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

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

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.

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

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

Bybit

• 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

OKX

• 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

Binance

• 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

KuCoin

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

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🗳️ Thanks to the community

This rebrand was voted for by the community on ton.vote.

Thank you to every voter who showed up and made this chapter possible. GRAM is yours.

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⚠️ Important for holders

You do not need to do anything.

• No swapping TON for GRAM
• No self-migration
• No claim process
• No new wallet, no contract change, no fork

Your balance flips to GRAM automatically wherever it sits, whether that's on an exchange, in a self-custody wallet.

GRAM. Same network. Same Community.

🪙 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

$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.

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 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 »

Docs »

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 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.

This is step 3 of 7 to Make TON Great Again.

Voting by validators on reducing network fees has begun

Validators, please participate in the vote.

Follow the voting progress here.

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.

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

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

Web | TG App | Storm Academy | 𝕏 | Chat | VIP Chat | SDK

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×.