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Welcome to TON documentation! It covers the following areas of TON development:

TON overview	Learn the basics of TON and create your first wallet
Applications	Build TON applications with AppKit
Tools	Integrate TON using APIs, SDKs, and other tools
Foundations	Explore TON architecture and core infrastructure
Smart contracts	Develop smart contracts using Acton

What is TON?

TON is a blockchain platform for building scalable decentralized applications. They are implemented as smart contracts that communicate by exchanging messages.

TON is designed for high throughput and horizontal scalability through sharding a multi-chain architecture. To learn more, see Foundations.

TON networks

TON provides two public networks:

• Mainnet: The production network that uses real Toncoin
• Testnet: A testing environment for development and experimentation

These networks are operated by distributed nodes and validators that maintain consensus on the blockchain state. You can learn more in Foundations.

To read on-chain data, use TON blockchain explorers.

Toncoin

Toncoin is TON’s native cryptocurrency used to pay for transactions and smart contract execution.

If you’re new to TON, get Toncoin before starting development:

1. Create a wallet. You can use wallet.ton.org or Tonkeeper.

2. Get testnet Toncoin.