How TON Upgrades Are Evolving

To ensure TON’s technical superiority across key metrics, we are systematically upgrading or completely replacing the blockchain’s components and protocols.

Having reduced block time, finalization time, end-to-end latency, and fees, our current objective is to increase shardchain performance: the TPS that the blockchain can sustain in sub-second mode.

2026.03 — new consensus: 10× faster operations.

2026.04 — new Cartesian-tree-based mempool and networking improvements: 6× reduction in fees.

2026.05–2026.06 — new networking layer: 2–4× reduction in network traffic.

Upgrading the networking layer is a necessary step toward further increasing shardchain TPS.

The next stages are the activation of the collator + validator architecture, adapted to the new consensus, and the implementation of a new database to replace CellDB 2.0/RocksDB.