💡 TON wallets are moving toward a common standard

⚫️ Today, Anatoly Makosov, co-founder of The Open Network and a key TON Core developer, published new guidelines for wallets, SDKs, and libraries in TON Ecosystem. In short, the goal is to make wallet apps more compatible with each other and prevent user accounts from disappearing during seed phrase import.

⚫️ The issue is not new. In TON, the same seed phrase can correspond to several different wallet contracts: V3R1, V3R2, V4R2, V5R1, and others. As a result, when users import a seed phrase from one app into another, they may end up seeing a different address or only one of the accounts linked to that seed phrase.

⚫️ Developers are now advised to use Wallet V5R1 by default when creating new wallets. When importing an existing seed phrase, wallet apps should show users all related accounts from V3R1 to V5R1, even if some of them have a zero balance.

⚫️ There is also a separate section on seed phrases. Historically, TON wallets have shown users a 24-word recovery phrase when creating a wallet. Now the recommended approach is shifting toward greater compatibility with other blockchains: new wallets are advised to display 12-word phrases by default. The goal is simple — to reduce confusion during imports and gradually move TON wallets toward a more unified standard.

⚫️ Earlier, the community spotted Gram Wallet — a standalone TON wallet from the MyTonWallet team. It briefly appeared in the TON Connect list and app stores, then suddenly disappeared. We can cautiously assume that wallet unification and the Gram Wallet release may be part of the same process, with the official launch likely to happen by the end of the third week of June. That is when the transition period for renaming TON to Gram is expected to end.

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