PANews reported on June 2nd that, according to The Block, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that The Open Network's (TON) native cryptocurrency will be renamed Gram, restoring the name from the project's original white paper, as part of his "Make TON Great Again" initiative. Durov stated that this is "a return to the roots, a new chapter." TON will remain the blockchain name, while Gram will become the native currency name, with a transition period of approximately three weeks. This renaming is the fourth step in Durov's seven-step MTOGA plan, which has already included network upgrades (claiming "ten times faster"), a reduction in transaction fees by approximately six times, and the announcement that Telegram will replace the TON Foundation as the primary administrator and largest validator of the ecosystem.

The name Gram was originally the name Telegram's blockchain project gave to its native cryptocurrency. Telegram launched the project in 2018, but abandoned it in 2020 due to a lawsuit filed by the SEC. Independent developers then took over and continued development under the name TON.