🍌 Is TON Core building the engine for Gram Wallet?

⚫️ A curious repository has appeared on the GitHub profile of TON Core developer Petr Makhnev: wallet-engine. It’s a Rust library that implements the core logic of a TON wallet, including Wallet V5R1 creation and import, transaction history, sending transactions, and more. V5R1 is TON’s latest general-purpose wallet standard, so the terminology here is consistent with TON’s current stack.

⚫️ The main idea is that developers wouldn’t need to build a separate wallet implementation for every platform. Wallet Engine acts as a shared Rust core, while each app adds its own UI, networking layer, and local storage on top. Bindings for Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript, and C++ are already available — which happens to line up neatly with Telegram’s clients across iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop.

⚫️ That makes it look like TON Core may be building a shared wallet engine for Telegram, allowing the same Gram Wallet core to be integrated across all of its apps. Instead of maintaining four separate wallet implementations, Telegram could rely on a single shared core for TON logic, while each client only handles the native UI and platform-specific features.

⚫️ The timing lines up pretty well too. It’s already August 18, leaving less than two weeks for integration and release. Place your bets: will Telegram manage to ship its self-custodial wallet before the end of summer?

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