KTON Staking · May 16, 2025
Step-by-Step: How to Stake TON in Under 5 Minutes
What staking and liquid staking are, and how to stake TON with KTON on the web or in Telegram in under five minutes, step by step.
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The team treasury for TON. A multisig wallet on the official, audited contract, on the web and inside Telegram.
About TONX
Founded in 2021, TONX builds on-chain finance infrastructure, staking solutions, and secure multisig wallets — transforming information flow into financial flow for billions.
Milestones & Achievements
2021
Joined the NEWTON team, now known as TON Core.
2022
Launched TonStake, the first Gram PoS staking pool, reaching over $40M in assets under management. Began collaboration with the TON Foundation.
2023
Launched Tonkey, the first multi-signature wallet on TON, now securing over $100M in assets. Co-hosted Hack-a-TONx, the TON Foundation’s first global hackathon, spanning 14 cities worldwide.
2024
Launched TONX API, which grew to serve 20+ institutions and 21,000+ users globally.
2025
Upgraded TonStake into KTON, pioneering Liquid Staking V2 as the officially recognized vested Gram solution by Telegram, TON Foundation, and TON Core. Expanding TON's reach from Asia to the United States.
2026
Aligned KTON with TON's rebrand of its native asset to Gram, updating the protocol's branding to match the network's new standard.
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Q&A
Founded in 2021 by Dr. Awesome Doge, an early contributor to NEWTON (now TON Core), TONX (TONX Studio) has been part of TON's journey since the testnet stage and is the earliest certified partner of the TON Foundation in the Asia-Pacific region.
As an on-chain finance infrastructure provider and leading venture studio, TONX has incubated TON's first multi-sig wallet, funded early ecosystem projects, organized the first TON hackathon in East Asia, developed the SuperApp platform layer that powers Telegram's billions of users, and connected institutions to the TON ecosystem through secure and battle-tested financial infrastructure.
TONX (TONX Studio) was founded by Dr. Awesome Doge—an early TON miner, validator expert, and long-time contributor to the NEWTON team.
Since 2013, he has been one of the earliest Bitcoin scholars in Asia and a cypherpunk advocate, with research spanning Bitcoin, AI, and anonymous networks. Since 2021, he has served as one of 24 exclusive TON Testnet core validators in Asia-Pacific and operated advanced nominator systems, bringing institutional-grade infrastructure and risk management expertise to lead the TONX team.
TONX staking solutions are backed by 4+ years of validator expertise and delivered through KTON, offering three specialized products: KTON Liquid Staking enables retail users to earn staking rewards while maintaining liquidity for DeFi opportunities. KTON Single Nominator provides institutions with secure, straightforward staking for long-term positions. KTON Premium, our flagship product, combines security with flexible reward withdrawals and comprehensive analytics for institutional investors, fund managers, exchanges, and digital asset treasuries (DATs) with TON vesting contracts.
No. TONX (TONX Studio, domain tonx.ai) is not a publicly traded company. It is an on-chain infrastructure provider founded in 2021 and based in Asia. In contrast, TON Strategy (NASDAQ: TONX, formerly VERB) is a U.S.-listed company and a separate entity.
Open app.kton.io or the KTON Telegram Mini App, connect any wallet that supports TON Connect, and deposit Gram. You instantly receive KTON, a liquid staking token that auto-compounds staking rewards and stays transferable while you hold it. To get your Gram back, unstake through the protocol. The minimum stake is 1 Gram.
Funds, treasuries and holders of TON vesting contracts can use KTON Premium, the institutional-grade staking solution.
With native staking on TON, your Gram is committed to validators and cannot be used elsewhere until it is withdrawn. With liquid staking, you deposit Gram into a staking pool and receive a token that represents your stake. The token keeps earning staking rewards and can be held, transferred or used in TON DeFi in the meantime. KTON is the liquid staking protocol incubated by TONX; its contracts are open source and audited by TonBit.
TonStake was TONX's original Gram staking pool. In 2025 it was upgraded into KTON, pioneering Liquid Staking V2 on TON. TonStake users can continue staking Gram through KTON at kton.io.
Tonkey is the team treasury for TON: a multisig wallet where teams hold Gram, jettons and NFTs together, and nothing moves until enough signers approve. It is built on the official, audited multisig contract and works on the web and inside Telegram.