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Telegram x xAI: what’s the real play here? 😏 Telegram has announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s xAI to integrate the Grok AI chatbot into the app this summer. While everyone’s still reposting Durov’s tweets, let’s take a closer look — what’s really behind this move? 📊 Telegram will receive $300M in cash and equity, plus 50% of all Grok subscriptions made through the app. That’s a big win for a platform that’s been searching for a sustainable business model without ads or selling user data. 📈 For Musk, this is also a power move. Grok loses its exclusivity on X (Twitter) but gains access to Telegram’s billion-strong user base. That means more paying users — and more revenue for xAI. 🌐 Telegram is already a social network, fintech app, media platform, and Web3 hub — now it’s becoming an AI hub too. All in one app. No wonder Durov has been calling it a “superapp.” The deal with xAI brings: ➡️ A new revenue stream for both sides ➡️ Boosted valuation for Telegram ➡️ Deeper integration with TON and Web3 ➡️ Stronger positioning as a superapp and Web3 platform There’s also a geopolitical and ideological layer here: Telegram + xAI is shaping up to be a serious answer to Western Big Tech and Asian superapps 💪

DAO — business without borders 💼 On May 31 at 15:00 UTC, Zurab Shavlidze (Co-Founder of XDAO) will speak at PIVOT TALK — a series of online interviews with Web3 pioneers and digital entrepreneurs The topic — how DAOs are transforming governance and building the business models of the future 📇 We’ll discuss:

— What is a DAO and how does it work — Why DAOs outperform traditional corporations — XDAO’s journey and real-world use cases — The future of decentralized organizational models

📅 Date: May 31 (Saturday) 🕗 Time: 15:00 UTC 🌐 Format: Online 🗣 Language: English 🔗 The link will be posted here in the channel before the stream starts If you’re into Web3, DAOs, or building your own project — don’t miss it! 💻

XDAO for the fam: RAGE QUIT 🏃‍♂️💨 Rage Quit is a mechanism that allows a DAO member to leave the organization and withdraw their share of the treasury It’s used in DAOs where members hold “shares” (share tokens) that represent their portion of the collective budget. If you disagree with a decision or simply no longer want to participate, you can initiate a Rage Quit and receive your share of the assets — proportional to your stake 🔙 Think of it as an insurance policy: no one becomes a hostage to decisions they don’t support — you can exit at any time What’s required to Rage Quit: 1️⃣ Be a member of a DAO with fixed share tokens 2️⃣ Not be actively participating in an ongoing vote (usually, Rage Quit is only allowed before or after a vote) 3️⃣ Submit the command — and your share of the treasury is automatically transferred to you. After that, you’re no longer part of the DAO’s governance Why it matters: — Gives new members confidence — you can always leave with what you brought in — Protects the minority from majority dominance — Encourages honesty: no one wants to lose contributors (and funds) over toxic decisions Rage Quit isn’t about emotion — it’s a powerful tool to preserve balance and trust inside a DAO 🤗🤗🤗

AI in DAOs — hype or the future? 🤖⚙️ In crypto, people are increasingly talking about the merger of two powerful forces — artificial intelligence and decentralization. It used to sound like sci-fi, but today AI is actively being integrated into DAO governance. Not for buzzwords, but to: — Automate voting — Optimize investments — Propose ideas and manage treasuries in real time Here are some real-world examples: 🔹 Virtuals Protocol

Each member creates their own AI agent (a Virtual) that acts on their behalf — votes, suggests proposals, manages the DAO treasury. The goal is to scale participation and give every user a “personal delegate” that doesn’t sleep and adapts in real time to what’s happening in the DAO and the market

🔹 Gaia DAO

Uses AI models to analyze trends and allocate capital across DeFi strategies. The AI tracks returns, risk levels, and reallocates funds — like an algorithmic hedge fund in DAO form

🔹 Autonolas

Builds infrastructure for multi-agent DAOs where different AI agents interact with each other. One might handle treasury management, another ensures security, and a third handles proposal logic. Everything is decentralized and autonomous

🔹 Sentient

A platform for launching decentralized AI agents — intelligent digital beings that can learn, perform tasks, interact with DAOs, and even own a share of the network. The idea is to build a full-on AI economy where bots aren’t just assistants, but full DAO members with tokens, roles, and goals

AI helps DAOs become less reliant on manual input, more agile in volatile markets, and easier to scale across thousands of users 🕺 But more autonomy means more questions: who’s responsible when the AI makes a mistake? Is the code transparent? Can the data be tampered with or the algorithm manipulated? AI in DAOs isn’t just hype — it’s a real step toward more adaptive and “living” organizations. The question is: where will that step take us? 🔮

