TOP said it bought all of Tonkeeper. It hadn't, by August.

Is Keeper the same wallet as Tonkeeper — and does TOP own it?

A wallet rename usually means nothing more than new branding. Tonkeeper's 15 September 2026 switch to Keeper is different on one point that most coverage skipped: the company that announced it does not yet own the thing it renamed.

Keeper is the same wallet as Tonkeeper — same app install, same private keys, same recovery phrase — renamed on 15 September 2026 and expanded from TON-only to seven chains: TON, Bitcoin, Ethereum, TRON, BNB Chain, Arbitrum and Base . Ownership is the unsettled part. The Open Platform (TOP) announced on 28 January 2026 that it had acquired 100% of Tonkeeper, including the wallet, Tonviewer, Tonkeeper Pro and TON API . Its own 1 August 2026 update said the share purchase from co-founders Oleg Andreev and Oleg Illarionov had not yet proceeded: the two remain shareholders, TOP leads operations, and Tonkeeper stayed an independent project with its own product strategy .

Quick Answer: Keeper is Tonkeeper renamed on 15 September 2026, with the same keys and recovery phrase plus six added chains. TOP announced a 100% acquisition in January 2026, but its own 1 August 2026 update said the share purchase had not yet proceeded — the co-founders still hold shares while TOP runs operations.

The most-quoted number needs the same care. TOP's own launch post puts it at 77 million users who downloaded the wallet , the App Store listing separately claims "77 million downloads" in its own description , The Block reports "over 77 million registered users" , and TOP's own homepage banner states 75M+ downloads . No source publishes monthly active users or audited active addresses. The defensible reading: roughly 75–77 million downloads or registered accounts, not 77 million active wallets. First-party store metrics carry the same caveat: Keeper's own site claims a 4.5 App Store rating from 121,000 verified reviews and 4.6 on Google Play from 340,000 , but Apple's own listing shows that same 4.5-star average from just 3,800 ratings — a gap addressed later in this piece.

TOP's Two Statements on Tonkeeper Ownership, Side by Side

TOP has published two materially different descriptions of its relationship with Tonkeeper seven months apart, and the later one is the current-state record. On 28 January 2026, The Open Platform announced it had acquired 100% of Tonkeeper, including the wallet, Tonviewer, Tonkeeper Pro and TON API . On 1 August 2026, TOP said it had taken the lead in Tonkeeper's operational management — and clarified that the share acquisition from co-founders Oleg Andreev and Oleg Illarionov had not proceeded, leaving them as shareholders .

The January post read as a closed transaction: a full purchase of a product suite, with an explicit assurance that the deal would not affect user private-key security, privacy or storage . The August post reframed the same relationship as operational control without completed equity transfer, and described Tonkeeper as an independent project retaining its own product strategy . Neither post was retracted; the second simply supersedes the first on the question of who holds the shares.

What held constant across both statements is the security assurance. In January, TOP said the transaction would not change private-key security, privacy or storage ; the rebrand materials in September repeated that existing users keep the same app, keys, recovery phrase and channels, with TON-native functions — jettons, NFTs, staking and TON DNS — retained . The iOS listing, published by developer TON APPS UK LTD, carries the same message in its release notes: accounts and balances untouched, multichain enabled by an in-app switch .

The gap matters for one practical reason: the 15 September 2026 rebrand to Keeper and the twelve-month roadmap attached to it are being executed by an operator that does not yet hold the product outright on paper . TOP has the standing to make that call — it raised $28.5 million in an extended Series A in July 2025 led by Ribbit Capital with Pantera Capital participating, at a $1 billion valuation and total funding above $70 million , in an equity-only round with no token allocation, according to founder Andrew Rogozov . But equity and operations sitting in different hands is a governance variable, not a settled structure.

For readers, three consequences follow. First, roadmap commitments — cross-chain swaps, native DeFi, spending tools, perpetual futures — are operator commitments, and an unresolved share transfer is one plausible route to their revision . Second, Keeper now sits inside a portfolio that also holds Wallet in Telegram, STON.fi, Getgems, Tribute and Notcoin, so the self-custodial wallet and a Telegram-native custodial product share a parent . Third, none of this touches the part that determines your actual exposure: the keys stay on your device, and the recovery phrase remains yours to protect regardless of which entity controls the cap table .

