Fragment is Telegram's marketplace where usernames, anonymous +888 numbers, and gifts are bought and resold for GRAM, and where Premium, Telegram Stars, and ads can also be purchased. This concerns anyone with a name, channel, or gift in Telegram that can be sold: ownership of each such item is recorded on the TON blockchain, and transactions occur directly between wallets, without the messenger itself acting as an intermediary.
What is Sold on Fragment
Usernames. Collectible usernames appeared in the November 5, 2022 update: ownership of the name is secured on TON and sold on this new marketplace. A name can be assigned to a personal account, channel, or group. More recently, it can also be assigned to a bot: a one-time fee of 1,000 GRAM is charged for this, and the enhancement remains with the name when ownership changes.
+888 Numbers. On December 6, 2022, Telegram allowed users to create accounts without a SIM card, using an anonymous number from Fragment. Such a number only works within Telegram. All 136,566 numbers were sold at auctions in December 2022; the collection does not issue new ones, and a number can now only be purchased from its owner.
Gifts. Collectible Telegram gifts are also traded here. As of September 25, 2026, the marketplace has 120 collections and 1,371,142 gifts. This is Fragment's count, not the supply: the Lol Pop collection has 66,939 gifts on the marketplace, but 434,527 out of 468,745 have been issued.
Services. Premium, Telegram Stars, and Telegram Ads payments can also be purchased with GRAM. Developers also withdraw Telegram Stars earned by bots through Fragment — this has been active since June 2024.
How to Pay
Payments are made in GRAM — the TON network's coin. A wallet connected to the marketplace is required for purchase; Fragment itself names the non-custodial wallets Tonkeeper and MyTonWallet. Only the owner has the keys to such a wallet: no one can restore a lost seed phrase, and with it, both funds and purchased names are lost.
There are two types of transactions. An auction lasts for a set time, and the lot goes to the highest bid by the end of the period. A direct sale is a lot with a fixed price, taken by the first person to pay.
How Much Does a +888 Number Cost?
As of September 25, 2026, the cheapest number on Fragment costs 2,570 GRAM — approximately $3,671. In its launch week, from December 7 to 13, 2022, most numbers, 431, were sold for 9 GRAM: the current floor price is 285 times higher than that.
If the floor price is multiplied by the supply, the collection is worth $501.3 million — the second-highest among all NFT collections worldwide after CryptoPunks, according to NFT Price Floor. The floor price on the collectible numbers page is updated every minute.
How capitalization is calculated
The floor price is the price of the cheapest listed lot, and the supply is all 136,566 numbers. NFT Price Floor, CoinGecko, and CoinMarketCap rank collections in the same way.
Usernames in Numbers
The username collection is open: a new name is minted with each auction, so it does not have a fixed supply. As of September 20, 2026, it contains 633,856 names.
Of these, 174,242 were already assigned to channels and chats in the gramnews.org catalog. The remaining 459,614 were verified via t.me pages: 53% are assigned to personal accounts, 37% are issued and unlinked, and about 10% lead to a channel, group, or bot.
Who Pays Fragment the Most
The largest payer on the marketplace is Telegram itself. In the 180 days leading up to August 27, 2026, the Telegram fund's wallet transferred 47.02 million GRAM to Fragment's addresses in sixteen transactions. Following them are Telegram Stars resellers — services that buy Telegram Stars in bulk and sell them retail; each has hundreds of thousands of payments.
Therefore, the gross inflow to Fragment describes not buyers, but the cash flow of Telegram itself and intermediaries: retail payments constitute a small fraction of it.
