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$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.

IntroducingActon — 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 »

🫴 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.

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…

BlockchainFee 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, 202612:00 UTC — Validator software update. April 30, 202613:00 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

🚀 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×. ✂️

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 TON Community| TON Dev News | TON Regional| X| YouTube | LinkedIn| TON.org