What Keeper Actually Ships on Day One (and What's Still Roadmap)

Keeper shipped seven chains on launch day and nothing else that was announced alongside them. As of 15 September 2026 , the app supports TON, Bitcoin, Ethereum, TRON, BNB Chain, Arbitrum and Base . Everything else in the announcement — DeFi services, cross-chain swaps, perpetual futures, a dApp browser — carries no shipping date. Separating the two lists is the difference between an accurate picture of the product and a press release.

The shipped side is straightforward. Six networks were added alongside TON inside the existing app, and TON-native functionality was not stripped out in the process: jettons, NFTs, staking and TON DNS all remain . Multichain is opt-in rather than forced — release notes instruct existing users to switch to a multichain wallet in-app to enable TRON, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Arbitrum, Base and BSC, with accounts and balances left untouched by the update . If you do nothing, you keep a TON wallet.

The store listing is a useful sanity check that you are installing the right thing rather than a lookalike. Apple's App Store now shows the iOS app as "Keeper: Crypto Wallet," published by developer TON APPS UK LTD, filed under Finance, rated 16+, sized 202.7 MB, with 26.09.2 as the listed current version . The developer name is the continuity marker: it is the same publisher account the Tonkeeper listing carried, which is why the rename arrived as an update rather than a new install.

The roadmap side is longer than the shipped side. Over the next twelve months Keeper says it plans native DeFi services, everyday spending tools, cross-chain swaps, an integrated dApp browser, a loyalty programme and perpetual futures trading . No launch dates were attached to any of them . Complicating the read, the live site already markets "Cross-chain swaps. No bridges," a unified cross-chain address book, a fiat on/off-ramp and non-custodial staking as site copy . Marketing copy and a dated release note are not the same evidence class. Treat anything without a version number attached as unverified until you can see it in-app.

Read the roadmap as intent, not inventory. Nikita Monastyrskiy, CMO of Keeper, framed the direction as behavioural rather than technical: "The signal came from our own users. The people who trusted Tonkeeper stopped living on a single chain" (source: Decrypt, 2026-09). That explains why the chain list came first and the trading surface later.

The final gap is platform coverage, and it is the one most likely to affect day-to-day use. Keeper's own site qualifies the rollout as "Multichain on mobile first. Everywhere else soon," meaning desktop, web and browser-extension parity may lag the iOS and Android builds . For a trader who signs dApp transactions from a browser extension on a desktop, the practical takeaway is that multichain is a phone feature right now. No schedule for the non-mobile rollout has been published.

Battery Fee Abstraction: Where the Gasless Pitch Actually Works Today

Battery is Keeper's fee-abstraction system, and at launch it covers two of the wallet's seven supported networks — TON and TRON — not all of them . That gap matters because the marketing line on Keeper's own site reads "No gas tokens. No stuck transactions," a claim that sits directly beside a seven-chain network list . On Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Arbitrum and Base, a Keeper user still needs the native gas asset in the same account before a transaction will confirm. The Open Platform says Battery will be extended to every supported network over the coming year, with "more networks soon" as the only published timeline .

The mechanism is worth understanding before relying on it. Battery is an off-chain account denominated in "charges." One charge equals the fee for a simple Toncoin transfer; token and NFT transactions cost roughly 5–10 charges each, and swaps cost more . Users top the account up with an in-app card purchase, with USDT, or with other crypto including Notcoin, and the balance then pays for token transfers, NFT operations, staking pool interactions and TON DNS record updates . Tonkeeper's own explainer is unusually direct on the point most coverage blurs: gasless does not mean fees disappear. It means the user is no longer forced to hold one specific asset — the network still charges, and Battery settles the bill from a prepaid balance.

