Key Highlights
- TON Strategy earned about 3.3 million TON in May 2026 from staking, worth over $5.6 million.
- The company held about 227.5 million TON, with 226.8 million staked, and saw its yield rise to 1.48%.
- TON network upgrades went live on June 4, 2026, improving speed, scalability, and validator performance without changing staking rewards.
TON Strategy, a Nasdaq-listed digital asset company that builds its treasury around The Open Network (TON), said it earned about 3.3 million TON from staking in the month of May. The firm reported these results while also supporting a network upgrade that went live in early June 2026.
According to the official announcement, the company said that its staking yield for May was about 1.48%, which is slightly higher than April’s 1.39%. This confirms its position as the holder and validator of Toncoin, meaning it helps run the network and earns rewards for doing so.
By the end of May, it held about 227.5 million TON, and around 226.8 million of those coins were locked in staking to support the system and earn income.
Steady month-on-month staking yield
The firm said that when it converted its staking yield into a yearly rate, it came to about 17.8%, compared to 16.7% in the month before.
Based on the amount staked, the 3.3 million TON reward for May is worth more than $5.6 million. These rewards come from TON’s proof-of-stake system, where users and companies lock their tokens to help confirm transactions, keep the network safe, and earn rewards in return.
TON network upgrades
At the same time, TON Strategy confirmed that it voted in favor of a set of governance proposals that were recently approved by the TON community. These proposals became active on June 4, 2026.
The company said these upgrades will not change staking rewards, but will make the network run under heavy usage while keeping staking rewards mostly unchanged.
The upgrades include several important technical changes:
- One of the updates called TVM 14 improves how smart contracts run, making them more predictable and easier for developers to use.
- Another update improves how blocks are shared across the network, so information moves faster between validators.
- The system also increased how much data validators can handle, which helps the network process more transactions at the same time.
- There are also improvements to validator setup, which help both large and small validators work better together.
- On top of that, new safety controls were added to protect the network from spam, overload, and attack attempts.
Together, these changes are meant to increase throughput and improve responsiveness across the blockchain.
“These network upgrades represent another important step as TON continues to develop for high-volume consumer applications tied to the Telegram ecosystem.” TON Strategy CEO Kevin Wilson said as he explained the importance of these changes.
He added that by improving how validators communicate and process activity, the network becomes faster, more stable, and more useful as more people join.
TON strategy’s rebrand
TON Strategy was previously called Verb Technology. The company changed its focus in August last year to invest in TON.
Since then, it has built a strategy around holding Toncoin as a long-term treasury asset while earning staking rewards. It has also become one of the most active participants in the network’s validation and governance system.
Broader TON ecosystem push led by Telegram vision
The development comes as Telegram CEO Pavel Durov continues pushing for a wider transformation of the TON ecosystem under his “Make TON Great Again” initiative. Last week, Durov shared plans to rename Toncoin to Gram. There are also other plans to lower network fees and make Telegram more involved in supporting the blockchain.
Earlier upgrades in April 2026 already improved block times, transaction speed, and costs, while new developer tools continue to simplify how applications are built and deployed. All of this is aimed at making TON ready for large-scale use, especially for apps and services that connect to Telegram’s huge user base.
TON rebounds after a week of downtrend
Meanwhile, the TON token has posted modest gains. At press time, the token was up about 2.08% today, trading for $1.75 from an intraday low of below $1.60.
However, the token is down over 20% in the last week. This is mostly due to the pressure on the overall market, which saw Bitcoin briefly drop below $60K. Right now, trading activity is down by a modest 6.39% over the same period, pushing the volume to around $226 million. Its market capitalization is sitting at $4.67 million in value.
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