🫴 TON is #1 in annual staking rewards among the 50 largest cryptocurrencies.
And that’s on top of the coin’s price growth — which doubled over the past week.
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Pavel Durov
17 may 2026, 22:51
🏆 We’ve distributed $75,000 among the best designers who imagined a new way to communicate — Telegram Nodes ( https://t.me/contest).
⚖ I joined the judging process and spent 10+ hours reviewing thousands of designs from nearly 200 participants. Great work! 👏
🔜 We’ve now invited the 19 winners to https://t.me/contest to existing Telegram features.
⭐️ We’re looking for people who — like us — have a burning desire to make Telegram better every day, with no exceptions.
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Pavel Durov
17 may 2026, 22:51
🎥 Video
🏁 TON leads Layer-1 blockchains in finality time.
🔗 Sources: https://telegra.ph/Comparison-of-Layer-1-blockchains-by-finalization-time-05-01
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Pavel Durov
17 may 2026, 22:51
Huge Telegram update — 10 major new features, 200+ improvements. https://telegram.org/blog/ai-bot-revolution-11-new-features
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Pavel Durov
17 may 2026, 22:51
⚡️ Fees in TON have dropped 6× — to nearly zero.
Next step — Telegram replaces the TON Foundation as the driving force behind TON and becomes its largest validator.
⚙️ The focus shifts to tech superiority.
🧩 New http://ton.org/, new dev tools, new performance upgrades.
🧭 Timeline — 2-3 weeks.
🪙 This is step 3 of 7 to Make TON Great Again.
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Pavel Durov
17 may 2026, 22:51
💎 Telegram becoming TON’s largest validator strengthens decentralization.
✅ It lets other major players join the validator pool without centralizing the network — with Telegram as the counterbalance.
📈 More and more TON gets locked in validation as everyone competes for 20%+ APR.
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Pavel Durov
17 may 2026, 22:51
📷 Photo
The apartment in Russia where I lived 20 years ago received a summons for “Suspect P. V. Durov”.
They must be suspecting me of defending Articles 29 and 23 of the Russian Constitution — which guarantee freedom of speech and the right to private correspondence.
Proud to be guilty! 😏
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Pavel Durov
17 may 2026, 22:51
⚡️ In one week, TON fees will drop 6× — to just 0.00039 TON (~$0.0005) per transaction, fixed regardless of network load.
🆓 Soon after most transactions go fully feeless. Zero commission.
🪙 https://t.me/durov
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Pavel Durov
17 may 2026, 22:51
41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026.
Why?
🥖 French tax officials selling crypto owners' data to criminals (Ghalia C.) + massive tax database leaks.
Now the same state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users.
More data => More leaks => More victims.
That’s why Telegram would rather leave the French market than give their corrupt bureaucrats access to private messages. 🐶
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Pavel Durov
17 may 2026, 22:51
France's "Agency for Secure Documents" was hacked. Names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers of 19 million people — leaked from a single government database.
Future leaks will be even more catastrophic if the French government gets what it wants: access to encrypted chats and Digital IDs of social media users.
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Pavel Durov
28 mar 2026, 05:25
🧐Despite some FUD, Telegram has no dependence on Russian capital. Our recent $1.7B bond offering included exactly zero Russian investors. Old bonds issued in 2021 have largely been repaid and pose no issue. 😌
In any case, bondholders are not shareholders and have no say over Telegram’s decisions. I am the sole shareholder. 😈
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Pavel Durov
28 mar 2026, 05:25
📷 Photo
🤯 I was just told that I have over 100 biological kids. How is this possible for a guy who has never been married and prefers to live alone? 🤨 🔙 Fifteen years ago, a friend of mine approached me with a weird request. He said that he and his wife couldn’t…
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Pavel Durov
28 mar 2026, 05:25
📷 Photo
🥊 Great to see my gym buddy Petr Yan win the UFC title — with Gifts shining in the background 🥊
🎁 The UFC Strike Gifts auction on Telegram starts in 4 hours. Don’t miss it! https://t.me/auction 🥊
🐣 It happened. Our decentralized confidential compute network, Cocoon, is live. The first AI requests from users are now being processed by Cocoon with 100% confidentiality. GPU owners are already earning TON. https://cocoon.org/ is up, with docs and the source code.
🤔 Centralized compute providers such as Amazon and Microsoft act as expensive intermediaries that drive up prices and reduce privacy. Cocoon solves both the economic and confidentiality issues associated with legacy AI compute providers.
🚀 Now we scale. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be onboarding more GPU supply and bringing in more developer demand to Cocoon. Telegram users can expect new AI-related features built on 100% confidentiality. Cocoon will bring control and privacy back where they belong — with users. 🤖
💪 https://t.me/khabib_nurmagomedov legendary papakhas — collectibles symbolizing Tradition, Freedom, and Respect — are going on auction on Telegram tomorrow at noon EST (9pm Dubai time).
🌟 As the 29–0 undefeated champion himself puts it:
“Some gifts carry more than value — they carry meaning ☝️”
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Pavel Durov
28 mar 2026, 05:25
🎥 Video
A demo of how auctions for rare gifts work 🎈
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Pavel Durov
28 mar 2026, 05:25
😋 We’re starting to test new Telegram features such as live-streaming in Stories and auctions for gifts.
