Toncoin → Gram

The rebranding is in progress

Read more about all the updates, including new dApp scenarios, Structured items, Trace ID, the new Demo App, and AppKit and WalletKit improvements in the full article.

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TON Connect Bridge v3. The new bridge introduces horizontal scaling and shared infrastructure for the entire ecosystem. Wallets once again operate through a unified bridge, while developers get end-to-end observability from a click in a dApp all the way to a signature in the wallet.

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Embedded requests. Wallet connection and action execution can now be combined into a single flow. Instead of switching between the app and wallet twice, users can confirm both the connection and the transaction on a single screen.

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Gasless transactions. Applications can now cover transaction fees for users and accept payments directly in jettons. For example, a user can buy something with USDT even if there is no TON in their wallet to pay for gas.

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TON Connect v3. TON Connect has received a major update with gasless transactions, connect-and-action flows in a single step, and new tools for working with jettons and NFTs.

Read more about the update

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🪙 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

docs.ton.org — updated structure, improved search and much more

TON Tech team shipped a major documentation update. Here are the highlights:

— new navigation built around developer flows
— dedicated Applications section for AppKit, TON Connect, TON Pay and WalletKit
— redesigned TON Center API reference
— new search with proper prioritization
— llms.txt and markdown endpoints for AI agents
— hundreds of DX and UX fixes across the documentation

Read more about the docs.ton.org update here

TON Tech X | TON Tech RU

TON developer documentation has been fully updated

Now everything needed to build in TON ecosystem is gathered in one place:

— smart contract documentation
— application development flows
— SDKs and tools
— general documentation for TON blockchain

Navigation is now much simpler, the structure is clearer; finding what you need is way much faster.

Click to see fully revised TON documentation

Hi, we’ve got a small dev inbox experiment here

We’re constantly building tools for TON — WalletKit, AppKit, TON Connect, AI agents and all that good stuff. And the more we build, the more new use cases and developer questions we see that are not always obvious upfront

So we’re opening a dev open mic for the community. Simple format: you drop a question → I answer as an engineer, not as a press release. If a question is really good, we might break it out into a separate post

Anyway, let’s have a proper dev conversation in the comments

Why different staking protocols in TON show different APY?

After the sub-second update, validator rewards increased ~6x. Previously, different calculation models could show values like 4.19% and 4.28%, while after the update they show ~25.44% and ~22.83% depending on the formula and reward accounting mechanics. Let’s briefly break down where these numbers come from and why they differ.

In TON, staking works in cycles: rewards are distributed only during the active validation phase ~18 hours, while the full cycle including election and holding takes around ~36 hours. Because of this, a single validator participates in roughly half of all rounds per year ~240 out of ~481 — this is critical for APY calculation.

APY (annual percentage yield) accounts for compound interest: rewards are automatically added to the stake and start earning in subsequent validation rounds. In the formula below, which is currently used, compounding accumulates only over ~240 rounds in which the staked amount is actually active.

APY = ((1 + reward_per_round) ^ (rounds_per_year / 2)) - 1
APY = ((1.00085507) ^ 240) - 1
APY ≈ 22.83%

When you stake TON in liquid staking, half of the stake works in even rounds and half in odd rounds, so rewards are received roughly every ~18 hours. If you combine them, it results in a full reward over ~36 hours.

Read more about how staking works in TON

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.

How MCP enables on-chain actions for agents on TON

We publicly announced Agentic Wallets on TON — an open, self-custodial standard that lets agents manage assets through dedicated wallets. But just having a wallet isn’t enough. For an agent to use TON, it needs to be able to find and connect tools for interacting with the blockchain.

That’s why we built mcp.ton.org — a simple entry point for connecting AI agents to TON. MCP gives agents access to tools for working with the blockchain, while skills provide ready-to-use instructions. A user copies a single command, and the agent gets a ready way to work with the blockchain. All skills are open and available in the ton-org/skills.

Now developers have a ready-to-use execution layer for agents on TON. After connecting MCP and installing skills, an agent can check balances, send transactions, swap tokens, work with NFTs and execute more advanced scenarios like buying xStocks or managing Agentic Wallets. All actions are built from reusable primitives and executed through MCP, which allows developers to move directly to building agent logic.

