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TON ecosystem project news, events, and community activities. Website: ton.org X: x.com/toncommunityhq
Ethena Points: claim your rewards in $ENA
Remember staking your USDe through Ethena? The time has come.
For Season 4 and 5, Ethena is distributing $ENA tokens based on the points you earned by providing liquidity.
Already verified through TON ID? You don't need to do anything. If you hold the TON ID verification SBT, your rewards are deposited to your wallet automatically.
Don't have the SBT? Here's how to claim:
🔵 Open Ethena Claim mini-app
🔵 Connect the same wallet you used for staking with Ethena
🔵 We'll verify your address — once it's cleared, your reward is sent to your wallet
Good to know:
🔵 We cover gas — you pay nothing
🔵 After the claim, we'll send you the transaction link so you can confirm it landed
🔵 Your reward depends on contribution — allocation is proportional to points earned through staking and other activities
💪 Binance completes the switch to GRAM.
Deposits, withdrawals and spot trading for $GRAM are live on Binance.
With this, most of the world's top exchanges have now finished migrating from TON to GRAM.
🫶 One ticker, one identity, one asset across the industry.
🤑GRAM is live!
The ticker, logo and name are changing. Everything else stays the same.
Same chain. Same network. Same builders. Same community.
Your holdings convert 1:1 to GRAM automatically. No swap, no migration, no action required.
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🫶Why GRAM?
Gram was the original name of the token in TON's first whitepaper. We're returning to the roots and starting a new chapter. The rebrand paves the way for what comes next.
TON remains the name of the blockchain. The token is GRAM.
Step 4 of 7 to Make TON Great Again.
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✅ Already live in major wallets
• Wallet (@cryptowallet_news_en)
• MyTonWallet (@MyTonWalletEn)
• Tonkeeper (@tonkeeper_news)
Your balance is already showing GRAM.
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🫡 Exchange Timelines
Bitget
• TON spot delisted: Jun 15, 10:00 UTC
• GRAM spot opens: Jun 15, 12:00 UTC (GRAM/USDT, GRAM/USDC, GRAM/EUR)
• Deposits & withdrawals: not impacted
• TON perps delist: Jun 15, 09:00 UTC
• TON deposits & withdrawals pause: Jun 15, 06:00 UTC
• TON spot delist: Jun 16, 08:00 UTC (TON/USDT, TON/USDC, TON/EUR)
• GRAM deposits & withdrawals open: Jun 22, 06:00 UTC
• GRAM spot opens: Jun 22, USDT 08:00 UTC, USDC 08:30 UTC, EUR 09:00 UTC
• TON perps delist: Jun 16, 08:00 UTC
• TON spot delist: Jun 16, 09:00–10:00 UTC
• Migration window: Jun 16, 10:00 UTC → Jun 17, 10:00 UTC
• GRAM listing: announced separately
• TON spot delist: Jun 30, 03:00 UTC (TON/FDUSD, TON/IDR, TON/TRY, TON/U, TON/USD1, TON/USDC, TON/USDT)
• TON deposits & withdrawals pause: Jun 30, 03:30 UTC
• GRAM deposits & withdrawals open: Jul 2, 07:00 UTC
• GRAM spot opens: Jul 2, 08:00 UTC
1:1 swap already completed for TON holders.
• 12:00 UTC: GRAM deposits open
• 13:00 UTC: Call auction (GRAM/USDT, GRAM/USDC)
• 14:00 UTC: Trading opens
• 15:00 UTC: Withdrawals open
$100,400 just went to the 15 winners of the TON Consensus Challenge.
🧠 The smartest engineers on the planet — some armed with loyal AI sidekicks — helped us maximize the security of the new consensus mechanism.
🏆 Telegram contests offer generous prize money — and the only path to joining our engineering team.
Introducing Acton — a new, modern toolchain for developing smart contracts on TON
Acton covers the full development lifecycle: project creation, testing, debugging, dApp integration, deployment, and verification.
CLI-first by design, it works naturally for both developers and AI agents.
1. One toolchain, not a bunch of utilities
Create, build, test, lint, format, deploy, and verify TON contracts in a single coherent environment around Tolk.
