Telegram integrates TON to boost Web 3.0 experience

TON is a scalable and fast blockchain technology, which was designed to serve hundreds of millions of social media users. Since 2020, the TON technology has been maintained and improved by the open-source community. 

Last year, the company enabled its users to buy and sell Telegram usernames and IDs on Fragment– a TON-based auction platform. It was a phenomenal success. Telegram sold $120M worth of digital assets in auctions, while early buyers of some Telegram-related digital assets – such as Telegram anonymous numbers – have seen a 27x (!) increase in value after only 9 months. 

This success showed the potential of Web 3.0 on Telegram. For the first time in history, users were allowed to own their social media identities directly. Now the company wants to integrate blockchain technologies deeper into Telegram. To do that, it has worked with the folks from the TON community to add their TON Wallet to Telegram as a mini-app. 

Starting this November, TON Wallet will be included in the settings and attachment menus for all users outside the US and some other countries. This step will allow developers to enable hundreds of new valuable features – similar to those pioneered on Fragment. TON Wallet, a third-party mini-app inside Telegram, will introduce a whole new dimension of Web 3.0 to hundreds of millions of Telegram users