AlphaTON Capital Corp. (Nasdaq: ATON), the leading public technology company developing the Telegram super-app and decentralized AI infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Aleksej Paschenko and Andrei Pfau as principal engineers.
As AlphaTON accelerates its mission to provide privacy-preserving infrastructure for Telegram’s 1 billion monthly active users, these double hires mark a major advancement in technical capabilities. Both engineers bring unparalleled expertise in the Open Network (TON) ecosystem, positioning AlphaTON at the intersection of Web3 and high-performance AI computing.
Aleksej Paschenko: architect of scalable infrastructure
Paschenko joins AlphaTON with over 15 years of engineering experience. Formerly co-founder of zymFi and principal engineer at Tonkeeper, he built the foundational tools that power the ecosystem today, including the relay service for gasless transactions and high-performance APIs for blockchain data. His expertise in Kubernetes will be vital as AlphaTON scales its GPU infrastructure, including the NVIDIA B200 and B300 chips.
“Joining AlphaTON Capital is an opportunity to work at the absolute frontier of Web3 and AI,” said Aleksej Paschenko. “I look forward to leveraging my experience in high-load systems to help build a truly decentralized digital economy.”
Andrei Pfau: Master in Developer Experience
Pfau is a legendary figure in the TON community. He is the author of the Kotlin Multiplatform SDK used by major applications like Tonkeeper and created the IntelliJ TON plugin, the industry standard for smart contract development. Beyond coding, Pfau is one of the main code reviewers for the TON competitions organized by Telegram, placing him at the heart of the network’s governance.
“Joining AlphaTON allows me to apply protocol-level engineering to a rapidly expanding ecosystem,” said Andrei Pfau. “I look forward to building infrastructure that will advance decentralized identity and privacy computing.”
A unified vision
The integration of Paschenko and Pfau gives AlphaTON a unique competitive advantage, spanning the stack from node behavior to massive AI clusters.
Logan Ryan Golema, CTO of AlphaTON Capital, said: “Bringing in legends is what we do. If you are an OG struggling to find work right now and would like to join our growing group of AI-enabled human operator teams, please send your best wishes to @atonmsgbot.
About AlphaTON Capital Corp. (Nasdaq: ATON)
AlphaTON Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ATON) is the world’s first public technology company developing the super app Telegram, with an addressable market of 1 billion monthly active users. The company offers a comprehensive hyperscaler strategy across the Telegram ecosystem through a combination of software products, data middleware and AI training assets, as well as AI infrastructure hardware clusters deploying confidential AI for the Telegram ecosystem.
Through its operations, AlphaTON Capital provides public market investors with institutional-grade exposure to the Telegram ecosystem and its billion-user platform while maintaining the governance standards and reporting transparency of a Nasdaq-listed company. The company’s businesses cover AI Confidential Compute; network validation and staking operations; development of Telegram-based applications, including strategic investments; and acquisitions of decentralized finance platforms, games and marketplaces, as well as business applications.
AlphaTON Capital Corp is a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and traded on Nasdaq under the symbol “ATON”. AlphaTON Capital, through its legacy businesses, is also advancing first-in-class therapies targeting known checkpoint resistance pathways to achieve durable therapeutic responses and improve patient quality of life. AlphaTON Capital actively engages in the drug development process and provides strategic advice to guide the development of new immunotherapy assets and combinations of assets.
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