Ethereum was the main DeFi platform for a long time, but its problems are known: gas spikes during peak hours, transactions hang, the network gets congested. TON ($GRAM ) was built differently from the start, and STONfi as the main exchange of the network shows what that means in practice.

The first thing you notice is swap speed. While on Ethereum a transaction can hang for minutes waiting for confirmation, on STONfi a swap goes through in a couple of seconds. The reason is sharding. TON splits the load between parallel chains, and swaps do not compete for block space with transfers or games. Each shard is busy with its own task.

The second is commission predictability. On Ethereum the gas price depends on demand: more users — higher fees. STONfi runs on a network where the commission is stable under almost any load. You can know in advance how much will be deducted, and it does not change after the fact. For DeFi this matters because the economics of operations become calculable.

The third is the entry barrier. Ethereum requires a wallet, extensions, understanding of technical details. STONfi opens right from Telegram. The messenger audience is nearly a billion people, and each of them is already potentially inside the TON ecosystem. No extra apps, no complicated setups.