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A name change 81 percent of voters wanted

The Open Network just closed a chapter and opened an old one at the same time. The community voted. The results are in. With 81.22 percent approval, the native token formerly known as Toncoin is now called Gram. The ticker flips from TON to GRAM. The logo gets a fresh look. The blockchain underneath does not change at all.

If you hold Toncoin, you now hold Gram. Same balance. Same wallet. Same staking position. No migration form to fill out. No swap deadline to stress over. No shady bridge link to click. The entire transition is cosmetic, deliberate, and already in motion.

The vote that made it official

Voting opened on June 1 and closed on June 8. The TON Vote platform, the network's native governance tool, handled the process. An 81.22 percent majority is not a squeaker. It is a mandate. The community wanted this.

The name Gram carries weight for anyone who followed the early days of Telegram's crypto ambitions. Before regulatory hurdles forced a pivot, the original Telegram Open Network planned to launch a token called Gram. That project got shelved. The community picked up the pieces and built The Open Network independently. Toncoin became the name almost by default. Calling it Gram now is a callback. A homecoming. A signal that the community remembers the roots.

What changes and what absolutely does not

The scope of this rebrand is surprisingly narrow. That is by design. The core team and community leaders made sure nobody would wake up confused.

What changes:

• The token name shifts from Toncoin to Gram
• The ticker changes from TON to GRAM
• The visual logo gets updated

What stays exactly the same:

• Wallet addresses
• Token balances
• Smart contracts
• NFT holdings
• Staking positions
• DeFi liquidity
• The blockchain name, still The Open Network

The coordinated switch flipped at 12:00 UTC on June 15. Exchanges, wallet providers, and ecosystem projects were expected to update their interfaces simultaneously. By June 22, the expectation is full consistency across every platform that touches the token.

Why Gram and why now

Tokens change names for all kinds of reasons. Some are forced. Legal pressure. Rebrands after hacks. Mergers that demand a new ticker. This one is different. It is elective. The community chose to reclaim a name that was taken from them by circumstances years ago.

Gram was supposed to be the fuel of a decentralized ecosystem built by Telegram. The SEC stepped in. The project unraveled. The open-source community, the kind of people who build not because they are paid but because they believe, kept working. The Open Network rose from that effort. Calling the token Gram closes a loop that has been open since 2020.

There is also a practical branding argument. Gram is shorter. Punchier. Easier to say. It sounds like something you might actually use to pay for something. Toncoin always sounded a bit corporate, a bit placeholder. Gram sounds like a currency.

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Here is what fascinates us about this vote. A token rename is usually top-down. A foundation decides. A CEO announces. The community deals with it. This went the other direction. The vote happened. The majority spoke. The ecosystem followed.

That might seem like a small distinction. It is not. Governance in crypto is mostly theater. Whale wallets swing votes. Proposals pass with single-digit turnout. The TON community just ran a vote with genuine participation and a clear outcome, then executed on it cleanly. No drama. No fork. No splinter group insisting on keeping the old ticker. That kind of coordination is rare. It signals a community that is cohesive enough to make decisions and mature enough to move forward together.

The Gram name also reframes the narrative for newcomers. Toncoin meant nothing to most people. Gram comes with a story attached. The token that was banned, then reborn. The community that refused to quit. That story sells itself.

What users should actually do

Nothing. That is the beauty of it. No action is required. Your tokens are not changing under the hood. They never were. The metadata is updating. The label on the bottle is different. The contents are identical.

If you use a major exchange, you will likely see the ticker update automatically. If you use a self-custody wallet, you might need to wait for an app update that reflects the new name. The balance will not change. The value will not change. The smart contracts will not stop working. DeFi protocols built on TON will continue operating as they always have. Your NFTs remain yours. Your staking rewards keep accruing.

The only minor friction is mental. You will need to retrain your brain to look for GRAM instead of TON on price trackers and exchange order books. Give it a week. The old ticker will start feeling foreign faster than you think.

A rare clean transition

Crypto has a long history of messy rebrands. Token swaps that require impossible deadlines. Migration contracts that get exploited. Exchanges that drag their feet. Users who miss the memo and panic. This transition has been the opposite of all that.

No swap means no smart contract risk. No claim process means no phishing sites to worry about. A coordinated exchange update means no liquidity fragmentation. The simplicity is almost boring. Boring is beautiful in an industry that often mistakes chaos for innovation.

The Open Network just proved that decentralized communities can execute clean, coordinated changes at scale. Gram is the token now. The blockchain keeps running. The builders keep building. The nameplate changed, but the engine under the hood was always community-owned. That part has been true since the beginning.