TelegramNews
Durov's Former Employees and Partners in the Book Killer App
Telegram's former nominal owner named the company after a Dan Brown novel and mailed iPod nanos to winners of a VK contest from New York State.
· 8 min read
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TelegramFragmentNews
Fragment Stops Requiring KYC for Stars and Premium Purchases, Keeps It for Revenue Withdrawal
Fragment's code has twelve places where the server can request documents. Since November, Stars and Premium purchases no longer require them.
· 5 min read
TelegramFragmentNews
Fragment tests USDT payments via the TRON network
A TRON account QR code contains only the address — without amount and token, which Ethereum wallets receive automatically from the link.
· 6 min read
TelegramWalletsNews
Gram Wallet is Already in Telegram Web A Build, Fully Implemented and Hidden Until Release in Web K
Telegram Web K already has 48 thousand lines of Gram wallet code, and it will be activated by a single constant that will be manually switched on release day.
· 7 min read
TelegramNews
Telegram for macOS Beta Prepares AI Editor to Fix Dictated Text
A dictated message can be corrected for grammar or rewritten in style with one button, and ⌘R will learn to dictate instead of recording a voice message.
· 7 min read
TelegramNews
Chat Translation in Telegram for macOS Beta Now Translates Your Own Messages
Your English answer in a chat translated into Russian is now also shown in Russian — if Mac is sure it's not in Russian.
· 6 min read
TelegramAI
Search across three million Telegram channels, bots, apps and packs with an AI overview in @catalogue_app
Type «wallet» and two sentences on top say who leads the niche and by how much; below come the apps, bots, channels and packs that match.
· 4 min read
TelegramSecurityNews
In the Telegram for macOS beta, the session sheet shows whether the login came from an official app
A checkmark next to the app name, login accurate to the second, and location on the map — all from the fields the server provides for each session.
· 5 min read
TelegramGuides
Telegram Mini App Catalogs — How Many Entries in Each and How Often Are the Numbers Updated
One directory today added an entry, another has been showing a placeholder for 29 links since summer, and a third claims 10,700 applications across 1,369 pages in its sitemap.
· 5 min read
TelegramTONWallets
How to Find Your Gram Wallet Address in Telegram
A wallet address exists before the wallet appears in Telegram settings. It is visible in any chat—just type the bot's name in the input field.
· 4 min read
TelegramDevelopment
How Telegram message widgets work on Android, iOS and macOS
A game, a calculator or an AI answer right in the chat bubble — no Mini App window, no network. What a widget can do and what you can build with it.
· 7 min read
TelegramNews
News Tab and @agent Bot Disappear from Telegram Betas for Android and macOS
A week ago, the News tab in the Android beta was in the place of contacts. In build 7278 from October 31, it had no methods and no lines left.
· 6 min read
TelegramDevelopmentNews
2,367 Commits Made in Telegram's Open Source Code in October — Second Highest Month Ever After August
Of October's 63 authors, 38 had not previously committed to Telegram, and half of them joined the new open client for macOS.
· 5 min read
TelegramSecurity
A Bug in Telegram for Android Call Code, Labeled Remote Code Execution by NebuSec
A bug in parsing a service call message was fixed in Telegram's common call library back in April, but in Telegram for Android, only in September.
· 3 min read
TelegramSecurity
Zero-Click Chain via Telegram Animated Stickers Demonstrated at OffensiveCon Tokyo
Fuzzing rlottie with a language model, bypassing server-side sticker validation, and executing code in Telegram for iOS — without a single tap from the victim.
· 5 min read
TelegramNews
Killer App Book About Telegram and Pavel Durov Released on November 5, Financial Times Publishes Review
Durov called his resignation from VKontakte an April Fool's joke, and continued to visit Russia after selling his stake. Darren Loucaides' book collects such discrepancies with Telegram's official history.
· 4 min read
TelegramDevelopmentNews
Telegram Message Widgets Arrive in Android and iOS Betas
Under the widget in Android there is no browser: the code is executed by its own interpreter with a CPU quota, and whether the tap is real is decided by a separate touch arbiter.
· 5 min read
TelegramDevelopmentNews
Product Analytics with Funnels and Revocable Consent Introduced in Telegram's macOS Beta
The macOS beta knows at what step you abandoned sending a sticker. And the released Telegram Desktop has been reporting to the server since March how many milliseconds a post was on screen.
