Pavel Durov
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Founder of Telegram.
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๐ŸŒ With 400 validators across 6 continents, TON is one of the most decentralized blockchain networks on the planet.

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Telegram becoming the largest validator opened the door for major exchanges and custodians to stake TON without increasing centralization risk.
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๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Now you can search 100M+ Telegram stickers and emoji by keyword โ€” in 36 languages.

Telegramโ€™s AI scans and labels millions of public stickers so you can finally find the exact suspicious frog you need. ๐Ÿค”
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$100,400 just went to the 15 winners of the TON Consensus Challenge.

๐Ÿง  The smartest engineers on the planet โ€” some armed with loyal AI sidekicks โ€” helped us maximize the security of the new consensus mechanism.

๐Ÿ† Telegram contests offer generous prize money โ€” and the only path to joining our engineering team.
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๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช Dubai is full of traffic and crowds again. Already missing the Iranian fireworks โ€” they helped clear the city of the easily impressed.

The UAEโ€™s air defenses proved excellent under fire. For 0% tax, we get better protection than Europeans paying 50%.
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๐Ÿ† We just awarded $52,420 to the winners of the Telegram Art Contest.

๐ŸŽจ The participants did an amazing job with the MiniDurov collectibles.

๐Ÿ’Ž Their skills and ideas will enrich Telegramโ€™s TON-based NFT ecosystem.
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๐Ÿง  AI devs asked for this โ€” and we delivered.

๐Ÿค– Bots can now talk to other bots on Telegram.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Autonomous agents now have a communication layer humans can follow.

๐Ÿ›  Start building!
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๐Ÿ’ช Anyone can now prompt their own text transformation style โ€” for example, โ€œGym Broโ€ โ€” and turn any message into motivational protein poetry.

๐Ÿ’ช Then share the style with friends so they can reply like gym bros too.

๐Ÿค All fully confidential. No AI-related privacy leaks.
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๐Ÿค– Your Telegram inbox can now run itself.

Assign a bot to read and reply for you โ€” with granular control over its rights and chat access. ๐Ÿง 

โš™๏ธ Start building!
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๐ŸŽญ WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy โ€” because WhatsApp employees have access to โ€œvirtually allโ€ private messages.

Now we know what WhatsAppโ€™s founder meant when he said he โ€œsold his usersโ€™ privacy.โ€

Stay safe โ€” stay Telegram! ๐Ÿ“ฑ
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๐Ÿ’Ž TONโ€™s native currency is becoming Gram.

๐Ÿค‘ Gram was the original name of TONโ€™s currency in the first white paper.

๐ŸŒฑ Weโ€™re returning to our roots โ€” and starting a new chapter.

โœˆ๏ธ This rebranding will pave the way for what comes next.

โณ The transition will take around 3 weeks.

๐Ÿ’ช TON remains the name of the blockchain.

๐Ÿช™ This is step 4 of 7 to Make TON Great Again.
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โŒš๏ธ A fully native Telegram app for Apple Watch is out.
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โŒš๏ธ Telegram is now on Wear OS.

Owners of Galaxy Watch, Pixel Watch, Xiaomi Watch and other smartwatches โ€” enjoy! โ˜•๏ธ
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๐Ÿ–ฅ Don't be surprised if you see tables, nested lists, inline media, formulas, headers and more in Telegram messages.

๐Ÿ“– We now support rich formatting for all chatbots.

๐Ÿ”จ Start building! Docs for chatbot devs โ†’
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๐Ÿ† Telegram is launching a $200,000 contest for content creators.

๐ŸŽฌ Create a video about digital freedom using ideas and footage from this speech โ€” plus any content or ideas of your own.

๐Ÿ“ˆ Pass 10,000+ organic views for a chance to win a share of the prize fund.

๐Ÿ“ฃ Full details in the @contest channel.
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โ›”๏ธ The UK government wants to ban social media for children under 16.

But banning social media for kids only puts them in greater danger.

They will be pushed to use VPNs โ€” and unlock far worse illegal content.

Weโ€™ve seen this before.

When the Russian government banned Telegram, 95% of Russian teenagers kept using it. They just moved to VPNs. Same in Iran.

Parents already have the tools to restrict their kidsโ€™ digital habits: parental controls, screen-time limits โ€” or no smartphone at all.

๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Instead, many parents give toddlers iPads just to keep them quiet.

No amount of government regulation will fix that.

Under the new law, all social media users in the UK will have to โ€œproveโ€ theyโ€™re over 16 โ€” with an ID, face scan or bank card.

๐Ÿšจ Thousands in the UK are already arrested for political posts every year.

Is this really about protecting children โ€” or identifying more people to arrest?

P. S. More about digital freedom in my speech โ€” the source material for our $200,000 clipping contest.
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