TRON is the commercially meaningful half of the launch-day coverage. USDT-TRC20 can be sent from Keeper without holding TRX, with the fee drawn from Battery and chargeable using TON, USDT or a bank card . Keeper's site claims TRON transfers handled this way can save up to 50% versus a standard TRX-funded transfer . That figure is a first-party claim with no independent verification attached, and TRON's energy-and-bandwidth pricing varies with network conditions, so treat it as a ceiling rather than a typical outcome. The underlying friction is real regardless: stranded USDT balances on TRON with no TRX to move them are one of the most common self-custody support issues in the stablecoin market, and that is precisely the case Battery addresses on day one.

A second distinction trips up readers who search the documentation. "Gasless" and "Battery" are two different systems inside the same wallet:

• Gasless transactions — a W5-wallet-version feature, restricted to a fixed token list: USDT, jUSDT, NOT, tsTON, DOGS, CATI, HMSTR, CATS, X, MAJOR, PX and BUILD .
• Battery — works across all wallet versions and with any token, funded by a prepaid charge balance rather than a token allowlist .
• Neither — applies to Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Arbitrum or Base at launch; those chains require their native gas asset .

The practical test for a trader evaluating Keeper on this feature alone: if your activity is concentrated in TON-native assets or USDT-on-TRON, fee abstraction is live and useful today. If you were expecting one prepaid balance to cover Ethereum mainnet gas or Base L2 fees, that is a roadmap item, not a shipped capability — fund those chains the ordinary way and re-check coverage before assuming otherwise.

Keeper vs. Other Multichain Self-Custody Wallets: How It Stacks Up

Keeper is not the first TON-native wallet to go multichain, and on raw chain count it is not the widest. MyTonWallet rebranded to My Wallet in June 2026 after expanding to 11 blockchains , while Keeper supports seven — TON, Bitcoin, Ethereum, TRON, BNB Chain, Arbitrum and Base . Keeper's differentiation is therefore not breadth. It is the combination of an installed base of roughly 75–77 million claimed downloads and fee abstraction that is already live on the two chains where that base actually transacts.

That distinction matters when choosing between wallets. Chain count is a cheap number to increase; a working fee-abstraction layer, a funded support operation and app-store distribution are not. Keeper's own site claims a 4.5 App Store rating from 121,000 verified reviews and a 4.6 Google Play rating from 340,000 verified reviews , though Apple's own listing puts the App Store count at 3,800 ratings rather than 121,000 — still a review volume most multichain challengers cannot match on either count. The iOS listing, published under TON APPS UK LTD at version 26.09.2, confirms existing accounts, keys and recovery phrases carry over unchanged .

Read the gaps honestly. Against a generalist wallet that already has an extension, a dApp browser and in-app swaps, Keeper on day one is a narrower product with a stronger fee story on two chains. Against My Wallet, Keeper trades four chains of coverage for scale and Battery. The roadmap — native DeFi, everyday spending tools, cross-chain swaps, a dApp browser, a loyalty programme and perpetual futures — was published without launch dates, so none of it belongs in a purchase decision today .

The shared thread across this cohort is a deliberate refusal of account-level identity. Keeper's site states "No email, no KYC, no custodian" and "Your keys, your coins" , and My Wallet and STON.fi occupy the same self-custodial ground. For a trader deciding between a TON-native wallet and a centralised app, that posture is the real fork in the road — everything else is feature sequencing.

"The signal came from our own users. The people who trusted Tonkeeper stopped living on a single chain," — Nikita Monastyrskiy, CMO of Keeper (source: Crypto Briefing)

That framing is also the honest competitive summary: Keeper is following its users to the chains they already use rather than claiming a technical lead over rivals. The relevant question for a reader is whether seven chains with working TON and TRON fee abstraction beats eleven chains without it — and that depends entirely on where the balance sits. Cross-check current chain and Battery coverage on keeperwallet.com before switching, since both are moving targets.

Should You Switch to Multichain Mode? A Decision Framework

Switching to Keeper's multichain mode is worth it today if your balances sit on TON, TRON or Bitcoin and you transact mainly from a phone; it is worth deferring if you work from desktop, web or a browser extension, or if your fee pain is on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base or BNB Chain. Keeper's own site states multichain is "mobile first," with other surfaces arriving later, and that Battery fee abstraction currently covers TON and TRON only . The upgrade is opt-in inside the existing app, so the cost of waiting is close to zero .

