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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Says New TON Toolchain Makes Smart Contract Development Faster

According to Pavel Durov, TON launched Acton, a unified and AI-ready smart contract toolchain that replaces a fragmented developer stack with a single workflow for contract creation, testing, deployment, and verification.

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Fact Check
The claim is strongly supported by Pavel Durov's own official X post (authority score 0.95) directly announcing the Acton toolchain for TON, describing it as a unified, AI-ready smart contract toolchain that replaces a fragmented developer stack with a single workflow covering contract creation, testing, deployment, and verification. Two additional secondary news sources corroborate the announcement. The claim accurately reflects the core substance of the announcement, including the unified nature of the toolchain, its AI-readiness, and its replacement of a fragmented stack. The only minor nuance is that the claim omits the '10x faster' performance claim mentioned in the sources, but this does not make the claim false — it is simply incomplete. All verified sources are consistent with the claim.
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Summary

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said TON launched Acton, a unified smart contract toolchain designed to make development on The Open Network 10x faster. According to his statement on X, Acton replaces TON’s fragmented tooling stack with a single AI-ready workflow for creating, testing, deploying, and verifying smart contracts.

Terms & Concepts
  • TON: The Open Network is a blockchain platform linked to the Telegram ecosystem and designed to support decentralized applications and digital asset services.
  • smart contract: Self-executing blockchain code that automatically carries out predefined actions when specified conditions are met.
  • toolchain: A set of development tools used to build, test, and deploy software or blockchain applications more efficiently.