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2026 — now: co-author at gramnews.org, member of technical staff.

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  1. Telegram will let you color your wallet card, but only with gifts from a server-defined listTelegram wallet cards can be stickered with any of your gifts, but their color can only be taken from Plush Pepe and three other collections.Oct 18, 2026
  2. Keeper Adds Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, and Robinhood Chain — Wallet Now Supports Eleven NetworksThe Keeper wallet's code contains exactly eleven networks, from TON to Robinhood Chain, and its multi-chain functionality is powered by the open-source Trust Wallet library.Oct 18, 2026
  3. Bitget Adds Russia and Belarus to List of Unsupported CountriesKazakhstan was on Bitget's stop list before, and the exchange added Russia and Belarus on October 16. Its addresses on the TON network hold about $6.4 million, with more than half in USD₮.Oct 17, 2026
  4. Telegram Prepares Gift Transfers Between Profile and Built-in WalletA 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.Oct 17, 2026
  5. How Much Does It Cost to Top Up Gram Wallet in Telegram with a Card, Cryptocurrency, and via P2PTopping up the Telegram wallet in SOL costs three times as much as in USDT, and a transfer below the minimum is never credited. Only one route puts Gram into the wallet without a fee.Oct 16, 2026
  6. You can create a MetaMask wallet via Telegram without a Secret Recovery PhraseYou 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.Oct 16, 2026
  7. Telegram and Fragment Switched TON Address Links to the gram.org ExplorerThe link to the wallet in Telegram now opens GRAM Explorer, which has a page showing how many Telegram wallets are created per day: October 15 marked the second wave of rollout.Oct 16, 2026
  8. Telegram’s macOS beta adds a profile QR code with gift patterns and a link that waives the message feeIf 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.Oct 15, 2026
  9. Telegram’s macOS beta ships a “For you” post feed and gift stickers for the wallet cardTelegram 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.Oct 15, 2026
  10. Telegram Designers Now Accepts Concepts Only as Working CodeFigma 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.Oct 14, 2026
  11. Telegram for Android Beta Transcribed Voice Messages Before Sending and Records Them with RNNoise Noise SuppressionVoice 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.Oct 14, 2026
  12. For Pavel Durov's Birthday, His Telegram Wallet Received 8,013 Transfers, and Not Pixel Sent Him 4.2 Million PXThree 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.Oct 14, 2026
  13. TON Core Asks Wallets to Create W5 Addresses and Accept Telegram Wallet PhrasesThe 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.Oct 14, 2026
  14. Telegram Publishes OpenAPI Schema for Bot API185 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.Oct 13, 2026
  15. TON Connect 5.0 Puts Telegram Wallet First, Applications Need New ton_proof CheckEvery Telegram wallet address contains a tiny trampoline, and the wallet code itself is stored in the network configuration and changed by validator voting. Because of this, many mini-apps cannot verify its signature upon login.Oct 13, 2026
  16. Telegram Bots to Get Usernames Ending in agent, ai, game, app, and gay for Premium SubscribersInstead of "bot," the name will be followed by "agent," "AI," or "game" — if the bot's name ends with the required letters and the owner has Premium. The code is already in TDLib, Desktop, and Android; the server is pending.Oct 13, 2026
  17. In Telegram for macOS Beta, Messages Are Built from HTML, CSS, and JavaScriptTelegram for Mac beta includes the entire three.js, 1.27 MB, and a chicken arcade game that crosses the road directly inside a message, controlled by arrow keys.Oct 13, 2026
  18. How to Get Gram Wallet in Telegram If You Don't Have One YetA Telegram wallet can be created for another person with a single transfer of 0.1 Gram — the transfer screen automatically sets up an address for the recipient. Here's how it works and how many wallets have been created in two days.Oct 11, 2026
  19. Telegram and Link Freedom Group applied for the .gram top-level domainIn its application, Telegram outlined two registration paths: one for Premium subscribers and a Fragment-style auction for channels and bots. This is an example, not a commitment, and Telegram still needs to defend the .gram top-level domain itself against Link Freedom Group, which holds 157 other applications.Oct 8, 2026
  20. How to back up your Gram Wallet secret phrase and restore the walletOne TON phrase gives several addresses, one per contract version, which is why a restored wallet sometimes opens empty.Oct 6, 2026