Switch now if at least two of these describe you:

• You already hold GRAM, jettons or TON NFTs and keep USDT-TRC20 in a second app — consolidation removes one recovery phrase and one point of failure, since the same keys now cover all seven supported networks .
• Your TRON activity is stablecoin transfers, where Battery covers fees without holding TRX and Keeper claims savings of up to 50% on TRON transfers .
• Mobile is your primary interface, and Bitcoin or Ethereum holdings are passive balances rather than active DeFi positions.

Wait if any of these apply:

• You sign transactions from a browser extension or desktop client — parity there is unscheduled .
• You want gas abstraction on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base or BNB Chain. TOP says Battery will extend to every supported network over the coming year, which is a twelve-month framing without a published date .
• Your interest is in the announced roadmap — native DeFi, cross-chain swaps, a dApp browser, a loyalty programme or perpetual futures. None of these carry launch dates, and none should be treated as shipped .

Check first, before moving meaningful balances. Keeper's release notes state accounts and balances are untouched and that the same app, keys, recovery phrase and channels carry over . Verify that independently rather than trusting the notice: confirm your recovery phrase still resolves to the addresses you expect, send a small test transfer on each newly enabled chain, and confirm receipt before consolidating. Wrong-chain transfers are the most common self-custody loss in multichain wallets, and Keeper cannot recover lost phrases or reverse transactions . Also check whether third-party on/off-ramp and swap providers are available in your jurisdiction, since regional coverage is set by those providers rather than by Keeper.

The governance factor to price in. TOP said on 28 January 2026 that it had acquired 100% of Tonkeeper, including Tonviewer, Tonkeeper Pro and TON API . Its 1 August 2026 update revised that: the share purchase from co-founders Oleg Andreev and Oleg Illarionov had not proceeded, the co-founders remain shareholders, TOP leads operations, and the project retains its own product strategy . For a user, that is not a reason to avoid the wallet — keys stay self-custodial either way — but it does mean the entity steering Keeper's roadmap and the entity that owns it are not yet the same, and the twelve-month feature plan depends on a corporate arrangement still being settled. Weight that alongside the fact that Keeper now sits inside a portfolio that also contains Wallet in Telegram, STON.fi and Getgems .

77 Million Users or 75 Million Downloads? Reading Keeper's Scale Claims

Keeper's headline user number is a download or registration count, not a measure of active wallets. TOP's launch post puts the number at 77 million users , the App Store listing also cites 77 million downloads , and The Block describes "over 77 million registered users" . TOP's own homepage, meanwhile, states 75M+ downloads . The defensible reading is roughly 75–77 million cumulative downloads or registered accounts across the wallet's lifetime.

The gap between those two framings matters more than the two-million difference. "Registered users" implies an account that was created and, by implication, retained. "Downloads" counts every install, including reinstalls, test installs, devices replaced, and accounts abandoned after a single Telegram-driven airdrop season. TON's user base expanded rapidly through Telegram mini-app campaigns — Telegram made TON the exclusive blockchain for crypto-enabled mini apps in January 2025 — and campaign-driven installs historically retain poorly. A download figure accumulated across that period is a weak proxy for how many people hold a balance today.

What no source provides is the number that would settle the question. There is no published monthly active user count, no audited active-address figure, no disclosure of wallets holding a non-zero balance, and no breakdown of how many of those installs have signed a transaction in the past 30 or 90 days. Neither TOP's launch materials nor secondary coverage from The Block, Decrypt or Crypto Briefing cites an activity-based metric . For a self-custodial wallet, on-chain activity would be verifiable in principle; its absence from the announcement is a disclosure choice, not a technical limitation.

