Resistance Dog REDO

The REDO website calls the project a decentralised community. It presents REDO as a homage to Pavel Durov's creation and a symbol of the fight against censorship and of freedom through digital resistance. It also says REDO aims to maximise the growth and adoption of TON "through its community and memes". The project's official Telegram channel is titled "REDO - Resistance Dog Portal" and greets visitors with "Welcome to the Digital Resistance." The website says it was made by Smooth Web3.

The hooded dog dates to April 2018. Pavel Durov posted it then as the symbol of "Digital Resistance" against Russia's attempt to block Telegram, and several secondary sources say he drew it himself. The REDO website calls the token a homage to Durov's creation, says the logo was "Created in 2018 by Durov" and describes the dog as the "(un)official mascot of Telegram". The character and the token are different things. AirdropAlert describes REDO as a community tribute with no official connection to Telegram or Durov, and the token appeared nearly six years after the drawing. DYOR's blog links the community's growth to the original Resistance Dog sticker pack that Durov used in his messages.

REDO launched on TON on 9 January 2024. AirdropAlert says an anonymous team started it as a meme coin. According to DYOR's blog, the initial liquidity pool tokens were burned and the contract was renounced, after which the original developer abandoned the project. A community calling itself "the Resistance" took it over and runs it. The blog adds that this community has spent $0 on marketing since the takeover and keeps no reserved supply or marketing funds. The website lists a total supply of 100,000,000 tokens and says the community is capable of adding liquidity.

Pavel Durov was arrested in France in August 2024. Afterwards, the TON team announced it was updating the logo of the native coin of the TON network and the profile pictures across TON Community channels to the Resistance Dog, "the global symbol of Digital Resistance". Crypto.news reported that TON's X account switched its profile picture to the image and that CoinGecko changed TON's icon to it. AiCoin reported that TON Foundation chairman Steve Yun changed his X avatar and that Binance updated the TON logo on some pages. The quoted TON statement names the Resistance Dog, not the REDO token.

According to DYOR's blog, the TON Foundation featured REDO in a blog interview in its "TON Culture Kings" series. The same blog says REDO took part in TON's Open League for 4 seasons in a row and placed in the top 5 in several of them. It also says that core team members attended TON Society meetups, TOKEN2049 and MEMECON.

No. Telegram has a collectible gift called "Resistance Dog" that can be minted as an NFT on TON and traded on Portals, Getgems and Fragment. It is a separate asset from the REDO jetton: each gift is an individual collectible, while REDO is a fungible token issued by a single contract. Both draw on the same 2018 character, which is why searches for the dog turn up both. To make sure a wallet or a DEX pool holds this REDO, check that the contract address there ends in 4Cko.