Pavel Durov Unveils Massive TON Fee Reduction With Inbound Costs Near Zero

TON will cut transaction fees to near zero within a week.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov said that within a week, transaction fees on TON will be divided by six to 0.00039 TON (approximately $0.0005) per transaction.

Additionally, fees will remain fixed regardless of network load.

Fee-free transactions

In his latest update, Durov also noted that soon after, most transactions on the network should become completely seamless, meaning users will not pay any commissions. His tweet said,

“Soon after, most transactions are running smoothly. Zero commission. MTONGA!”

The TON blockchain is designed to manage transactions and support mini-applications used in Telegram. Even though it operates as a separate system, it remains closely linked to Telegram. Earlier this month, the company implemented a network upgrade that reduced transaction completion time from around ten seconds to around one second. The update went live on mainnet on April 10, introducing sub-second finality.

The change is driven by Catchain 2.0, a revised consensus mechanism that changes how the network reaches agreement on transactions. Following the upgrade, blocks are produced every 400 milliseconds and a streaming layer delivers updates to applications with minimal delay, enabling faster confirmation times.

The shorter finality period reduces the time between initiation and confirmation of transactions. Payments are now settled in about a second, while transactions and other on-chain actions are processed without the previous multi-second lag. The upgrade also increases the number of blocks generated, which in turn increases validator rewards and changes staking dynamics. As a result, TON’s annual inflation rate is expected to increase from around 0.6% to around 3.6%, with rewards adjusting over time as staking participation changes.

xStocks expands into the TON ecosystem

A few months before this upgrade, xStocks, the tokenized stocks platform owned by Kraken, announced its expansion to the TON blockchain, bringing tokenized US stocks to the ecosystem. The integration includes support for Telegram’s non-custodial wallet to help users access these assets directly in the app.

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The launch allowed users to buy, hold and transfer tokenized versions of stocks such as Tesla Inc. and NVIDIA Corporation, as well as ETFs, on TON-based wallets.