🐤 How TON is getting ready for heavier loads

⚫️ In just an hour, the network will begin voting on a new set of validator upgrades. Ahead of the vote, Dr. Awesome Doge published a detailed breakdown of what is changing — so we’ll recap the key points.

⚫️ If April’s upgrade was about making transactions faster, June’s is about something less exciting but no less important: keeping the network stable under heavy load.

⚫️ TON plans to create a dedicated lane for validators to exchange block drafts. Right now, that traffic shares the same route as regular transactions. During sharp spikes in activity, this can hurt network performance — as already happened during the Hamster Kombat and DOGS listings.

⚫️ The same vote also includes other items: staking changes for validators and the gradual shutdown of TON Bridge, which we recently covered separately. Voting progress can be tracked here, and the original code for the changes is available on GitHub.

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