# TON Network Stats: Transactions, Shards, Fees and Validators

> TON network stats by day: transactions, TPS, basechain shards, block intervals, fees and TON burned against TON issued, with validators and stake per round.

Markdown copy of https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/ton-network-stats

**Question:** How many transactions does TON process, and what do its fees and validators look like?

- Kind: Dashboard in Voltfin Vantage
- Topic: [Layer 1 chains](https://voltfincrypto.com/topics/chains)
- Chains: TON
- Status: Planned. The data is not published yet, so this page states no figure; each figure will open its receipt when it is.

TON runs a masterchain that coordinates the network and a basechain that splits into shards as load grows, and every contract processes its messages one transaction at a time. This dashboard reads the blocks of both to show how much work the network does each day: transactions, throughput, shards in use and the interval between blocks, with the fees users pay, the TON those fees burn and the validators that secure each round.

It complements the active wallets page, which counts people's wallets; here the unit is the network's work. One jetton transfer moves through several contracts and so appears as several transactions, and fees are split into compute, storage and forwarding. Each figure is pinned to the masterchain block it was read at, with a receipt.

## Blueprint

### Network

Transactions, throughput, shards in use and the interval between blocks.

- **Transactions, latest day** (count): Transactions on the latest complete UTC day across basechain shards and the masterchain.
- **Average TPS, latest day** (tx per second): The latest complete day's transactions divided by the seconds the day's masterchain blocks span.
- **Basechain shards** (count): Shardchains the basechain was split into at the latest masterchain block.
- **Masterchain block interval** (seconds): The median interval between masterchain blocks on the latest complete day.
- **Transactions by day** (count): Daily transactions over the selected period, split into basechain and masterchain.

### Fees and validators

Fees paid and TON burned against TON issued, with the validators of the current round.

- **Fees paid, latest day** (TON): Fees paid on the latest complete day, from each transaction's total fees.
- **TON burned, latest day** (TON): TON burned from fees on the latest complete day under the network's fee burning rules.
- **Validators, current round** (count): Validators in the current round, from config param 34 at the latest masterchain block.
- **TON staked, current round** (TON): TON staked by the current round's validators in the elector contract.
- **Burned against issued** (TON): TON burned in fees and TON issued as block rewards each day over the selected period, so the gap between them shows net issuance.

Filters: Period (Last 30 days, 90 days or a year).

## How it will be measured

- Transactions are counted from every basechain shard block and masterchain block per UTC day, with the masterchain counted apart; a TON transaction is one account processing one incoming message, so one user action that passes through several contracts counts several times.
- Fees are each transaction's total fees, split into the compute, storage, action and forwarding parts its transaction description records.
- TON burned is the share of fees that the network configuration's burning rules destroy, and TON issued is the block reward the configuration sets per masterchain and basechain block, summed over the day's blocks.
- Validators and their stakes are read from config param 34 and the elector contract for each validation round, and every figure carries a receipt with the masterchain block it was read at.

## Data it needs

- `chain_activity_daily` (to build): Transactions, active sending addresses, new addresses, contracts created and gas used on each chain per day, counted from blocks and transactions.
- `chain_fees_daily` (to build): Fees paid per chain per day in the native token: base fee and priority fee percentiles, total fees, and the share burned where the chain burns fees.
- `staking_networks_daily` (to build): Staked supply, staking ratio, validators and nominal rewards per proof-of-stake network per day.
- Source: Masterchain blocks and the shard blocks they reference: transactions, messages, shard identifiers and timestamps
- Source: Transaction descriptions: total fees with the compute, storage, action and forwarding phases
- Source: Network configuration at each masterchain block: param 34 for current validators, param 14 for block rewards and the fee burning settings
- Source: The elector contract's stakes and payouts for each validation round

## Questions

### Why does one TON action create several transactions?

TON contracts talk by messages. A jetton transfer, for example, is a message to the sender's jetton wallet, which messages the receiver's jetton wallet, which may notify the receiver; each step is a separate transaction on a separate account. Transaction counts on TON therefore run higher than the number of user actions.

### What are TON shards?

The basechain splits into shardchains when load rises and merges them when it falls, each processing a range of accounts in parallel, while the masterchain records the latest block of every shard. The shard count tile shows how many shards the basechain runs at the latest masterchain block.

### How fast are TON blocks?

The Catchain 2.0 consensus upgrade in April 2026 made TON produce blocks several times faster and brought finality close to one second. The dashboard measures the actual interval between masterchain blocks each day rather than quoting the design target.

### Is TON burned?

Part of every fee is. Since 2023 the network configuration burns half of transaction fees and passes the rest to validators, who also receive new TON for every block. Because rewards are paid per block, faster blocks raise issuance, which is why the dashboard sets the burn against new TON each day.

### Who are TON validators?

Validators lock TON in the elector contract to join each validation round, and the network configuration lists the current set and each validator's weight. Many stake through nominator pools that gather TON from holders. The dashboard reads the set and the stakes for every round.

## Glossary

- **Masterchain**: TON's coordinating chain, which holds the network configuration, the validator set and the latest block of every shard.
- **Shardchain**: A part of the basechain that processes a range of accounts; shards split and merge as load changes.
- **Elector contract**: The masterchain contract that runs validator elections, holds their stakes and pays their rewards.
- **Config parameter**: A numbered setting in TON's network configuration, such as param 34 for the current validators, changed only by validator vote.

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