🚩 Big day! Today we introduce the Telegram Browser and Mini App Store, plus many other innovations ✨🍬

🖥 The Browser lets users switch between viewing websites and messaging, merging communication with news consumption. It is equipped with all the features you would expect from a browser — like search, bookmarks, and multiple tabs 🤩

💎 Most importantly, Telegram Browser allows people to view decentralized websites called TON Sites. This opens the world of blockchain-based web (often called Web 3.0) to almost a billion users. To try it out, update Telegram and open a link (like tonsite://getting-started.ton) 🌐

⭐️ Users can now gift Stars to their friends, who will be directed to the Mini App Store for examples of apps that accept Stars. To check out the mini app catalog, go to the 'Apps' tab in Search 🔎

🔝 Speaking of mini apps, they have a whole new way to spread virally across the Telegram ecosystem — via Stories, which also got an upgrade today with covers and smart animated weather widgets ☀️

💪 We’re proud to ship this. Try it all yourself or check out the video demos on the blog. Enjoy your summer holidays — we’ll keep building 👨‍💻

• View recent and popular web apps in chats search.
• Open several web apps in different windows.
• Gift Telegram Stars to your friends.
• Send location marks and venues.
• Open tonsite:// links in webview.
• Edit order of stickers in your packs.

• Open normal links from tonsite-s in system browser.
• Fix unicode tonsite:// links.
• Fix crash on Linux X11.

• Fix crash on launch in some Linux systems.

On July 23, Irina Bolgar contacted Forbes to correct the number of children attributed to Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, in their billionaire ranking. Previously listed with two children, she revealed that Durov is actually the father of five. Bolgar provided birth certificates and notarized translations as proof of paternity for the three youngest children. Forbes confirmed the authenticity of these documents with the translator and is awaiting further verification from a notary.

Irina Bolgar, a lawyer by profession, was born in Leningrad and claims to have met Durov in 2012. They began living together six months later, and their daughter Leia was born in 2013, followed by sons Daniel in 2016 and David in 2017. Due to legal constraints in the UAE, Bolgar and her children moved from St. Petersburg to Latvia in 2019 and then to Switzerland in 2020, where paternity documents were translated into French.

While Bolgar and Durov no longer live together, they reportedly maintain frequent contact and family travels. Despite Durov's claim of not visiting Russia since 2014, Bolgar recalls his presence in St. Petersburg around David's birth in 2017. Forbes has not received a response from Durov regarding these claims.

Previously, Durov was known to have two children with Darya Bondarenko, but neither Durov nor Bondarenko has publicly commented on their relationship. Bolgar remained private about her family until June 2024, when she began sharing their story on Instagram, prompted by her children's feelings of being overlooked in public discussions.

Legal experts speculate that Bolgar's decision to go public may be financially motivated, suggesting potential requests for increased support or guarantees for her children. Bolgar claims this publicity was primarily for her children's benefit, as they were aware of their public omission.

Durov, meanwhile, stated he has 100 biological children globally through an anonymous donor program, a topic he discussed with Bolgar, who saw no risks to their family. However, children from this program cannot inherit from Durov.

Currently, Durov has five recognized children eligible for inheritance. In Forbes' 2024 heirs ranking, his children are listed sixth, each potentially receiving $7.75 billion, half of Durov's fortune. With the latest