THE FINAL SYNDICATE TOURNAMENT 🏅 This is your last chance to prove yourself in the battle for the TOP — there won’t be any more tournaments like this. Gather your team, go full farming mode, and let’s go 💥 Prizes and rules remain unchanged. You can find all the details here: tournament overview. Prize pool & winners breakdown are here 📆 Tournament dates: May 26, 15:00 UTC – June 1, 15:00 UTC Who will go down in history as the final champion of the Syndicate battle? 🤔

What’s up with TON? 🪙 Today, TON ranks in the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap. With this growth rate and an ecosystem built on Telegram’s massive user base, its potential is hard to ignore Right now, a new trend is emerging — gifts and stickers in Telegram. Crypto Twitter is already buzzing, and the TON team has started pulling in global media giants — like Snoop Dogg — who’s been casually promoting this gifting feature. It’s a win for both the blockchain and the messenger, as more people get onboarded into the ecosystem Poll below — and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments 👇

XDAO for the fam: DELEGATION 🤝 In a DAO, you don’t always have to vote yourself — you can pass that right to another member. That’s what delegation is all about If you hold governance tokens, you can choose someone you trust and delegate your voting power to them. They’ll vote on your behalf until you decide to take that power back. The tokens stay in your wallet — only the right to vote is transferred 💬 Why it matters: ➡ Not everyone has the time or desire to dive into every vote ➡ Delegates are often more informed and vote more deliberately ➡ DAO activity increases, and proposals don’t just sit around without enough votes You decide: vote directly or entrust your voice to someone who’s in the know. Delegation gives you flexibility — without sacrificing decentralization 🗣

This is how easy it’ll be to create a DAO in Telegram 🌐🌐 In the new XDAO mini-app, all it takes is 4 simple steps: 1️⃣ Enter the DAO name, full token name, and ticker 2️⃣ Add your partners (using their wallet addresses) 3️⃣ Choose how to distribute shares — equally or proportionally 4️⃣ Set the consensus threshold — for example, 51% for decision-making And that’s it — your DAO is live. Directly in Telegram on TON, in just a few minutes. No coding, no complicated interface, no hassle. You can also add a description, email, and social links for your DAO right after setup ✅

What coins are in your crypto portfolio right now? 50 random commenters under this post will each receive 500,000 $DAO. Deadline: tomorrow, 1:00 PM UTC ⌨

A DAO that raised $55M to save a man 🕊 Meet AssangeDAO — one of the most powerful examples of how decentralisation can become a political tool In 2022, the crypto community raised $53M in just 3 days (ultimately $55M) to support Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was facing 175 years in prison in the US for publishing classified documents. This wasn’t a charity or a non-profit — it was a decentralised autonomous organisation, created by anonymous people on the internet to take action 🏃‍♀ How did it work? AssangeDAO didn’t just collect donations. They partnered with digital artist Pak and launched an NFT series called Censored. The main piece was a 1/1 NFT called Clock, counting the days since Assange’s imprisonment 🖼⏳ The DAO won the auction and purchased Clock for 16,593 ETH (~$55M). All contributors received the $JUSTICE token — not for profit, but as a sign of participation and a vote in the DAO Where did the money go? All funds were sent to the Wau Holland Foundation, which supports Assange’s legal defence and public awareness campaigns 🛡 So what happened? The DAO helped: — bring global attention back to Assange’s case — attract mainstream media and the Web3 audience — show the power of an anonymous internet community coming together around a shared cause Just a group of people on the internet who raised $55M in three days to help free someone from prison — and in the end, they actually did. AssangeDAO accomplished its mission 🆓

Great news, dear community! 🎆 The development of the core XDAO application for Telegram is entering its final phase. Our team is currently conducting thorough product testing The security audit of the smart contracts is being carried out by several independent, reputable firms in the Web3 space (we’ll reveal their names a bit later). User safety — along with the stability of the entire ecosystem and infrastructure — remains our top priority 🔓 We’ll be sharing more details about the core app very soon! 😈

XDAO for the fam: PROPOSAL 🗳 If you want to change something in a DAO — you first need to submit a proposal For example: allocate funds for marketing, add a new member to the organization, or update voting rules. Any meaningful decision in a DAO starts with a proposal ✍ How it works: A participant creates an idea and submits it as a proposal. All DAO members can view it and vote. If it reaches the required number of votes and meets the quorum threshold — the decision is automatically approved ✔ Note: depending on how the DAO is configured, proposals can be created by any member — or only by those with specific rights (like holding tokens or reputation) In a DAO, no one can just decide things unilaterally. Not even the project creators. Everything starts with a proposal — and is resolved through community voting 📇

Why did we choose TON and Telegram for the future of XDAO? 💖📱 ⚙ Telegram has a massive user base — a perfect chance to bring DAO technology to the mainstream ⚙ You can create a DAO in just a couple of minutes via a mini-app, right inside the messenger — all actions happen within a familiar interface ⚙ TON and Telegram form a full ecosystem: crypto, apps, games, fintech, and messaging. DAO here becomes part of something much bigger ⚙ The blockchain offers low fees and high-speed transactions TON and Telegram are making Web3 truly mainstream — and XDAO makes DAOs simple and accessible for everyone. That’s how it should work in 2025! 🚀🧩 P.S. That’s Jack Booth in the video — co-founder of TON Society

