Gram vs Toncoin: What the TON Asset Rebrand Means

Short answer: Gram is Toncoin. The TON network’s native asset was rebranded from Toncoin to Gram. This is a name change only. Nothing about the technology, your wallet, or your holdings changed.

Updated June 2026 · By KTON

Is Gram the same as Toncoin?

Yes. Gram (ticker Gram) is the new name for the asset that used to be called Toncoin. It is the same native asset of the TON blockchain. If you held Toncoin before the rebrand, you now hold the exact same coins, simply displayed under the new name and ticker.

This is a branding change, not a technical one. There was no token swap, no migration, no new contract you need to opt into, and no snapshot you could miss. The supply, the addresses, and the on-chain history all carry over untouched.

What changed, and what didn’t

What changed

• The asset name: Toncoin is now Gram.
• The ticker: the symbol is now Gram.
• How it’s labelled: wallets, explorers, exchanges, and apps gradually update their displays to show Gram / Gram instead of Toncoin.

What did not change

• The network: it’s still TON (The Open Network). The blockchain wasn’t renamed.
• The technology: same chain, same consensus, same smart-contract platform.
• Your holdings: same balance, same coins, same value basis. Nothing to migrate or claim.
• Your wallet and addresses: your seed phrase, keys, and wallet addresses are unchanged. Send and receive exactly as before.
• Contracts and dApps: existing smart contracts and their addresses are unaffected.

If you searched for “Toncoin staking” and landed here, you’re in the right place. That’s now called Gram staking, and it works the same way.

Why does this distinction trip people up?

The confusion is usually about network name versus asset name. Before the rebrand, “TON” was used loosely to mean both the network and the coin’s ticker, which made the two feel like one thing. The rebrand actually makes the relationship clearer:

• TON = the blockchain network (The Open Network).
• Gram = the native asset that runs on that network.

It’s the same pattern you see elsewhere in crypto, where the chain and its native coin have distinct names. Seeing “Gram” in your wallet where “Toncoin” used to be is expected and correct. It is not a sign that anything was swapped or moved.

What the rebrand means for stakers

Practically nothing changes in how you stake. Only the wording does. Wherever you previously read “stake Toncoin,” read “stake Gram.”

With KTON, the institutional-grade liquid staking protocol on TON, the flow is identical to before (for the full mechanics, see the KTON protocol docs):

1. You connect a wallet. KTON supports staking from most TON wallets. Any wallet that supports TON Connect can connect, including Tonkeeper, MyTonWallet, Wallet in Telegram, and OKX.
2. You stake Gram. Deposit Gram into the KTON staking pool (the asset you used to call Toncoin). The minimum stake is 1 Gram. Your wallet also attaches about 1.15 Gram of network gas to the transaction, and the unused portion is refunded, so you want roughly 2.15 Gram in your wallet to stake.
3. You receive KTON. You instantly get the liquid KTON token, a liquid staking token (LST) that represents your staked Gram and accrues rewards automatically.
4. You stay liquid. You receive KTON the moment you stake, it stays transferable, and it keeps earning the whole time you hold it. You are not locked into managing per-cycle rounds yourself the way a nominator-pool depositor is. Hold KTON to keep earning, or unstake through the protocol to get your Gram back, as described next.

The recommended way to get your Gram back is to unstake through the protocol. You return KTON, the protocol issues an NFT receipt that is burnt automatically, and your Gram is returned once the current validation round finalizes. A round lasts about 36 hours, so the wait can be up to roughly one full round (around 36 hours), and it can be faster if you unstake near the end of a round.

This wait is a deliberate design choice. KTON keeps essentially all staked Gram working with validators rather than reserving an idle buffer for instant withdrawals. Full deployment means more of your Gram is actually earning instead of sitting idle as a withdrawal buffer, which is how KTON pursues the highest possible staking yield and best capital efficiency. The trade-off is honest: unstaking is not instant, and KTON does not offer instant-unstake. You wait out the cycle.

If you genuinely cannot wait for the unstake cycle, a KTON/Gram pair also exists on STON.fi, a TON DEX, as an emergency option. Its on-chain liquidity is thin, so it suits only small amounts and is not the recommended way to exit. That single STON.fi pair is also currently KTON’s only DeFi venue: KTON is not used for lending, yield farming, or as collateral.

KTON’s rewards auto-compound, and there’s no manual claiming. KTON does not charge a separate deposit or withdrawal fee beyond the usual TON network gas, but the protocol takes a 16% governance fee on staking rewards (a commission on the yield, not on your principal); the APY shown is already net of it. None of that is affected by the asset rename. It’s the same protocol, the same contracts, the same KTON token.

Do you need to do anything?

No. There’s no action required from the rebrand itself:

• No swap or migration. Your Toncoin became Gram automatically: same coins, new label.
• No claiming. There’s no airdrop, snapshot, or upgrade tied to the name change.
• No re-staking. If you already hold KTON, your position is unaffected; keep earning as normal.

The only thing to do is get used to the new vocabulary, and double-check, as always, that you’re using official links. Beware of “migration” or “Gram upgrade” prompts asking you to move funds or connect to unfamiliar sites. A genuine rebrand never requires that.

Why rename Toncoin to Gram?

A rebrand like this is fundamentally a positioning and clarity move, not a technical one. Giving the asset its own distinct name (Gram) separates it cleanly from the network name (TON), which removes the long-standing ambiguity where “TON” was used to mean both the chain and the ticker at once. A clearer name also makes the asset easier to recognise across wallets, exchanges, and listings.

What matters for you is what a rebrand is not: it’s not a fork, not a token migration, and not a contract upgrade. None of those happened here. The chain kept running without interruption, balances stayed exactly where they were, and every address remained valid. If you ever see a project change both its name and its underlying contract at once, that’s a different and more involved event, but that is not what occurred with Gram.

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