Telegram, a popular encrypted messaging app, will begin public testing of its hotly-anticipated blockchain, TON (the Telegram Open Network). It will be operational on September 1.

The messenger team will release the instructions and the necessary code for installing a node into the public domain. This will thus allow any developer to create their own TON blockchain node. TON’s sharding and its consensus mechanism for confirming new blocks in the blockchain will also be available to test. The TON blockchain comprises of a network of nodes. Actually, these nodes are computers that store part or all of the information. The information is about the blockchain and exchange information about blocks and transactions with each other.

Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov has founded the messaging app. He had raised $1.7 billion in May 2018 for TON. Also, he had claimed that it will process transactions faster than the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains. Moreover, UAE-based Telegram claims that it will be on par with Visa in terms of speed.

In May, the messaging app Telegram announced it will Telegram Open Network (TON) by September. It thus launched TON’s test client in the same month. Telegram has promised to launch a working blockchain network by October 31, 2019, as per the source.