The more useful first-party numbers sit in the app stores, but the denominator is not as consistent as Keeper's own marketing suggests. Keeper's site claims a 4.5 App Store rating from 121,000 verified reviews and a 4.6 Google Play rating from 340,000 verified reviews . Apple's own listing tells a different story for the first number: the same 4.5-star average, but from just 3,800 ratings — roughly 32 times fewer than Keeper's site claims . Using Apple's own count instead of the marketing figure, combined reviews across both stores are closer to 344,000 against a claimed 75–77 million installs — a review rate near 0.45%, still unremarkable for a finance app and neither confirming nor contradicting the headline download figure. The ratings themselves remain the more durable signal: two scores above 4.5, drawn from hundreds of thousands of reviews even on the conservative count, indicate a product that has been used enough, by enough people, to accumulate consistent sentiment. The iOS listing sits under developer TON APPS UK LTD at version 26.09.2, sized 202.7 MB, rated 16+ .

For a reader deciding whether the multichain pivot has enough weight behind it, the practical translation is this: treat 77 million as evidence of distribution reach, not of an installed base that will migrate to seven chains. The rating counts are the firmer floor on genuine usage. Until TOP publishes an activity metric, any competitive comparison built on the 77 million figure is comparing a lifetime install count against rivals that may report something narrower.

The Bigger Pattern: Why TON-Native Wallets Are Dropping Single-Chain Branding

Keeper's rebrand is not an isolated product decision — it is the third visible instance of a TON-native cohort shedding chain-specific branding within four months. MyTonWallet renamed itself My Wallet in June 2026 after expanding to 11 blockchains, and the TON-based DEX STON.fi shipped cross-chain swaps linking TON with TRON and EVM chains in July 2026 . Tonkeeper's move to Keeper on 15 September 2026 followed the same playbook on a later timetable: expand the chain set first, drop the "Ton" prefix second .

The driver is a mismatch between where these user bases were acquired and where their assets now sit. Telegram made TON the exclusive blockchain for crypto-enabled mini apps in January 2025 and took a larger directing role in the network the following year, which funnelled tens of millions of first-time wallet installs into a single-chain environment . Those users did not stay single-chain. Keeper CMO Nikita Monastyrskiy framed the rebrand in exactly those terms: "The signal came from our own users. The people who trusted Tonkeeper stopped living on a single chain" . USDT settlement on TRON, Bitcoin balances, and assets on Arbitrum and Base sat outside the app that acquired them — a retention problem before it was a branding one.

There is a second, less-discussed consequence for traders evaluating Keeper. The Open Platform's portfolio already includes Wallet in Telegram, STON.fi, Getgems, Tribute and Notcoin . With TOP leading Tonkeeper's operational management since 1 August 2026 , Keeper's self-custodial multichain product now sits under the same operator as TOP's custodial, Telegram-native wallet. The competitive tension is internal rather than external: two products addressing overlapping users with opposite custody models. That matters if you are weighing which app to consolidate into, because roadmap priority between sibling products is a business decision users cannot observe from release notes.

The practical takeaway: read the rebrand as evidence of where TON-native user behaviour has already moved, not as proof that Keeper is now the best multichain option. What Keeper ships today — seven chains, Battery on TON and TRON only, mobile-first multichain — is verifiable . Cross-chain swaps, perpetual futures and full Battery coverage are stated intentions without dates . If your assets are concentrated in TON and USDT-TRC20, switching to multichain mode is a low-cost consolidation you can make now. If you hold meaningful Bitcoin or L2 positions, keep your existing wallet as primary and re-evaluate when TOP publishes a Battery rollout schedule and a desktop parity date.

Frequently asked questions

Did TOP actually buy Tonkeeper?

Not fully, based on TOP's own statements. On 28 January 2026 The Open Platform published a post describing an acquisition of 100% of Tonkeeper, covering the wallet, Tonviewer, Tonkeeper Pro and TON API . A later update dated 1 August 2026 clarified that the share purchase from co-founders Oleg Andreev and Oleg Illarionov had not proceeded, that both remain shareholders, and that TOP leads operational management while Tonkeeper continued as an independent project with its own product strategy . The August post is the more recent of the two, so operational control — not completed ownership transfer — is the defensible description of the arrangement.

