The collectible gift page at t.me/nft no longer leads to the owner's profile. As of October 22, the owner line on such pages displays only a name — without an avatar and without a link to the account. This applies to gifts stored within Telegram; for those withdrawn to the TON blockchain, the owner is still visible by address.
What Changed on the Gift Page
Each collectible gift has a public page like t.me/nft/PlushPepe-1, displaying its model, background, pattern, edition, and an "Owner" line. Previously, this line included the owner's avatar and a link to their profile. For instance, this is how the Durov's Cap #1 page looked in January 2025, with a link to the owner's account. If the owner did not have a public username, there was no link, but the avatar remained.
As of October 22, for seven verified gifts—including Plush Pepe #1, Durov's Cap #1, and Homemade Cake #100—the "Owner" line contains only text. For Plush Pepe #1, it says «Pavel Durov», but you cannot click this name to go to a profile, and it's no longer possible to determine whose account it is from the page. The other lines on the page remain, including the signature about the gift's first recipient: the link to their profile is still present.
In the app, according to observations, a direct link to a gift also no longer opens the owner's profile—even if the gift is displayed on their page. You can only reach the owner in reverse: from a person's profile to their gift. This change was enabled, according to the same observations, on October 22 around 09:00 UTC.
Why Only the Name Remains
In the Telegram API, a collectible gift's owner is described by the fields owner_id, owner_address, and owner_name—account identifier, TON address, and name. According to the TDLib description, the name is a fallback field "for the case when owner identifier and address aren't known." A page displaying only a name matches precisely such a server response: it no longer provides the owner's account. This is an inference from the markup—Telegram has not explained the change.
There is no separate setting in clients to hide the owner. Telegram Desktop includes options to hide the sender's name and to hide a gift from your own page, but not to hide yourself as an owner. Since the name has also disappeared for gifts displayed in profiles, this is a general change, not a choice made by individual users.
Gifts on the Blockchain
A gift withdrawn to TON becomes an NFT, and its owner is publicly recorded on the blockchain. Telegram does not hide this: for Precious Peach #10, the "Owner" line displays the 8811.ton domain, which is also shown by Fragment and the explorer. Telegram Desktop 7.3.3, released on October 21, shows such owners with a link to the TON DNS domain, rather than groups of address symbols.
For gifts stored within Telegram, Fragment did not name the person previously either: on their pages, the owner line displays the same address from which Telegram issues gifts to the blockchain.
