Gram of TON is the official channel for the network's native token, and its biggest recent story is the token itself: a community vote on TON Vote closed with 81.22% in favor of renaming Toncoin (TON) to Gram (GRAM), effective June 15, 2026. The channel is explicit that nothing else changes — no swap, bridge, claim, or migration, balances and contracts stay as they are — and it repeats a direct scam warning that any site asking users to "claim GRAM" or "migrate TON" is fraudulent. That warning is worth taking seriously precisely because the channel itself explains the rename clearly enough that a scam mimicking it would be easy to fall for.
Beyond the rename, the content is genuinely technical rather than promotional filler. Posts cover a validator software update and a vote to cut gas fees sixfold, framed as steps in what Telegram calls the "MTONGA" plan (step 3 of 7 at the time of one post) to reduce fees and shift TON's development center of gravity toward Telegram, which is also becoming the network's largest validator. Other posts cite concrete figures: 400 validators across six continents, TON ranked first among the 50 largest cryptocurrencies for annual staking rewards, and a claim of leading finality time among Layer-1 chains with a source link attached.
Developer tooling gets real space too — "Acton," a new CLI-first toolchain for TON smart contracts built around the Tolk language, is introduced with specifics: built-in fuzzing and gas profiling, a native step-through debugger, and IDE integration for VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor and Zed. A $100,400 prize pool for 15 winners of a "TON Consensus Challenge" is mentioned as both a security exercise and an unusual hiring channel into Telegram's engineering team.
What's thin here is anything for a casual holder rather than a builder or validator operator — there's no plain-language explainer of what the fee cuts or consensus changes mean for someone just holding the token, and price commentary appears only once, in passing. The channel reads like an engineering and governance bulletin first, an investor update a distant second.
Good fit for validator operators, TON smart-contract developers, and anyone tracking the Toncoin-to-Gram transition directly from source. Less useful for someone wanting simple price talk or beginner-level explanation of what any of this changes for everyday use.
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