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How TON Solves Blockchain Scalability with the Actor Model and Dynamic Sharding

How The Open Network (TON) Achieves Scalability Through the Actor Model and Infinite Sharding

One of the biggest challenges in blockchain engineering is scalability. Traditional blockchain networks successfully introduced decentralized consensus and secure digital ownership, but most of them struggle when transaction volume increases. As adoption grows, networks become congested, confirmation times increase, and transaction fees rise significantly. This limitation is commonly known as the Blockchain Scalability Trilemma, which states that decentralization, security, and scalability are difficult to achieve simultaneously.

Modern blockchain systems attempt to solve scalability using Layer-2 protocols, rollups, sidechains, and sharding. However, many of these solutions still inherit architectural bottlenecks from earlier blockchain designs. The Open Network (TON), originally proposed by the Telegram team led by Nikolai Durov, approaches scalability from a fundamentally different perspective. Instead of optimizing a globally synchronized blockchain, TON redesigns distributed computation itself.

TON combines asynchronous smart contract execution, dynamic sharding, and...

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Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Show Up at the Polls

A week later, during the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting, now acting attorney general Todd Blanche endorsed the idea of ICE at the polls and repeated the conspiracy theory about noncitizens voting as an excuse to deploy ICE. “Why is there objection to sending ICE officers to polling places?” he

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London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year

London’s Metropolitan Police – the UK’s largest police force – asked tech companies to give officers access to private communications data over 700,000 times in 2025 alone, according to figures obtained by The Register under the Freedom of Information Act. These statistics expose the monitoring of everyday platforms like

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Smaller suppliers invited to pitch for £2.9B UK defense tech framework

Public Sector Government Commercial Agency wants DIPS 2 to reach beyond MoD buyers and the usual big-name suppliers The Government Commercial Agency (GCA) - the UK procurement body formed from Crown Commercial Service and Cabinet Office commercial teams - is seeking greater input from customers and smaller suppliers as it

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This controller is one of the best I’ve ever reviewed, and works across PC, Switch, and phones — and it has a unique feature I haven’t seen bettered

I reviewed plenty of controllers in my time, but I have to admit I forgot about this one. But with the Manba One on sale right now for $55.99 (was $69.99) on Amazon, I'm reminded of what an interesting controller it is, thanks to its unique

How The Open Network (TON) Achieves Scalability Through the Actor Model and Infinite Sharding

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Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Show Up at the Polls

London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year

Smaller suppliers invited to pitch for £2.9B UK defense tech framework

This controller is one of the best I&rsquo;ve ever reviewed, and works across PC, Switch, and phones &mdash; and it has a unique feature I haven&rsquo;t seen bettered

This controller is one of the best I’ve ever reviewed, and works across PC, Switch, and phones — and it has a unique feature I haven’t seen bettered