.
Two weeks later, the dust is far from settling. In fact, what’s becoming clearer each day is that TAC’s core proposition isn’t just about giving access to new DeFi apps; it’s about embedding DeFi contracts directly into distribution interfaces like Telegram MiniApps. Instead of routing users to browser wallets or separate frontends, the dApp logic is surfaced contextually, within native Telegram flows.
And this is where $TAC, the token, the asset, the incentive engine, begins to show what it really unlocks.
A New Layer for a Global Platform
The term “DeFi Layer” has been stretched to its limits across Ethereum L2s, rollups, and alt-L1s. But in the case of TAC, the definition is literal, because TAC is bringing battle-tested EVM DeFi infrastructure and liquidity to TON and Telegram users.
This isn’t about branding. It’s about distribution: placing DeFi logic directly inside the messaging layer, not just around it.
- TAC is a TON project, and $TAC is a TON token.
- TAC powers financial logic, liquidity, and security for applications that live natively inside Telegram.
- It connects Ethereum-grade DeFi infrastructure with Telegram-native user experiences through the TON Adapter, the cross-chain messaging backbone of TAC, enabling secure communication between TON and the TAC EVM Layer. It’s a composable, secure, and performant backend for an entirely new frontend, the Telegram MiniApp ecosystem.
What’s Happening on TAC Now?
Within a week of launch, TAC already hosts some of DeFi’s most proven protocols:
- Curve is live as the foundational liquidity layer.
- Morpho, Euler, and Zerolend are powering lending and leveraged yield strategies.
- Vaults from Veda, Lagoon, Cian, August, and IPOR Fusion are setting the stage for passive income flows.
- And prediction markets like Market.win show what Telegram-native DeFi looks like in the wild.
The amount raised through the Summoning Campaign is gradually migrating to TAC Mainnet. That capital isn’t waiting for the next yield farm. It’s being deployed to back real user flows inside Telegram, such as powering in-chat swaps, yield-bearing wallets, embedded lending experiences, and consumer-facing apps where DeFi logic runs behind the scenes.
MiniApps are going live. Consumer apps are integrating DeFi logic. And perhaps most importantly: users are interacting, no wallet installation, no bridge gymnastics, no need to understand the difference between TVM and EVM wallets, RPC, and explorers. Just tap, transact, and go.
Explore analytics through the TAC Dune dashboard.
What $TAC Unlocks for Ethereum Devs and Telegram
$TAC is essential to TAC, powering layers of network operation and growth.
What $TAC enables include:
- Network Security
$TAC is a staking token that secures the TAC network via delegated Proof-of-Stake. - Network Usage
$TAC is the exclusive gas token for executing transactions and smart contracts on the TAC EVM. - Economic Coordination
Aligns incentives across vaults, gas rebates, integrations, and emissions as capital flows into Telegram-native DeFi. - Long-Term Alignment
The Summoning Campaign transitions directly into TAC's long-term incentives program. $TAC will have tangible demand for dApps embedded within Telegram. - Governance
Key protocol upgrades can be decided by $TAC stakers on-chain.
Learn more about $TAC here.
A Seamless Move for Ethereum Developers
If you are an Ethereum developer, you don’t need to change your stack. You don’t need to rebuild your app. And you don’t need to teach your users how Telegram works.
TAC is Cancun-compatible. Your contracts stay unchanged. But suddenly, instead of hoping for a few thousand monthly users via browser dApps, you’re sitting inside the daily messaging app of 1.2 billion people — embedded and accessible.
Telegram’s MiniApp ecosystem is expanding fast, from games and content apps to shopping and fintech flows. With TAC, your protocol becomes part of the DeFi infrastructure. Your addressable market explodes.
What's Next?
More MiniApps are on the way, and they won’t look like DeFi as we know it. They’ll look like games with embedded swaps, shopping apps with yield checkout, and prediction platforms with real liquidity under the hood.
You can now explore and try out the hybrid dApps powered by TAC
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