LAS VEGAS, May 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TON Strategy Company ("TON Strategy" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:TONX), a digital asset treasury company dedicated to supporting the TON ecosystem, today spotlighted the recent introduction of Acton, a new integrated developer toolchain for The Open Network ("TON"). Acton is designed to simplify how developers build, test, debug, deploy and audit TON-based smart contract applications and is intended to support the next generation of AI-native and agentic applications on the TON blockchain.

Acton is a unified development environment built around Tolk, TON's smart contract language, and includes tooling focused on testing, debugging, transaction inspection, contract verification and deployment workflows. The launch reflects TON's broader effort to simplify and institutionalize the developer experience as the network continues to expand across wallets, payments, bots, mini apps and other consumer-scale applications integrated with the Telegram ecosystem.

TON's differentiated asynchronous, message-based architecture is designed to support scalable, high-throughput applications at consumer scale, but it also requires more advanced developer infrastructure than many traditional blockchains. Acton is intended to help streamline that complexity by providing a more integrated framework for application development, testing and validation purpose-built for TON. TON Strategy believes infrastructure initiatives like Acton are increasingly important as the ecosystem evolves toward more automated and AI-native applications that require greater reliability, observability and developer confidence at scale.

Combined with Telegram's global distribution, wallet infrastructure, bots and mini app ecosystem, developer platforms like Acton represent another important step in expanding TON's long-term utility, strengthening developer adoption and supporting broader ecosystem growth.

"TON Strategy Company primarily participates at the foundational network layer through staking and governance activities that help secure the TON blockchain," said Kevin Wilson, CEO of TON Strategy Company. "But long-term ecosystem growth will also depend on continued innovation at the application layer. Developer tooling like Acton is important because it can make TON easier to build on, test and scale — particularly as AI-native and autonomous applications begin to require more reliable blockchain infrastructure. We fully support that journey."

TON Strategy believes Acton is a relevant example of the type of ecosystem development needed to make the TON network easier to build on, more accessible to developers and better positioned for broader application adoption over time.

About TON Strategy Company

TON Strategy Company (NASDAQ:TONX) is focused on the accumulation of $TON – the native cryptocurrency of Telegram's billion-user platform – for long-term investment, whether acquired through deployment of proceeds from capital raising activity, staking rewards or via open market purchases. The Company aims to steadily expand its $TON holdings, stake $TON, and support the development of a tokenized economy inside Telegram.

In addition, the Company continues to operate legacy business units, including MARKET.live, a multi-vendor livestream shopping platform, and LyveCom, an AI-powered social commerce innovator that enables brands and merchants to deliver omnichannel livestream shopping experiences across websites, apps, and social platforms.

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TON Strategy Company Highlights Launch of Acton Developer Toolchain for the TON Ecosystem