Pavel Durov has held a lot of usernames on Telegram. Out of all of them, https://t.co/OEYv2X4hfG is the one he was known to use as his own.
Most people scrolled past that detail.
We didn't.
Because the name MONK wasn't random, it traces back decades.
At 11 years old, a biochemistry teacher handed Durov a book he'd written himself: The Illusion of Paradise. It walked through, chemically, what happens inside your body the moment you take a drink, a pill, a hit of anything.
Most kids forget books like that.
Durov built the next three decades around it.
No alcohol. No caffeine. No meat. Not as a wellness trend, as a decision made once, at 11, and never revisited.
Some people are still negotiating with themselves at 40 about things he settled before puberty.
Ask him what he's about to do and he won't answer. Ask what he's shipped this year and you'll get the real answer.
That's our Monk.
You can see it clearly in the MTONGA steps...
he never announced what was coming next.
No "step 3 dropping soon" post.
No teaser or hype..
He just shows with his work...
Four steps confirmed, three still undisclosed, and we'll only know what they are once they've already..
the pattern hasn't changed once. it won't start being obvious right before it becomes obvious to everyone.
@ton_blockchain
I’m developing real hatred for people who use Telegram every single day and STILL somehow fade the-open-network:native
You have to be a different type of ignorant to see the perfect ecosystem being built and still refuse to buy atleast one of the many assets on chain
And when the top memes on the-open-network:native are trading in the billions, I want you to come back to this tweet
Fuck you ignorant piece of shit
NGMI
Pavel @durov aka Monk isn't just a character, it's the guy currently rebuilding an entire chain from scratch to Make Ton Great Again..
every cycle makes a few people rich early and everyone else rich in hindsight. this is the part of the story before hindsight kicks in..
gram is moving... and monk is the reason.. !
Time to make meme great again on Ton...
Telegram, Ton, and Pavel @durov
Have done more for memes than Base ever did and it’s going to translate into market caps that FAR exceed ANYTHING that ever launched on Base
You’ll see.
Now many of you are probably thinking, why hasn’t it then?
Because last bull run, Pavel wasn’t able to be that supportive of his own chain with the regulations and scrutiny on Ton being a security or not
So he wasn’t able to take responsibility over Ton or associate too strongly with it
But that changes this cycle
We will see $GRAM go nuclear this bull run
You are lucky to see this tweet because this has not been priced in yet
And we are all so lucky to be here in these quiet and dull times in crypto
people are asleep to the shift in Gram while it’s still the bear market plus they are used to GRAM not being the hot chain
They haven’t realized yet that this is the NEXT playground to get rich on in crypto
Thank you Telegram
Thank you Pavel
For the app I use for hours everyday
And for the setup that is gonna change many of our lives.