Gram News (gramnews.org) is an independent publication covering Telegram and the TON blockchain through news, explainers, and in-depth reporting.

Telegram updates, Mini Apps, bots, channels, advertising, wallets, payments, DeFi, and the projects shaping the TON ecosystem.

Is gramnews.org affiliated with Telegram or the TON Foundation?

No. gramnews.org is an independent editorial project and is not an official Telegram or TON Foundation publication.

Wi-Fi, dopamine, cortisol, and game theory — see the “backed by” section. Financially, nobody: the project is built by enthusiasts on their own dime.

Where can I follow the news?

Brief updates appear on the @gramnews Telegram channel, while the website preserves the feed and hosts articles and long reads.

Which languages does gramnews.org publish in?

English is the default language of the website, with a Russian edition available under /ru/.

From enthusiasts to enthusiasts

Independent media about the free Internet

Gram News sprouts from Telegram and TON, because they're one of the best parts of it. Platform updates, Mini Apps, wallets, payments and ecosystem projects—minus the noise.

Backed by

Wi-Fi

Dopamine

Cortisol

Game theory

None of the backers are aware of their involvement.

What gramnews.org covers

Platform updates, Mini Apps, bots, channels, advertising, and tools for creators and businesses.

TON blockchain

The TON network, wallets, payments, DeFi, tokens, and products being built across the ecosystem.

Context over noise

We separate meaningful changes from noise and explain what they mean for users and the market.

News and analysis

Brief updates arrive quickly, while articles and long reads make room for detail, evidence, and conclusions.

We publish in two languages, Russian and English.

Telegram has become more than a messenger: it is a platform for media, applications, businesses, and payments. gramnews.org follows how it evolves and the opportunities it creates.

TON brings blockchain products into interfaces millions of Telegram users already understand. We cover the network, its products, and its risks without unnecessary hype or jargon.

Our job is not to repeat a press release, but to provide context. Brief news answers “what happened”; analysis and long reads explain “why it matters.”

Frequently asked questions

Data and sources

News: Every news item on the site is a post from our own Telegram channel, and each one links to the original.
Prices and market caps: CoinGecko, with DefiLlama for deeper history and GeckoTerminal for new pairs. Prices are snapshotted hourly and stored here, which is why “the price at the moment of the news” is a recorded figure rather than a number recomputed after the fact.
App catalogue: Merged from the public app catalogues' listings; audience figures (MAU) are the number Telegram itself prints on a bot's t.me page. One app, one row: several listings of one bot are collapsed, because the figure belongs to the account rather than the listing. The ranking holds TON apps and Telegram's own bots only — decided by checkable signals (a catalogue listing, a TON category, a TON Connect manifest, TON's vocabulary in the app's own copy) rather than by our judgement. A project is archived when its channel has been silent for six months, or when every official link it published has gone dark; the flag clears itself the moment the channel posts again.
Channels: Public t.me previews: title, bio, avatar and subscriber count. We do not read private channels and collect no user data.

gramnews.org on Telegram

The gramnews.org Telegram channel is the project’s only official source.

Write to the desk: @vitalii — editorial, @volodya — engineering. A factual correction comes first; how exactly is in the editorial policy.

Subscribe on Telegram

Telegram's own official links — downloads for every platform, bugs and suggestions, contests, jobs and its own channels — are gathered on a page of their own: download Telegram.