TON Fees Crash 6x – and Durov Says Zero Commission Comes After

Pavel Durov confirms TON transaction fees drop 6x to a fixed 0.00039 TON per transaction, with fully feeless payments set to follow under the MTONGA roadmap.

TON blockchain transaction fees are about to hit a new floor. Pavel Durov confirmed the cut on X this week. Fees drop 6x within one week of the announcement, landing at a fixed rate of 0.00039 TON per transaction. At current prices that rounds to about $0.0005.

The number does not move with network traffic. That is the structural shift here.

“In one week, TON fees will drop 6x — to just 0.00039 TON (~$0.0005) per transaction, fixed regardless of network load. Soon after most transactions go fully feeless. Zero commission. MTONGA!” — Pavel Durov (@durov) on X

The old fee sat at around 0.00234 TON per transaction, which worked out to roughly $0.003. Not steep, but it was variable. It climbed when the network got busy. That congestion-based pricing is being scrapped entirely under the new structure.

The fee drop lands as Step 2 of Durov’s MTONGA roadmap, short for Make TON Great Again, a seven-part plan guiding the network’s development. Step 1 went live April 10 with the Catchain 2.0 upgrade, which pushed block generation to every 400 milliseconds and cut confirmation times from around ten seconds to under one second.

The Network Got Faster First. Now It Gets Cheaper.

Five roadmap steps remain after this fee cut. Durov has not disclosed a timeline for any of them.

What he did confirm is what comes directly after the 0.00039 TON rate goes live. As Durov tweeted on X, most transactions go fully feeless shortly after. Zero commission. The language is not hedged. The end state being described is a payment network where sending value across TON costs nothing at all, whether that is a small in-app purchase or a cross-border transfer.

Ethereum users pay somewhere between $2 and $15 per transaction during peak usage periods. Bitcoin ranges from $0.50 to $5. TON at half a tenth of a cent, fixed, is not in the same conversation as either.

Who Actually Feels This Change

TON Pay integrations inside Telegram mini-apps become significantly more viable at this fee level. Games, tipping flows, micropayment tools, in-app purchases — anything that becomes unworkable on congested networks gets a different economic reality at 0.00039 TON per transaction.

Telegram has roughly 950 million active users. That is a distribution base no other blockchain points to.

The fee reduction was also put through a validator community vote approving a minimum gas price reduction. This is not just a founder announcement. The network’s validators ratified it.

How the validator economics hold as fees approach zero is a separate, open question. Catchain 2.0 already pushed TON’s annual inflation rate from around 0.6% to 3.6% to compensate validators for higher block volume. The math behind full feelessness across all transaction types has not been publicly detailed.

The one-week clock on the 0.00039 TON rate started with Durov’s post. Steps three through seven of MTONGA have not been revealed.

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