{"id":96799,"date":"2026-05-05T09:33:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/?p=96799"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:35:15","slug":"toncoin-surges-25-amid-fee-reductions-and-ton-reorganization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/toncoin-surges-25-amid-fee-reductions-and-ton-reorganization\/","title":{"rendered":"Toncoin Surges 25% Amid Fee Reductions and TON Reorganization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegram team will take over the development of The Open Network (TON) from the TON Foundation and become the network&#8217;s largest validator, according to the messaging app&#8217;s creator, Pavel Durov.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?23\" data-telegram-post=\"durov\/501\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He stated that the next phase of ecosystem growth will focus on &#8220;technological superiority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the next two to three weeks, developers will unveil an updated ton.org website, new tools for builders, and blockchain performance improvements. Durov referred to this as the third of seven steps in the <span data-descr=\"'Make TON Great Again' \u2014 a nod to the famous slogan of US President Donald Trump 'Make America Great Again'\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Make TON Great Again<\/span> initiative.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced that network fees have been reduced sixfold and are &#8220;approaching zero.&#8221; This is the result of the Catchain 2.0 update, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ton-blockchain-update-boosts-speed-tenfold\">activated<\/a> on April 9. The upgrade accelerated block production and increased validator yields.<\/p>\n<p>Following the news, the price of Toncoin rose by more than 25% in a day. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/\">CoinMarketCap<\/a>, the asset returned to the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, reaching $4.6 billion, surpassing <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-litecoin-ltc\">Litecoin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-avalanche-avax\">Avalanche<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the coin is trading around $1.7.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-36845226ae33e626-3564077003586194.webp\" alt=\"Toncoin TON price\" class=\"wp-image-279544\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly chart of TON\/USDT on Binance. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/chart\/atJ4mYHE\/?symbol=BINANCE%3ATONUSDT\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in early December 2025, Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/telegram-launches-decentralized-ai-network-on-ton\">launched<\/a> the &#8220;decentralized confidential computing network&#8221; Cocoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegram team will take over the development of The Open Network (TON) from the TON Foundation and become the network&#8217;s largest validator, according to Pavel Durov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Telegram team to develop TON, becoming largest validator, says Pavel Durov.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1423,723,1422],"class_list":["post-96799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-pavel-durov","tag-telegram","tag-toncoin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"47","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Telegram team to develop TON, becoming largest validator, says Pavel Durov.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96801,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96799\/revisions\/96801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}