TON announced its update plan for the first half of 2025, intending to launch the L2 payment network

The TON Core team will launch updates in the first half of 2025, including: a major "accelerator" kernel update on the mainnet; new tools for validators; improved Toncenter API (operation, pending, simulation, domain); user experience improvements + collaboration with community products; release of Payment Network Layer 2 (L2); sidechain research; new features of TOLK 1.0 (structure, pattern matching, smart contracts); support for $TON $BTC Teleport; new standards (pending TX ID, secure signatures, multi-account generation).