🍬 My girlfriend is turning 2️⃣5️⃣ today.
💝 She’s collecting pink/violet gifts on the cyberpunk backdrop, so I had to pay 15,000 TON (~$52,500) for a Plush Pepe 🐸

Tap 😎 if you think it was worth it — and 🧊 if you think it wasn’t.

https://t.me/nft/PlushPepe-858

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Plush Pepe #858

Model: Pink Galaxy
Backdrop: Cyberpunk
Symbol: Shiny Heart

🪙 A TON early adopter bought the @crypto username on Telegram for $350,000 2,5 years ago — and recently received an offer for $25,000,000. Here’s what he said about Telegram usernames:

“If these can’t be taken away from me, I want them all.”

💡 If you can’t contact me directly due to the paywall, feel free to reach out to our support team at @notoscam to report any blackmailing attempts. Include the hashtag #blackmail in your message so it reaches the right team member. 📞

🫡 Unfortunately, I can’t remove the paywall from my account — when I do, I receive thousands of messages per minute, making it impossible to read or respond to anyone. 🛡

👑 Rare Telegram gifts, numbers, and usernames — once bought for just a few dollars — can now sell for over $100,000. But this surge in value has a dark side. 🤦‍♂️

⚠️ We’re seeing scammers blackmail users, trying to force them into handing over these valuable collectibles. There are also reports of channels extorting money by threatening to leak personal information or sensitive data. Some have even turned this into a business model — publishing damaging posts and charging for their removal. 💰

✋ This is both illegal and immoral, and it won’t fly with us. 🪰

🤙 If you’ve been threatened or blackmailed by scammers or channels, please report it immediately. Send me a private message in this channel with as much proof as possible. We’ll remove these bad actors from our platform and keep Telegram a safe place for everyone. 🪿

➕ If you’re a student choosing what to focus on, pick MATH. It will teach you to relentlessly rely on your own brain, think logically, break down problems, and solve them step by step in the right order. That’s the core skill you’ll need to build companies and manage projects. 🏢

↗️ If you want to reach your full potential and maintain clarity of mind, stay away from addictive substances. My success and health are the result of 20+ years of complete abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, coffee, pills, and illegal drugs. Short-term pleasure isn’t worth your future. 🚭

Here’s what I said about this 7.5 years ago — still true today.

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Pavel Durov

In other – more personal – news, I’ve turned 33 today.

Earlier I shared some info about how I stay healthy and productive. In short, there are 7 things I never do:

1) Alcohol
2) Meat (fish is OK though)
3) Any kinds of pills and meds (unless I’m at a dentist’s)…

🎁 @SnoopDogg’s digital collectibles drop on Telegram sold out in just 30 minutes today, generating $12M in sales. 🎁

🎁 Nearly 1M unique NFTs, inspired by Snoop’s iconic style, were gone in record time.

🎁 Blockchain minting and the secondary market go live in 21 days. It’s going to be wild. 🎁

🗽 The Independence Day gifts sold out within minutes. It took just 45 seconds for all 15,000 🎁 Crystal Eagles (around $100 each) to be claimed. The 300,000 🎁 Statues of Liberty were gone in under 5 minutes. Lastly, all 500,000 🎁 Liberty Torches sold out in just 10 minutes.

👨‍💻 Telegram’s looking for an Android dev — who’ll earn $1M / year after tax. 🧻

🥇 The only way in is to win our coding contest that ends on July 11. The task? Implement the animation from this mockup in our open-source Android app. 🤖 https://t.me/contest/420

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Telegram Contests

🏆 Telegram Android Contest 2025, Round 1

Prize fund: $50,000
Deadline: 23:59 on July 11 (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: July 2025

Telegram is hosting a contest for Android developers to implement a redesigned profile appearance.

