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This week's spotlight goes to a pool that keeps earning its place at the top.
The STON/USDt pool on STON.fi.
This week's numbers
TVL: $850,100Volume 24h: $22,510Pool APR 30d: 8.67%Boost Farm APR: 34.87% with x2 multiplier potentialFee tier: 0.2%
Why this pool this week
The reserve balance tells the first story.
STON at $424.91K. USDt at $425.19K.
Nearly perfect equilibrium on a pool approaching $900K in TVL. Traders moving through both directions consistently. Neither side being drained. Structure holding steady while capital keeps accumulating.
Then there's the yield structure.
Two income streams. One position.
Trading fees from every swap at 0.2% distributed automatically to liquidity providers. Farm rewards from staking LP tokens on top. 30 day APR at 8.67% generated entirely from real trading activity.
Not emissions. Not promises. Real volume generating real yield.
With Boost Farm APR at 34.87% and x2 multiplier potential the full earning picture becomes genuinely compelling for anyone considering liquidity provision on TON right now.
What makes this pool worth watching
Consistency.
TVL grown from $555K to nearly $900K over time. Volume moved from $5.29K daily to $22.51K. Reserve staying balanced through every stage of that growth.
No campaign drove it. No announcement inflated it.
Just organic capital accumulation doing exactly what healthy pool growth looks like.
Which pool should I cover next week? Drop it in the comments.
#TON #DeFi #STONfi

How an 83% fee cut on STON.fi reveals something much bigger about where TON is actually headed.
"Vision without execution is just hallucination."
The Pattern Nobody Is Connecting
In crypto we are surrounded by roadmaps. Every project has one. Every chain publishes one. Most of them exist to generate excitement during a raise and collect dust afterward while the team pivots, delays or quietly rewrites the timeline hoping nobody notices.
TON is doing something different. And the fee cut that just landed on STON.fi is the proof.
Let me connect the dots that most people are missing.
Phase 1 — Catchain 2.0
A few months ago TON dropped Catchain 2.0. Block time went from approximately 2.5 seconds to 400 milliseconds. Transactions settling in under one second. The network became one of the fastest layer 1 blockchains in existence practically overnight.
That was Phase 1. Promised. Delivered. On schedule.
Phase 2 — Fees Cut by 83%
As of today swapping on STON.fi costs approximately $0.0065 per transaction. Before this update that number sat at $0.039. That is an 83% reduction in the cost of every single swap executed on the leading DEX of the TON ecosystem.
Phase 2. Promised. Delivered. On schedule.
Two milestones. Two deliveries. No excuses. No delays. No rebranding the roadmap to hide missed targets.
Just execution.
"The true measure of any team is not what they promise in a bull market. It is what they deliver when nobody is watching."
What This Actually Means For You
I want to make this practical because the numbers matter here.
If you are an active liquidity provider on STON.fi managing your position regularly entering pools, rebalancing, swapping between pairs you could easily execute 20 to 30 transactions weekly. At the old fee of $0.039 that was quietly costing you $50 to $60 annually in fee drag alone. Coming straight out of your real yield before you ever counted it.
At $0.0065 per transaction that annual cost drops to roughly $8.
The difference goes back into your pocket. Not the network's. Yours.
And for traders making frequent swaps the compounding effect of this is even more significant. Cheaper execution means tighter strategies. More frequent rebalancing without fee drag killing your margins. Better net returns on every position you run.
STON.fi has already processed over $6 billion in trading volume across 27 million transactions. Every single future transaction on that volume just got 83% cheaper for the people executing them.
The Bigger Picture Worth Understanding
Here is what I keep coming back to when I think about this update.
TON has 950 million Telegram monthly active users sitting above its ecosystem. Most of them have never touched DeFi. When they eventually do and the infrastructure being built right now suggests that moment is being deliberately prepared for they are going to arrive on a network that is fast, cheap and accessible in a way no other chain has managed to pull off at scale.
Sub-second finality. Near zero fees. DeFi accessible directly from the most widely used messaging app on the planet.
STON.fi is the liquidity layer all of that lands on first.
Phase 3 is coming. I don't know exactly what it delivers. But based on the pattern TON has established so far I have a strong feeling it will arrive on time.
"While everyone debates who will win the race, some are already running it."
I am not here to tell you what to do with this information. I am here to make sure you actually have it.
The roadmap is being executed. The fees are cheaper. The infrastructure is stronger than it was 90 days ago. And we are still early enough that most people haven't connected these dots yet.
That gap between execution and narrative is usually where opportunity lives.
DYOR not financial advice. Always research before making any financial decisions.
#TON #DeFi #STONfi