Information about validation economic

Our primary goal is to reduce user end-to-end latency, and we are addressing this through comprehensive roadmap, including the ongoing Accelerator update along with efforts to optimize validation and network usage.

As a result, the mainnet block rate increased by about 60% over the past year, and we expect an additional 1.5- to 2-fold increase in the coming year, which will correpondingly increase total validator rewards (see Toncoins minted here).

To maintain TON’s competitive edge, we plan to further reduce fees. Our recent optimizations mean that the same network load now requires fewer resources from nodes. Over the next few months, we intend to propose a fourfold decrease in fees. Presently, fees represent about 7% of total rewards. Besides fee-reward decrease will be offset by increased block-reward, it is also worth noting that the fee reduction implemented last year did not lower validator rewards—instead, it spurred new transaction opportunities and boosted transaction volume.

The ongoing Accelerator Update also opens up significant opportunities to optimize hardware costs. Preliminary details are available here, with more detailed, practical information on this initiative will be shared in April.

Thank you again for your ongoing commitment to the TON network. We look forward to achieving these exciting milestones together!