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😊 One of our regular partners, who works with our service as a merchant, reached out to me asking to recommend his product.

I already made a post about their service on my channel before. Now they've released an app on Telegram and Google Play. Feel free to check it out and give it a try. I tested it myself and liked it. Especially the design. Against the backdrop of endless, cookie-cutter AI startups, opening something crafted in Figma by a designer with skills is a straight-up aesthetic orgasm.

They've also got the Earn Stars bot integrated via API in their service — the one I told you about the month before last, when I came to visit friends in Zurich for a month.

👍 The perfect entrepreneur's framework: it's focusing on one direction and the ability to say "no" to 99% of good ideas.

I invite you to check out the marketing posts and visit the Web3 catalog page of projects on Telegram. Enjoy 😼

Dev TON vibes 🐶

Pavel Durov will be in Singapore. Our team will be flying in too. See you at the conference!

And after that, a series of events kicks off in Dubai.
Missed those too?

One of the most beautiful websites I've come across on the internet lately — 1984vpn.com/card.

Turns out there are still designers left in the world who know what Figma is and have their own taste and style.

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TON Gram community in 2026

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✈️ Telegram has added web proxies that disguise messenger traffic as a regular HTTPS/WebSocket connection to a website.

To an ISP it looks like ordinary web traffic, so pinpoint-blocking Telegram becomes noticeably harder.

Anthropic unveiled the Model Hardware Standard, which lets AI agents interact with objects in the REAL WORLD.

This is the first major step toward full-fledged humanoid robots — autonomous, self-sufficient AIs in the real world (just like in "The Matrix" or "Terminator").

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The price of TON has changed significantly recently.
Go to the Tegro DEX to profitably exchange TON and other tokens!

Current price: 1 TON = 1.48$
Updated: 2026-08-21 06:20

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No posts today. Admin's gone shopping for school uniform with mom.

The TON ecosystem: between growth and stagnation

While the network keeps rolling out updates and impressing with its speed, and staking yields look like something from five years ago, the ecosystem's key narratives keep falling apart. TON is pitched sometimes as a fast BSC alternative, sometimes as a memecoin platform, but there's still no clear answer to "what is it actually for?" The ideas of privacy and cypherpunk are long forgotten, and Telegram — the very reason the blockchain was built — barely taps into its potential.

The Tether partnership and the gift drops — every high-profile story has been flushed. Even though TON is one of the fastest and cheapest networks for USDT, nothing has been done to promote it.

On the bright side: locker payouts have started without a collapse, and the domain application for the .gram zone has been filed with ICANN. But Fragment auctions keep sputtering, and the TON Foundation looks like it's gearing up for cuts — there might just not be enough numbers left for a new pitch deck.

Technically, the network is getting stronger: the upgrade sped up transactions, and staking via Stakee on the TON Core smart contract currently has zero fees — competitors like Tonsakers take north of 20%. Meanwhile, the main "miner" of coins is set to be Telegram itself, together with partners buying up a thousand Nvidia B200 GPUs for $68M by Q1 next year.

A separate sore spot is data monetization: private info from Instagram and Facebook is being casually sold in Telegram bots for 49 rubles a query. The ecosystem is clearly still searching for itself, but for now it's mostly coasting on inertia.

If you’re in AI, pivot to crypto.

Crypto Digest: Bitcoin Reverses, Telegram Brings Back Gram

Spot demand for Bitcoin has almost flipped positive for the first time since February. Historically, such a reversal has delivered an average gain of 18% over 60 days with a 78% probability. Meanwhile, the Central Bank announced: all digital ruble transactions will be free for Russians, and major banks are ready for a mass rollout on September 1.

Six years after its settlement with the SEC, Telegram is publicly reclaiming control of the blockchain and the old Gram ticker. The hype died down within three days, but here's the thing: TON has always been an adjacent project with several co-founders, not Durov's solo brainchild.

• TikTok is testing money transfers in DMs
• The MAJOR project is prepping its largest burn — 5,000,000 tokens this week
• Right before OpenAI's new model launch, several people in charge of ethics and safety walked out at once

"When business at the brothel is slow, you change the prostitutes, not rearrange the beds."

In China, $2.7M was raised for a laser air-defense system against mosquitoes: a smartphone-sized device that hunts insects with lidar and takes them down using computer vision. Finally, technology everyone actually needs.

.ton domains broke on Telegram

in gifts, instead of the domain, it's showing just the wallet address again.

Historic moment: Tether has undergone a real audit for the first time

Remember the crypto market’s biggest fear all these years? “What if USDT isn’t actually fully backed?” That question is now settled.

KPMG, one of the Big Four auditors, issued an unqualified opinion on Tether’s 2025 financial statements. This is the company’s first full audit in its entire history. They didn’t just check a “snapshot at a specific date” — they reviewed everything: the balance sheet, revenue, cash flows, and counterparties. All the way down to physically counting every gold bar in the vaults. Bottom line: reserves exceed liabilities by $6.8 billion.

🔎 Why didn’t this happen earlier? There are 3 reasons:

• Major auditors stayed away from crypto for years. There were simply too many scams and too much reputational risk surrounding the sector. Tether itself acknowledged that the company had long been a toxic client for the Big Four: in 2021, it paid fines to U.S. regulators over misleading disclosures about its reserves.

• There were no established accounting standards for valuing such a mix of assets: crypto, Treasuries, gold, and tokenized liabilities.

• Instead of audits, Tether published attestations. And an attestation is like a photo of a wallet at a specific moment: it shows that the money is there right now, but it doesn’t answer where it came from or where it went. An audit examines the entire picture over the course of a year.

💡 Why does this matter?

USDT is the lifeblood of the crypto market: nearly $185 billion is in circulation. As long as its backing was confirmed only through attestations, “Tether risk” remained one of the industry’s biggest systemic fears. And for institutions and regulators — especially in the U.S. — a Big Four audit is an essential ticket into the regulated financial world: without one, serious institutional money simply doesn’t enter the instrument.

Does this mean the market is about to reverse? No: an audit doesn’t print liquidity or move the price. But it removes one of the last barriers between crypto and major institutional capital.

💎 Telegram has filed an application for the .gram domain zone — if ICANN approves it, users will be able to get addresses like durov.gram and run websites on them directly through Telegram.

What’s going on with Strategy?

Just a month ago, I wrote that Michael Saylor’s company had started selling Bitcoin for the first time. At the time, it was easy to write it off as a one-off.

But the selling has continued. Over the summer, Strategy has sold nearly 7,000 BTC worth roughly $430 million, and the company has officially given itself the option to sell Bitcoin whenever it needs dollars.

And Saylor found a pretty clever way to spin it. His famous “never sell your Bitcoin” apparently was advice for individual investors, not companies.

As he put it, he personally isn’t selling any of his BTC. But his company, Strategy, has every right to sell its holdings. So, in short: keep holding Bitcoin.

The market wasn’t convinced, though. Every new sale has been met with a pullback and even a bit of panic. Although, so far, those moves have eventually been bought back up.

Still, honestly, it’s way too early to worry about this. In reality, Strategy has sold less than 1% of its Bitcoin holdings and still holds more than 840,000 BTC.

The key here is to look at the bigger picture, not individual headlines. If Strategy’s total Bitcoin holdings continue to grow, then nothing fundamental has changed. But if, by the end of the year, selling consistently starts to outweigh buying, that’s when we can start talking about a real change in strategy.