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Gram Wallet Becomes Available on Telegram Telegram has begun rolling out its new non-custodial wallet, Gram Wallet. For now, it is available to a limited number of users. To make the wallet appear for other users, they must receive a transfer of at least 0.1 Gram from another user. Gram Wallet uses a separate smart contract called WalletTg, which differs from the wallet contracts used by other non-custodial apps, including My Wallet and Keeper. The channel previously covered the features of the new smart contract: t.me/infotonen/331. One of the wallet’s features is the ability to send Gram up to five times per day without blockchain fees, either to other Telegram users or to a wallet address. However, the first transaction incurs a fee to initialize the smart contract. Currently, Gram Wallet supports Gram and Telegram-related NFTs, including gifts, collectible usernames, and anonymous numbers. If other tokens or NFTs are sent to a Gram Wallet address, they will not appear in the wallet interface. However, they can be recovered using another non-custodial wallet that supports the WalletTg smart contract. Gram Wallet should not be confused with the Gram balance in Telegram, which was recently renamed Gram Earnings. These are two different features: the Gram balance can be used to purchase gifts on Telegram Resell and submit offers to channels to publish posts, while transferring funds directly from this balance to the new Gram Wallet is currently not possible.

Everscale Community Takes Over Network After Broxus Exit The Broxus team announced that it would end its support for Everscale infrastructure after more than two years of operating without commercial returns. The remaining services were initially scheduled to be shut down on September 29, 2026, but the community managed to take control of the infrastructure before support was fully discontinued. As part of the transition, Broxus provided the community with access to the necessary infrastructure and source code. Everscale developers and validators independently restored the operation of key network components. As a result, the main infrastructure components remained operational, and the network did not go offline. The StEver pool was smoothly removed from validation, after which control of the validators was transferred to several independent community teams. At the same time, Broxus had initially warned users to withdraw their assets from the company’s services before September 29, 2026. The shutdown affected Broxus validators, FlatQube, Octus Bridge infrastructure, EVER Wallet, EVER Scan, RPC endpoints, and other services. After ending its operations, Broxus also did not plan to be responsible for recovering users’ assets. For users holding USDT on the Everscale network, they were specifically advised to use Octus Bridge to transfer their tokens to the Avalanche network — at the time of the announcement, this was the only supported route. Everscale is now effectively transitioning to a community-driven governance model. Project developers refer to the event as a Community Takeover and say they plan to return to further ecosystem development after the transition period is completed. Everscale itself emerged in November 2021 following the rebranding of Free TON. At the time, the native TON Crystal token was renamed EVER, while the rebranding was accompanied by major changes to the network’s architecture and governance.

Gram Wallet to Get a Dedicated Smart Contract New lines of code related to a dedicated smart contract for the upcoming Gram Wallet in Telegram have appeared on GitHub. They already reveal several potential features of the wallet: • The smart contract code can be updated centrally for all wallets through the TON configuration. Changes will be applied after a validator vote, without requiring users to update each wallet individually. • The contract supports gasless transactions – transaction fees can be paid in the token being transferred. For example, when transferring USDT, users will be able to pay the fee in USDT even if they have no GRAM in their balance. • The contract supports batch operations – up to 255 messages in a single call. This will allow multiple transfers to be combined into one operation, for example, sending 10 GRAM to multiple wallets at once. • The contract includes the ability to link a Telegram ID to a wallet. An experimental branch is already testing the storage of the Telegram ID directly in the smart contract data. • Additional features, including 2FA and subscriptions, could be added at the contract level in the future. Like other wallets, Gram Wallet will support tokens, NFTs, and connections to dApps via TON Connect.

TON Is Preparing for Increased Network Load In the TON Status channel, validators were asked to prepare for possible increased load on the blockchain. Similar warnings were previously issued ahead of airdrops by major services, such as Hamster and Kombat. It is possible that the blockchain is preparing for increased load related to the launch of the non-custodial wallet Gram Wallet in Telegram, which Pavel Durov previously announced for this summer.

DTrade: Trading Contest for $5,000 DTrade launched a trading contest with a prize pool of 5 000 USDT, where participants receive rewards for high trading activity in the bot. The goal is to trade as much as possible and accumulate a large number of tickets. For every 50 GRAM of trading volume, 1 ticket is awarded. The more tickets a participant has, the higher their chances of securing a prize position: 🥇st place — $1 000 🥈nd place — $600 🥉rd place — $400 • 4th–10th places — $100 each • 11th–25th places — $70 each • 26th–50th places — $50 each Rewards may also be awarded to participants who did not make it into the top 50 but earned at least 1 ticket. Among such users, 50 prizes of $7.50 each will be raffled. The contest runs from June 19, 12:00 PM UTC to June 29, 12:00 PM UTC. Rewards will be distributed by July 1.

Gram Wallet from My Wallet My Wallet (formerly MyTonWallet) launched a separate wallet — Gram Wallet. In the new application, priority is given to the TON blockchain, tokens of this network, as well as functions related to Telegram: • Users can set two-factor authentication (2FA) on their W5 wallet and confirm transactions via Telegram. Even if a scammer gains access to your seed phrases, they will still need to confirm transactions via Telegram to steal funds. In the event of a Telegram hack, your funds will remain secure if the attacker does not know the seed phrases. • Avatars in the wallet. If a user has an NFT in the form of @usermame and has linked a .t.me domain to the wallet, then in the wallet settings their avatar from Telegram will be displayed. MyTonWallet changed its name to My Wallet and will continue to develop as a multi-chain wallet. In the future, developers plan to add support for Bitcoin, as well as many other blockchains.

Renaming TON to GRAM Pavel Durov announced, that the 4th step of MTONGA is the renaming of the native coin Toncoin to Gram. Only the coin ticker will change to GRAM, while the blockchain name will remain The Open Network (TON). The post contains a link to the future website gram.org. There is a public vote on TON Vote, in which any user can participate and contribute funds to the vote. If more than 50% vote "For", the coin ticker will be changed. It is important to note that users do not need to take any action with Toncoin; the coins will automatically change their name in their wallets. #MTONGA

Happy Birthday, TON! Today marks the 5th anniversary of The Open Network's mainnet – TON's first major milestone. On November 15, 2019, TON launched testnet2, and on May 26, 2021, the testnet2 network was renamed to Mainnet. Later, in August 2021, the domain ton.org and the TON repositories were transferred to the TON Foundation.

Zero-Fee Transactions Pavel Durov announced that within a week, transaction fees on the TON blockchain will be reduced by 6 times, reaching as low as 0.00039 TON regardless of network load. It is also reported that after a major blockchain upgrade, fees for most transactions could become zero. Previously, transaction speeds in TON were increased by 10 times – primarily as part of the Make TON Great Again (MTONGA) program. The reduction of fees is now the second step. #MTONGA

Testnet Update Anatoly Makosov shared information on the TON testnet update in his Telegram channel, where transaction speeds are now less than one second. In the video, he clearly demonstrated token transfers on the network and the instant display of data in the MyTonWallet wallet and the tonscan.org blockchain explorer. Speed upgrades are also being prepared for the TON mainnet. At the same time, TON retains all its key advantages: high performance, the ability to process a large number of transactions, and fixed network fees that do not increase during high network load. You can also test the speed of the testnet using the guide from The Daily TON. #testnet #update