Reducing End-to-End Latency in TON Blockchain

The TON Blockchain has demonstrated remarkable scalability, evidenced by its 50-fold growth over the past year and completed giant token minting events for gaming projects with multi-million user bases.

Last year, we introduced a significant Accelerator update designed to further enhance throughput, raise limits, and stabilize block generation times, independent of network load. This update was instrumental in achieving a world-record result during our performance tests. Currently, we are progressively implementing this upgrade across the TON mainnet.

In parallel, we have set a new goal: reducing End-to-End latency on the TON blockchain. End-to-End latency refers to the duration between sending a transaction and receiving the transaction result by the user.

Our conducted research, along with a detailed action plan — some elements of which have already been implemented — is available in the TON Optimization Roadmap.

Additionally, we're actively researching Sidechains and Layer 2 solutions for TON. For detailed information about recent developments in this area, please refer to the TON/TVM Sidechains Overview.

TON Proxy: Introducing optional traffic micro-payments and privacy via garlic routing

We have updated the TON network protocols and TON Proxy technology, allowing traffic between client and server to pass through one or several intermediate TON Proxy nodes. Garlic routing ensures complete anonymity, safeguarding client privacy and enhancing server security.

Intermediate TON Proxy nodes can receive Toncoin micropayments through the TON Payment Network (Layer 2).

First of all, we did this to improve the protection of TON validators from DDoS attacks, and therefore to further improve the stability and performance of the TON Blockchain. However, the technology is also applied to TON Sites, TON Storage and TON Torrents.

Read more: https://telegra.ph/TON-Proxy-Introducing-optional-traffic-micro-payments-and-privacy-via-garlic-routing-03-08

TOLK 0.9

Introducing Nullable Types, Null Safety, Control Flow and Smart Casts (!).

A crucial step towards structures and pattern matching.

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Release »

Upcoming Node Update 2025.03

The most important improvements are the acceleration of broadcasts in overlays (from TON Optimisation Roadmap) and the application of some solutions from the TON Core x Telegram block validation optimisation contest (up to 10% improvement).

Read about other changes in changelog »

TON Core: Report for February

A short month but not a short list of updates: node optimisation and detailed plan for further optimisations, finished research and development of TON/TVM sidechains, new functionality of Toncenter API in mainnet, TON Proxy, TOLK 0.9, alert bots for validators and much more.

https://telegra.ph/TON-Core-Report-for-February-2025-03-08

MyLocalTon Docker 3.1

Built-in local Indexer (Toncenter v3), support for wallet mnemonics, other bugfixes and improvements.

Release notes »

TOLK 0.10

This update lays the groundwork by addressing how fields will be serialized and how they relate to TL-B.

— Fixed-size integer types: int32, uint64, etc.
— Type coins and function ton("0.05").
— Types bytesN and bitsN (backed by slices at TVM level).
— Replace "..."c postfixes with stringCrc32("...") functions.
— Support 0b... number literals along with 0x...
— Trailing comma support.

The new version of TOLK is already supported by IntelliJ IDEA Plugin and VS Code Plugin.

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Release »

tonutils-storage 0.8.0

Optimized tonutils-storage to work with large files (1TB+), in anticipation of the beginning of distribution of network block archives via TON Torrents technology.

Release notes »

Introducing the Pending API

Using this API you can track operations on the blockchain that have not yet completed.

As soon as an external message enters the blockchain, the Toncenter API Indexer notices it and builds a subsequent transaction series. Next, the action to be executed (e.g. "Swap on DeDust DEX") is recognized. As transactions are executed, the transaction series is re-indexed.

You can use this API to build responsive applications that respond quickly to user actions and show the progress of pending blockchain operations.

/api/v3/pendingActions

/api/v3/pendingTraces

MyTonWallet uses the Toncenter API

Another impressive example is how the popular non-custodial wallet MyTonWallet has enhanced the “Activity Feed” tab with user activity history using Toncenter's Actions API.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/MyTonWalletEn/227

TON Core: Report for March

Throughout March, the TON Core team focused on porting the TON codebase to the RISC-V architecture.

Today, on April 1st, we’re proud to announce that The Open Network can now run on microwaves*, refrigerators, fitness trackers, and smart TVs.

https://github.com/ton-blockchain/ton/pull/1584

* Requires magnetron power from 0.8 kW to start the validator.

wallet.ton.org

Together with the MyTonWallet team, we’ve updated wallet.ton.org — a non-commercial, fully open-source web wallet for TON.

wallet.ton.org was the first web wallet in the TON ecosystem, created by me and Kirill Emelyanenko back in 2020. Its code became a foundation for many wallets that followed.

There are more feature-rich wallets that support multiple networks, built-in swaps, and staking, while wallet.ton.org is a simple, fallback, reliable, and open tool that will always remain accessible and free.

The new version stays true to these principles, while adding support for all actual TON technologies — Jettons, Mintless Jettons, NFTs (including Telegram Gifts), TON DNS, TON Connect, Ledger, and more. It’s also been significantly improved in terms of usability.

The MyTonWallet team will continue maintaining this non-commercial version. An updated Chrome Extension is currently under review and will be available soon.

Huge thanks to the MyTonWallet team for their support!

TON Payment Network (Beta): added support for Jettons and Extra-currencies

The latest update to the TON Payment Network adds support for Jettons and Extra-currencies as well as other enhancements.

https://github.com/xssnick/ton-payment-network

https://github.com/xssnick/payment-channel-contract

TON Payment Network (Beta)

In this new article, we remind you what this technology is, what we've done so far, and what the next steps are.

https://telegra.ph/TON-Payment-Network-Layer-2-04-05

Normalized message hash

We propose to standardize the normalized external message hash algorithm proposed by Denis Subbotin.

This approach provides a guaranteed ability to find and track a sent message in the TON Blockchain and is particularly useful for tracking pending actions.

Normalization is already supported by Toncenter API, tonscan.org, TON API and tonviewer.com.

Developers are welcome to participate in the discussion:

https://github.com/ton-blockchain/TEPs/pull/467/files?short_path=eec950d#diff-eec950d709a49c0385d78864230b9de72d6003af0be76221a877693730714878

TON Core: Report for March

The Pending API, upcoming node update, TOLK lang updates, Payment Network Layer 2, wallet.ton.org and more.

https://telegra.ph/TON-Core-Report-for-March-2025-04-06

TOLK 0.11

— Pattern matching for types.
— Pattern matching for expressions.
— Type aliases.
— Union types.
— Operators is and !is.

The new version of TOLK is already supported by IntelliJ IDEA Plugin and VS Code Plugin.

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