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Selling an NFT as a Telegram gift for $20,000, with Pavel Durov’s support for young programmers
A student from a U.S. high school turned a free coding prize into roughly $20,000 after selling his NFT token as a Telegram gift for 15,000 grams. Durov highlighted this sale as seed capital.
The price was about 40 times higher than what Telegram had guaranteed for the prize’s average value. Durov posted the result on his channel and asked the other winners to build something.
How did a $20,000 free prize happen?
Jonathan H. won a gold medal at the 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics. Durov ranked Jonathan seventh in the world.
Instead of a medal or a typical check, the prize was an Algorithm Cup—a collectible digital number found on TON, the blockchain behind Gram. Winners could sell their prizes to anyone.#KoreaSingleStockLeveragedETFTradingFalls #VietnamPilotsCryptoAssetMarket #GoldFalls3.24%ThisWeek #VenezuelaUSSign25YearOilDeal #TrumpReachesVenezuelaOilDealOn17Fields
Selling an NFT as a Telegram gift for $20,000, with Pavel Durov’s support for young programmers
A student from a U.S. high school turned a free coding prize into roughly $20,000 after selling his NFT token as a Telegram gift for 15,000 grams. Durov highlighted this sale as seed capital.
The price was about 40 times higher than what Telegram had guaranteed for the prize’s average value. Durov posted the result on his channel and asked the other winners to build something.
How did a $20,000 free prize happen?
Jonathan H. won a gold medal at the 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics. Durov ranked Jonathan seventh in the world.
Instead of a medal or a typical check, the prize was an Algorithm Cup—a collectible digital number found on TON, the blockchain behind Gram. Winners could sell their prizes to anyone.#KoreaSingleStockLeveragedETFTradingFalls #VietnamPilotsCryptoAssetMarket #GoldFalls3.24%ThisWeek #VenezuelaUSSign25YearOilDeal #TrumpReachesVenezuelaOilDealOn17Fields