  21. How to send and receive Gram in Gram WalletGram Wallet cannot send to a regular @username, and a transfer to an exchange without a memo reaches the exchange but not your account.Oct 6, 2026
  22. What Gram Wallet is and how to use itA new Gram Wallet issues 12 secret words instead of the 24 that TON users are used to, and its web version took over the old wallet.ton.org address.Oct 6, 2026
  23. Almost half of Telegram's updates in three weeks concern Gram WalletOf 28 Telegram updates in the last three weeks, 13 concern the built-in wallet. There has been no major update since August 25.Oct 6, 2026
  24. Telegram Serverless Begins Hosting Mini Apps on tgcloud.ai DomainThe front-end and back-end of the Mini App are now uploaded to Telegram with a single command, and the user's signature is verified by the platform itself. The domain for this was purchased in September and is in the .ai zone.Oct 6, 2026
  25. GRAM Transfer Screen Appears in Telegram's macOS BetaThe amount switches between GRAM and dollars, a comment is readable only by the sender and the recipient by default, and the October 3 build added Metal shaders for the amount's digits.Oct 5, 2026
  26. TON projects announced $93 million in investment from 2022 to 2025Nearly a third of all the money TON projects announced over four years is a single round, The Open Platform's $28.5 million. And the network's first IDO, back in 2022, raised $100,000 in four hours.Oct 3, 2026
  27. TON ecosystem map for Q3 2026Pavel Durov’s channel drew 80M views in the quarter, ten times more than any other author writing about TON. And the map holds 107 tap-to-earn apps against 24 games.Sep 30, 2026
  28. Telegram's new macOS beta build contains NFTs, MoonPay and an encrypted seed phrase backupThe backup of the key to Telegram's built-in wallet is split into three parts and stored on three continents, and it can only be put back together on the owner's devices. In the new macOS beta build, NFTs and the name MoonPay sit right next to it.Sep 30, 2026
  29. Wallet in Telegram Became Walt, and Gram Wallet Took Its Place in SettingsTOP Wallet is now called Walt and is moving into trading and investments, while simple transfers, gifts, and Telegram Stars are going to the built-in Gram Wallet. The @walt bot is already working — it's the same bot as @wallet.Sep 28, 2026
  30. How to Buy Telegram Stars1,000 Telegram Stars in the Telegram app cost €16.59, on Fragment — $15. You can buy them for yourself or someone else, but purchased Stars cannot be withdrawn.Sep 28, 2026
  31. How to Exchange a Telegram Gift for StarsFor a gift of 100 Telegram Stars, the exchange will return 85; for a gift of 15, it will return 13. The period is 7 days, and collectible gifts cannot be exchanged for Telegram Stars at all.Sep 27, 2026
  32. How to Buy a Gift on TelegramOut of 151 Telegram showcase gifts, 140 are sold out: they can only be bought from owners, on the in-app gift marketplace, or on Fragment.Sep 27, 2026
  33. How to Sell a Gift in TelegramWhen selling a gift for Telegram Stars within Telegram, you receive 80% of the price; for GRAM, you receive 90%. You cannot list a gift for less than 125 Telegram Stars or 7 GRAM.Sep 27, 2026
  34. Telegram's Built-in Wallet Gets a Server-Side SwitchThe wallet code may arrive with an update but be enabled later and not for everyone: wallet_available = false has appeared in the test config. Also in the test config, the minimum transfer is 0.1 Gram and there are five transfers per day without gas fees.Sep 27, 2026
  35. A Second Username Field Appears in BotFather's Bot Creation FormThe additional name is optional, checked by a separate method, and sent to the server along with the form. There is no field label or explanation in the code as to why it's there — forty-six lines on one of the four distribution stands.Sep 27, 2026
  36. Telegram Gifts — How to Sell, Buy, Exchange for Stars, and Withdraw to the BlockchainA regular gift can be exchanged for Telegram Stars only for the first 7 days. When selling for Telegram Stars, Telegram keeps 20% of the price; for GRAM, it keeps 10%. Gifts used in crafting are burned even if the crafting attempt fails.Sep 26, 2026
  37. Fragment — Telegram's Marketplace for Usernames, +888 Numbers, and GiftsAll 136,566 +888 numbers were sold out in December 2022, most often for 9 GRAM. Currently, the cheapest one costs 2,570 GRAM, and the platform's largest payer is Telegram itself.Sep 25, 2026
  38. Telegram Now Shows Which Account a Wallet Address Belongs ToThe built-in wallet address in a chat is now labelled with the account name, and the recipient's address is visible when sending Gram. The client itself knows the link — no on-chain lookup needed.Sep 25, 2026
