The TON Core team will roll out updates in the first half of 2025, including: a large "accelerator" kernel update on the mainnet; new tools for validators; improved Toncenter API (operations, pending, emulation, domains); user experience improvements + collaboration with community products; release of Payment Network Layer 2; sidechain research; new features in TOLK 1.0 (structures, pattern matching, smart contracts); support for $TON $BTC Teleport; new standards (pending TX ID, secure signatures, multi-account generation).