2. A tighter build-test-debug loop
Write tests directly in Tolk programming language, run them fast, debug failed transactions, and inspect what actually happened on-chain.
3. Security built in
Coverage, fuzzing, mutation testing, gas profiling, and CI help catch regressions early.
4. A native debugger
Step in, step over, step out, watch variables, and inspect the call stack. A smooth Web2-style developer experience, now inside a blockchain language.
5. Friendly for AI agents
A modern CLI tool that becomes an agent's runtime, with skills and manuals bundled.
6. IDE integtation
Use it with VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Zed, and other LSP‑based editors.
Read more »
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🫴 TON is #1 in annual staking rewards among the 50 largest cryptocurrencies.
And that’s on top of the coin’s price growth — which doubled over the past week.
💎 Telegram becoming TON’s largest validator strengthens decentralization.
✅ It lets other major players join the validator pool without centralizing the network — with Telegram as the counterbalance.
📈 More and more TON gets locked in validation as everyone competes for 20%+ APR.
Voting by validators on reducing network fees has begun
Validators, please participate in the vote.
Follow the voting progress here.
⚡️ In one week, TON fees will drop 6× — to just 0.00039 TON (~$0.0005) per transaction, fixed regardless of network load.
🆓 Soon after most transactions go fully feeless. Zero commission.
🪙 MTONGA
🚀 The TON blockchain just got upgraded and is now 10× faster.
⚡️ Block rate increased 6×.
⏱ Transactions are now instant, subsecond.
🪙 This was step 1 of 7 to Make TON Great Again (MTONGA).
Next step: cut the already low transaction fees by 6×. ✂️
💎 TON Real Talk: Affluent — scaling DeFi on TON & Telegram
Join us for a space with @AffluentAppBot to learn more about the Sentora Vault Launch & what it has in store for you.
📆 9th April - 4pm UTC
Set your reminders & see you there! 🔔
For more information on Affluent x Sentora Vaults, please refer to the Official Announcement
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GM TON Community💪
We're putting together a post about different wallets on TON!
But the real question is – Which one do you like the most?
What’s your favorite feature, and why do you love it?
Let us know in the replies below 💎⬇️
⚡️BOOST
🎤 TON Real Talk Ep.8 is LIVE!
This week: Driving Growth in the US 🇺🇸
What does real growth actually look like for TON?
Beyond awareness, it’s about building a system that works:
community → builders → partnerships → adoption
With @moontrips (TON US Hub Lead), Ankit Raj and Clement Chaikov (Not Alone), breaking down what’s working, what’s not, and how growth becomes repeatable.
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⚡️ Sub-Second Mainnet Activation Starts Now
TON Core has announced the mainnet rollout of the Sub-Second upgrade.
This is a consensus upgrade designed to move TON toward sub-second finality and bring on-chain UX closer to Web2 responsiveness.
Rollout plan:
📅 March 31: Validators upgrade nodes to the version supporting the latest consensus changes
📅 April 2: Validators vote to activate the new consensus on the basechain and enable a moderate block rate increase
📅 April 7: Validators vote to fully activate fast consensus on both the basechain and masterchain
👉 Full announcement
👉 Instructions for validators and apps
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Identity is the trust layer for the TON ecosystem.💎
It turns public ecosystem activity into reputation by analyzing signals such as code, wallets, badges, and social presence, helping make contribution and credibility more visible across TON.
Now Identity has released Launches, a new discovery section for products building in the ecosystem.
✨ The first Launches cohort is now live with 16 projects
How it works:
• users clap for the projects they like
• clap budget is tied to Identity reputation
• top projects earn permanent badges on Identity at the end of the week
This makes discovery more transparent and gives more weight to real ecosystem contribution.