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A DAO where pixels control millions 🖼 Meet Nouns DAO. One of the most unconventional DAOs in crypto! Every day, they have an event — a unique NFT character called a Noun is minted. It’s a pixel guy with glasses and random attributes. The NFT goes to auction. The winner gets both the Noun and 1 vote in the DAO. The money from the sale goes to the community treasury. Starting from August 8, 2021, one new Noun has been minted and auctioned every day — and this process 👾 What does the DAO do with the money? At its peak, the treasury held over $50M. All funds are controlled by Noun holders through voting. And here’s where they actually go: — creation of cartoons and animations 🎬 — sponsorship of skateboarders, snowboarders, and even Olympians 🛹 — art events, exhibitions, and street art 🧑‍🎨 — educational Web3 projects 📚 — merch, toys, and tons of custom projects based on the Noun character 🧢 What’s the idea? Nouns DAO is not about a tech project with a roadmap. It’s about how a community can become a brand and invest cultural weight into it 💎 The project has no whitepaper, no utility, and no goal to “10x” tokens. The goal is to spread the visual language of Nouns as a cultural phenomenon — and to do that by funding anything that resonates with their style Maybe the strongest DAOs in crypto won’t be the ones with products — but the ones with culture? 💪

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SYNDICATE TOURNAMENT #2 IS OVER. WHO MADE IT TO THE TOP? 🥇🍾 The TOP-10 winners from each league — and their well-earned prizes — are now listed here Rewards will be distributed within 24 hours. Syndicate owners will receive a notification from the TONxDAO bot 💬 Another tournament is just around the corner — stay sharp 💪🏼

What really happened with The DAO in 2016? 🍒 The DAO was the first-ever venture fund built on smart contracts. Users deposited ETH and received DAO tokens to vote on where the money should go. In total, it raised $150M from 11,000 people — 15% of all ETH at the time 🔷 Where was the vulnerability? There was a bug in the splitDAO function — it allowed a user to “split off” and create a new sub-DAO with a portion of the funds. But it didn’t include protection from a reentrancy attack — a type of exploit where a function is called repeatedly before the balance is updated 😳 How the attack worked: • The attacker triggered splitDAO to create a sub-DAO • Then called it recursively — dozens of times — before the balance updated • The contract didn’t check if funds had already been withdrawn, so they just kept coming Basically, it was like a broken ATM giving out cash over and over until it realized it was empty 🎰 How was it fixed? The Ethereum community had two options: A) Leave it be and let the hacker walk away with $60M 😱 B) Roll back the blockchain to before the hack 🔙 They chose option B. This led to a hard fork and two separate chains: • Ethereum (ETH) — with the rollback and refunds • Ethereum Classic (ETC) — the original chain, where the code stayed unchanged What changed after this? 1️⃣ Reentrancy became a well-known attack vector → Now one of the first things auditors check 2️⃣ Audit firms like OpenZeppelin and Trail of Bits became industry standards → No serious project launches smart contracts without an audit 3️⃣ DAO frameworks like XDAO, Aragon, and DAOstack emerged → Nobody writes DAO code from scratch anymore 4️⃣ UX and governance security improved → With roles, multisig, spending limits, rage quit, and more Why XDAO is protected from this kind of scenario The key difference: audits ✅

The DAO’s biggest flaw was launching without a full audit — and that’s exactly how the bug went unnoticed. The XDAO framework has been audited by independent security firms like Hacken and Pessimistic. It’s already used in 40+ blockchains and thousands of real DAOs. The smart contracts for XDAO on TON will also be audited soon 🫡

Closed, secure interface ✅

In The DAO, users could interact directly with the contract — triggering dangerous functions intentionally or by mistake. In XDAO, all actions go through a Telegram interface with only safe, pre-approved operations. You can’t call low-level contract functions manually🔓

No critical functions like splitDAO ✅

The DAO had a feature that let anyone split off and take a chunk of the treasury. XDAO doesn’t allow that — all fund movements require voting or multisig, and DAO behavior is set clearly at creation. Sensitive parts are guarded by roles, limits, and validation rules 🖥

XDAO isn’t an MVP — it’s a mature product ✅

It’s gone through audits, dozens of releases, adoption in 40+ chains, and stress-tested by hundreds of thousands of DAOs. This is robust infrastructure — and exactly what we’re building on for TON ⚙

Conclusion The DAO was a pioneer — and a victim of its own newness. Its failure was a turning point for the industry. Now it’s 2025. In 9 years, everything that once failed has been rebuilt from the ground up: architecture, audit practices, interfaces, legal clarity, and collective experience. Everything that was fatal in 2016 is fortified in XDAO today 🤩