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On June 15, 2026, at 12:00 UTC, Toncoin’s TON ticker became GRAM — completing a rebranding that started with an 81.22% community vote and a short announcement from Pavel Durov. The blockchain didn’t change. Your wallet balance didn’t change. But the name on every exchange, wallet, and price tracker is now different, and not every platform has made the switch at the same time.
This is a guide to the TON to GRAM rebranding: what changed, what didn’t, which exchanges are already live with GRAM, and which ones are still running the TON ticker.with GRAM, and which ones you’ll still see listing TON for a few more weeks.
CoinMarketCap note: CMC hosts a separate, unrelated token also named “Gram” under the ticker GRM. If checking CMC, confirm you are on UCID 11419 – that is the TON native asset. CoinGecko’s page (“Gram (prev. Toncoin)”) avoids this confusion.
From GRAM to TON – and Back Again
The name GRAM wasn’t invented in 2026. It was the original name Telegram gave to its token in its 2018 whitepaper, when the company planned to raise $1.7 billion and build a blockchain natively integrated into the messaging app. The vision was ambitious — a payment layer for 500 million users, with GRAM as the currency.
The SEC had other plans. In 2019, the regulator filed an emergency action against Telegram, arguing GRAM constituted an unregistered securities offering. By 2020, Telegram settled: it returned more than $1.2 billion to investors and paid an $18.5 million penalty, then walked away from the project entirely. The name GRAM was quietly dropped. The community that had been building on the codebase took it over and relaunched it as The Open Network with the token renamed Toncoin, with the ticker TON.
Six years later, Durov is reclaiming the original name. The TON to GRAM rebranding is step four of seven in what the team calls the MTONGA roadmap. Steps five through seven have not been announced.
What the Toncoin Rebranding Actually Changes
This is the most important section for anyone who held TON going into June 15.
What changed:
- Token name: Toncoin → Gram
- Ticker symbol: TON → GRAM
- Logo and visual identity
What did not change:
- The blockchain itself (still called The Open Network, still abbreviated TON)
- Your wallet address
- Your token balance — 10 TON became 10 GRAM at a fixed 1:1 ratio
- Smart contracts and DeFi positions
- Staking rewards and validator infrastructure
No migration, no swap, no claim page, no bridge. The conversion happened automatically at the protocol level. If you held TON in a self-custody wallet, you now hold GRAM. If you held it on an exchange, you either already see GRAM or you will see it once that exchange completes its own rollout.
Scam warning: Any site, bot, or message asking you to “claim GRAM,” “convert TON to GRAM,” or “migrate” your tokens is fraudulent. No legitimate migration step exists. Never connect a wallet to a “claim” page or share your seed phrase.
Exchange Status as of June 26, 2026
✅ Exchanges That Have Completed the Switch to GRAM
Bitget moved fastest. The exchange delisted all TON spot pairs at 10:00 UTC on June 15 — two hours before the official protocol switch — and relisted them under the GRAM ticker at 12:00 UTC the same day.
KuCoin began suspending TON copy trading ahead of the switch, halting TON/USDT trading on June 14. GRAM pairs are now live.
MEXC confirmed the switch on June 15. Balances were converted 1:1 and GRAM pairs went live on the official rebrand date.
HTX (formerly Huobi) published rebranding support and updated its markets to reflect the GRAM ticker around the rebrand date.
ChangeNOW, SimpleSwap, and other instant swap services updated their listings quickly given their infrastructure doesn’t require the same level of market reconstruction that order-book exchanges do.
Upbit Korea, one of the top five global exchanges by volume, launched GRAM spot trading on its BTC and USDT markets on June 19, 2026, exposing the token to one of the most active retail crypto markets in the world.
Bybit completed its transition on June 22, 2026 at 6:00 AM UTC, as scheduled. All TON spot pairs (TON/USDT, TON/USDC, TON/EUR) were delisted on June 16; balances were automatically converted 1:1 during the suspension window; GRAM deposits, withdrawals, and spot trading are now fully live.
Mudrex suspended TON trading on June 15 and resumed GRAM trading on June 23, 2026.
Crypto.com suspended TON trading, deposits, and withdrawals on June 24, 2026. TON balances are being converted to GRAM at 1:1. Check the Crypto.com announcement page for the confirmed date GRAM trading resumes.
⏳ Exchanges Still Running the TON Ticker
Binance, the largest exchange by volume, has published a firm timeline but has not yet made the switch. All existing TON spot trading pairs — TON/FDUSD, TON/IDR, TON/TRY, TON/U, TON/USD1, TON/USDC, and TON/USDT — Binance will delist at 3:00 AM UTC on June 30. All open orders Binance will automatically cancel at that point.
GRAM trading pairs — seven pairs at launch on on July 2, 2026. Deposits and withdrawals of TON will also close on June 30, with GRAM services reopening on July 2. Binance users do not need to take any action; the 1:1 conversion is handled automatically by the exchange.
Note: Binance Futures already closed all TONUSDT perpetual positions on June 23, 2026 at 09:00 UTC. If you had open futures positions on Binance, the exchange settled those then.
What This Means If You’re Trading or Swapping Right Now
As of June 26, the picture is clearer than it was at launch, but one major gap remains.
If your funds are on Binance, you’re still trading TON for another four days — until June 30, when the ticker goes dark and GRAM opens on July 2. That’s a 48-hour window with no spot trading available on Binance for this asset.
If your funds are on Bybit, MEXC, KuCoin, Bitget, HTX, Upbit, or most instant swap services, GRAM is already live and fully tradable.
If your funds are on Crypto.com, TON trading has been suspended since June 24 and the conversion is underway.
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Why the GRAM Name Matters Beyond the Ticker
The rebranding is cosmetic in the technical sense — no new token, no migration. But the choice to reclaim GRAM is not accidental, and understanding why it matters gives context to where the TON ecosystem is heading.
GRAM was always the name Telegram intended for a payments layer inside the world’s fifth-largest messaging app. The SEC blocked that vision in 2020. The community rebuilt it independently under the TON and Toncoin names. Now, with Telegram having nearly 950 million monthly active users, acting as the network’s largest validator, and Durov openly discussing deeper ecosystem integration, the return of the GRAM name signals an intent to pick up where the original vision left off.
Bitcoin pioneer Adam Back publicly questioned aspects of the token supply model at the time of the rebrand. The broader community remains divided: some see the name change as a meaningful identity restoration; others treat it as a marketing exercise. What isn’t debated is that GRAM now carries the same on-chain infrastructure, validator network, and developer ecosystem that TON built over the past four years.
FAQ: TON to GRAM Rebranding
No. The conversion happened automatically at 1:1 on June 15, 2026. If you held TON, you now hold GRAM. No swap, migration, or claim is required. Any site or bot claiming otherwise is a scam.
No. It is the same asset — same contract, same chain, same balances. Only the name, ticker, and logo changed.
No. Staking rewards, validator positions, and smart contract interactions are unaffected by the rebrand.
As of June 26, Binance is the only major exchange still on the TON ticker. TON pairs delist there on June 30; GRAM trading opens July 2. All other major exchanges have completed the switch. Check your exchange’s official announcement for its specific timeline.
No. CMC hosts a separate, unrelated proof-of-work token also named Gram, ticker GRM, worth a fraction of a cent. We check that TON native asset is listed under UCID 11419 on CMC. CoinGecko’s Gram page (“Gram (prev. Toncoin)”) is a safer reference that avoids this confusion.
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