Awesome Tact

A curated list of resources for learning and using Tact programming language.

Tact is an open-source statically typed smart contract programming language for TON Blockchain. It runs on the stack-oriented virtual machine (TVM) and is based on the actor model.

Developed by TON Studio, powered by the community.

Contents

• Community
• Tact in Production
• Plugins and extensions for editors and IDEs
• Tools and utilities
• Documentation
• Articles
• Videos
• Smart contracts

Community ↑

• @tactlang on Telegram - Main community chat.
• @tactlang_ru on Telegram (Russian)
• @tact_kitchen on Telegram - Channel with updates from the team.
• @tact_language on X/Twitter
• tact-lang organization on GitHub
• @ton_studio on Telegram
• @thetonstudio on X/Twitter

Tact in Production ↑

Software and applications based on contracts written in Tact, deployed in production, and consumed by end users.

Open Source or Source Available

• Proof of Capital - Proof of Capital is a market-making smart contract that protects interests of all holders.

Closed Source

• Tradoor - Fast and social DEX on TON.
  • See the security audit report by TonBit.
• PixelSwap - First modular and upgradeable DEX on TON.
  • See the security audit report by Trail of Bits.
• GasPump - TON memecoin launchpad and trading platform.

Plugins and extensions for editors and IDEs ↑

Maintained by TON Studio

• TON Web IDE - Try Tact online in an ultimate browser-based IDE designed to simplify the journey of writing, testing, compiling, deploying, and interacting with smart contracts on TON.
• VS Code extension - Powerful and feature-rich extension for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and VSCode-based editors like VSCodium, Cursor, Windsurf and others.
  • Get it on the Visual Studio Marketplace.
  • Get it on the Open VSX Registry.
  • Or install from the .vsix files in nightly releases.
• Language Server (LSP Server) - Supports Sublime Text, (Neo)Vim, Helix, and other editors with LSP support.
• tact.vim - Vim 8+ plugin.
• tact-sublime - Sublime Text 4 package.
  • Get it on the Package Control.

Other

• Plugin for JetBrain IDEs like WebStorm, Intellij IDEA and others

Tools and utilities ↑

Grammars and highlighting

Maintained by TON Studio

• tree-sitter-tact - Tree-sitter grammar and parser, used for syntax highlighting, code navigation, and more.
• Prism.js grammar - Provides syntax highlighting.
• TextMate grammar - Provides syntax highlighting in Sublime Text, VSCode, Tact Documentation (through Shiki), and on GitHub.

Other

• highlight.js grammar - (outdated) Provides syntax highlighting.

Templates

• tact-template - Ready-to-use template with the development environment set up, including the Tact compiler with TypeScript + Jest, a local TON emulator, AI-based editor support, and examples of how to run tests.

Frameworks and libraries

Featured

• Blueprint - Development environment for TON Blockchain to write, test, and deploy smart contracts.
• TON Jest - Testing tools for TON with Jest.
• Foton - TypeScript toolkit for interacting with TON wallets and the blockchain.
• Tonion - Collection of reusable traits, functions, and TypeScript scripts.

Other

• Tact Emulator - Emulation toolkit for TON Smart Contracts.
• Tact Deployer - Library to prepare the deployment of a Tact package.
• TON Contract DNS - Small library for resolving TON DNS names.

Security

• Misti - Static smart contract analyzer.
• TON Symbolic Analyzer (TSA) - Static smart contract analysis tool based on symbolic execution.

Documentation ↑

• Official Documentation
• Learn with Tact by Example

Articles ↑

• Introduction to Blockchain
• The Open Network

Videos ↑

• Tact & Blueprint - Made by @alefman.

Chinese

• TON 开发从入门到应用 - Made by Jason.
• Tact & TON Basic 手把手學習 - Made by @howard_peng.

Russian

• Tact & Blueprint - Made by @alefman
• Tact development - Made by @nonam3e.

Smart contracts ↑

• Tact Wallet Contract - This wallet contract supports gasless transactions, allows operations on behalf of the wallet by other contracts, and can execute a scalable number of operations in a single transaction.
• Tact Payouts Contract - Perfect solution for on-chain payouts. This contract generates a list of text tickets for each address entitled to a payout. Tickets are signed transactions serialized as comments to be parsed by the smart contract.
• TON VOTE Contracts - Smart contracts for ton.vote.
• Simple DNS Contract - Contract that allows you to manage DNS records in a simple way. It also allows to burn fuses disallowing certain modifications of records.
• NFT Standard Example - Basic implementation of NFT standard that conforms to TEP-62 and TEP-66 standards. Made by @howard_peng9.
• TonDynasty - Ton Dynasty Contracts is a library built by the Perman Lab Team for efficient smart contract development using Tact. It provides a number of templates, including contract traits, for Ton developers to utilize. Perman Lab will always stand by you. Ask for our help in Perman Lab Community.
• Tact Fireworks - Educational contract for learning Tact and writing tests for special cases, such as exit codes.
• Ready-to-use templates for Jetton & NFT - Provides ready-to-use templates for Jetton, NFT, Traits, as well as some commonly used tools.

Contribute

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Related

• awesome-ton - Awesome list for TON Blockchain.