$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 en
🌍 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.
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 t
🫴 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.
🏁 TON leads Layer-1 blockchains in finality time.
🔗 Sources: https://telegra.ph/Comparison-of-Layer-1-blockchains-by-finalization-time-05-01
💎 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.
⚡️ 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.
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Voting by validators on reducing network fees has begun
Validators, please participate in the vote.
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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, ma