TON Strategy Company Highlights TON Upgrade Establishing Network-Level Infrastructure for Telegram’s Native Gram Wallet

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TON Strategy Company (“TON Strategy” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: TONX), a digital asset treasury company dedicated to supporting The Open Network ("TON") ecosystem, voted in favor of two TON network upgrades, Config -123 and Config 30, supporting continued development of the network’s consumer infrastructure and performance.

Config -123 introduces the smart contract architecture for Telegram’s native Gram Wallet. On August 31, Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that Gram Wallet is now accessible to a select group of Telegram users and will be gradually rolled out to Telegram’s user base over the next several weeks. Durov also highlighted the validator-approved smart contract powering the wallet.

Rather than embedding the full wallet logic separately in every individual wallet, each wallet uses a small, permanent smart contract that references shared wallet logic maintained at the network level. This allows the core wallet software to be updated consistently across all Telegram wallets through validator governance—without requiring individual users to migrate or update their wallet contracts. The initial version includes signature verification, transaction execution, replay protection and key rotation, and is designed to support additional native functionality such as two-factor authentication and recurring payments over time.

The architecture is particularly important at Telegram scale. A single, shared and upgradeable wallet framework can support potentially hundreds of millions of wallets while keeping the underlying software consistent and current across users. It also enables Telegram to deliver a simple native wallet experience while supporting users who choose to transition to self-custody.

“Blockchain infrastructure has historically pushed too much technical complexity onto the user. Config -123 takes a different approach: the wallet stays in place while the software behind it can evolve through network governance. It is a practical architecture for bringing wallets to hundreds of millions of users—and another example of TON designing blockchain infrastructure to function more like the modern internet: scalable, upgradeable and largely invisible to the end user,” said Kevin Wilson, Chief Executive Officer.

Additionally, Config 30 extends validator leader windows, reducing the coordination overhead associated with frequent handoffs and enabling greater network throughput. The upgrade is expected to increase network throughput by up to 30%.

Together, Config -123 and Config 30 advance two critical components of network scale: the infrastructure to support greater transaction activity and the wallet architecture to bring that infrastructure to a significantly broader user base.

About TON Strategy Company
TON Strategy Company (Nasdaq: TONX) is focused on the accumulation of GRAM – the native cryptocurrency of Telegram’s billion-user platform – for long-term investment, whether acquired through deployment of proceeds from capital raising activity, staking rewards or via open market purchases. The Company aims to steadily expand its GRAM holdings, stake GRAM, and support the development of a tokenized economy inside Telegram.

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