💎 Durov’s comment. Is TON the most decentralized blockchain?

Today Pavel Durov posted on Twitter that “very few people realize how decentralized the TON network is.” And this is not just a statement made for attention — it is backed by cold mathematics and the Nakamoto coefficient.

Recall that this coefficient shows how many participants in a network need to collude in order to stop the system or change its rules. The higher it is, the freer and more decentralized the network is.

For example, Bitcoin and Ethereum do not look very strong in this ranking, having a critically low Nakamoto coefficient (only 1–2). In Bitcoin, more than 50% of mining power is concentrated in two mining pools, while in Ethereum dominance comes from services like Lido and exchanges such as Coinbase. Collusion or a failure in just these two points could paralyze transaction finalization across the entire network, making it dependent on the decisions of a few corporations.

📈 What makes TON strong?

The Nakamoto coefficient is 78. To disrupt transaction finalization, you would need to coordinate 78 independent validators out of 400. That is dozens of times harder than coordinating two pools in BTC. And to actually compromise TON, you would need to coordinate an even larger number of participants — 215.

At the same time, TON’s high Nakamoto coefficient does not come at the expense of speed. Thanks to Catchain 2.0, the network manages to be one of the fastest among major blockchains, while remaining dozens of times more resistant to collusion than the “old giants” of the industry.

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