✨ Projects in the first cohort include:
• OmniMarket — prediction markets for Telegram communities
• EdChess — play chess and earn TON
• Toncenter SDK — AI-ready Python SDK for TON
• TON Agent Platform — no-code AI agents in Telegram
• TON Bridge — cross-chain liquidity for TON
• ENACT Protocol — on-chain escrow for AI agent payments
• Catallaxy — decentralized agents marketplace
• TeleGifts — AI-powered Telegram Gifts analytics and swaps
• Hash2Cash — Bitcoin mining based on RWA
• ODROB — financial layer for agents
• Rolls — PvP game with Telegram NFT gifts
• mena — P2P atomic asset exchange on TON
• Swift Gifts — Telegram Gifts aggregator
• TonGo — .ton DNS lookup service
• Watchi — AI focus coach with streaks and ambient sounds
• MOLVA — social game on TON
👉 Check out the cohort and vote for your favorites
⚡Rankings close on Sunday.
👉 Read more about how Launches work
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🤑 Gram just got a lot easier to trade.
Three more major venues went live today, meaning Gram is now listed across most of the world's major exchanges. From spot markets to perpetual futures, Gram is now within reach of every trader, globally.
Spot Trading
Binance, the largest exchange in the world, has completed its migration from TON to Gram
Perpetual DEXes
The three largest Perp DEXes have now all listed Gram; Lighter, Hyperliquid & Aster
Gram's global rollout complete 🥇
Polymarket now lives in Telegram, powered by TON
Polymarket just landed in Telegram as a TON-native dApp built by the Getgems team. Sports, politics, crypto, culture, if a real-world question has a yes-or-no answer, it’s probably tradeable.
Users fund with USDT on TON, keep a little GRAM in the wallet for gas and instantly tap into the liquidity of the world's #1 prediction market. Markets stay live as events unfold, so positions can be grown into or stepped out of at any time.
Every transaction starts and ends on TON, the cross-chain layer that makes this possible is powered by STON.fi's Omniston protocol, working under the hood to bridge networks and bring top markets to Telegram. All funds stay under users’ full control.
The real Polymarket, now on TON.
👉 Try it now
👉 Follow the news channel
👉 Learn how the Omniston integration works
🪙 Toncoin Name Change — Community Vote
TON has changed substantially in recent months. Telegram is taking on a leading role in the network and is becoming its largest validator. The chain itself is now 10× faster with fees down 6×. Gram was the name the network's founders gave the token in the original TON White Paper, and it's never left the codebase.
That is why Telegram is proposing to rename the native token from Toncoin to Gram, a fitting moment to bring it forward.
The blockchain stays TON / The Open Network, only the token's name and ticker change. Balances, addresses, contracts, NFTs, staking, DeFi, all unchanged. No swap, bridge, claim, or migration. No action required.
⚠️ Any site, bot, or link asking you to "claim GRAM" or "migrate TON" is a scam.
How the vote works
Runs for one week on TON Vote, an established open DAO platform on TON ▪️ Voting power is weighted by TON balances
👉 Vote here
🌍 With 400 validators across 6 continents, TON is one of the most decentralized blockchain networks on the planet.
🧑💻 Telegram becoming the largest validator opened the door for major exchanges and custodians to stake TON without increasing centralization risk.
🛠 Developing for TON just became 10x faster. The new toolchain makes smart contracts easy to create, test, and deploy.
Most importantly, fully AI-ready.
It replaces TON’s fragmented tooling stack with one developer flow. Start building!
🏁 TON leads Layer-1 blockchains in finality time.
🔗 Sources: https://telegra.ph/Comparison-of-Layer-1-blockchains-by-finalization-time-05-01
⚡️ Fees in TON have dropped 6× — to nearly zero.
Next step — Telegram replaces the TON Foundation as the driving force behind TON and becomes its largest validator.
⚙️ The focus shifts to tech superiority.
🧩 New ton.org, new dev tools, new performance upgrades.
🧭 Timeline — 2-3 weeks.
🪙 This is step 3 of 7 to Make TON Great Again.
Blockchain Fee Reduction
The TON Core team has prepared a blockchain update to reduce fees by 6x, in line with Pavel Durov’s MTONGA plan.
This update includes:
1) Performance improvements
The previous Sub-Second update improved not only operation speed but also overall blockchain performance, making a fee reduction possible. Since then, additional optimizations and performance improvements have also been implemented, including a new mempool based on a persistent Cartesian tree.
