✈️ Telegram has fixed an issue in which spammers were using notifications from the service account about incoming transfers to send promotional messages.
💎 Three years ago, The Gateway 2023 conference took place—the first major event dedicated to TON. Previous events had been smaller in scale. At this conference, Notcoin and The Open League were publicly unveiled for the first time, the rollout of the Wallet display directly within the user interface began, and dozens of other announcements were made.
In 2024, the second major The Gateway conference was held; in 2025, it was canceled; and by 2026, there was no longer an organization responsible for hosting it. The origins of The Gateway trace back to the first events in Dubai in 2022, which were called TON Fam.
You can read about each presentation with timestamps here, and listen to the Russian-language YouTube playlist here.
🗞 v12, a company that develops AI agents for software security testing, discovered a vulnerability in Telegram widgets that allows the calculator to be launched on Android devices.
✈️ Telegram has updated its FAQ: • The section describing Telegram’s revenue has been updated: “Thanks to these revenue streams, Telegram became profitable in 2024. [...] However, making a profit will never be Telegram’s ultimate goal.” • Telegram is still not considered a “very large online platform” under European Union regulations • TikTok has been added to the FAQ with a warning to subscribe at your own risk — “we have no idea who gave these people permission to post on our behalf” • A mention of TON has been added as a way to preserve Telegram gifts, even after deleting a Telegram account
References to Agent features have also been added to the iOS client interface—the ability to connect an AI agent natively within Telegram using an API key.
🗞 “You can love him or hate him, / but you can’t ignore what made 2024 the best year / [...] / to make everything great again,” reflects the Notcoin channel.
🗞 The CEO of Open Builders on his channel: “Creation > parasitism; genuine interest > manipulation; love > hate; 8 > 1.”
🐸 Telegram is testing offers in private messages for on-chain gifts. Grams will be locked on-chain, and actions related to the offer will trigger their own service messages.
✈️ Telegram is integrating gifts traded on Fragment into its internal marketplace interface.
Withdrawals of Telegram Stars and Gram Earnings may also become easier—Telegram is testing the ability to withdraw directly to "Money" without having to go to the Fragment website.
🐸 Telegram changed the Hellspawn model in the Myth Mask collection after the lead singer of the band Slaughter to Prevail reached out to the messaging app's art director.
🏴☠️ Currently, 1 out of 12 "need_verify" flags is enabled on Fragment—KYC is required only for withdrawing Telegram Stars and Gram Earnings from your account. The section showing your verification status has also returned to the platform.
The KYC requirement flag is enabled on the server and is returned in response to requests from the following functions: sendTransaction, eConvertInit, moveRequestInit, eGiftPremiumSubmit, eGiveawayPremiumSubmit, eRechargeAccount, eWithdrawRevenue, eBuyStarsSubmit, eGiveawayStarsSubmit, eWithdrawNft, and eVerifyWallet.
Currently, the flag is enabled only for eWithdrawRevenue.
Binance Holds $150 Million in TON Network Assets, Peaked at $1.4 Billion
Binance's reserve report does not count the TON coin, and the exchange's largest wallet on this network, holding 37.6 million TON, was not included in the archive of addresses.