MEME coin resistance dog REDO becomes the king of TON chain culture?

Written by: Followin

On Binance, the TON icon has become a picture of this dog.

This REDO was born in January 24, with a current market value of 81 million US dollars and a 24-hour increase of 148%.

Image: Resistance Dog Image

The name of this dog is Resistance Dog, which fits the rebellious spirit of Telegram. In addition, the founder of Telegram was recently arrested in France, which immediately gave the Resistance Dog a symbolic meaning. At present, it is very likely to become the MEME leader of the TON ecosystem, and even a symbol of the crypto industry advocating freedom of speech and resisting censorship.

What is REDO?

REDO was drawn and named by Telegram founder Pavel Durov in 2018. The full name is Resistance Dog, a dog with a hat.

According to X user ttty, REDO first appeared in the movement against Putin in Russia in 2009. On that day, Durov received an email from the Kremlin, asking him to cooperate in closing Alexei Navalny's VK account and provide relevant account data.

Durov replied with a photo of a puppy with its tongue out and wearing a blue sweater. Fearing that the other party could not understand, he added: "This is my reply."

In 2014, civil unrest broke out in Ukraine, and Russian troops entered the Crimean Peninsula. After that, Crimea seceded from Ukraine and joined Russia through a referendum. One day, Durov received another email asking him to hand over the information of a Ukrainian politician.

Durov said this was difficult, my mother is Ukrainian, my father is Russian - "these two countries are probably the two closest relatives in the big family of nations." - He didn't want to stand on either side.

So he replied with two photos of puppies.

So far, the image of a dog wearing a hat has become the spiritual totem of Telegram, and in many subsequent tweets, Telegram officials have also interacted with the REDO resistance dog.

Therefore, REDO has been the (un)official mascot of Telegram's "resistance" to censorship vision since then.

What is the TON ecosystem doing?

On Saturday night, Durov was arrested in Paris. The reason is that it involves a preliminary investigation, which involves crimes including terrorism, drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering and child abuse.

Durov was arrested because of the social software Telegram. After the incident, Telegram and the TON public chain ecosystem both posted positive messages to support and save Durov. Musk also posted a message, and Justin Sun took out the ancestral $10 million...

Among them, a movement is particularly concerned, called Digital Resistance, which was initiated by members of the TON Foundation and aims to maintain and defend personal freedom, privacy and information security through technical means.

In this movement, REDO, the TON ecological MEME coin, has received a lot of attention because of its symbolic significance and seems to have become the spiritual totem of the movement.

We can see that the profile picture of the official X account of TON chain has been changed to the image of REDO. The top post of its X account also mentioned: It is recommended that the community change the profile picture to the resistance dog.

The change of avatars began with TON’s community account TON Society, which posted yesterday:

“Today, we stand with Pavel Durov, the creator of Telegram. In support of Digital Resistance, we will update the Toncoin logo and profile picture on the TON community channel to the global symbol of digital resistance - the resistance dog. Pavel Durov launched this movement while fighting to maintain the privacy of Telegram users and protect freedom of speech.”

The post, which is a bit like a battle manifesto, also mentioned that participants are advised to change their avatars to resistance dogs.

The head of the TON community even @ Musk, suggesting that for those who change their avatars to REDO, speed up the blue check verification process on the X. "This is a movement with important cultural significance."

This should be a marketing strategy. Previously, Musk has supported Durov and mentioned that freedom of speech is very important.

Currently, the image of TON on the Binance exchange has become this dog.

It is expected that the next trend of REDO is likely to be closely related to the entire movement.

At present, from the price point of view, among the MEMEs related to Durov’s arrest, a MEME coin with a certain market value appeared in the TRON ecosystem, called FREEDUROV. After Sun Yuchen expressed his support, the token soared, and has now fallen back, with a market value of about 1M. In the TON ecosystem, there are also several MEME coins that have performed well, one of which has a market value of more than 2M, but the transaction is very low.

Transaction volume may be a feature of TON ecosystem MEME coins. In comparison, investors may not be accustomed to using TON's on-chain products. At present, OKX's WEB3 wallet is one of the more convenient ways to recharge TON from DEX to TON chain, and it comes with DEX function.

By the way, DOGS will have a TGE on the 26th. As a TON ecosystem MEME coin, it has a dog image and will definitely be affected by this incident.