Telegram Mini Apps

1️⃣3️⃣ Telegram turns 13 today. For over half that time — the past 7,5 years — it's been one of the 10 most downloaded mobile apps in the world. A whole generation has grown up with it 💪 🎂 Happy birthday, Telegram!

🏆 The International Olympiad in AI finished yesterday in Astana. 🇷🇺 The Russian team took first place in the team competition, and Artem Gorokhov from my home city won the individual event. Well done! 💪 🇰🇿 I'm equally happy for the host country, Kazakhstan, whose Dauzhan Beketov took the second-highest individual score.👏 📩We're in touch with the organizers to deliver the winners' prizes from Telegram ($106,500+) securely next week. Congratulations to all the winners! 🏆

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🍎 Last night, Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store because a single user had planted illegal pornographic content in a public group chat. ⬅️ Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks. 🧹Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using user reports, AI filters, content hashes, and other moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result, the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing and promptly reporting it. 💰 The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them. 🤝 From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegram’s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is effective. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this. ⚠️ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities: — Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be. — The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared. Stay vigilant! ☝️

Durov’s new pfp

WTF???

Telegram >

Telegram is making a huge move, this may change everything!

🌍 This summer will see the largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet in human history. ⚡️Instant zero-fee crypto transactions for over a billion users are about to become reality. 💎 We're bringing a native non-custodial Gram wallet to every Telegram app! 🏳️

Huge

🎠 Telegram now supports carousels One small step for messaging, one giant leap toward turning cat photos into keynote presentations. 😺

TONCOIN IS NOW Gram 😎👍🏻

😀@ccccc is currently up for auction, with the highest bid reaching 55,125 TON ($97,916) so far. 🔖For comparison, @aaaaa previously sold for 16,000 TON, while @bbbbb was sold for 12,000 TON. 💬 What's your prediction? How much do you think it will sell for?

Fragment.com will soon add new payment methods. Users will be able to buy Telegram Stars and Telegram Premium using USDT and USDC on Ethereum, Base, and Polygon. This raises a big question for the Toncoin ecosystem: will this be good or bad for TON? Until now, people were forced to buy and use TON on Fragment, bringing huge money flow and constant demand into the ecosystem. Soon, many users may simply pay with stablecoins instead, potentially bypassing TON completely. Some believe this could reduce TON’s utility and buying pressure, while others think easier payments could attract more users and expand the Telegram ecosystem overall.

Down & Up

What is going on with TON 😏

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🔥 Top 5 Active Mini Apps Right Now (Jan 2026) 1. Blum – 27M+ users 2. Hamster Kombat – Still strong at 20M+ 3. Not Pixel – Creative pixel farming 4. Tomarket – Trading + rewards 5. TG Trivia – Live quizzes with crypto prizes Which one are you grinding today? Let's keep the TON ecosystem growing together 🚀 #TelegramMiniApps #TON #CryptoGames

Will TON recover in 2026?

What a crash! What do you think about the current state of TON. Will it ever recover?