🎬 Tech Updates EP3 | Aleksandr Kirsanov | Tolk

💎 A look inside the code powering TON's smart contracts .

Aleksandr Kirsanov, TON Core Team member and creator of Tolk, explains why this new language is the primary standard for TON.
In this episode, we dive into how Tolk ensures smart contract development "should no longer feel manual and mysterious."

We covered:
▪️ Why old approach was holding developers back
▪️ The vision: cover the entire smart-contract development
▪️ No more switching between languages
▪️ Unified templates with single command setup

"Smart contract development should no longer feel manual and mysterious.''

👉 Watch the full episode

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Hubs | X | YouTube | LinkedIn | TON.org_

🚨 TON AI Agent Hackathon last 24 Hours

79 projects submitted. $20,000 in prizes.
Submissions close March 25, 11:59 PM UTC.⏰

If you have something in progress, now is the time to push it over the line.

👉 Submit your entry here

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Hubs | X | YouTube | LinkedIn | TON.org

💎 TON at OpenClaw Lobster Cave | Cannes

If you're building AI agents on TON, this is your moment.

TON and Hacken team are launching OpenClaw Hackathon:
✅ Start Date: March 25
✅ End Date: March 29, midnight
✅ Result Date: March 30

Join the 200+ builders who have already registered and start building. TON offers the best distribution in the world through Telegram.

👉 Register now

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Hubs | X | YouTube |
LinkedIn | TON.org

TON AI Agent Hackathon is officially closed.⭐

Two weeks ago we put out a challenge: build AI agents on Telegram and TON. 150+ teams answered.

That's more than we expected, and the quality of what was submitted genuinely impressed us.

✅ Track 1: Agent Infrastructure ($10K)
✅ Track 2: User Facing Agents ($10K)

Judging is underway. Winners announced next week.

👉Check out all of the submission here

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Hubs | X | YouTube |
LinkedIn | TON.org

⚡ Sub-Second Finality Is Coming to TON

TON Core is upgrading the blockchain to significantly increase block production speed, targeting sub-second user-perceived transaction finality, enabling end-to-end interactions in under 1 second.

Improving the blockchain is only part of the upgrade. Ecosystem apps need to adapt to deliver this experience to users.

Developers can start testing now and prepare for the upgrade.

What projects should do
🔹 Wallets & apps: switch to real-time Streaming API
🔹 Nodes & liteservers: update to versions supporting sub-second transaction finality
🔹 Indexers: ensure infrastructure handles higher block production without lag

📘 Full upgrade guide: How to adopt sub-second finality

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Hubs | X | YouTube |
LinkedIn | TON.org

🎁 Gift Fest Season 2 has begun with $300,000 worth of rewards!

The biggest gift festival on Telegram is back! Here's what to expect this season ✨
🤑 $300,000 prize pool
🫢 $14,000 grand prize
📲 iPhone 17 Pro Max, AirPods Pro 3, MacBook Air, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Dyson
🎁 Plush Pepe, stocks, gold, and more.

💥 Partners this season:
Tonkeeper, Wallet in Telegram, Getgems, Mira, Tribute, PlayDeck, GoMining

New season, new mechanics, new giveaways.

🎮 Try the Mini App

Give us a 👍 if you are participating!

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Dev News | TON Hubs | X | YouTube | LinkedIn | TON.org

💎Tolk v1.3 is here, and it’s no longer just a smart contract language

Tolk is evolving into a general-purpose language and a foundation for a broader TON development toolchain. This release introduces capabilities needed for libraries, frameworks, and developer tools beyond contracts.

The TON Core team is moving full speed to rethink the developer experience from the ground up.

Big updates are on the way, and more details will be shared soon.

Building on TON has never been this easy. And we are just getting started.

👉 Start building on TON

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Dev News | TON Hubs | X | YouTube | LinkedIn | TON.org

🚀 The AI Hackathon review period has been extended until April 3.

The results exceeded all expectations: over 160 submissions, 4x the previous contest.

The volume and variety of projects submitted have genuinely impressed us. A strong mix of thoughtful, creative, and technically impressive work from across the ecosystem.

We definitely didn’t expect that. So, we are extending the review period to April 3 to ensure we have enough time to review every submission thoroughly.