🍸 Before we auction gifts from superstars and megacelebrities, we’re testing the auction mechanics with the exclusive 🎁 Telegram Plane gift.
🏆 It will be auctioned in 50 rounds, each distributing 20 Telegram Planes to the top 20 bidders. The first round will last 1 hour, while the remaining 49 rounds will last only 5 minutes each.
🔜 The auction starts in half an hour. Make sure you have the latest version of Telegram installed, otherwise you won’t be able to take part. Good luck! 🍀
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Pavel Durov
23 mar 2026, 00:10
🎥 Video
🕷 Someone made a game about me escaping a French prison — and fighting off all sorts of shady characters along the way. https://t.me/TotalGlitchBot
Only on Telegram could independent developers pull this off. The Mini App platform gives them absolute freedom — and the results are wild.
🎃 Happy Halloween!
P. S. I had zero involvement or even knowledge about this before it launched. Respect to the creators!
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Pavel Durov
1 mar 2026, 20:28
🎥 Video
The new Telegram update is here — with 12 features added in one month:
💬 E2E Comments & Reactions in Calls
✍️ Notes for Contacts
🎂 Suggested Birthdays
🤖 Threads & Streaming for AI Bots
💡 Bugs & Suggestions Mini App
🎨 New Profile Styles
🎁 Improved Gift UI
🔗 On-chain NFTs on Profiles
🗑 Gift Signature Removal
💧 Liquid Glass Input Field & 🗂️ Tabs
All demos and details 👇
https://telegram.org/blog/comments-in-video-chats-threads-for-bots
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Pavel Durov
1 mar 2026, 20:28
🇪🇺 Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms:
Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would force apps to scan every private message, turning everyone’s phone into a spying tool.
France led the push for this authoritarian law. Both former and current Interior Ministers, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Nuñez, supported it. Last March, they declared that police should see French citizens’ private messages ( https://t.me/durov). The Republicans and Macron’s Renaissance group voted for it.
Such measures are supposed to “fight crime”, but their real target is regular people. It wouldn’t stop criminals — they could just use VPNs or special websites to hide. Officials’ and police messages wouldn’t be scanned either, since the law conveniently exempts them from surveillance. Only YOU — ordinary citizens — would face the danger of your private messages and photos being compromised.
Today, we defended privacy: Germany’s sudden stand saved our rights. But freedoms are still threatened. While French leaders push for total access to private messages, the basic rights of French people — and all Europeans — remain in danger.
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Pavel Durov
24 feb 2026, 10:26
I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
We’ve been fed a lie.
We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. We are running out of time.
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Pavel Durov
11 feb 2026, 12:25
🇲🇩 About a year ago, while I was stuck in Paris, the French intelligence services reached out to me through an intermediary, asking me to help the Moldovan government censor certain Telegram channels ahead of the presidential elections in Moldova.
After reviewing the channels flagged by French (and Moldovan) authorities, we identified a few that clearly violated our rules and removed them. The intermediary then informed me that, in exchange for this cooperation, French intelligence would “say good things” about me to the judge who had ordered my arrest in August last year.
This was unacceptable on several levels. If the agency did in fact approach the judge — it constituted an attempt to interfere in the judicial process. If it did not, and merely claimed to have done so, then it was exploiting my legal situation in France to influence political developments in Eastern Europe — a pattern we have also https://t.me/durov 🇷🇴
Shortly thereafter, the Telegram team received a second list of so-called “problematic” Moldovan channels. Unlike the first, nearly all of these channels were legitimate and fully compliant with our rules. Their only commonality was that they voiced political positions disliked by the French and Moldovan governments.
We refused to act on this request.
Telegram is committed to freedom of speech and will not remove content for political reasons. I will continue to expose every attempt to pressure Telegram into censoring our platform. Stay tuned. 🤝
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Pavel Durov
11 feb 2026, 12:25
Growth in the last 30 days 😺
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Pavel Durov
9 feb 2026, 05:24
https://t.me/charliekirk’s death is an assault on free speech. He fought for open debate, and enemies of truth hated him for it.
Free expression is under attack worldwide. Once free speech is lost, every other freedom soon follows. We must continue Charlie’s mission to defend it ✉️
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Pavel Durov
3 feb 2026, 13:22
🏎 NFTs are back — reimagined. 18 Telegram gifts bought for just $57 a few months ago were traded for a $350,000 car. 🚗
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Pavel Durov
6 dic 2025, 16:18
🍬 To celebrate Telegram’s birthday and the summer holiday season, we’re dropping some limited-edition gifts within the next hour: Durov’s Sunglasses, Resistance Dog, Sandcastle, Surfboard and Pink Flamingo 🎁
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Pavel Durov
6 dic 2025, 16:18
🕶🕶🕶🕶 Telegram’s birthday/summer gifts sold out in under 3 minutes, grossing over $11M.
To make this round fairer, we limited purchases of Durov’s Sunglasses 🕶 (~$600, max 3 per user) and Resistance Dog 🕶 (~$100, max 5 per user) to Premium users only. Still, both sold out in 15 seconds. 🥹
Should we release 2-3 more gifts on September 1st with even tighter buying restrictions? 🤔
