How does Marg work?
Marg is a free quest platform that turns the first steps on-chain into short, practical lessons. Each quest covers one idea — what a wallet actually is, how a public address differs from a secret phrase, how to read a balance on TON — and takes a couple of minutes.
Marg is built around Gram Wallet and the TON blockchain, but it is an independent project. It is not an official Telegram, Gram or TON product, and it is not affiliated with the developers of any wallet. Mentions of third-party products here do not imply partnership or endorsement.
There is nothing to buy, and Marg does not take money from the people who use it. Progress is counted in MARG — the name of the token Marg plans to issue on TON. The token does not exist yet: today the MARG in the app is only a local record of the quests you have finished.
If you already know your way around wallets, skip ahead to the FAQ. If you are starting from zero, simply follow the sections below in order.
What Marg Is
Most people meet on-chain tools through a screenshot, a referral link or a promise of easy money. Marg is the opposite of that: a quiet place to learn the mechanics first, before any of your own money is involved.
Learning, not farming
A quest is a short lesson with a check at the end. You read two or three paragraphs, answer one question, and the step is marked as complete. There is no grinding, no daily streak to protect and no leaderboard to climb.
Who it is for
For people who are curious about Gram and TON but have never opened a wallet, and for people who have opened one and never felt sure about what they were clicking. If you can use a messenger, you can finish the first route.
What it costs
Nothing. Marg does not sell subscriptions, does not charge fees and does not monetize by extracting money from the people who use it. That is the first of the three principles on the front page, and it is not a launch promotion.
Gram Wallet and TON
TON is a public blockchain: a shared ledger anyone can read. Gram is the asset that moves on it. A wallet is the app that holds your keys, shows your balance and signs actions on your behalf.
What a wallet actually holds
A wallet does not store your coins in the way a physical wallet stores cash. The balance lives on the blockchain; the wallet holds the keys that prove an address is yours. Lose the keys and you lose the ability to move what is at that address — which is why the backup step matters more than any other step.
Public address and secret phrase
These two are constantly confused, and the confusion is what most scams rely on.
A public address — a string starting with EQ…, UQ… or 0:… — is safe to share. It is how people send you funds and how anyone can look up the operations of that address in an explorer. Publishing it reveals your transaction history, so it is not private, but it is not dangerous.
A secret phrase (also called a seed phrase or recovery phrase) is a list of words that reconstructs your wallet and gives complete control over the funds.
A secret phrase is never needed by a website, a bot, a support agent or Marg. Anyone who asks for it is trying to take your money.
Telegram account and blockchain address
Your account in a messenger and your address on a blockchain are separate things. Signing in somewhere with Telegram does not move funds, and connecting a wallet does not hand over your chat history. Keeping the two mentally apart makes the rest much easier to reason about.
Quests and MARG
How a quest works
The first route is three quests. The first step covers how the pieces fit together. Only yours covers protecting access and telling a public address from a secret. Look closer asks you to explore a real public address and read its balance and status.
Quests unlock in order, because the third one only makes sense after the second. Later quests — connecting a wallet, a first on-chain action, collecting a mark — need a real wallet connection and server-side verification, and are not open yet.
What MARG is
MARG is planned as a token on TON. It has not been issued yet. In the current prototype, the MARG count in the app is an off-chain record of the steps you have finished, not a token balance: it cannot be sent, sold or withdrawn. The terms of the token — supply, distribution and whether progress in the app is taken into account — will be published before launch, and nothing about its value is promised.
Where progress is stored
In the current build, progress is kept locally by the server that runs the app, in a single file — not in per-user accounts in a cloud. It survives a page reload.
Marg is a prototype, so progress may be reset between versions.
Reading an address
The explorer quest sends a public address to TonAPI through Marg's own server and shows the balance and status that come back. It is a read. It does not connect a wallet, does not prove that the address is yours and cannot move anything.
Staying Safe
The one rule
Never type your secret phrase anywhere except your own wallet app while restoring it.
Not into Marg, not into a form that looks like Marg, not into a chat with someone claiming to be support — regardless of how urgent, official or verified they appear.
