Pavel Durov announced that fees on the TON network will fall sixfold to 0.00039 TON, or about $0.0005, per transaction next week.
Details of the Update
The fee reduction is the second of seven planned steps under the MTONGA program, short for Make TON Great Again. Once the fixed-fee model goes live, Durov said the next stage will make most TON transactions free of charge.
As a reminder, in early April, the network’s validators activated Catchain 2.0, upgrading the blockchain’s consensus mechanism. Block production speed increased sixfold, while transaction finality dropped below one second. At that time, Durov said lower fees would be the next logical step. Validator rewards per block remained unchanged, but because the network became faster, total payouts per round increased, and TON’s annual inflation rose from about 0.6% to about 3.6%.
Goal of the Program
Fixed and near-zero fees are critical for micropayments, Telegram mini apps, and on-chain activity across the ecosystem. With the messenger now serving hundreds of millions of users, that kind of transaction volume requires the lowest possible barrier to entry. This is exactly what developers are working toward as they continue to bring down the cost of using the network.