· 5 min read
TelegramGamesNews
GAMEE Estimates Q3 Revenue at $1.71 Million, Reports First Profitable Month
The @gamee bot, with which Telegram launched games in 2016, now gives the platform 11% of its monthly audience. Most players come through apps.
· 7 min read
TelegramDevelopmentNews
Telegram Prepares @agent Bot, Allowing Users to Connect Their Own API Key from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, or OpenRouter
According to the API schema in the beta, the ChatGPT or Claude key will remain on Telegram's servers, and the app will only see its last four characters.
· 7 min read
TelegramDevelopmentNews
Telegram Message Widgets Can Now Send Requests to Bots — One Per Tap
The widget in the chat sees your ID, name, and Premium, and can send 64 bytes to the bot, but only upon tap; without it, only in a private chat with the bot.
· 7 min read
TelegramSecurity
Telegram for iOS Does Not Send a Read Receipt to a Stranger Until You Close the Report Panel or Reply
While the "Report" panel hangs over the chat, the stranger will not see two checkmarks, and their buttons and links in messages do not work.
· 7 min read
TelegramDevelopmentNews
Telegram for macOS Starts Accepting Third-Party Contributions, Reaching Beta in Hours
A floating tab bar from a third-party developer made it into Telegram for Mac beta 57 minutes after the merge.
· 6 min read
TelegramNews
Telegram Server Provides Nine Topics for Future Recommendation Feed
Politics and psychology joined crypto and games as Telegram feed topics. Developers paused the feed's launch on October 16.
· 3 min read
TelegramTONWalletsNews
Spammers Spent 25 Times More on Gram Wallet Spam Runs Than Telegram Did on Free Transfers
Every ad in Gram Wallet comes as a 0.1 Gram transfer, and the money stays with the recipient. In a month and a half, spammers have distributed over 3,600 Gram this way.
· 4 min read
TelegramNews
Telegram Collectible Numbers Are Worth More Than Any NFT Collection Launched Since August 2022
+888 numbers by floor are worth about $460 million. Among all NFT collections in the rankings, only CryptoPunks from 2017 are more expensive.
· 5 min read
TelegramTONWalletsNews
Gram Giveaways on Telegram's X Posts Using Usernames from Replies
The coin arrives at the username, even if the person didn't have a wallet. For 77 out of 102 recipients, it is not deployed.
· 4 min read
TelegramDevelopmentNews
Telegram for iOS Moved the Back Button to the Side Strip of the Foldable iPhone Duo and Audited All 298 Screens for It
On the foldable iPhone Duo, Telegram's Back button is in the sidebar near the screen edge, and tabs are stacked vertically.
· 7 min read
TelegramDevelopmentNews
Telegram Opens New macOS Client Repository, Including a Rust MTProto Engine
Telegram's new Rust network engine downloads large files 2-3 times faster and uses five times less CPU for small requests.
· 6 min read
TelegramNews
Telegram No Longer Opens Owner's Profile from Gift Links
On the gift page, it now simply says "Pavel Durov" — without an avatar or a link, and it's no longer clear whose account it is.
· 3 min read
TelegramTONWalletsNews
Telegram Enabled Gift Transfers to Its Wallet, With 2,624 Gifts Moving in Five Hours
Fragment site links are gone, but the address that mints gifts onto the blockchain is the same. The first gift arrived at Telegram's wallet at 07:10 UTC.
· 5 min read
TelegramNews
Telegram Now Labels +888 Numbers in Profile as Collectible, Not Anonymous
Telegram profiles have shown "anonymous number" since 2022. Fragment changed the wording in summer 2025, but the blockchain collection remains anonymous.
· 2 min read
TelegramNews
Intern Stream Channel Opens Merch Store internmerch.com
A $19.70 T-shirt, a $38.58 hoodie, no returns, and the author claims to have invested thousands of dollars and earns nothing.
· 2 min read
TelegramNews
Telegram is preparing permanent gift deletion, and the server already accepts it
A deleted gift disappears from the list, but the message with it remains in the chat, while a new gift loses its star exchange upon deletion.
· 4 min read
TelegramTONWallets
How to Top Up Your Telegram Wallet from Russia with Rubles
A buyer of Gram from a seller's ad on the Walt P2P market pays no rubles to the service; the overpayment is hidden in the seller's rate.