Before you sign
When a wallet asks you to confirm something, check four things: the domain you are on, the recipient, the amount and the permissions being requested. Connecting a wallet to a site is not the same as authorizing it to send your funds, and a confirmation dialog is the last place where the difference is still yours to enforce.
Irreversible by design
On-chain transfers are final. There is no chargeback and no support queue that can undo one. That property is what makes the ledger trustworthy, and it is also why checking twice before confirming is worth the ten seconds.
What Marg Is Not
- Not an official product. Marg is independent and is not made, endorsed or reviewed by Telegram, the TON Foundation or any wallet developer.
- Not a token sale. The MARG token has not been issued and is not for sale anywhere. If you see it being sold, it is not ours.
- No promises about value. Nothing about MARG — its price, a listing or how it will be distributed — is promised. The MARG count in the app is a learning record, not a whitelist or a purchase.
- Not investment advice. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or hold any asset. We do not promise returns and cannot predict prices.
- Not a wallet. Marg never holds your keys and never holds your funds.
FAQ
Getting Started
Q: Do I need to pay anything to use Marg?
No. Marg is free, has no paid tier and takes no fees. It is not funded by the people learning on it.
Q: Do I need a wallet before I start?
No. The first quests are about understanding the concepts and can be finished without owning anything. You only need a public address for the explorer quest, and it does not have to be yours.
Q: Can I use Marg right now?
Not yet. The quest app is not open to the public — the front page is live while the app is still being built. Nothing on the site currently connects to a wallet.
Gram Wallet
Q: Is Marg made by Telegram, Gram or the TON Foundation?
No. Marg is an independent project with no affiliation to any of them. Mentions of their products are descriptive and do not imply endorsement.
Q: What is the difference between my public address and my secret phrase?
The public address is how people send you funds and how anyone can look up that address in an explorer — sharing it is safe. The secret phrase restores the wallet and controls the funds — sharing it hands over everything.
Q: Marg asks for an address. Is that safe?
Yes. It asks only for a public address and only reads it. There is no signature, no transfer and no access to funds. You can paste any public address, including one that is not yours.
Q: Will Marg ever ask for my secret phrase?
Never, under any circumstances. If something claiming to be Marg asks for it, it is a scam — close it.
Quests and MARG
Q: Can I withdraw or sell my MARG?
Not now. The token has not been issued yet, so the MARG count in the app is only a local record of your progress. It cannot be withdrawn, transferred or sold.
Q: Where is my progress kept?
Locally, by the server running the app, in a single file — not in a per-user cloud account. It survives reloads but may be reset between prototype versions.
Q: Why is a quest locked?
Quests unlock in order, because each one assumes the previous one. Finish the step it names and it opens.
Q: When do the on-chain quests open?
When wallet connection and server-side verification of results are in place. We would rather ship them late than fake a successful transaction in a prototype.
Tokens, Airdrops and Money
Q: Is there a Marg token?
It is planned: MARG will be a token on TON, but it has not been issued yet. There is nothing to buy — any MARG offered for sale today is not ours.
Q: Will there be an airdrop for early users?
Nothing is promised yet. How MARG is distributed — including whether progress in the app counts — will be published before launch. Anyone offering a pre-sale, a whitelist or a guaranteed allocation is not us.
Q: How will Marg make money, then?
Not by extracting it from the people who use it. That constraint comes first; anything that violates it is not on the table, whatever happens.
Safety
Q: Someone from “support” asks for my secret phrase. What do I do?
Do not send it and close the conversation. Real support never needs it. A verification badge, an official-looking avatar and a sense of urgency are all cheap to fake.
Q: I sent funds to the wrong address. Can it be reversed?
No. On-chain transfers are final and no one — including us — can undo one. This is why the address should be checked before confirming, ideally by pasting rather than typing.
Q: Is my balance private if I share my address?
No. A public address is public: its balance and history can be read by anyone. It is safe to share in the sense that it cannot be used to take your funds, not in the sense that it reveals nothing.
Marg is an early prototype. This page describes how it is meant to work and will be revised as the app is built. For the formal documents see Terms, Privacy and Risks.