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).