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Keeper extends beyond TON to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum, and Base, while rolling out Battery to abstract gas and drive daily use.
Keeper, formerly Tonkeeper, expanded from a TON-only wallet to support seven networks—TON, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum, and Base—and introduced Battery, a gas abstraction feature intended to let users pay fees without native tokens.
Keeper’s seven-chain expansion
The team said the rebrand aligns with user behavior that has outgrown a single-chain footprint. Andrew Rogozov, founder and CEO of The Open Platform, framed the move as exporting Tonkeeper’s simplicity beyond TON to the broader crypto economy. CMO Nikita Monastyrskiy underscored that users increasingly hold USDT on Tron, BTC, ETH, and L2 assets, forcing them to juggle four or five apps while relying on Tonkeeper for TON. Consolidating those positions in Keeper aims to reduce operational friction, capture cross-chain activity within one interface, and defend share as wallets become the primary venue for on-chain engagement—storage, transfers, and swaps.
Concretely, Keeper now lists seven chains: TON, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum, and Base. The expansion echoes a broader shift in the TON orbit: MyTonWallet rebranded to My Wallet after growing to 11 networks, and TON-native DEX STON.fi launched cross-chain swaps linking TON with Tron and multiple EVM-compatible networks. Telegram’s alignment with TON—naming it the exclusive blockchain for crypto-enabled mini apps in January 2025 and taking a larger steering role the following year—adds distribution gravity that can funnel users into TON-fronted wallets with multichain reach.
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Battery gas abstraction
Battery is Keeper’s bid to erase one of crypto’s biggest UX taxes: sourcing and managing gas across chains. According to Keeper, Battery lets users pay transaction fees without holding a network’s native token, with plans to extend coverage to every supported network over the coming year. That design, already popular in smart account frameworks, attacks abandonment at the point of action and can elevate conversion from “asset storage” to “asset use.” For Tron USDT holders and EVM L2 users, fee abstraction can compress friction to near zero, enabling more frequent transfers, swaps, and mini-app interactions.
First-order effects pivot on execution: fee coverage models, supported dapps, and settlement rails. If Battery reliably handles common actions—token sends, swaps, and dapp calls—Keeper becomes a daily-use wallet, not merely a vault. Conversely, partial chain coverage, inconsistent subsidy routing, or opaque fees could blunt adoption. With Telegram-fueled distribution into TON mini apps and cross-chain rails to BTC/ETH/L2s, even modest Battery penetration could re-route order flow from exchanges to wallet-native pathways.
Keeper adoption KPIs
- Track non-TON activity share: in-app transactions and swaps on BTC/ETH/Tron/BSC/Arbitrum/Base vs. TON.
- Measure Battery penetration: percentage of transactions executed via fee abstraction across supported networks.
- Monitor retention of multichain cohorts and conversion from storage-only users to active monthly actors.
- Compare swap depth and pricing vs. STON.fi and competitors to gauge wallet-anchored liquidity.
Battery rollout milestones
Over the coming year, the core catalyst is Battery’s expansion to all supported networks and its integration footprint across mini apps and dapps. Naming which chains get Battery next, disclosing fee models, and publishing reliability metrics would de-risk adoption. Additional signals include Telegram’s TON mini app growth, My Wallet’s trajectory across its 11 chains, and cross-chain liquidity quality inside Keeper. The path from multichain listing to multichain usage runs through gas abstraction, seamless swaps, and consistent UX; the faster Keeper proves these at scale, the likelier it captures daily flows rather than just dormant balances.
This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.
🧠 HafidWatch Take
If low utilization of non-TON transactions and swaps within Keeper persists despite multichain support, then the core framing of this article falls apart because it assumes that multichain availability inherently drives meaningful user engagement and utility. Such an outcome would mean that expanding to seven chains alone does not translate to real on-chain activity or wallet-centric liquidity, challenging the premise that broad network inclusion leads to substantive use cases rather than just an expanded facade.
Historically, similar wallet expansions—like Coinbase Wallet’s early multi-network launches in late 2019—saw initial growth in listed assets without significant shifts in user behavior until UX or incentive structures evolved. This suggests that without a catalytic mechanism beyond added chains, such as innovative fee models or token incentives, Keeper risks replicating past patterns where network breadth alone fails to generate sustained activity, underscoring the importance of complementary features like Battery in transforming passive holdings into active on-chain flows.
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