Every time I make a swap on STONfi, the transaction goes to the network and gets confirmed in a couple of seconds. During those seconds a verification takes place, handled by validators. And everything depends on how they work: speed, security, and commission.

Validators in TON are nodes that confirm blocks of transactions. They are not appointed from above but selected based on proof-of-stake. To become a validator, a certain amount of $GRAM must be staked. If a validator behaves dishonestly, their stake gets burned. This is the basic protection mechanism against fraud.

How confirmation works. When I send a transaction through STONfi, it enters a queue. Validators check that I have enough funds, that the signature is correct, that there is no double spending. Then the block with my transaction is added to the chain and confirmed by other validators. In TON this process is accelerated through sharding: different validator groups process different shards in parallel.

Why they can be trusted. On one hand, economics: an attack on the network would require enormous costs exceeding the potential gain. On the other hand, decentralization: validators are spread across the world, they have no single control center, and collusion between them is technically extremely difficult.

For a STONfi user all of this is invisible. Pressed a button, got the result. But behind this simplicity stands an architecture that eliminates the need to trust any single entity. Trust is distributed among many independent participants, each of whom is interested in honest work.