As crypto readies for its next market cycle, The Open Network (TON) has emerged as a breakout Layer 1. With Telegram’s billion-strong user base and a rapidly expanding ecosystem, TON is a cultural and technical force, staking its claim in the new era of blockchain innovation.
But while user adoption accelerates, staking infrastructure lags behind, impacting capital efficiency and limiting engagement from institutional players.
That’s where Chorus One ("Chorus") comes in.
Earlier this year, Chorus launched TON Pool—a fully-audited, MiCA-aligned, and highly scalable staking solution, purpose-built for institutions.
While many are still finding their footing in TON’s rapidly-growing ecosystem, TON Pool is live, operational, and set to drive the next wave of institutional adoption on the Open Network.
Despite TON’s strong fundamentals, staking continues to pose significant barriers for enterprises, custodians, and funds.
These constraints leave a massive opportunity on the table: secure, scalable staking infrastructure with the ability to support institutional requirements.
Enter TON Pool.
TON Pool eliminates the friction that once defined, and hindered, staking on TON—bringing together compliance-first architecture, performance optimization, and developer-ready integrations. Here’s what sets it apart:
MiCA-Aligned Compliance
Unlike LST-based alternatives, TON Pool enables pure delegation—avoiding tokenized representations entirely. This structure aligns with the EU’s MiCA regulation and emerging compliance standards worldwide.
Audited and Verified
All smart contracts are fully audited by Spearbit, with ongoing optimizations aimed at maximizing annualized staking returns (ARR).
Scalable by Design
SDK & API Integration
With a native SDK and API, TON Pool can be embedded directly into wallets, custodians, and exchanges—offering staking as a seamless, on-platform experience.
Live & Ready to Go
TON Pool is live, and set to integrate with regulated partners, including custodians, exchanges, and asset managers.
One of Chorus’ main focuses has been to work alongside regulators to ensure alignment, and establish best practices. Earlier this year, Chorus One led TON staking workshops with key stakeholders in the United Arab Emirates, including a presentation to the Global Blockchain Congress in Dubai. The goal: building staking infrastructure that anticipates regulatory evolution rather than trying to retrofit around it.
This proactive engagement has directly informed TON Pool’s architecture, ensuring it doesn’t just meet today’s compliance expectations, but is positioned to evolve with tomorrow’s.
Interested in learning more? Reach out to staking@chorus.one.
Chorus One stands among the world’s leading staking providers, trusted by institutions, foundations, and protocols since 2018. A pioneer within the staking economy, Chorus One’s research-first approach has made it a household name in leading ecosystems including Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos. With approximately $1.7 billion in assets staked across 40+ networks, Chorus One builds and operates secure, performant, and regulatory-first infrastructure.
TON Pool is the latest expression of that mission—bringing scalable, compliant staking solutions to TON’s rapidly growing ecosystem. Whether enabling direct delegation or powering white label integrations for custodians, Chorus One is committed to making staking simple, accessible, and institution-ready.
Chorus has made it clear that this is just the beginning, with a robust roadmap outlined over the next few months. Here’s what to look forward to:
To learn more about TON Pool, as well as Chorus’ full suite of staking products, check out the Staking & Institutional Social - Dubai Edition. Chorus’ signature event series returns, co-hosted by KuCoin and FordeFi, on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 at the auspicious TODA - Theatre of Digital Art, Dubai. Dive into the nuances of the staking economy, network with some of the industry’s brightest, and enjoy a wonderful evening, all against the beautiful backdrop of Dubai during 2049.
Spots are limited. Request to join here!
Proof-of-Stake is evolving: more regulated, more composable, more embedded into the products institutions use every day.
Built for compliance, designed for scale, and already delivering value across the TON ecosystem, TON Pool by Chorus One is the infrastructure layer the next phase of crypto needs.
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Nillion has officially launched its mainnet, ushering in a new era of private, decentralized computation. Chorus One has supported the network since early days, including the Genesis Sprint and Catalyst Convergence phases. With the mainnet launch, we are now proud to join the network as a Genesis Validator, and support $NIL staking from day one!
If you're looking for a trusted validator, backed by a team of 35+ engineers committed to delivering a best-in-class staking experience, select the Chorus One validator and start staking with us today!
The rapid expansion of AI-driven applications and platforms in has revolutionized everything from email composition to the rise of virtual influencers. AI has permeated countless aspects of our daily lives, offering unprecedented convenience and capabilities. However, with this explosive growth comes an increasingly urgent question: How can we enjoy the benefits of AI without compromising our privacy? This concern extends beyond AI to other domains where sensitive data exchange is critical, such as healthcare, identity verification, and trading. While privacy is often viewed as an impediment to these use cases, Nillion posits that it can actually be an enabler. In this article, we'll delve into the current challenges surrounding private data exchange, how Nillion addresses these issues, and explore the potential it unlocks.