Connect MCP and give your agent access to actions on TON

TON Tech x TOP Talks: Agentic Wallets on TON AMA

Join tomorrow’s AMA session on X Spaces, hosted by Tobias Jack Lewis, Head of BD & Partnerships at TOP, at 12PM UTC, where we’ll discuss how Agentic Wallets enable AI agents to manage funds and execute transactions on TON in practice.

We’ll explore how agents interact with DeFi protocols like STON.fi and what this shift means for user experience, market dynamics and the future of crypto.

→ Join here

Agentic Wallets on TON: enabling AI agents with dedicated on-chain wallets

TON Tech introduces Agentic Wallets — an open, self-custodial standard that lets AI agents manage funds and send transactions on TON without requiring user approval for every transaction, while keeping full user control. Each agent operates a dedicated on-chain wallet funded by the user, with no intermediary involved.

Getting started is straightforward: a user asks their agent to create a wallet, funds it and confirm setup. From there, control is clearly separated — the user retains ownership through their main wallet, while the agent can transact only within defined limits. Funds can be withdrawn at any time and access can be revoked.

The standard works with existing TON wallets — requires no upgrades, and integrates without vendor lock-in, allowing developers to implement and manage their own setups independently. It is compatible with leading AI models and agent frameworks, and includes MCP & CLI for building and managing agent workflows.

In Telegram, this becomes immediately actionable. Bot API and recent bot-to-bot communication allow agents to interact autonomously. Agentic Wallets extend that foundation: agents on Telegram can now not only communicate, but also make payments within the chat interface.

Launch an AI agent with Agentic Wallets

Gasless transactions: the next step in TON Connect

In a standart flow, a user tops up their wallet with USDT, opens app, tries to make a purchase and gets stuck. Gas requires TON, which they don’t have. For the developer, this results in a drop in conversion at the final step: the user has already clicked “buy” but runs into a network requirement.

Gasless already exists in TON, but it currently lives at the wallet level. The W5 contract supports delegated fee payment, but only for transactions initiated from within the wallet. In TON Connect, applications have no mechanism to sponsor gas for the user.

We are integrating gasless into the standard TON Connect flow. The application requests a fee estimate from a gas provider, builds the transaction paid in USDT, and sends it to the user for signing. The signed transaction is then passed to the provider, which submits it to the network. For easier integration, this will be available via AppKit.

As a result, the user sees a single amount in the wallet, for example 100 USDT, signs one transaction (99.9 USDT for the purchase and 0.1 USDT to the gas provider), and completes the purchase. For the developer, this means preserving conversion at the final step.

TON Connect work in progress: simplifying transaction UX on TON

Previously on TON, users often had to open an explorer just to check whether a transaction went through. With the sub-second update, that experience has changed — results now appear almost instantly.

But there’s another part of UX: how many steps it takes to get to the transaction. Today, the flow still looks like this: connect a wallet, return to the app, then confirm the action.

So the question is: why not let users open the wallet and confirm the action right away?

We’re working on an update to TON Connect that simplifies wallet interactions: removing unnecessary steps, allowing users to connect and sign a transaction in a single action and introducing support for gasless scenarios.

In the end, this all converges into a single flow: users perform an action and immediately see the result without extra steps or the need to manage a separate gas token.

TON Tech: what we’ve built and what’s available now

Over the past months, we’ve been expanding TON developer stack. This is a quick overview of what’s available today

TON Connect
The protocol to connect apps and wallets on TON. Over the past months, we’ve improved its stability, speed, security and compatibility with the rest of the stack — so the rest of the developer stack can build on top of it

AppKit
SDK for building TON apps using familiar patterns. Provides ready-to-use primitives for balances, transactions, swaps and NFTs, with built-in integrations so these features work out of the box

WalletKit
SDK for building wallets across web, iOS, Android and React Native. Handles TON Connect, signing, asset management and transaction flow

AgentKit
Tools for building AI agents that can interact with TON via MCP. Balances, transactions, swaps and assets are accessible through natural language

Network progress

Sub-second finality has been rolled out. TON Core upgraded the blockchain and API, and we’ve worked with ecosystem projects to roll out the update. What this means

• <1 sec transaction confirmation
• faster block production
• improved real-time UX

If you’re building, this channel will save you time

We’ve just launched a Russian-language TON Tech channel
Follow for updates in Russian @tontechru

Where TON builders talk
TON Dev Chat (EN) • TON Dev Chat (RU)

Use this to start
Docs • build with SDKs • explore AppKit • work with TON Connect

How all parts connect and why this stack exists — read the full article