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👾Chronically online, locally offline. Web3 brain, building on the chain.

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🪽Hi, I’m Kris.

I follow every move of the little paper plane — and sometimes catch Toncoin updates before they’re publicly announced.

More over on Telegram:
https://t.co/RL7G8Lrtai

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📶Telegram’s iOS Settings have a split personality.

Premium and Business are available locally, but Stars, GRAM earnings and Gifts only appear after their live payment state is loaded from Telegram’s backend.

Lose the connection — that financial layer disappears from Settings.

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💎Telegram quietly changed one label around GRAM.

On Sep 28, Settings.MyTon went from “My Grams” to “Gram Earnings.”

Now it’s already live in the iOS UI:
“Поступления в GRAM” instead of “Мои GRAM.”

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@GosdepU 🔥

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🫪Sticker people are genuinely insane

I’ve covered a lot of Telegram/TON stuff, but my two biggest posts are still about NFT stickers — 6.1K and 3.9K views.

Now I’m curious if the sticker crowd is just as active here on X, or if you’re all hiding somewhere.

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@metaverserk @telegram @durov This is truly necessary👍🏻

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✔️Telegram’s test login flow now includes a new ton:wallet permission.

It also adds tc_client_id and tc_manifest_url — another clue around the native wallet stack, tying Telegram Login to wallet access and TON Connect metadata.

Test-only for now.

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@KirProzorov testnet + repo

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🛫 TON DNS is moving from Toncoin to GRAM.

A fresh https://t.co/zxY7ixVqr8 diff shows GRAM replacing Toncoin. The official code also removes Tonkeeper buttons + Getgems integration and switches domain payments to universal ton://transfer links.

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🪲Telegram Web K had a cold-session bug where Stars/Gram balances could fail before the client had cached its own user. The fix switches self-reads to inputPeerSelf, avoiding the missing access_hash. Code only for now.

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@Eyuel88 @Gift_NewsX They already liked it last year. (Zaspa)

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Before @reseachy, I used to make Telegram Gift concepts just for fun. This Whale was one of them, and people actually liked it.

Somehow that hobby turned into researching Telegram instead 🐋

[Kris @imp1ane]

I’m not a designer, but I had to work my magic a bit.

"Whale" - is a popular term in Telegram, and it feels symbolic to release an NFT gift like this.

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🧩What do you think of this Telegram bot captcha?

You swipe the top and bottom carousels until the character matches the one you were asked to find.

Feels a lot more native to Telegram than a standard captcha.

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@Giooton Yes, today🙂‍↔️

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ThorVG is a graphics and animation engine that can work directly with Telegram’s .tgs animation format.

Today, a new Pinrace demo appeared in ThorVG’s official repo — a winner-picker race that can use Telegram stickers as animated participants and scene elements.

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@maksyk Hi, Maks🙌

How are you my friend?☺️

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🪽Hi, I’m Kris.

I follow every move of the little paper plane — and sometimes catch Toncoin updates before they’re publicly announced.

More over on Telegram:
https://t.co/RL7G8Lrtai

[Research @reseachy]

@KirProzorov Good timing for integrating the new native wallet 😅

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In 2022, Telegram did a massive username cleanup: Durov said up to 70% of all Telegram usernames had been parked on inactive channels.

Now imagine if they do this every 5 years 🫠 If so, the next one would be next year.

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@KirProzorov Yeah, that’s the real test. Let’s crash Telegram🤣

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🎥ThorVG is an engine for drawing Lottie animations — the format Telegram uses for animated stickers and emoji.

v1.1.2 makes that work much faster: image scaling up to ~2×, some GPU cases over 2×, hit testing 70–90% faster, plus better audio and volume controls.

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@x_rusya @durov Oh, Bro😎👊