Telegram Founder Durov: TON Blockchain Leads in Final Block Confirmation Time Among L1s
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, stated that the TON blockchain leads in final block confirmation time among L1 public chains.
The final confirmation time for TON is approximately 0.6 seconds, faster than mainstream L1 public chains like Avalanche (about 1 second) and BNB Chain (about 1.1 seconds), while Ethereum takes about 13 minutes and Bitcoin about 1 hour.
This speed advantage gives TON significant competitiveness in high-frequency trading, payments, and real-time application scenarios, further enhancing its appeal as the infrastructure of the Telegram ecosystem.
Source: Public Information
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Pavel Durov has been promoting the TON ecosystem since 2024, continuously emphasizing performance linked to Telegram's 900 million users. This public comparison of confirmation times reinforces the positioning of TON as "not just a Layer-1, but a native chain of Telegram." Previously, TON achieved high TPS and low latency through Sharding and asynchronous architecture.
In terms of capital pathways, TON will direct developer and user traffic from Telegram Mini Apps to on-chain payments, gaming, and social scenarios, reducing user friction through extreme confirmation speeds while attracting high-frequency DeFi and RWA projects, forming a closed loop of "users-traffic-on-chain activities-token demand."
Similar to how Solana attracted meme and DeFi explosions through high TPS and Avalanche focused on subnet speeds, TON is currently in an accelerated phase of transforming the Telegram ecosystem from a social tool to a high-performance payment and application-layer blockchain.
Essentially, this is a technological replacement: TON's 0.6-second final confirmation time replaces the long waiting times of traditional L1s, shifting capital from the "slow chain high security" paradigm to "fast chain practicality first." Mechanically, it lowers the actual usage threshold through asynchronous consensus and optimized architecture, promoting the structural shift of blockchain from speculative assets to everyday infrastructure.
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Final confirmation time is not just a parameter, but a threshold for whether users are willing to use it daily. No matter how high the TPS, if confirmation takes several minutes, it is merely a laboratory toy. The truly killer chain is the one that completely removes "waiting" from the user experience.