Telegram founder Pavel Durov said The Open Network (ton) now finalizes blocks in roughly 0.6 seconds, the fastest time among Layer-1 chains.
TON Finality Lead
Durov shared the comparison on his Telegram channel this week, citing an April 2026 study that ranked TON against the top 30 Layer-1 networks on CoinMarketCap.
The chart placed TON first at about 0.6 seconds, just under one second when including the first shardchain block confirmation.
Avalanche (avax) followed at roughly one second, with BNB Chain (bnb) at 1.125 seconds.
Sui (sui) and Hedera (hbar) trailed at two to three seconds, while XRP Ledger (xrp) and Stellar (xlm) settled in three to five seconds.
Solana (sol) requires roughly 32 slots to reach finalized commitment, and Ethereum (eth) needs two epochs, or about 12.8 minutes, the data showed.
Bitcoin (btc) sat at the bottom with its six-confirmation convention of about an hour, and Cardano (ada) at roughly one day under Ouroboros design.
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Why It Matters
The ranking arrives weeks after TON activated Catchain 2.0 on Apr. 10, an upgrade that cut block times from about 2.5 seconds to 400 milliseconds.
Analysts at Messari said the new consensus mechanism replaces a polling system with a streaming layer, pushing state updates to applications without waiting for the next block.
That distinction matters for in-app payments and trading inside Telegram, where multi-second delays previously made on-chain actions feel slower than centralized alternatives.
Durov Roadmap
The finality post is the latest in a series of public updates Durov has tied to his MTONGA plan, which he calls a seven-step push to overhaul TON.
On May 4, he said Telegram would replace the TON Foundation as the network's main driver and become its largest validator, sending Toncoin up 33% and pulling in $192 million in staking inflows. Days earlier, Telegram staked 2.2 million TON to operate as a primary validator. Fees on the network were also cut roughly sixfold, falling to about $0.0005 per transaction.
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