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The Free TON community, an independent group of software developers, validators and users are launched the "Free TON Blockchain" on May 7. The community says that Telegram “can no longer be involved” in the project. The network will be maintained and validated by a network of independent, non-hierarchical members working on the principles of the Declaration of Decentralization (DOD) People and organizations in the U.S. are initially unable to join the network at this stage.