TON Strategy Reports Higher May Staking Yield as Network Upgrades Go Live

2026-06-08 12:25:00 ET

TON Strategy (NASDAQ: ) is leaning further into its role as a public-market proxy for The Open Network, pairing stronger May staking results with another round of protocol upgrades to make TON more usable at scale.

The Las Vegas-based company said preliminary May gross staking yield was about 1.48%, up from 1.39% in April. On an annualized basis, the May figure represented roughly 17.80%, compared with 16.7% a month earlier. As of May 31, TON Strategy held about 227.5 million Toncoin (CRYPTO: ), with approximately 226.8 million TON staked.

The update puts staking economics back at the center of TON Strategy’s treasury pitch. The company has been positioning itself around long-term Toncoin accumulation, staking rewards and participation in TON governance, while still operating legacy commerce businesses including MARKET.live and LyveCom.

TON Strategy also said it voted in favour of approved TON network configuration changes that went live on June 4. The upgrades are designed to improve performance, throughput, scalability, validator efficiency and security without changing validation rewards or the staking mechanics behind the company’s treasury operations.

The upgrade package includes TVM 14, validation optimizations, a block sync overlay, expanded validation capacity, validator infrastructure improvements and added resource controls. In practical terms, the changes are meant to help validators process and share activity more efficiently as the network prepares for higher-volume use cases.

CEO Kevin Wilson said the updates make TON “faster, more reliable and more usable as activity grows,” pointing to applications tied to the Telegram ecosystem as a major focus.

For TON Strategy, the announcement adds another operating signal beyond simply holding a large token balance. Staking yield, validator influence and protocol-level upgrades now sit together in the company’s public-market story.

The next test is whether those network improvements translate into more developer activity, more transaction demand and a stronger case for TON as a treasury asset.

TON Strategy Company (NASDAQ: TONX) is currently trading at $3.23 U.S. per share.