  39. Gram Logo Animations Appear in Telegram's iOS Beta for WalletBlue and white stones, both with a gleam along the edge: animations of the Gram logo, drawn for the built-in wallet, were found in build 35017 for iOS.Sep 23, 2026
  40. Telegram Desktop Received Eight New Emoji from Unicode 17Orca, trombone, treasure chest, and hairy creature — eight Unicode 17 icons are already in the Telegram Desktop code. They are not yet available in the released version.Sep 22, 2026
  41. Tonnel Connects Telegram Gifts to ChatGPT via MCPYou can already ask ChatGPT how many gifts you have in Tonnel, but you can't buy them with a prompt yet. The server only allows reading, and each call costs 0.001 TON.Sep 21, 2026
  42. Telegram Prepares Code Highlighting for TON Smart Contract LanguagesTON language definitions have been in the Telegram repository since 2024, while the file read by applications was last compiled in November 2023. On September 21, it was recompiled—and at the same time, a FunC rule that could never work was found.Sep 21, 2026
  43. [Video] What the future Gram Wallet will look likeTwenty seconds of live interface from the macOS beta — a card with balance, Gram Earnings, and a menu with Keys & Backup. Transactions are currently disabled.Sep 20, 2026
  44. Not Pixel Unveils September Updates — Gun Game, Pixel Pass, and PickupsKilling grants the next weapon, death rolls you back — the one who goes through the entire arsenal wins. Plus Pixel Pass with a Prime branch, pickups on maps, and the first lobby concepts.Sep 18, 2026
  45. Gram Wallet Appears in Telegram for macOS BetaBuild 12.10.283233 displays a wallet, though without transaction sending enabled — the design can already be viewed in action. The first product limitation is also in place: a minimum send amount of 0.1 GRAM.Sep 18, 2026
  46. TOP Removed Portfolio from Website's Main PageFour products and six other projects are highlighted on the main page. The disappearance of the remaining links does not confirm TOP's exit from these companies.Sep 17, 2026
  47. Telegram Starts Warning About Fake Accounts After Sending Gift to MarketplaceA message from a verified Telegram account lists the platform's official accounts — including the storage to which a gift has just been sent — and reminds users that no one will ask for their password or login codes.Sep 16, 2026
  48. Telegram Ads Starts Showing Personalized Banners in BotsThe banner appears in any bots with 1,000+ monthly users; a specific bot cannot be chosen. The format includes text, a logo, and custom emojis; prices start from the Target Users level.Sep 15, 2026
  49. Telegram Now Listed in TON Connect WalletsA separate Telegram Messenger entry with the tg:// scheme and the tonbridge.telegram.org bridge has moved from the registry to a live interface on Fragment. The click currently leads to @wallet.Sep 15, 2026
  50. TON Core Launches Actonscan — An Explorer for DevelopersThe first tool built around the new ABI in Tolk — messages are displayed as typed structures, get-methods are called from the contract page, and emulation is also available there. A browser debugger is promised next.Sep 15, 2026
  51. Tonkeeper Renamed to Keeper and Became a Multi-Chain WalletTON's key scheme is incompatible with BIP-39/44, so Keeper is formally a new wallet with a new seed phrase. Cross-chain exchange is commission-free until September 22.Sep 15, 2026
  52. Telegram Desktop Fixed Crashes from Corrupt Lottie FilesIt had to be fixed twice. After 7.2.7 with "Fix crashes with invalid lottie files," 7.2.8 was released three days later with "Fix some more crashes."Sep 15, 2026
  53. Who runs the streets? #1: CohortsSixteen waves of TON growth and what remained from each: active wallets, Fragment payers, and money per thousand attracted users.Sep 13, 2026
  54. Telegram mentioned 53 times in Anthropic report, cryptocurrency not onceThe stolen credit card store operated like a regular Telegram Mini App: a bot, a storefront, a search function for leaks, and a map of victims' addresses. Stolen keys were sorted into supergroup forum topics—one topic for each key type, totaling 471.Sep 11, 2026
  55. Telegram Launches Gram WalletNearly a decade after Telegram's initial plans for its own blockchain, Telegram is releasing a non-custodial wallet embedded directly into the messenger's interface.Sep 1, 2026
  56. Launching gramnews.orgToday we are launching gramnews.org — a news site about the internet, cryptocurrencies, Web3 and technology. What this place will hold, and why we are building it.Aug 25, 2026
  57. Two years after Le BourgetOn the evening of August 24, 2024, a jet from Baku landed at Le Bourget — and French authorities detained the founder of Telegram. Two years on, the case has yet to reach trial, while the pressure now comes from France, Russia, Australia and India. We retrace the timeline and count what these two years have cost the Telegram and TON ecosystems.Aug 24, 2026