TELEGRAM - new research out “How to Build a Business that Brings Digital Freedom and Privacy to 1 Billion Users” from #Animoca Research

Everything you wanted to know about Telegram's success but were afraid to ask! The mysteries of Telegram's success, unlocked. The big reveal:

💰 $1B revenue in 2024, on track for $2B in 2025
💰 Profitable—-> without monetizing a single byte of user data!
💰 15M+ Premium subscribers (doubled in 8 months)
💰 $870M in H1 2025 alone

For context: 98% of Meta's revenue comes from selling your data to advertisers. Telegram's number? Zero.

The AI story:
🤖 1,300+ AI Mini Apps live on Telegram
🤖 Microsoft launched Copilot here first
🤖 Manus ($2B acquisition by Meta) chose Telegram over WhatsApp
🤖 Cocoon brings confidential AI compute to the ecosystem

The in-app economy:
⭐ Telegram Stars: $160M in purchases
⭐ Snoop Dogg digital gifts: $12M in 37 minutes
⭐ 70M daily gift transactions at peak
⭐ Bypasses the 30% app store tax completely

AlphaTON Capital ($ATON) is named as a key infrastructure operator for Cocoon, running NVIDIA military-grade superchip GPUs to serve Telegram’s +1 billion users! #proud 😎

On top of that, Toncoin is evolving from a social currency into "an industrial commodity for the AI era." For all these AI agents living on Telegram who will need crypto for value exchange.

This is the ecosystem we're building in. The infrastructure is real. The revenue is real. The growth is real. Because the demand for digital freedom and privacy is REAL. 💎🚀🎯

Source: Animoca Brands Research, March 2026. Read it here: