Telcoin

Build for millions, through the operators
who already reach them

Telcoin Network is an EVM-compatible public blockchain secured by GSMA Mobile Operators. Deploy with the Ethereum toolchain you already use, or apply for GSMA Membership to integrate with operator distribution and earn TEL issuance from the Telcoin Application Network, the application layer of the internet of money.

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Application Developer

Build with telecom distribution and banking

Application Developers are GSMA Members who stake TEL, build mobile applications on the Telcoin Platform, and earn TEL issuance from the Telcoin Application Network in proportion to the adoption they drive. As a Member you can:

  • Upgrade the technology of your money and services. Replatform your mobile financial and digital services onto a modern on-chain ledger, unlocking efficiency across your entire value chain for payments.
  • Reach the world through the operators who run it. Build on the global distribution and connectivity of the GSMA and its mobile operators, reaching subscribers across every market they serve.
  • Move first in your local stablecoin and market. Take a first-mover position issuing local currency Digital Cash in partnership with Telcoin Digital Asset Bank, before anyone else in your market does.
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Open Path

Build with the tools you already use

Telcoin Network is EVM-compatible and permissionless at the execution layer. Deploy smart contracts with your existing toolchain against a validator set run by GSMA Mobile Operators, with no approval required to start, and the same telecom distribution and regulated banking behind the network whether or not you become a Member.

  • No prior authorization to deploy or transact
  • Public testnet, RPC, and chain ID, with the open source Rust protocol and Solidity contracts on GitHub
  • Compose against TELx liquidity and Digital Cash stablecoins from day one
  • A direct on-ramp to Membership once your application gains traction, with sign-on costs currently covered for qualifying developers
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GSMA Industry Member since 2018, building the blockchain standard for the telecom industry
Co-author of the GSMA stablecoin whitepaper
The only blockchain network at Mobile World Congress 2026

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in Three Steps

Build and deploy

Build and deploy

Write Solidity with Foundry, Hardhat, ethers, or viem. The Telcoin Network Rust protocol and Solidity contracts are public on GitHub. There is no new SDK to learn and no permission to request.

Connect to Network

Connect to Network

Configure the RPC endpoint and chain ID, and you are live. Submit transactions, read state, and compose against TELx liquidity and Digital Cash stablecoins from day one.

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Inherit the validator set

Telcoin Network is secured by GSMA Mobile Operators through proof of stake. Your application inherits a validator set whose reach is 7 billion mobile subscribers, against Ethereum's roughly 800,000 daily active users. Their institutional identity, regulatory standing, and customer trust are what set this chain apart from a generic EVM deployment.

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What you can build
on Telcoin Network

Build local services on a globally connected network for money, finance, and commerce. The same application serves your home market and settles across every other market on the network, something no domestic rail and no isolated blockchain can offer.

Cross-border payments, FX, and settlement

Move money across borders through on-chain foreign exchange between Digital Cash stablecoins, settling on Telcoin Network at a fraction of the cost of traditional infrastructure. Build remittances, cross-border payments, and intercarrier settlement on one neutral ledger shared by regulated telecom operators, replacing correspondent banking chains that take days with settlement that takes seconds.

Digital Cash and local stablecoins

Issue a local currency Digital Cash stablecoin in partnership with Telcoin Digital Asset Bank, the first regulated digital asset bank in the United States. Earn treasury yield on the reserves that back it, scaling with the supply in circulation and independent of token price. Almost every stablecoin in circulation today is dollar-denominated, so every non-US issuer holds a first-mover position in its own market.

Tokenized value chains and digital commerce

Bring your existing financial, mobile, and digital services on-chain as programmable value. Tokenize the goods, services, and payment flows across your value chain so they settle automatically, remove the intermediaries that sit between each step, and drive transaction costs from percentage points toward zero. This is digital markets infrastructure for the services you already run, rebuilt on a modern ledger.
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Build as a co-owner
not a tenant

On every other chain, the application layer creates the value and captures almost none of it. The wallets, exchanges, and apps built on general-purpose blockchains drive the usage, pay the fees into the protocol, and receive no protocol revenue and no authority over the network they depend on. Telcoin inverts that. Application Developers are one of four Miner Groups who produce the platform and hold equal, shared authority over it. You do not rent access. You own it, operate it, and govern it.

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The rights other app builders never get

As a Miner, you hold four rights that application-layer firms on other chains do not: govern the platform, earn fees from your application's usage, mine TEL issuance based on the adoption you produce, and use every product the system generates. And uniquely among builders, your users become Stakers who earn by marketing your services, a growth engine that rewards the very people who spread your application. You build with full autonomy, conforming to shared standards and staking TEL to take your position.
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Govern the rules that pay you

Developers elect their own representatives to the TAN Council and, through the TANIP process, set the harvesting rules, incentives, and standards of the application layer. This is not civic duty. It is control over the variables that determine your revenue: how issuance is allocated, what adoption metric drives your harvest, what it takes to qualify. At least one Developer representative must consent to any rule change in your domain, and your voting power is your pro-rata share of the TEL Developers stake on TAN. Delegate that power and keep building, or take a seat at the table yourself.
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A vote on every Council

Developer authority extends across the whole platform. Every Miner Group holds representation on all five Miner Councils, so Developers sit, with an equal vote, on the Platform and Treasury Councils that govern Telcoin Network and the TEL Treasury, the Compliance Council, and the TELx Council. The builders decide alongside the operators who secure the network. On Ethereum, the most successful applications in the world have no equivalent seat.
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Authority no one can override

At the highest level, the four Miner Groups form the Miner Assembly, which holds constitutional authority over the entire system. Changing the governance system requires the consent of all four groups through the TGIP process, an 80 percent vote with a minimum 20 percent quorum from each group. No single group, and no founder, can change the rules alone. The builder who could not deploy a contract a year ago can help write the constitution the next generation operates under.

Developer Learning Center

Everything past the quick start, organized by what you need next. Each entry links into the documentation.

Quick start

Toolchain setup, testnet RPC, faucet, and your first contract deploy. If you have shipped on any EVM chain, this is the same workflow, with the full how-to in the docs.

Network reference

Mainnet and testnet chain IDs, public RPC endpoints, and the protocol architecture: the GSMA Mobile Operator validator set, the consensus model, and how Telcoin Network, TAN, and TELx compose.

TAN economics

How Application Developers earn: the 150 million TEL annual TAN issuance pool, the harvesting rules set through the TANIP process, transaction fees, and treasury yield on Digital Cash you issue. TANIP-1 is live, with active proposals in review.

Authorization and governance

The path to GSMA Membership: Developer eligibility rules, the Compliance Council approval process, how to submit and vote on TANIPs, and how Developers elect their representatives to the TAN Council.

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the Technical Documentation

Documentation

The RPC endpoint, chain ID, contract examples, and reference integrations for both the Open Path and the GSMA Path. Everything you need to deploy and connect.

Deep Wiki

The architecture of the Telcoin Platform: how Telcoin Network, the Telcoin Application Network, and TELx compose into one system, and how the validator set and consensus model work.

Improvement proposals

The proposals and elections shaping the network. Developers propose and vote on the application layer through TANIPs in the TAN Council, within a wider system of proposal processes that govern the platform, treasury, compliance, and liquidity layers, each administered by an elected Council. The Rust protocol and Solidity contracts are public on GitHub for issue and pull request review.

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Become an Application Developer Member

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GSMA Membership is the entry point, and the Association currently covers basic GSMA sign-on costs for qualifying new and existing developers.

On approval you receive an initial TEL allocation equivalent to $15,000, enough to cover roughly a year of GSMA membership, along with the right to build on operator distribution, earn TEL issuance from the Telcoin Application Network, and govern the application layer. Tell us what you are building to begin, or reach out first if you would rather talk it through.

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FX and stablecoin liquidity, ready when you launch

TELx is the decentralized exchange and liquidity layer of the Telcoin Platform, the marketplace where applications trade currencies, goods, and services. Tap deep on-chain FX and stablecoin liquidity in your application from day one, and because TELx is governed by the same Miner Groups, you have a say in which markets and incentives it supports for your own app. Open to every developer.

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