Privacy in blockchain technology is not a novel concept. Over the years, several protocols have emerged, offering solutions like private transactions and obfuscation of user identities. However, privacy extends far beyond financial transactions. It could be argued that privacy has the potential to unlock a multitude of non-financial use cases—if only we could compute on private data without compromising its confidentiality. Feeding private data into generative AI platforms or allowing them to train on user-generated content raises significant privacy concerns.
Every day, we unknowingly share fragments of our data through various channels. This data can be categorized into three broad types:
The publicly shared data has fueled the growth of social media and the internet, generating billions of dollars in economic value and creating jobs. Companies have capitalized on this data to improve algorithms and enhance targeted advertising, leading to a concentration of data within a few powerful entities, as evidenced by scandals like Cambridge Analytica. Users, often unaware of the implications, continue to feed these data monopolies, further entrenching their dominance. With the rise of AI wearables, the potential for privacy invasion only increases.
As awareness of the importance of privacy grows, it becomes clear that while people are generally comfortable with their data being used, they want its contents to remain confidential. This desire for privacy presents a significant challenge: how can we allow services to use data without revealing the underlying information? Traditional encryption methods require decryption before computation, which introduces security vulnerabilities and increases the risk of data misuse.
Another critical issue is the concentration of sensitive data. Ideally, high-value data should be decentralized to avoid central points of failure, but sharing data across multiple parties or nodes raises concerns about efficiency and consistent security standards.
This is where Nillion comes in. While blockchains have decentralized transactions, Nillion seeks to decentralize high-value data itself.
Nillion is a secure computation network designed to decentralize trust for high-value data. It addresses privacy challenges by leveraging Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), particularly Multi-Party Computation (MPC). These PETs enable users to securely store high-value data on Nillion's peer-to-peer network of nodes and allow computations to be executed on the masked data itself. This approach eliminates the need to decrypt data prior to computation, thereby enhancing the security of sensitive information.
The Nillion network enables computations on hidden data, unlocking new possibilities across various sectors. Early adopters in the Nillion community are already building tools for private predictive AI, secure storage and compute solutions for healthcare, password management, and trading data. Developers can create applications and services that utilize PETs like MPC to perform blind computations on private user data without revealing it to the network or other users.
The Nillion Network operates through two interdependent layers:
When decentralized applications (dApps) or other blockchain networks require privacy-enhanced data (e.g., blind computations), they must pay in $NIL, the network's native token. The Coordination Layer's nodes manage the payments between the dApp and the Petnet, while infrastructure providers on the Petnet are rewarded in $NIL for securely storing data and performing computations.
The Coordination Layer functions as a Cosmos chain, with infrastructure providers staking $NIL to secure the network, just like in other Cosmos-based chains. This dual-layer architecture ensures that Nillion can scale effectively while maintaining robust security and privacy standards.
At the heart of Nillion's architecture is the concept of clustering. Each cluster consists of a variable number of nodes tailored to meet specific security, cost, and performance requirements. Unlike traditional blockchains, Nillion's compute network does not rely on a global shared state, allowing it to scale both vertically and horizontally. As demand for storage or compute power increases, clusters can scale up their infrastructure or new clusters of nodes can be added.
Clusters can be specialized to handle different types of requests, such as provisioning large amounts of storage for secrets or utilizing specific hardware to accelerate particular computations. This flexibility enables the Nillion network to adapt to various use cases and workloads.
$NIL is the governance and staking token of the Nillion network, playing a crucial role in securing and managing the network. Its primary functions include:
Nillion's advanced data privacy capabilities open up a wide range of potential use cases, both within and beyond the crypto space:
Chorus One is a genesis validator on the Nillion mainnet, and is officially supporting $NIL staking. To stake your $NIL with us, select the Chorus One validator at the link below, and begin staking with us today!
At Chorus One, we aim to provide users with a best-in-class experience across a wide variety of networks. To maintain this standard, we periodically assess our supported networks for current and future viability. In light of market conditions and lower network activity, we have made the decision to stop supporting the networks below at the end of this month. These include:
These changes are part of an ongoing effort to streamline our focus and dedicate resources to networks with stronger long-term growth potential.
We are proud to have supported these networks and their users. However, there are a few trends we have observed that have led to our decision:
If you’re currently staking tokens on any of these networks, we kindly ask that you migrate them to a different validator by March 31, 2025. After this date, staking rewards from our public nodes will no longer be guaranteed. Please ensure your tokens are unstaked or re-delegated before then.
To view all current supported networks, node addresses, and APY, click here.
This decision allows us to allocate more resources and attention to the networks that show the most promise in terms of activity, user growth, and long-term sustainability. As we continue to grow and evolve, we remain committed to offering the best staking services and supporting the most innovative and active networks in the industry.
