- The TON network core team has announced that plans are underway to clamp down on the processing time of transactions to under 1 second.
- TON Co-founder Anatoly Makosov explained that this intended upgrade will come at no expense to the network’s scalability and decentralization potential.
TON (The Open Network) Co-founder Anatoly Makosov confirmed that the TON Core team is working on the network’s infrastructure to optimize transaction processing time on the blockchain. According to the chief executive, it will come with “no reduction in decentralization or scalability.”
“We have expanded the dev team and continue to implement the Optimization Roadmap that was published and partially completed earlier this year. Major L1 and API updates are ahead,” said the TON chief executive.
The projection for the results of this upgrade on the TON main network is set for the first half of 2026. However, the TON network seems to have an unbeaten record in transaction speed, even above the Solana network, renowned for its lightning speed processing timeline.
TON Boasts Fastest Transaction Speed Among All Blockchains
Specifically, on 31 October 2023, the TON Blockchain set the world record of 100,000 Transactions Per Second, securing the undisputed spot as the “fastest and most scalable blockchain.”
In August 2025, the Solana network flaunted a record of 104,529 transactions per second, nearing the TON network’s record, to which TON co-founder Makosov congratulated them, while sarcastically stating they needed “just 186 more transactions” to reach “our figures from two years ago.”
On how the TON achieves this record speed without compromising scalability, the network leverages its built-in ability to separate increasing numbers of users or loads into shardchains or sub-blockchains.” Similarly, when the load decreases, the shardchains compress back in.
This unique feature in TON’s architecture ensures that the network has enough room to scale infinitely to where it can process millions of transactions per second for its multi-billion-user base, thus setting a remarkable precedent in the web3 ecosystem.
TON’s present processing speed not only supports the speedy execution of everyday transactions, such as the exchange of tokens between users. It also facilitates the smooth and speedy processing of transactions from complex decentralized applications, exchanges, and marketplaces without showing any drops in efficiency.
This enterprise-level efficiency was demonstrated in TON’s 2023 experiment, where they hired 256 servers from Alibaba Cloud for uts validator nodes and tested them on a separate TON blockchain network to experiment on the network’s transaction throughput.
After creating a “special bomb” smart contract that continually multiplied itself and continually transmitted transactions that exponentially increased the load on the network. The result was astounding: “the network split into 512 shards and processed 90-110K transactions per second” and then sustained this load for some time before operators shut it down manually.
Comparatively, Solana’s blockchain, as a TON network article noted, is optimized for speedy execution of “specialized and predefined transactions” and declines in performance when arbitrary transactions are added to the network load.
TON has also expanded its core team as part of efforts to deliver on its optimization roadmap, which includes scaling the blockchain’s processing speed. With a higher throughput of over 110k transactions or more in less than a second, TON could further cement its position and demand in the decentralized ecosystem as the most efficient blockchain.
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