TON to cut fees 6x
- Pavel Durov said The Open Network will cut transaction fees sixfold within a week, dropping most transfers to a fixed 0.00039 TON as TON pushes a broader speed-and-cost overhaul. - The fee target is about $0.0005 per transaction, after TON’s Catchain 2.0 upgrade cut confirmation times from roughly 10 seconds to about one second on mainnet. - TON is tying lower fees to Telegram-scale consumer apps after rolling out sub-second finality on April 10, 2026. (ton.org)
The Open Network plans to cut transaction fees sixfold within a week, according to Pavel Durov, as TON pushes to make on-chain payments feel closer to messaging. (ourcryptotalk.com) Durov said the new fee would be fixed at 0.00039 TON per transaction, about $0.0005 at recent prices, instead of fluctuating with network load. (ourcryptotalk.com) (cointrust.com) The fee cut follows TON’s Catchain 2.0 rollout, which the project said brought transaction confirmation times down to about one second from around 10 seconds before. Blocks now arrive every 400 milliseconds. (ton.org) TON said sub-second finality went live on mainnet on April 10, 2026, and framed that speed upgrade as infrastructure for payments, trading, and Telegram Mini Apps serving more than 1 billion users. (ton.org 1) (ton.org 2) On TON, transaction fees are not a single flat charge today. The network’s documentation says the total cost combines storage, compute, forwarding, action, and import fees, with validators setting fee levels through governance. (docs.ton.org) That means a shift to a fixed 0.00039 TON headline fee would mark a simpler pricing model for users, not just a cheaper one. It would also reduce the need to estimate costs for routine transfers and app actions. (docs.ton.org) (ourcryptotalk.com) TON’s own April 9 post tied the speed upgrade to stronger validator rewards and said annual inflation is expected to rise from around 0.6% to around 3.6% as staking participation adjusts. (ton.org) That tradeoff matters because lower user fees do not eliminate network costs. TON’s documentation says validators are paid through the protocol’s fee system, and the project has already linked faster block production to higher staking rewards. (docs.ton.org) (ton.org) The next test is execution. TON has already made the chain faster on mainnet; now it needs the promised lower fee to arrive on schedule and work at Telegram scale. (ton.org) (ourcryptotalk.com)