Is Keeper the same app as Tonkeeper?

Yes. Tonkeeper was renamed Keeper on 15 September 2026, and existing users keep the same application, keys, recovery phrase and communication channels . The iOS listing now reads "Keeper: Crypto Wallet" from developer TON APPS UK LTD, with release notes stating that accounts and balances are untouched . TON-native functionality is retained, including jettons, NFTs, staking and TON DNS. Multichain support is added through an in-app switch rather than a migration: you do not need to create a new wallet, export funds, or reinstall. The domain tonkeeper.com now resolves to keeperwallet.com via a 308 permanent redirect .

Which blockchains does Keeper support?

Keeper supports seven networks: TON, Bitcoin, Ethereum, TRON, BNB Chain, Arbitrum and Base . That is TON plus six added chains; some coverage frames it as "7 networks" and some as "6 major blockchains added," but the set is identical . Access requires switching to a multichain wallet inside the app; the default single-chain TON configuration remains available. Keeper's site also notes that multichain arrived on mobile first, with desktop, web and browser-extension parity described only as coming later . Plan around mobile if you need multichain access today.

Does Keeper's gasless Battery feature work on all chains?

No. Battery, Keeper's fee-abstraction system, covers TON and TRON at launch, with the site stating "more networks soon" and claiming TRON transfers can save up to 50% . TOP says coverage will extend to every supported network over the coming year, without a published schedule . Battery is also distinct from the narrower "gasless" feature: gasless is a W5-wallet capability restricted to a defined token list, while Battery works across wallet versions and any tokens . Fees are not eliminated — Battery is a prepaid off-chain balance denominated in charges, where one charge equals a simple Toncoin transfer and token or NFT transactions cost five to ten .

How many people actually use Keeper?

No usage figure has been disclosed. TOP's launch post and the App Store listing put it at 77 million users or downloads , The Block's coverage cites "over 77 million registered users" , and TOP's own homepage states 75M+ downloads . None of these are activity metrics: no monthly active users, audited active wallet addresses or transaction counts have been published, so the accurate reading is 75–77 million downloads or registrations, not active wallets. The available third-party signal is store ratings — Keeper's site claims 4.5 on the App Store from 121,000 verified reviews and 4.6 on Google Play from 340,000 verified reviews , though Apple's own listing shows the App Store figure at 3,800 ratings rather than 121,000 . Using the verified count, combined reviews are roughly 344,000 — near 0.45% of the download figure, a normal ratio for mobile apps but confirming nothing about wallets holding balances.

Who runs Keeper, and how large is the parent company?

Keeper is operated by The Open Platform, an Abu Dhabi–based TON infrastructure company founded in 2023 by Andrew Rogozov . In July 2025 TOP raised $28.5 million in an extended Series A led by Ribbit Capital with Pantera Capital participating, valuing the company at $1 billion and taking total funding above $70 million . The round was equity-only with no token allocation; Ribbit took roughly 4% and Pantera roughly 1%, according to founder Andrew Rogozov . TOP's portfolio also includes Wallet in Telegram, STON.fi, Getgems, Tribute and Notcoin, which places Keeper alongside a custodial Telegram-native wallet under one owner rather than opposite an independent competitor.

Is the Toncoin ticker still TON?

No. Toncoin was renamed GRAM on 15 June 2026 — the same asset under a new ticker, with no token swap required from holders . The distinction matters when reading Keeper's interface: TON now refers to the network, GRAM to the asset, and the wallet's staking section reads "Earn on GRAM without giving up custody" . If you are matching balances against older documentation, exchange listings or portfolio trackers that still display TON as a ticker, the underlying holding is unchanged.

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Last updated: 2026-09-17. Ownership status reflects TOP's 1 August 2026 operational-leadership post, which supersedes the January 2026 acquisition announcement. Battery network coverage and roadmap items were checked against keeperwallet.com and the App Store listing as published at the time of writing. Store-rating and user-count figures have been cross-checked directly against Apple's App Store listing, top.co and The Block, and corrected where they diverged from Keeper's own self-reported marketing copy.

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