What are Hybrid dApps?

From dApps to Hybrid dApps

The idea of hybrid applications is not entirely new. In different ecosystems, developers have experimented with connecting onchain logic to familiar user environments, creating a middle ground between fully native apps and traditional frontends.

In TAC’s context, Hybrid dApps take on a precise meaning. They are Ethereum applications that keep their Solidity logic intact while extending their reach into Telegram through the TON Adapter. This makes it possible for users to interact with DeFi primitives directly inside Telegram MiniApps, without ever leaving the environment that they already use every day.

Hybrid dApps are not only a technical framework but also a new distribution model. They allow Ethereum developers to access more than a billion users on Telegram, enabling adoption at scale.

To understand Hybrid dApps, it helps to look at where we came from.

• Ethereum-era dApps: Smart contracts running on Ethereum or other EVM chains. Powerful, but often intimidating for newcomers.
• Consumer Apps: Platforms like Telegram, where billions of users spend time daily, chatting, trading, and organizing communities

This isn’t just a UX improvement. It’s a structural shift in how decentralized applications can grow.

Why Hybrid dApps Matter

The promise of crypto was always open access. But access is not only about removing banks, it’s about meeting people where they already are. Telegram has over a billion users, many of whom are already familiar with crypto culture, groups, airdrops, token communities, and memecoins all live there.

Hybrid dApps are important because they:

• Lower Barriers: No complex onboarding, no extra wallet installs, no chain-hopping.
• Boost Distribution: Instead of fighting for attention on new platforms, dApps plug directly into the place where crypto-native communities already operate.
• Expand DeFi Reach: Billions of potential users can access DeFi primitive tools without ever leaving Telegram.

It’s the difference between expecting people to come to you and showing up in the spaces they already trust.

How TAC Enables Hybrid dApps

At the core of this movement is TAC, a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain. TAC’s design is laser-focused on one mission: making Ethereum-based dApps seamlessly accessible to Telegram and the TON ecosystem.

Here’s the hybrid architecture in detail:

• TAC EVM Layer: A fully-fledged Layer-1 blockchain environment based on Cosmos SDK technology. It provides a secure and scalable execution environment specifically optimized for Ethereum-compatible smart contracts, allowing existing EVM dApps to be deployed without modifications or code rewrites. 
• Security Layer: To be secured by Delegated Proof of Stake ($TAC token) and reinforced by Babylon Bitcoin Staking, TAC ensures EVM logic operates with strong security guarantees.
• The TON Adapter: This is the key innovation. It’s not a bridge. It’s a cross-chain framework that lets transactions start or end on TON, while the core logic runs on TAC’s EVM layer.
• Frontend Distribution via MiniApps: developers can let their DeFi logic have a clean and familiar user experience inside Telegram itself.

Think of TAC as the infrastructure that holds both ends together, Ethereum logic on one side, Telegram UX and distribution on the other.

What Using a Hybrid dApp Feels Like

For a user, Hybrid dApps don’t feel like “crypto apps.” They feel like normal Telegram interactions:

1. You open a MiniApp in Telegram.
2. You see a simple interface: maybe a swap button, maybe a vault, maybe a lending dashboard.
3. You press a button. Behind the scenes, TAC executes the DeFi transaction with full EVM security.
4. TON handles the start or end of the transaction, so the flow feels native to Telegram.

No seed phrases, no MetaMask pop-ups, no confusing bridges. Just a Telegram-native experience backed by Ethereum-grade security and liquidity.

Examples of Hybrid dApps

This isn’t theory; Hybrid dApps are live today.

• Curve MiniApp: Users can provide liquidity and swap tokens directly inside Telegram, while the actual DeFi contracts run on TAC. It feels like a Telegram feature, but it’s secured by TAC’s EVM environment.
• Morpho and Euler: Lending and borrowing experiences built on familiar Telegram interfaces.

These examples showcase the breadth of possibilities: DeFi protocols, liquidity campaigns, consumer finance, and even gaming can all go Hybrid. See here for full list of Hybrid dApps powered by TAC: https://tac.build/dapps 

Why TON Needs Hybrid dApps

The TON blockchain has made Telegram the home of Web3 by integrating payments, bots, and digital assets. However,TON is powered by TVM (TON Virtual Machine), which requires developers to build directly in its natively supported languages.

That can tend to leave out a vast majority of Solidity developers and Ethereum-native applications. TAC helps bridge this gap:

• TON gets access to Ethereum’s battle-tested DeFi primitives.
• TVM developers gain new liquidity and financial building blocks.
• Telegram users gain frictionless access to EVM dApps for the first time through familiar TON interfaces.

Hybrid dApps therefore are a net positive for the TON ecosystem as a whole.

The Role of $TAC in Hybrid dApps

Hybrid dApps rely on TAC’s underlying incentives. The $TAC token is both the value accrual asset of the network and the incentive mechanism for the TAC Force, the community driving adoption and growth.

As Hybrid dApps attract more users and liquidity:

• More transactions flow through TAC’s EVM chain.
• More security is provided via staking.
• More value accrues to $TAC holders.

It’s a self-reinforcing cycle: infrastructure brings distribution, distribution brings users, users generate activity, and activity incentivizes developers to build and this drives value back to the network.

Why Hybrid dApps Are the Future

Crypto has always been a story of two forces: technology and distribution. Ethereum gave us the technology to build decentralized finance, enabling programmable money. But even as DeFi protocols grew into multi-billion-dollar ecosystems, distribution remained the bottleneck.

TAC powered hybrid dApps directly tackles this challenge. They are not a replacement for existing dApps, but an evolution, one that combines Ethereum-native logic with Telegram-native distribution, powered by TAC.

The history of crypto is full of breakthroughs that looked obvious in hindsight. DeFi Summer in 2020 made people realize that finance could live entirely onchain. NFT mania in 2021 proved that digital ownership could go mainstream. Hybrid dApps in 2025 are the next breakthrough.

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