Telegram gift marketplace Tonnel demonstrated an MCP server through which ChatGPT reads its catalog. The channel promises to open access to everyone and enable transactions: searching for, buying, and selling gifts via a prompt in ChatGPT or Claude.
MCP is a common protocol that provides service tools to an assistant: instead of advising "go to the website and click," the model itself calls the platform's functions and responds with its data.
The server is already located at mcp.tonnel.network and presents itself as read-only. OAuth metadata confirms this: there are two access scopes, marketplace.read and account.read, with no transactional ones among them. Asking "how many gifts do I have in Tonnel" will work — this is exactly what they show in the next post — but "buy me this one" is not yet possible.
Calls are paid and calculated in TON: 0.001 TON per call plus 0.0001 TON per kilobyte of response and 0.0005 TON per second of operation. The response is limited to 256 KB, and the request to 45 seconds. The server reserves the maximum in advance, returns any unused amount, and fully refunds failed calls.
