Toncoin (TON) Live Price in Rial and USD – Chart & Market Info
Last Update: Friday 5 December 2025, Time: 11:10 (UTC+3:30)
Toncoin (TON) Market Rank: 27
Market Cap: 3,904,223,355
24h Volume: 86,024,975
Max Supply: -
Total Supply: 5,147,535,061
Issue Date: 26 August 2021
🪙 Introduction to Toncoin (TON) Cryptocurrency
Toncoin (TON) is a next-generation blockchain originally developed by the Telegram team under the name Telegram Open Network in 2018. However, due to regulatory pressure from the U.S. SEC, Telegram officially discontinued its involvement in 2020. The project was later adopted by the open-source community and rebranded as The Open Network.
Toncoin is the native token of the TON blockchain and is used for paying transaction fees, staking, running smart contracts, and powering decentralized applications. Thanks to its modular design and sharded architecture, the network is capable of processing millions of transactions per second (TPS).
Key Features
- Originally designed by Telegram
- High-speed transaction processing (high TPS)
- Smart contract and dApp support
- Sharding for enhanced scalability
Use Cases
- In-app payments and digital service purchases
- Transaction fee settlement within the network
- Staking TON to earn rewards
- Hosting Web3 apps and decentralized storage
Challenges
- Telegram’s withdrawal from official development
- Fierce competition from Solana, Ethereum, and others
- Relatively low recognition among the general public
With its advanced architecture and roots in Telegram, Toncoin is emerging as a serious contender for scalable blockchain applications. If tightly integrated with Telegram itself, its adoption could grow exponentially in the near future.
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