If you have any questions or need assistance with unstaking your tokens, our support team is here to help. Feel free to reach out to us via support@chorus.one.
Chorus One is one of the largest institutional staking providers globally, operating infrastructure for over 60 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) networks, including Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Avalanche, Near, and others. Since 2018, we have been at the forefront of the PoS industry, offering easy-to-use, enterprise-grade staking solutions, conducting industry-leading research, and investing in innovative protocols through Chorus One Ventures. As an ISO 27001 certified provider, Chorus One also offers slashing and double-signing insurance to its institutional clients. For more information, visit chorus.one or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and Telegram.
Welcome back to Behind the Blocks, where we dive into the journeys of the talented individuals shaping the future of Chorus One. In this series, we highlight their stories, explore their roles in decentralized technology, and share why Chorus One is the perfect place to make an impact in Web3.
Today, we’re thrilled to feature Maria, a Software Engineer at Chorus One. From running a kindergarten in Romania to discovering her passion for Web3 development, Maria's journey is a testament to adaptability, resilience, and the transformative power of curiosity.
Q: Can you tell us a bit about your role as a Software Engineer at Chorus One and what drew you to join the team?
Maria: My journey into Web3 started during a transitional phase in my life. After co-founding a kindergarten and working at a startup focused on pre-school education, COVID forced me to pivot. I started learning how to code in 2020 and about a year and a half later, I discovered DappCamp, a Web3 bootcamp.
I didn’t know at the time that the scholarship I received for the course was sponsored by Chorus One, but it changed everything. Jen, a team member from Chorus One, approached me about interviewing for an engineering position, and I couldn’t turn the opportunity down.
The interviews were incredible—our CEO's focus on transparency and kindness stood out. I didn’t have much experience in Web3, but the environment at Chorus One is so welcoming and growth-focused. It’s been fascinating to work in a place where my voice is heard, there’s no unnecessary bureaucracy, and ownership over your work is encouraged.
Q: What does a typical day look like for you in this role, and what kind of projects do you usually work on?
Maria: My days are split between coding and code reviews —about 70% of the time—and meetings or interviews. I love that we keep meetings to a minimum, just twice-weekly team huddles where we connect, align objectives, and discuss architecture.
I’ve worked on ETH-based projects like a rewards reporting tool and monitoring solutions for our staking clients. One of the most exciting projects was the Opus pool, where I got to focus on monitoring tools and client-facing features. It’s a dynamic environment, and no two days are the same.
Q: What has been one of the most challenging projects you’ve worked on at Chorus One, and what did you learn from it?
Maria: The first project I worked on—the rewards reporting tool—was incredibly challenging. It involved reading, interpreting, and processing block data into a format that was useful for users. I had to learn about Ethereum protocol and the kind of information contained in a block.
That project taught me how to dig deep into blockchain mechanics, and it gave me a solid foundation for understanding how the networks operate.
Q: How does Chorus One support your professional growth, whether through learning opportunities, tooling, or other resources?
Maria: The learning budget here is a game-changer. I’ve taken courses, gotten coaching, and attended conferences—all encouraged and supported by the company.
Another key aspect is the variety of projects we work on. Each one introduces me to new technologies and protocols, keeping my work exciting and challenging. The team’s focus on certain networks also helps me stay sharp without being overwhelmed by the sheer scope of Web3.
Q: For engineers interested in Web3, what advice would you give about joining a company like Chorus One?
Maria: My advice is to build something concrete using Web3-specific tools. For frontend developers, experiment with libraries like RainbowKit, WalletConnect, Wagmi, or Viem to integrate wallets and build dApps, to understand the user flow.
I would use Infura to get nodes to read from, hardhat or foundry for developing and testing smart contracts, get used to using Etherscan to read contracts, view transactions etc.
A good resource: https://cryptozombies.io/. I also like Nader Dabit’s content.
If you’re into backend, create a monitoring tool that extracts and visualizes blockchain data—it’s a great way to show your skills. Develop a blockchain scraper, extract useful data from blocks, export the data as metrics to Prometheus, build a Grafana dashboard etc.
For DevOps, try hosting your own node and focus on one protocol to understand it deeply. Develop monitoring tools for it.
Having hands-on experience with Web3 tools is incredibly impressive in interviews.
Chorus One is one of the largest institutional staking providers globally, operating infrastructure for over 60 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) networks, including Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Avalanche, Near, and others. Since 2018, we have been at the forefront of the PoS industry, offering easy-to-use, enterprise-grade staking solutions, conducting industry-leading research, and investing in innovative protocols through Chorus One Ventures. As an ISO 27001 certified provider, Chorus One also offers slashing and double-signing insurance to its institutional clients. For more information, visit chorus.one or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and Telegram.
