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🛠 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: Ссылка скрыта

💎 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…

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