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> They tried to stay away from fiat by launching TRON but that got shut down, and now they're asking for money in euros.

TON. Really not sure why the ended up shutting it down, but I wonder why they would not go directly with Bitcoin on Lightning instead of reinventing the wheel.

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> Really not sure why the ended up shutting it down

They were sued by the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-146

The project has actually re-launched independently under the name of FreeTON, and now EverScale: https://docs.tonalliance.org/

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ton-crystal/

Not really, this is a fork. Original ton.org is online.

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