While you wait, two new features just dropped on the Identity platform:

🔹Makers. Add your teammates to submission. Everyone gets the participation badge.
🔹Comments. Talk about projects. Feedback, questions, discussion, all on submission pages.

Thank you for the energy, creativity, and effort you brought to this hackathon.

Keep building! ✨😎

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Dev News | TON Hubs | X | YouTube | LinkedIn | TON.org

💎 Building financial products inside Telegram just got faster

Dynamic and Fireblocks launched native embedded wallet support for TON. Developers can now ship payment apps, trading platforms, and commerce experiences without building wallet infrastructure from scratch.

✅ Users get a fully functional TON wallet on sign-up automatically
✅ No wallet contract management
✅ Enterprise-grade custody backing 550M+ wallets across 2,400+ institutions

If you're building financial products inside Telegram, the infrastructure to match that scale is ready.

👉 Read more

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Dev News | TON Hubs | X | YouTube | LinkedIn | TON.org

Identity is the trust layer for the TON ecosystem.💎

It turns public ecosystem activity into reputation by analyzing signals such as code, wallets, badges, and social presence, helping make contribution and credibility more visible across TON.

Now Identity has released Launches, a new discovery section for products building in the ecosystem.

✨ The first Launches cohort is now live with 16 projects
How it works:
• users clap for the projects they like
• clap budget is tied to Identity reputation
• top projects earn permanent badges on Identity at the end of the week

This makes discovery more transparent and gives more weight to real ecosystem contribution.

✨ Projects in the first cohort include:
• OmniMarket — prediction markets for Telegram communities
• EdChess — play chess and earn TON
• Toncenter SDK — AI-ready Python SDK for TON
• TON Agent Platform — no-code AI agents in Telegram
• TON Bridge — cross-chain liquidity for TON
• ENACT Protocol — on-chain escrow for AI agent payments
• Catallaxy — decentralized agents marketplace
• TeleGifts — AI-powered Telegram Gifts analytics and swaps
• Hash2Cash — Bitcoin mining based on RWA
• ODROB — financial layer for agents
• Rolls — PvP game with Telegram NFT gifts
• mena — P2P atomic asset exchange on TON
• Swift Gifts — Telegram Gifts aggregator
• TonGo — .ton DNS lookup service
• Watchi — AI focus coach with streaks and ambient sounds
• MOLVA — social game on TON

👉 Check out the cohort and vote for your favorites
⚡Rankings close on Sunday.
👉 Read more about how Launches work

TON Community | TON Builders | TON Dev News | TON Hubs | X | YouTube | LinkedIn | TON.org

Catchain 2.0 activation is underway

TON validators are voting to fully activate Catchain 2.0, a consensus upgrade that brings sub-second finality to the network.

The first phase has been live since April 2. Today, at 14:00 UTC, the final vote started to cut block times to 400 ms across the entire network.

To activate the upgrade, validators vote on-chain. The proposal needs support from at least 75% of validators (by stake weight) across two validation rounds, roughly 36 hours.

👉 Track the voting here

TON Community | TON Dev News | TON Regional | X | YouTube | LinkedIn | TON.org

Blockchain Fee Reduction

The TON Core team has prepared a blockchain update to reduce fees by 6x, in line with Pavel Durov’s MTONGA plan.

This update includes:

1) Performance improvements

The previous Sub-Second update improved not only operation speed but also overall blockchain performance, making a fee reduction possible. Since then, additional optimizations and performance improvements have also been implemented, including a new mempool based on a persistent Cartesian tree.

2) Fixes

In addition to performance improvements, this update will include fixes for issues identified on mainnet after the Sub-Second release. In particular, it addresses loss of synchronization on some liteservers and rare block rate instability.

Planned Schedule:

April 28, 2026 12:00 UTC — Validator software update.
April 30, 2026 13:00 UTC — Vote to lower gas prices in the blockchain configuration.

Lower fees are important for the next stages of the MTONGA plan. Since fees do not constitute a significant portion of validator rewards, validator rewards are expected to decrease by less than 0.4%.

Mainnet validator operators are asked to be prepared to update their software on 28 April and to participate in the vote on 30 April.