What Toncoin Holders Should Do During the Gram Rebrand: A Checklist

After the Toncoin → Gram rebrand announcement on June 1, 2026, the main question worrying holders is: “what do I need to do?” The short answer is almost nothing. This is not a migration, not a fork, not a token swap. It’s a rename of an already-existing asset.

That said, there are five specific steps worth taking over the next three weeks — to avoid phishing and not miss important UI updates. About 10 minutes total.

Step 1: verify you hold native TON, not the jetton GRAM

This is the first and most important step. After June 1, the TON ecosystem has two different assets with the GRAM ticker:

• Native Gram (formerly Toncoin) — the network’s primary coin, ~$5 each
• Jetton Gram — a community token from 2024, ~$0.001 each

If you bought through a major exchange (Bybit, OKX, Binance, MEXC, Bitget), you almost certainly hold native Toncoin. But verify:

1. Open Tonkeeper or MyTonWallet.
2. Look at the main wallet screen.
3. If your TON balance is the large number at the top (no jetton icon) — that’s native.
4. If your balance sits in the token list below the native balance, with its own icon — that’s the jetton.

Detailed guide on distinguishing them: native Gram vs Gram jetton.

Step 2: confirm your seed phrase exists and works

The rebrand is an excellent prompt to actually verify your seed phrase works. Most people write a seed down “somewhere” and never test it. Rebrand windows attract a wave of “migration” phishing sites — if you fall for one, your only fallback is restoring from a real seed.

What to do:

1. Find where you wrote the seed.
2. Install Tonkeeper or MyTonWallet on another device (or uninstall and reinstall on the same one after confirming the seed).
3. Restore from the seed phrase.
4. Verify the balance matches what you had.

If the seed works — great, you have an insurance policy. If it doesn’t, immediately move all funds to a new wallet with a freshly written, freshly verified seed.

Step 3: update wallets via official channels

Over the next 1–3 weeks, wallets will ship updates with GRAM-ticker support:

• Tonkeeper (iOS, Android, Web) — via App Store, Google Play, tonkeeper.com
• MyTonWallet (iOS, Android, browser extension) — via mytonwallet.io
• Tonhub (iOS, Android) — via tonhub.com or app stores
• Wallet in Telegram — updates automatically, no user action

There’s no rush. If your wallet hasn’t updated within a week, that’s fine — the UI just temporarily shows “TON” instead of “GRAM,” with no functional impact.

Step 4: curate your information sources

During rebrands, noise and misinformation flood in. Unsubscribe from low-signal channels and follow trusted ones:

Official sources:

• @durov — Pavel Durov’s personal channel
• @ton_blockchain — official TON Foundation channel
• @toncoin — official Twitter mirror
• ton.org — official site

Honest journalism on TON:

• @ton_adoption — our channel, signal-only
• BeInCrypto, CryptoBriefing, Unchained — English-language
• The Block, Decrypt — for institutional context

What to avoid:

• Channels promising to “save your Toncoin” or “help with migration”
• DMs from unknown accounts
• Any “secret pre-sale Gram” channels
• DMs from “support” — legitimate support teams NEVER message first

Step 5: review where you hold your Gram

The rebrand isn’t a reason to urgently rearrange anything, but it’s a good prompt to think about distribution. Basic questions:

Holding on an exchange?

If you have more on a CEX than you can afford to lose in an exchange failure, move it to self-custody. Best options at the time of writing:

• Tonkeeper — mainstream choice, balance of UX and security
• MyTonWallet — open source, more advanced
• Ledger + Tonkeeper — for large sums (see Ledger setup guide)

Holding self-custody only?

The main question is where the seed lives. Best practice:

• Paper copies in two separate locations (home + safe deposit box)
• For large sums, a steel plate — fire-proof, water-proof
• Never in the cloud, messenger, or photo gallery

Detail in our guide on cold storage for TON: 2026 strategies.

Holding staking or DeFi positions?

These positions stay as they are. No withdraws, no re-deposits. If you’re staking via liquid staking (tsTON, stTON, hTON), your derivative tokens are also unchanged.

What NOT to do

The most common mistakes during rebrands:

❌ Don’t swap Toncoin for Gram via “special sites.” No swap is needed.

❌ Don’t enter your seed on “migration” or “verification” sites. Always phishing.

❌ Don’t buy “pre-listing Gram” in channels or DMs — it’s either the jetton (at a markup) or a flat scam.

❌ Don’t trust “new wallets made for Gram” in app stores. Every legitimate wallet updates via its existing app.

❌ Don’t transfer Toncoin to a “new address for Gram” — addresses don’t change.

❌ Don’t panic on price wiggles. Hot news pumps and dumps in both directions over the short term, but these moves don’t reflect changes in fundamentals.

If you already made a mistake

If you fell for phishing or entered your seed on a suspicious site:

1. Immediately create a new wallet with a new seed phrase.
2. Move all funds from the compromised wallet to the new one.
3. If the breach was earlier and funds are already gone, contact Tonkeeper support with the attacker’s address — it may be added to their blacklist.
4. If amounts are significant, there are on-chain forensics teams that can trace fund movement (recovery odds are low, but a record can help future tracing).

See our piece on drainer sites on TON and how they work — covers the technical side of these attacks and how to spot them early.

Final printable checklist

• I hold native TON, not the jetton GRAM (verified in wallet)
• I have a working seed phrase (verified by restoring on another device)
• I know which official sources to follow (durov, ton_blockchain, ton.org)
• I will not visit any “migration / swap” sites
• I will not update my wallet via links from chats — only via App Store / Google Play
• I will update my wallet when it prompts me, no sooner
• If anything looks off, I’ll open tonviewer.com and verify my address

After that — forget about the rebrand. In 2–3 weeks the UI shifts, exchange tickers become GRAM, and that’s it. No dramatic action required.

For the full breakdown of what’s changing and why, see our main explainer on Toncoin → Gram. On native vs jetton, see here.