Here's what i think this rebranding actually means if you trade on STONfi. The most important roadmap right now isn't STONfi's own, it's Pavel Durov's. Since April 2026, Durov has been execut
Here's what i think this rebranding actually means if you trade on STONfi.The most important roadmap right now isn't STONfi's own, it's Pavel Durov's. Since April 2026, Durov has been executing a seven-step plan he's branded MTONGA ("Make TON Great Again"), aimed at turning TON into the default payment and application layer for Telegram's roughly one billion users.Four steps have currently been accomplished, Three remain undisclosed. As STONfi is the largest DEX on TON by both volume and TVL, whatever this roadmap does to the chain, it does to STONfi first. Here are the four steps that have already been accomplished. [1] Catchain 2.0This particular proceedure was meant to improve Ton block production by roughly 10x, which made block confirmation time to fall from about 2.5 seconds to 400ms, alos with transaction finality moving from 10 seconds to sub-second.[2] The 6x transaction fees ReductionTransaction fees in TON were cut to a fixed 0.00039 TON regardless of network congestion, with a feeless tier for most transactions flagged as coming next.[3] Telegram was recently also made the largest validatorTelegram replaced the independent, Switzerland-based TON Foundation as the network's primary steward, six years after the SEC forced Telegram to abandon its original TON project and return over $1B to investors. The token jumped 36% within hours of the announcement.[4] Toncoin renamed to GramA return to the name from TON's 2018 whitepaper, framed by Durov as groundwork for the remaining steps. WHAT'S LEFT?Steps five through seven have not yet been disclosed. some analysts have made mentions of things like an in-app Telegram payments layer or a Bitcoin-liquidity bridge, but as of the moment, none of this is confirmed nor disclosed to the public yet. Durov has historically announced each step shortly before or during its rollout, not in advance. The uncertainty is real enough that DeDust, STONfi's own top competitor, publicly posted in July asking where step five was.HERE's WHY THIS MATTERS FOR STONfiI feel like a faster, almost near feeles chain with telegram itself as top validator is close to the ideal environment for a DEX. Because it lowers the cost of every swap, makes smaller trades viable, and if telegram's distribution actually converts and brings a larger user base on-chain will on mean one thing from how im seeing it because STONfi already holds the top spot on TON by volume and TVL, it's structurally the first place that demand would hit with large volumes. Here's where the story gets more interesting for me than most of the coverage around MTONGA. For STONfi specifically, the three remaining steps are events that will be worth observing, not because they're guaranteed to move volume, but because they're the closest thing TON has to a confirmed catalyst calendar in my own opinion. Whether that catalyst turns into sustained DEX activity, rather than another announcement accompanied with a fade cycle all over again as usual is the open question for me.SO, WHAT DO YOU THINK MTONGA WILL OFFER TON's FUTURE? share it in the comments👇
