🪙 A TON early adopter bought the @crypto username on Telegram for $350,000 2,5 years ago — and recently received an offer for $25,000,000. Here’s what he said about Telegram usernames:

“If these can’t be taken away from me, I want them all.”

💫 When people have direct ownership of their digital assets, magic happens — like this tokenized Telegram handle soaring 70x in value. Telegram users are sovereign owners: no middlemen, no confiscation, all secured by TON smart contracts.

✊ Telegram is the only major social platform that treats users as free people with unalienable rights — including the unbreakable right to own their digital identities and assets.

- @Durov

💎 TON Coin Spikes as Demand Soars

Toncoin's price has generally trended upward this week, #rising from approximately $3.25 at the start of the week to current levels around $3.52–$3.63 as of July 31, 2025

Recent gains are likely influenced by positive sentiment following large-scale treasury and institutional adoption news, though broader crypto market factors also contribute.

#Telegram continues to heavily promote the #TON blockchain, integrating it more prominently across its platform features.

💻 Telegram #Desktop v6.0:

Public Post Search.
Story Albums.
Gift Collections.
Profile Rating.

v6.0.1:

Fix crashing on Windows 7.

v6.0.2:

Improve design of profile stars rating.

🆕 v6.0.3 (beta):

Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab for last opened chats switching.
New topic dividers for groups with topics and tabs.
Adjust volume of notification sounds.
Show stars required for the next rating level.
IV support on Linux (in case WebView works).

🕓 Previous versions.
⬇️ Download: website or Github.

🍬  My girlfriend is turning 2️⃣5️⃣ today.
💝 She’s collecting pink/violet gifts on the cyberpunk backdrop, so I had to pay 15,000 TON (~$52,500) for a Plush Pepe 🐸

Tap 😎 if you think it was worth it — and 🧊 if you think it wasn’t.

https://t.me/nft/PlushPepe-858

©️ @durov

📰 If you open an NFT gift link in a browser, its model changes to ✉️

🎁 When you enter a link in a search bar, you will be taken to page you see in the photo. It displays the necessary information - the owner, attributes, signature to the gift. But at the moment, instead of gifts, you can get random emoji, specifically [✉️&🎵].

Source : 💌💌💌

📰 If you have a negative rating number, Telegram will say that you are an "unreliable" user. ⚠️However, other users cannot see how much you have lowered this number. And to avoid it, it is enough to spend as many stars as indicated in your rating, or more.

🎁 Perhaps, if someone wants to give you a gift, they can bump into this warning to give them time to think about it.

🏆 Yesterday marked a historic milestone: for the first time, investors gained access to a TON-holding company listed on the US stock market (ticker: VERB). This company is deploying $558 million to accumulate Toncoin — never selling, only buying more over time.

↗️ VERB’s stock more than doubled on its first trading day, pushing its market cap above $1 billion and earning it unicorn status on day one. The investor list includes long-time TON supporters like Kingsway, Vy Capital, and Ribbit, alongside many new institutional backers.

🪙 TON (The Open Network) is an infinitely scalable blockchain that we helped develop years ago to meet the needs of Telegram’s hundreds of millions of users. Today, TON is the economic backbone of Telegram — much like a national currency powers a country’s economy.

🌎 On Telegram, everything runs on TON: from payouts to creators and app developers to ad payments, mini apps and collectibles like usernames, numbers, and gifts. As a result, TON is now the #2 blockchain by daily NFT trading volume, second only to Ethereum.

🧠 It’s no surprise that Verb Technology — to be rebranded as TON Strategy — has chosen TON as its primary treasury asset. It’s mirroring MicroStrategy’s bitcoin playbook, which let it grow from $1B to $100B+ in 5 years. The half a billion $ Verb is investing into TON is just the start.

- @Durov

📰 Durov's account (@monk) was actually deleted. The thing is that he once had a test number +999 linked to him, which at the moment can only be linked by Telegram employees. 📨 Durov did not notice that one of the five-digit codes was chosen correctly, where these codes come in large numbers all the time, and the prankster moved on to the password entry stage, after which he requested an account reset. 🗑 Perhaps the account was deleted in 2 minutes instead of 7 days due to the linked +999. The account was later restored.

🐶 After which, on Durov's old account, where "he had been online for a long time", the username @raven appeared, and on the new account the phone number was changed to anonymous. 🤷‍♂️ Will this make it better, considering that each linked number is leaked by ordinary users?

🔎 Telegram May Be Quietly Testing a Feed like Feature

Telegram has recently introduced a new ‘Posts’ tab in Search, allowing users to easily discover content from public channels. This update comes roughly a year after the launch of #hashtag search, signaling Telegram’s continued focus on improving content discoverability.

This appears to be a soft launch of a potential future ‘Feed’ feature — offering users a scrollable stream of relevant #posts, possibly influenced by engagement metrics such as stars.

If fully implemented, this feature could significantly boost post visibility for channels, increase ad exposure for advertisers, and enhance ad revenue opportunities for creators. All indications suggest that Telegram is gearing up to roll out a #feed-based content experience, a move that could reshape how users browse and interact on the platform.

#NFT upgrade avilable

🎁 ,🎁 ,🎁 ,🎁

📣 Following my post 20 days ago, users have sent us hundreds of reports about scams and blackmail. 👮‍♂️

⛔️ Based on these reports, this week we’re banning numerous channels for doxxing and extortion. 🔒

❌ A ban for this reason means we have undeniable evidence that a channel’s admins published defamatory posts, then deleted them in exchange for payment from victims. Some have even been caught selling so-called “protection blocks” — fees victims must pay to avoid being targeted. 💵

❌ Telegram is not a place for doxxing or blackmail. And to those running such channels: don’t waste your time creating clones — we’ll find you. 📡