Toncoin

The native cryptocurrency of TON Ecosystem is Toncoin. Transaction fees, gas fees, and storage fees are paid in Toncoin. Toncoin is used for staking to become a validator.

• The process of making Toncoin payments is described in Payments processing.
• You can find where to buy or exchange Toncoin on the Toncoin page.

Toncoin currency architecture

Toncoin is integrated into the base layer of the TON blockchain protocol.

account$1 addr:MsgAddressInt storage_stat:StorageInfo
          storage:AccountStorage = Account;

account_storage$_ last_trans_lt:uint64
    balance:CurrencyCollection state:AccountState 
  = AccountStorage;
  

Each account has an associated balance in nanoTON (1 TON = 1,000,000,000 nanoTON). Thanks to this account, keep own balance even without a deployed contract.

See also

• Asset processing overview

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