Verification from Third Parties and Bot API 8.2

With today's update, official Bots and Mini Apps can verify ✅ users and chats on behalf of other organizations, assigning them a custom badge and a brief description.

This decentralized verification platform proactively prevents spam and misinformation – setting a new safety standard for social platforms 🛡

Additionally, Bot API 8.2 comes with out-of-the-box support for Collectible Gifts 🎁 – allowing Bots and Mini Apps to prepay 🎁 for Gift Upgrades.

Check out the full Bot API 8.2 changelog for more details.

Happy Holidays from the Telegram Team 🎆

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Gifts that can be upgraded to collectibles

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🎁 Launched just three months ago, Telegram gifts have become an internet sensation. This holiday season alone, Telegram users exchanged a record-breaking 20 million gifts 🎁🎁🎁

📰 On January 1st, we introduced the ability to transform limited-edition gifts into unique collectibles. These can be transferred within Telegram and externally as NFTs. Minting a unique gift costs just 25 Stars, which is spent on the TON blockchain fees required to mint the NFT 🎁🎁🎁

🏆 Our artists have designed countless versions of 21 limited-edition gifts and are already working on the next 25. The level of artistic effort invested in this project has been incredible. We got so carried away that, for some gifts, we ended up paying our artists more than the revenue they generated 🎁🎁🎁

💵 I hear that third-party NFT marketplaces are already working on enabling auctions for minted Telegram gifts. It will be exciting to see how this ecosystem evolves 🎁🎁🎁

- @Durov

@NewsAndTipsNT 📰

✈️Telegram Desktop 💻

What's New:

V 5.9.0

• Affiliate programs for bots.
• Add option to show folder tags in chats list.

V 5.9.1

• Add global media overview tabs in chats search.
• Add main menu "My Profile" with my stories and gifts access.
• Highlight some of search query on result message open.
• Fix highlighting quotes from bottom parts of long messages.
• Allow forward and reply bars together.
• Make gift price categories scrollable.
• Auto-send deep-link /start in existing bot chats.

V 5.9.2

• Fix some jump-to-message highlightings.
• Fix some long round video messages sending.
• Fix possible crash in global photos / videos.
• Fix streaming starting for some large video files.
• Fix possible drop of top peers / recent chats cache.
• Fix possible crashes in audio on macOS (rollback OpenAL).

V 5.10.0

• Collectible Gifts.
• Reactions for Service Messages.
• Verification from Third Parties.
• Custom Emoji in Folder Names.

V 5.10.1 🆕

• Show "Boost group the send messages" information.
• Fix several gifts bugs and glitches.
• Fix several crashes.

Download ⬇️:
Official website 🌐 or GitHub🐱

🔄Previous Version

#Desktop #New #NT

🧐 I’m proud that Telegram has supported freedom of speech long before it became politically safe to do so. Our values don’t depend on US electoral cycles.

😂 Today, other platforms are announcing they’ll now have less censorship. But the real test of their newly discovered values will come once the political winds change again. It’s easy to say you support something when you risk nothing.

- @Durov

💎 Blockchain Contest, Round 1

Telegram and TON Core announce a new coding contest!

Prize Fund: $100,000 to $200,000
Deadline: 23:59, February 4th (Dubai time)
Tasks: Blockchain Validation and/or Trustless Bridge (participants can choose one or both).

Prize Fund Distribution
The total prize fund, up to $200,000, will be allocated based on each participant’s overall contribution. Winners will also have the opportunity to compete in Stage 2, which will feature a separate, similar prize fund.

Additional Opportunities
Winners have the chance to join the Telegram or TON Core teams, or receive support to launch a real TVM sidechain for TON. The best optimization solutions may also be implemented to enhance the TON main network.

🤝 We agreed with the TON Foundation to make TON the exclusive blockchain partner of Telegram. TON will be our blockchain infrastructure for tokenization, payouts, mini app integrations, and more 🏆

🙂 This standardization will be great for Telegram users — giving them a consistent, predictable experience and better protection against scams 🛡

🖥 Mini app developers can check out the Blockchain Guidelines to see what’s new. I foresee a wave of innovation coming from this strong integration between Telegram and TON 🔗

- @Pavel