EVM on TON: TAC Founder Marco Monaco and the Future of Interoperability

TAC is a purpose-built blockchain for EVM dApps to access TON and Telegram Ecosystem’s 1B+ user base. TAC makes it seamless for Ethereum dApps to be deployed on TON. EVM functionality and liquidity brought to the TON ecosystem enable builders to focus on consumer use cases.

Marco Monaco, Co-Founder and Growth Lead at TAC, recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the technology. Marco discussed his work with TON, focusing on TAC’s strategy to bridge the gap between TON’s large user base and its relatively small developer community by creating an EVM-compatible layer-1 chain using a Cosmos SDK and integrating with Babylon’s Bitcoin Security Network. A successful $370 million Summoning Campaign provided liquidity for the project, with a phased launch planned starting with a developer mainnet in May, followed by a token launch.

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Marco Monaco is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at TAC. Before that, he co-founded Linea, an Ethereum rollup built at Consensys, where he helped onboard 500,000 users and supported 500+ teams. A longtime Ethereum supporter, Marco has also worked on key products like Metamask and Infura, and has advised several Ethereum products.

Earlier in his career, he founded a blockchain advisory firm acquired by PwC Italy, where he later led crypto strategy and coordinated global blockchain initiatives. Now focused on the TON ecosystem, Marco co-founded TAC to drive the next wave of Web3 adoption.

To learn more about the project visit tac.build, and follow the team on X.

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