TON Just Got 10x Faster. Here's What That Means for Your RPC Stack

On April 10th, TON activated Catchain 2.0 on mainnet. Block time dropped from 2.5 seconds to 400 milliseconds. Finality dropped from 10 seconds to approximately one second. Pavel Durov called it step one of seven in a structured upgrade roadmap. Most coverage focused on the speed numbers. This post focuses on something most developers haven't thought about yet: what a 10x performance upgrade does to your infrastructure stack. What Actually Changed Under the Hood Catchain 2.0 is a complete replac