Telegram founder Pavel Durov: TON transaction fees will "drop by 6 times," with plans for zero fees in the future

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Make TON Great Again! Telegram founder Pavel Durov dropped a bombshell late at night, announcing that transaction fees on the TON blockchain will "plummet by 6x" within a week, costing just about $0.0005 per transaction, and boldly predicted that most transactions will move toward being "completely feeless" in the future. This is the second phase of TON's recent "MTONGA" seven-step upgrade plan. Combined with the speed-up upgrade completed earlier this month, TON appears to be fully targeting competitors like Solana, aiming for global dominance in Web3 payments and gaming. (Previous coverage: TON mainnet Catchain 2.0 upgrade complete! Block production speed increased by 6x, inflation rose to 3.6% but "staking yields exploded") (Background supplement: Russia bans Telegram from "sending files and videos"! Demands elimination of anonymity, TON ecosystem faces tests) Leveraging the massive traffic of Telegram's one billion global users, The Open Network (TON) blockchain is attempting to completely crush its competitors in performance and cost. Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted a message on X (formerly Twitter) on April 23, 2026, US time, that sent the community into a frenzy. He announced that the TON network is about to see an unprecedented fee cut and rarely used the community meme slogan "MTONGA" (Make TON Great Again) to celebrate this milestone. ⚡️ 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! — Pavel Durov (@durov) April 23, 2026 In the post, Durov clearly stated that in one week, TON's transaction fees will drop significantly by 6x, reaching just 0.00039 TON per transaction (approximately $0.0005, or 0.05 cents). He emphasized that this extremely low fee will be "fixed," regardless of how high the network load is at the time. What shocked the market even more was his subsequent announcement: "Soon after most transactions go fully feeless. Zero commission. MTONGA!" The "MTONGA" mentioned by Durov is not just a community slogan, but a "seven-step upgrade plan" aimed at making TON faster, cheaper, and more competitive. - Step 1: Speed Revolution (Completed) Between April 9 and 10, TON successfully launched the Catchain 2.0 consensus mechanism upgrade. This upgrade increased block production speed by 6x (from about 2.4 seconds to about 400 milliseconds), and the overall transaction confirmation speed reached sub-second real-time confirmation. - Step 2: Cost Revolution (Effective Soon) This is the 6x fee reduction announced in Durov's post. This move is expected to be officially implemented by the end of April. There are 5 more steps with schedules not yet fully disclosed, aiming to further comprehensively improve network scalability and pave the way for high-frequency micropayments, AI Agents, and DeFi applications. Analysts point out that TON's strategy is very clear: to create a seamless experience that is indistinguishable from Web2 centralized apps. Although TON has the advantage of Telegram's built-in wallet, facing competitive pressure from high-performance public chains like Solana, TON must achieve extremely low friction in "Telegram Mini Apps," mini-games, and daily micropayment scenarios. When transaction fees drop to zero and confirmation time is less than a second, users will not feel the existence of the underlying blockchain at all. However, moving toward zero fees will also bring challenges to TON's tokenomics. Currently, TON burns 50% of transaction fees (a deflationary mechanism), with the remainder distributed to validators. As block production speeds up and transaction fees drop significantly, the official team will inevitably need to adjust the incentive model for validators in the future to strike a perfect balance between ensuring network security and controlling token inflation (which may rise from 0.6% to 3.6%).

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