This year, we expanded the TON Core C++ node team:

🥷 Evgeny

Over 10 years of experience in blockchain development, including work on consensus and cryptography.

— First place in ICPC World Finals 2009 and 2012.

— Great results in other programming competitions, including Google Code Jam, Meta Hacker Cup and TopCoder Open.

🥷 Oleg

Distributed database engineer and researcher.

— Winner of the TON x CodeForces Contest.
— Bronze medal in the ICPC World Finals 2020.
— Top rating of Grandmaster on Codeforces
— Results in other programming competitions, including IEEExtreme, Google Hash Code, Microsoft BubbleCup Finals.

🥷 Vadim

Specializes in multithreading, working with databases and clusters.

— Winner of the TON Validation Contest and TON Smart Challenges.
— Second place in the Yandex Cup 2024 Backend.

🥷 Dan (20 y.o!)

MIT

— Winner of the TON Validation Contest.
— Gold medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics 2022.
— Gold medal in the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad 2022.
— Gold medal in the Romanian Master of Informatics 2021.
— Gold medal in the International Autumn Tournament in Informatics 2021.

The TON Core team is working to enable transactions on the TON blockchain to be executed in less than 1 second — with no reduction in decentralization or scalability.

We have expanded the dev team and continue to implement the Optimization Roadmap that was published and partially completed earlier this year. Major L1 and API updates are ahead.

We plan to show the results in the TON main network as early as the first half of next year.

TON x Chainlink

The TON Core team was happy to help Chainlink integrate their product with TON.

Chainlink smart contracts are written in our new programming language, Tolk.

Meanwhile, we contributed to 3 more big upcoming releases — all starting or ending with “C.”

Node Update TON 2025.10, TON 2025.11

— Optimistic collation & validation: nodes can generate and verify block candidates before the previous block is fully finalized.

— New block compression algorithm.

— Enhanced overlays, peer discovery, and sync.

— Various improvements and fixes.

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Blockchain configuration updated

The following improvements to the TON blockchain configuration were made by a network-wide vote of validators:

1. The parameter for launching BTC Teleport has been updated.

2. Updated system configuration smart contract code:

— Removed code related to an unused configuration key. Note that the configuration key itself was reset back in 2023.

— Added custom slot functionality that will be useful for stablecoins.

TVM 12

— Bounced messages can now include the full message body, error code, and additional data.

— New low-cost TVM instructions.

— Various improvements and fixes.

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Tolk 1.2 Programming Language

— Rich bounced messages support (TVM 12).

— Cheaper smart-contract deployment thanks to new TVM 12 capabilities.

— Redefined address type.

— Improved compilation errors.

— Anonymous functions (lambdas).

— Borrow checker to catch undefined behavior.

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Node Update TON 2025.12

CellDB 2.0 and the Fast State Serializer are now enabled by default.

The validator engine gains parallelism, network traffic compression is improved, along with various fixes and enhancements.

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