Toncoin Is Now Gram: What the GRAM Crypto Rename Means

As of 12:00 UTC today, June 15, 2026, the coin of the TON blockchain has a new name: Gram (formerly Toncoin), ticker GRAM. It is the same coin, on the same blockchain, in the same wallets. Nothing is swapped and nobody has to do anything. What changed is the name, the ticker and the logo. Here is what happened, why the coin is called Gram, and the one scam this rename is guaranteed to bring out.

The short version

• Toncoin is now Gram. The ticker changes from TON to GRAM.
• Your balance doesn't change. 10 TON is now 10 GRAM: same amount, same asset, same ledger.
• No action is needed. There is no swap, bridge, claim or migration.
• The blockchain is still TON, The Open Network. Only the coin was renamed.
• Anyone asking you to "claim GRAM" or "migrate TON" is scamming you. That's the project's own warning, word for word.

What changed and what didn't

The blockchain keeps its name, so a "TON wallet" is still a TON wallet and a TON explorer still shows your transactions. The coin you hold in that wallet is now called Gram.

How it happened: the timeline

• June 1. Pavel Durov announced that TON's native currency was becoming Gram, the name it had in the first white paper. He said the transition would take around three weeks and that TON would stay the name of the blockchain. The same day, the official TON channel put the rename to a community vote.
• June 1 to June 8. The vote ran for a week on TON Vote (ton.vote), an open voting platform on TON. Voting power was weighted by TON balances, so each holder's vote counted in proportion to what they held.
• June 10. The result was announced: 81.22% in favour. The rename would take effect at 12:00 UTC on June 15, and every ecosystem project, exchanges included, was asked to make the change at that moment.
• June 15, 12:00 UTC. The rename took effect. That afternoon the official channel renamed itself "Gram of TON".
• By June 22. Full consistency is expected across all projects.

The announcement also gave context for the timing. It says TON has changed a lot in recent months, and Telegram is taking a leading role in the network and becoming its largest validator. The rename is described as a way of marking that new chapter.

Why "Gram"? The name is older than Toncoin

Gram is not a new brand. It is the coin's original name. Telegram designed TON, then called the Telegram Open Network, and its white paper named the currency "the TON Coin, also known as the Gram". In 2018 Telegram sold Grams to investors before launch and raised more than $1.7 billion.

The coins were never delivered. In October 2019 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission went to court to stop the Grams from being distributed, arguing that the sale was an unregistered securities offering. Telegram walked away from the project in 2020. Its settlement with the SEC that June had it return $1.2 billion to investors and pay an $18.5 million penalty.

The code was open source, so it didn't die with Telegram's involvement. Independent developers kept the network going under the name The Open Network, still TON, and its coin became known as Toncoin. So the rename brings back the name from the white paper, now that Telegram is closely involved with the network again.

The name never fully left, either. The white paper divides one Gram into a billion nanograms, and the protocol's own data definitions still call the amounts that TON messages carry nanograms. In the words of the official announcement, Gram has never left the codebase.

The new logo

Gram has its own logo: a blue gem, the brand colour #30A1F5, with a white four-pointed sparkle on it. TON's media kit describes it as "a white star on a blue diamond". The TON blockchain logo stays as it was. The gem stands for the coin, and the TON logo still stands for the network.

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Exchanges, wallets and apps

The plan was a coordinated switch at 12:00 UTC today. In practice, apps will update over the coming days, so you may still see TON, Toncoin or the old logo for a while. Some projects are expected to show "Gram (prev. Toncoin)" during the transition so nobody gets confused. None of this affects what you hold: the label is changing, not the coin.

Exchanges have their own timetables, so check the notice from yours. Binance, for example, announced on June 12 that it will convert TON to GRAM for its users at 1:1. Its TON spot pairs are set to be delisted on June 30 at 03:00 UTC, and GRAM spot trading is set to open on July 2 at 08:00 UTC. Binance does the conversion itself, but it also has a list of things to look at before those dates, such as margin positions and Earn products. If you hold coins on an exchange, read its notice.

The scam this rename invites

Every rename or rebrand in crypto attracts fake "migration" pages, and this one was flagged before the vote even closed. The official warning, posted with the vote on June 1: "Any site, bot, or link asking you to 'claim GRAM' or 'migrate TON' is a scam."

What that looks like in practice:

• A bot or a channel says you must "migrate" your TON before a deadline or lose it.
• A site asks you to connect your wallet and sign a transaction to "receive your GRAM".
• A "support agent" in your DMs offers to handle the swap for you and asks for your seed phrase.
• An "airdrop" promises bonus GRAM to early claimers.

There is nothing to claim and nothing to migrate, so every one of these is theft. Never sign a transaction you didn't start. Never type your seed phrase into anything. If you think you've already signed something, move whatever is left to a new wallet right away.

What it means in Gift Club

Gift Club takes TON. You can deposit it to an in-app TON balance and use it to open TON boxes and play games in TON mode. That balance is held by the app and counted in the same coin that was just renamed, so it is untouched: every amount stays exactly as it was, and there's nothing to do. Today the app still says TON. The labels will switch to the new name as the app updates, the same way every other app is doing it.

Gift Club will never message you asking you to "migrate" or "claim" your balance. If someone claiming to be Gift Club does, it's the scam described above.

FAQ

Do I need to do anything?

No. There is no swap, bridge, claim or migration, and no deadline. Your wallet holds the same coins it held before 12:00 UTC. If your coins are on an exchange, the exchange relabels them. Read its notice for trading dates, but you don't need to move anything.

Is my TON safe?

Yes, the rename itself changes nothing in your wallet. The real risk is the scams that come with it. Your coins are only in danger if you sign a transaction or give out your seed phrase because a "migration" page told you to.

Is Gram a new token?

No. It's the same asset under a new name, on the same ledger. 10 TON is 10 GRAM.

Is TON still the blockchain?

Yes. The blockchain is still TON, The Open Network. Only its native coin was renamed. A TON wallet is still a TON wallet, and NFTs on TON are still on TON.

What's the ticker now?

GRAM. The name is Gram and the ticker is GRAM. Expect to see TON as a ticker on some sites for a while, until everyone has updated.

Why "Gram"?

It was the coin's name in Telegram's original TON white paper and in the 2018 token sale, and the protocol has always called its smallest unit the nanogram. The rename brings that name back.

Someone is offering to migrate my TON to GRAM. Is it real?

No. It's a scam, every time. The official warning says any site, bot or link that asks you to claim GRAM or migrate TON is a scam. Block it and report it.

Does the rename change the price?

The rename changes the label, not the balances, so you hold exactly what you held before. The market sets the price as it always has. A new name doesn't make the coin worth more or less.

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