TON Settles 6,000x Faster Than Bitcoin, Pavel Durov Claims

Telegram founder Pavel Durov shared data showing The Open Network (TON) finalizes transactions in 0.6 seconds. That places TON first among Layer 1 blockchains, far ahead of Bitcoin (BTC), which takes about an hour to settle. The numbers arrive weeks after TON’s mainnet upgrade dropped finality below one second. Telegram has also tightened its operational