· 7 min read
TelegramTONWallets
What to Do if Your Telegram Wallet Won't Open, Isn't Visible, or Fails Verification
Walt's identity verification denial is final; a second account won't reset it. Data is stored five years after an account becomes inactive.
· 8 min read
TelegramTONWallets
How to Withdraw Money from Telegram Wallet to a Bank Card
Selling coins on Walt's P2P market via another user's ad is commission-free. Selling to a provider costs 3.5% and pays only in dollars and euros.
· 9 min read
TelegramTONWalletsNews
Telegram Prepares Wallet Connection to Websites Directly in the Telegram Login Window
A single Telegram login confirmation can also show the website your wallet's address, balance, and transactions, and the toggle for this is enabled by default.
· 5 min read
TelegramTONWalletsNews
Telegram Colors Wallet Cards Only with Gifts from a Server-Side List
Since October 20, everyone sees the Telegram wallet card and balance in the profile. Plush Pepe and Resistance Dog gifts give it color.
· 6 min read
TelegramTONWalletsNews
Telegram Prepares Gift Transfers Between Profile and Built-in Wallet
A collectible gift can be sent directly from a profile to the built-in Telegram wallet, and from there, placed into another person's profile without revealing the sender.
· 3 min read
TelegramTONWallets
How Much Does It Cost to Top Up Gram Wallet in Telegram with a Card, Cryptocurrency, and via P2P
To top up a Telegram wallet in SOL costs three times more than in USDT. Gram only reaches the wallet without commission via one method.
· 12 min read
TelegramWalletsNews
You can create a MetaMask wallet via Telegram without a Secret Recovery Phrase
You can open a MetaMask wallet by logging into Telegram with a password, without writing down twelve words — but you won't be able to change the Telegram account later, and all imported wallets will be permanently linked to it.
· 3 min read
TelegramTONWalletsNews
Telegram and Fragment Switched TON Address Links to gram.org Explorer
gram.org now also counts Telegram wallet addresses without a single transaction — 663 thousand as of October 30, 4.4 times more than active wallets.
· 5 min read
TelegramNews
Telegram’s macOS beta adds a profile QR code with gift patterns and a link that waives the message fee
If you charge Stars for messages, the Telegram for Mac beta allows you to show a friend a QR code that lives for one minute: whoever scans it in time can message you for free, but a forwarded image of it will no longer open anything.
· 5 min read
TelegramWalletsNews
Telegram’s macOS beta ships a “For you” post feed and gift stickers for the wallet card
Telegram for Mac already has a screen drawn that asks what you're interested in and promises more such posts in the "For you" tab. There's nothing to fill it with yet: the feed is provided by the server, and it doesn't give it to the beta.
· 6 min read
TelegramDevelopmentAINews
Telegram Designers Now Accepts Concepts Only as Working Code
Figma mockups and beautiful motion videos are no longer enough: Telegram is waiting for a feature that can be launched. You don't have to write the code yourself, AI can do it for you, and the source code for all three clients is open.
· 7 min read
TelegramNews
Telegram for Android Beta Transcribed Voice Messages Before Sending and Records Them with RNNoise Noise Suppression
Voice messages sent as text — the "Aa" button appeared in the Android beta and disappeared. What remained is recording where noise is cut out by the same neural network as in video chats.
· 5 min read
TelegramTONWalletsNews
For Pavel Durov's Birthday, His Telegram Wallet Received 8,013 Transfers, and Not Pixel Sent Him 4.2 Million PX
Three out of four transfers were exactly 0.1 Gram, but more than a third of the total amount came from transfers of 42 Gram, matching the number of years. And 4.2 million PX from Not Pixel is more than what is held in all pools of this token combined.
· 7 min read
TelegramTONWalletsDevelopment
TON Core Asks Wallets to Create W5 Addresses and Accept Telegram Wallet Phrases
The same 12-word phrase yields at least three different addresses. If after importing a Telegram wallet into another application the balance is zero, the coins are still there: the application opened an adjacent address on the same key.
· 8 min read
TelegramDevelopmentNews
Telegram Publishes OpenAPI Schema for Bot API
185 methods, 625 schemes, and a separate file with 945 errors. Libraries for Telegram bots can now be generated from the official description, not from a parsed HTML page.
· 7 min read