"TON Unveils 2025 Roadmap: Layer-2 Payment Network, Mainnet Upgrade, and Telegram Partnership"
The Open Network (TON), a blockchain infrastructure project, has unveiled its roadmap for the first half of 2025, focusing on significant upgrades and addressing current market challenges. The roadmap includes major quality-of-life upgrades on several core functions, research for future revenue streams, and a renewed partnership with Telegram.
TON Core, the team behind the project, has prioritized the launch of a layer-2 payment network as a top priority for this year. This network, based on payment channels, aims to enable high-frequency trading and instant gaming, which are not currently supported by the layer-1 blockchain. The Payment Network is currently in the beta stage and is expected to be fully tested and audited in the coming months.
TON's roadmap for H1 2025 includes several ambitious goals, such as a major mainnet upgrade, increased community collaboration, and the release of a Payment Network layer-2. The Accelerator upgrade, one of the biggest agendas for this year, promises more stability, efficiency, speediness, and infinite sharding. TON will also collaborate with community products like DeDust, MyTonWallet, TonScan.org, and ton.diamonds to build developer goodwill.
However, TON faces significant financial challenges, notably the declining revenues in the GameFi sector, which were previously a major contributor to its growth. The network's native token, Toncoin, has been declining at a steady rate throughout this month. To address these challenges, TON is focusing on quality-of-life upgrades for most core functions, sidechain research, and community outreach.
TON's roadmap claims that the project will provide quality-of-life upgrades for most core functions alongside projects like sidechain research and community outreach. The project's revenue took a severe hit last month, but it is enjoying friendly regulations and a renewed partnership with Telegram. From here, it could succeed or fail, depending on how effectively it addresses its financial challenges and implements its ambitious roadmap.
