Meanwhile, something interesting is happening on Telegram: @gadget is officially up for auction.

Yes — the actual @gadget username.

Telegram usernames can be turned into blockchain-based collectibles and traded through Fragment. Whoever wins the auction gets control of the handle and can assign it to a Telegram account, channel, group or bot.

And @gadget is exactly the kind of digital property that could be valuable: short, memorable, universally understandable and sitting right in the middle of the global tech industry.

It’s a strange new category of internet real estate — not a domain name, not quite an NFT, but a piece of identity infrastructure inside a platform used by more than a billion people.

Let’s see what the market thinks @gadget is worth.

https://fragment.com/username/gadget