Toncoin Renamed Gram After TON Community Vote Passes With 81.22% Support

TLDR

• TON Vote approved the Toncoin-to-Gram rename with 81.22% support.
• The ticker will change from TON to GRAM on June 15, 2026.
• The blockchain will remain The Open Network, or TON.
• No swap, claim, bridge, migration, or user action is required.
• A balance of 10 TON will become 10 GRAM with no redenomination.

The Open Network community has approved a proposal to rename its native token from Toncoin to Gram, with the ticker changing from TON to GRAM after an on-chain vote received 81.22% support.

The change will take effect at 12:00 UTC on June 15, 2026. The blockchain itself will continue to be called The Open Network, or TON. Only the native token’s display name, ticker, and logo will change.

Users do not need to take any action. The update does not involve a token swap, bridge, claim, migration, new contract, or redenomination. A balance of 10 TON will become 10 GRAM, with the same value and the same underlying asset remaining on the same ledger.

TON Vote Approves Gram Token Rename

Voting opened on June 1 and closed on June 8 through TON Vote, an on-chain governance platform built on TON and developed by the Orbs Network team. Voting power was based on TON balances recorded in a May 31 snapshot, meaning tokens acquired after that date did not count toward voting weight.

The proposal offered three choices: for, against, and abstain. Telegram was listed as the proposer through a verified organization account on TON Vote. A simple majority of participating voting power determined the result, and the proposal passed with 81.22% voting in favor.

The new name revives “Gram,” which was used in the original TON White Paper and has remained part of the project’s historical identity. The rename is part of the MTONGA initiative, described as Make TON Great Again, and follows Telegram’s expanded role in the network.

Telegram has recently taken a larger operational role in TON and has become the network’s largest validator. The shift has coincided with a renewed focus on performance, developer tooling, and broader network adoption.

Exchanges and Wallets Prepare Coordinated Update

Ecosystem projects, wallets, exchanges, blockchain explorers, and data providers are expected to update the asset name, ticker, logo, trading pairs, user interfaces, deposit labels, withdrawal labels, APIs, and data feeds by 12:00 UTC on June 15.

Trading pairs such as TON/USDT are expected to be relabeled as GRAM/USDT. Order books, balances, price history, deposits, withdrawals, staking positions, DeFi positions, NFTs, Jettons, and smart contracts will remain continuous.

Projects have been encouraged to show the asset as “Gram (prev. Toncoin)” during a three-month transition period to reduce user confusion. After that period, exchanges and applications may display the asset as Gram or GRAM only.

Full consistency across ecosystem projects is expected by June 22. The update applies only to labels and branding, not to the blockchain’s consensus, token supply, addresses, contract state, or user holdings.

The integration brief also states that no new asset listing should be created. Exchanges are expected to update the existing asset listing rather than launch a separate GRAM token.

Telegram Role and Network Upgrades Add Context

The rename follows a period of technical upgrades across The Open Network. According to the integration brief, transaction throughput has increased 10 times, transaction finality is now under one second, and transaction fees have been reduced by about six times.

Those upgrades are aimed at supporting high-volume consumer applications, including payments, mini-apps, tap-to-earn projects, tips, and other in-app transactions. Lower fees and faster finality are expected to support use cases that require frequent small-value activity.

Pavel Durov previously said TON fees had dropped about sixfold and that Telegram would replace the TON Foundation as the main driving force behind the network. He also said the focus would shift toward technical performance and developer tools.

Security warnings are a major part of the rename process. The TON ecosystem has stressed that there is no migration, no claim page, no bridge process, and no token conversion. Any website, bot, or message asking users to “claim GRAM,” “convert TON to GRAM,” or “migrate TON” is fraudulent.