Anatolii Makosov summed up the latest TON performance work: after the August 17 update, the network moved to the new collator-based architecture. Since late August, TON Core has been gradually raising limits and testing how far one shard can actually go.
🔝 What changed
⚫️ TON switched to the new collator architecture on August 17
⚫️ Validators no longer have to do everything alone
⚫️ Collators assemble blocks, while validators focus on verification
⚫️ TON Core has been increasing network limits step by step since late August
⚫️ In the latest test, one shardchain processed 600–650 TPS
⚫️ The test ran in sub-second mode for a token-transfer-like workload
🔝 Why it matters
⚫️ This is the infrastructure TON needs before real Telegram-scale traffic arrives
⚫️ One shard doing 600+ TPS makes the scaling story look less theoretical
⚫️ Collators are becoming the engine behind higher throughput
⚫️ The network is being tuned on mainnet-style conditions, not just in clean lab tests
⚫️ For Gram Wallet, this matters because millions of users will not care about architecture — they will only notice if transactions start choking
TON is slowly proving that the pipes can get wider. Now comes the awkward part: waiting for enough real activity to actually fill them.
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