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🎙 A week ago, Tucker Carlson published an interview with me about what happened in France. It was covered by media in many countries — except, interestingly, in France. None of the French newspapers mentioned the interview. 🤐

📰 However, the French media hasn’t lost interest in Telegram. Last week, Le Monde, the country’s main newspaper, invited its readers to report whether they watch pirated football matches on Telegram. This attempt to crowdsource a negative story about us appears to be part of a broader strategy. 😐

😑 In just the 7 weeks following my arrest in Paris, Le Monde published 40 negative articles about Telegram. In violation of journalistic ethics, they did not ask us for a comment in 37 of these 40 articles and always ignored the factual corrections we sent them. 🤦‍♂️

📣 Such a media environment is alarming. This is why platforms like Telegram are so important — we enable people to access all points of view and decide for themselves. We believe people are smart and can be trusted with the unfiltered truth. ✉️

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Pavel Dourov s’exprime pour la première fois depuis son arrestation à motivation politique en France

Le fondateur de Telegram, Pavel Dourov, est effectivement en résidence surveillée en France depuis son arrestation il y a dix mois. Pour la première fois, il explique pourquoi.

Chaîne de Tucker Carlson sur Telegram : https://t.me/TuckerCarlsonNetwork
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📈 Telegram Collectible Gifts went up in price several times in the past 30 days 🆙

💚 TON is now the #1 blockchain by daily NFT trading volume (or #2 after Ethereum if off-chain trades are not counted) 🏆

🔗 Sources — here and here 📊

🆒 In case you missed it — the latest Telegram update is epic:

— 📥 Direct messages in channels
— 🖼 HD photo sharing
— 🗂 Topic tabs in group chats
— ✂️ Voice message trimming
— 📊 Expanded poll options

We’ve been receiving great feedback from the owners of large channels and groups. And this is just the beginning — direct messages in channels lay the foundation for much more in the weeks ahead 🚀

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Direct Messages for Channels, Voice Trimming, Topic Tabs and HD Photos

In today's update, we add new ways for users to start conversations with their favorite channels, navigate topics more efficiently, trim voice messages before sending, send photos in higher quality -- and more.

🎙✂️ Trimming voice messages — today on Telegram. In a few years, everywhere else with the exact same UI 🥇💅

Meet Threaded Chats — a simple yet powerful way to organize conversations by topic or sender. Already available in large groups (where admins can enable it) and in the brand-new channel inboxes — yes, channels can now receive direct messages from users, and even charge for them if they wish. Enjoy! 😎

🏆 Telegram has successfully issued $1.7B in 5-year bonds at a 9% interest rate, maturing in June 2030. More than $950M of our previous bonds (due March 2026) were exchanged for the new issuance.

🙏 The response from investors was phenomenal. We’re deeply grateful to the investment funds that have supported us over the years. Due to strong demand, we expanded the offering beyond the initial $1.5B — yet demand still far exceeded what we could allocate.

🪙 With this new funding, we now have more than enough resources to repay the remaining portion of our 2026 bonds. Given Telegram’s profitability, we are in an excellent financial position going forward. 😙

🔥 This summer, Telegram users will gain access to the best AI technology on the market. Elon Musk and I have agreed to a 1-year partnership to bring xAI’s chatbot Grok to our billion+ users and integrate it across all Telegram apps 🤝

💪 This also strengthens Telegram’s financial position: we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram 💰

Telegram + Grok = ❤️📈🏆

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🇦🇪 I’ll be in Dubai the first week of June — good news ahead.

🎉 Telegram Premium now has over 15 million paid subscribers. The number has doubled in just one year. Thank you for going Premium! ⭐️

🔼 Telegram climbed up in the rankings of the world’s most downloaded apps in Q1 2025, while all Meta apps (WA, IG, FB, Threads) dropped 🔽

Let’s keep it going like this 🙂

A Western European government (guess which 🥖) approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today’s presidential elections. I flatly refused. Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels.

You can’t “defend democracy” by destroying democracy. You can’t “fight election interference” by interfering with elections. You either have freedom of speech and fair elections — or you don’t. And the Romanian people deserve both. 🇷🇴