Pavel Durov

🏆 Telegram is launching a $200,000 contest for content creators.

🎬 Create a video about digital freedom using ideas and footage from this speech — plus any content or ideas of your own.

📈 Pass 10,000+ organic views for a chance to win a share of the prize fund.

📣 Full details in the @contest channel.

🖥 Don't be surprised if you see tables, nested lists, inline media, formulas, headers and more in Telegram messages.

📖 We now support rich formatting for all chatbots.

🔨 Start building! Docs for chatbot devs →

🔄 Telegram’s new update is out. Lots of great new features.

😂 But most importantly: the announcement is actually fun to read.

⌚️ Telegram is now on Wear OS.

Owners of Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch, Xiaomi Watch and other smartwatches — enjoy! ☕️

⌚️ A fully native Telegram app for Apple Watch is out.

💎 TON’s native currency is becoming Gram.

🤑 Gram was the original name of TON’s currency in the first white paper.

🌱 We’re returning to our roots — and starting a new chapter.

✈️ This rebranding will pave the way for what comes next.

⏳ The transition will take around 3 weeks.

💪 TON remains the name of the blockchain.

🪙 This is step 4 of 7 to Make TON Great Again.

🎭 WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud.

🇺🇸 The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy — because WhatsApp employees have access to “virtually all” private messages.

Now we know what WhatsApp’s founder meant when he said he “sold his users’ privacy.”

Stay safe — stay Telegram! 📱

🤖 Your Telegram inbox can now run itself.

Assign a bot to read and reply for you — with granular control over its rights and chat access. 🧠

⚙️ Start building!

💪 Anyone can now prompt their own text transformation style — for example, “Gym Bro” — and turn any message into motivational protein poetry.

💪 Then share the style with friends so they can reply like gym bros too.

🤐 All fully confidential. No AI-related privacy leaks.

🧠 AI devs asked for this — and we delivered.

🤖 Bots can now talk to other bots on Telegram.

💬 Autonomous agents now have a communication layer humans can follow.

🛠 Start building!

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🏆 We just awarded $52,420 to the winners of the Telegram Art Contest.

🎨 The participants did an amazing job with the MiniDurov collectibles.

💎 Their skills and ideas will enrich Telegram’s TON-based NFT ecosystem.

🇦🇪 Dubai is full of traffic and crowds again. Already missing the Iranian fireworks — they helped clear the city of the easily impressed.

The UAE’s air defenses proved excellent under fire. For 0% tax, we get better protection than Europeans paying 50%.

$100,400 just went to the 15 winners of the TON Consensus Challenge.

🧠 The smartest engineers on the planet — some armed with loyal AI sidekicks — helped us maximize the security of the new consensus mechanism.

🏆 Telegram contests offer generous prize money — and the only path to joining our engineering team.

🕵️‍♂️ Now you can search 100M+ Telegram stickers and emoji by keyword — in 36 languages.

Telegram’s AI scans and labels millions of public stickers so you can finally find the exact suspicious frog you need. 🤔

🌍 With 400 validators across 6 continents, TON is one of the most decentralized blockchain networks on the planet.

🧑‍💻 Telegram becoming the largest validator opened the door for major exchanges and custodians to stake TON without increasing centralization risk.

🛠 Developing for TON just became 10x faster. The new toolchain makes smart contracts easy to create, test, and deploy.

Most importantly, fully AI-ready.

It replaces TON’s fragmented tooling stack with one developer flow. Start building!

📊 Channel admins can now run massive polls limited to subscribers or specific countries — making fake-vote inflation much harder.

Now people in places like Russia can see real results. For example, only 5% support internet restrictions — not 52%, as old rigged polls claimed 😏