2) Fixes
In addition to performance improvements, this update will include fixes for issues identified on mainnet after the Sub-Second release. In particular, it addresses loss of synchronization on some liteservers and rare block rate instability.
Planned Schedule:
April 28, 2026 12:00 UTC — Validator software update.
April 30, 2026 13:00 UTC — Vote to lower gas prices in the blockchain configuration.
Lower fees are important for the next stages of the MTONGA plan. Since fees do not constitute a significant portion of validator rewards, validator rewards are expected to decrease by less than 0.4%.
Mainnet validator operators are asked to be prepared to update their software on 28 April and to participate in the vote on 30 April.
⚡️ Storm Trade faced a sophisticated targeted attack — and held the line
We regularly see headlines about DeFi protocols getting hit: losing millions, users losing funds, projects shutting down. That’s exactly why security has always been one of the core priorities behind Storm Trade.
Yesterday, April 21, Storm’s infrastructure was targeted by a large-scale coordinated attack. The attacker compromised part of the infrastructure services, including the oracle subsystem, and attempted to manipulate asset prices.
The objective was clear — to drain funds from the protocol as quickly as possible. This is the exact scenario that has impacted dozens of projects across the industry.
However, Storm Trade was prepared for this.
Our monitoring systems detected abnormal activity at an early stage, and the team immediately paused the protocol before the attack could cause significant damage.
Confirmed damage is less than 2,000 TON (under 0.03% of TVL).
For context, similar attacks in the market have led to losses ranging from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars. In our case, a multi-layered security architecture allowed us to contain the incident with minimal impact, fully covered by internal buffers.
What you need to know now:
Your funds are safe and protected by multisig.
• The TON Foundation has been notified, and next steps are being coordinated jointly.
• Withdrawals from vaults and unstaking are temporarily available via SDK (a user-friendly UI is already in development).
• Funds in open positions remain within the protocol and are fully protected. We will provide a transparent mechanism for returning them to users.
• The protocol will resume operations after a full incident investigation, an independent security audit, and a complete infrastructure rebuild.
What’s next: Today, the entire team is focused on one thing — bringing Storm back stronger, more resilient, and more secure than ever.
This incident proved the most important point: Storm Trade withstood a serious attack and validated the effectiveness of its multi-layered security system, combining technical safeguards, economic constraints, and real-time monitoring.
Thank you to everyone who stays with us.
Your Storm Trade team ⚡️
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Catchain 2.0 activation is underway
TON validators are voting to fully activate Catchain 2.0, a consensus upgrade that brings sub-second finality to the network.
The first phase has been live since April 2. Today, at 14:00 UTC, the final vote started to cut block times to 400 ms across the entire network.
To activate the upgrade, validators vote on-chain. The proposal needs support from at least 75% of validators (by stake weight) across two validation rounds, roughly 36 hours.
👉 Track the voting here
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💎Central Asia is emerging as a key early-stage market for digital financial infrastructure, and TON provides the infrastructure to onboard users at scale and launch real-world financial products.
Anastasia Yugova, CIS Hub Lead at TON Foundation, joined the Central Eurasian Venture Forum in Tashkent 🇺🇿
Key Topics included
⭐Web3 evolving into financial infrastructure
⭐Rising demand for stablecoins in payments
⭐Growing interest in regulatory sandboxes
It was great to connect with builders and speak at IT Park.
Thanks to everyone involved 🤝
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🎬 TON Pay | Nikola, VP Payments
In payments, every percentage point counts.
Nikola, VP Payments at TON Foundation, breaks down why.
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💎 Creator Spotlight | Chef Rush x Angela
Four US Presidents trusted him in the kitchen. After 25 years, not much surprises Chef Andre Rush.
Until Angela Brasington forgot her wallet and paid him instantly with TON Pay inside Telegram.
👉 Follow Chef
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Something’s cooking 🔥
Two heavy hitters are about to drop alpha you didn’t know you needed.
💎 Chef Andre Rush
✨ @moontrips
This one hits differently. Stay tuned.
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Building or growing in the US? This episode of TON Real Talk is for you! 🪙
See you on Thursday, 4pm UTC 🗓️