Pavel Durov says TON upgrade delivers near-instant transaction speed

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Pavel Durov said TON is now 10× faster after its latest blockchain upgrade.
TON said the mainnet will begin sub-second finality on April 10 through Catchain 2.0.
Durov said block production increased by 6× and transactions are now instant.
TON said the faster network will support payments, trades, and Mini Apps inside Telegram.
Durov said the next planned step will reduce TON transaction fees by

Pavel Durov said on Thursday that TON now processes transactions in about one second. He said the latest network upgrade raised block production and improved transaction speed. TON said the mainnet will gain sub-second finality on April 10 through Catchain 2.0.

TON Upgrade Raises Speed and Cuts Confirmation Time

Durov posted the update on Telegram and called the blockchain “10× faster.” He added, “Block rate increased 6× … Transactions are now instant, subsecond.”

TON said the upgrade already runs, yet the release is also named April 10 for mainnet sub-second finality. That wording placed the rollout details at the center of Thursday’s announcement.

The company said Catchain 2.0 powers the change and cuts confirmation times from about ten seconds. It said faster finality supports instant payments, quicker trades, and responsive Mini Apps.

Telegram uses TON for transactions and for Mini Apps inside its messaging platform. The blockchain operates separately, yet it remains closely linked to Telegram’s ecosystem.

TON said the upgrade targets scale inside Telegram’s user base of more than 1 billion people. It said lower delay makes in-app payments feel like sending a message.

The statement said earlier that confirmation times limited some app behavior inside Telegram. It said some trades and app responses could not feel instant at ten seconds.

Durov described the release as step one of seven in a plan he called MTONGA. He said the next step will cut TON transaction fees by 6×.

Telegram Link and TON Roadmap Remain in Focus

Telegram began work on blockchain tools in 2018 before U.S. regulators challenged the original project. Open-source developers revived the work in 2022 and renamed it The Open Network.

That effort produced TON, which now serves as infrastructure for payments and app activity around Telegram. Thursday’s upgrade marked the network’s latest technical change under that revived project.

TON said more blocks should raise validator rewards and increase staking incentives. It linked those economics to the higher block rate after the upgrade.

The release did not list new fee levels or a date for the planned fee cut. Durov only said the network would target fees that are already low.

The company framed the speed gain as a base for apps that need immediate user responses. It said those uses include payments, trading, and Mini App actions.

Durov repeated that TON had become faster and said the release started a seven-step roadmap. He gave no added technical details in his Thursday post. TON said sub-second finality on mainnet begins April 10 under Catchain 2.0.

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