The apartment in Russia where I lived 20 years ago received a summons for “Suspect P. V. Durov”.

They must be suspecting me of defending Articles 29 and 23 of the Russian Constitution — which guarantee freedom of speech and the right to private correspondence.

Proud to be guilty! 😏

⚡️ In one week, TON fees will drop 6× — to just 0.00039 TON (~$0.0005) per transaction, fixed regardless of network load.

🆓 Soon after most transactions go fully feeless. Zero commission.

🪙 MTONGA

41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026.

Why?

🥖 French tax officials selling crypto owners' data to criminals (Ghalia C.) + massive tax database leaks.

Now the same state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users.

More data => More leaks => More victims.

That’s why Telegram would rather leave the French market than give their corrupt bureaucrats access to private messages. 🐶

⚡️ Fees in TON have dropped 6× — to nearly zero.

Next step — Telegram replaces the TON Foundation as the driving force behind TON and becomes its largest validator.

⚙️ The focus shifts to tech superiority.

🧩 New ton.org, new dev tools, new performance upgrades.

🧭 Timeline — 2-3 weeks.

🪙 This is step 3 of 7 to Make TON Great Again.

💎 Telegram becoming TON’s largest validator strengthens decentralization.

✅ It lets other major players join the validator pool without centralizing the network — with Telegram as the counterbalance.

📈 More and more TON gets locked in validation as everyone competes for 20%+ APR.

🏁 TON leads Layer-1 blockchains in finality time.

🔗 Sources: https://telegra.ph/Comparison-of-Layer-1-blockchains-by-finalization-time-05-01

🫴 TON is #1 in annual staking rewards among the 50 largest cryptocurrencies.

And that’s on top of the coin’s price growth — which doubled over the past week.

🏆 We’ve distributed $75,000 among the best designers who imagined a new way to communicate — Telegram Nodes (see here).

⚖ I joined the judging process and spent 10+ hours reviewing thousands of designs from nearly 200 participants. Great work! 👏

🔜 We’ve now invited the 19 winners to suggest improvements to existing Telegram features.

⭐️ We’re looking for people who — like us — have a burning desire to make Telegram better every day, with no exceptions.

🥖 The French government is accusing X and Elon Musk of the very things the French government itself is doing:

- Illegally collecting personal data
- Processing personal data without proper security
- Extracting data from automated systems
- Violating the secrecy of electronic communications

The French government is panicking. They know a major political shift in 2027 will expose their misdeeds. So they’re trying to silence free speech platforms under whatever pretext they think they can get away with.

✊ The free world should stand with Elon and X against this immoral assault by the French state. Telegram supports our brothers and sisters from X in their fight for our freedoms.

📊 Channel admins can now run massive polls limited to subscribers or specific countries — making fake-vote inflation much harder.

Now people in places like Russia can see real results. For example, only 5% support internet restrictions — not 52%, as old rigged polls claimed 😏

🛠 Developing for TON just became 10x faster. The new toolchain makes smart contracts easy to create, test, and deploy.

Most importantly, fully AI-ready.

It replaces TON’s fragmented tooling stack with one developer flow. Start building!

🕵️‍♂️ Now you can search 100M+ Telegram stickers and emoji by keyword — in 36 languages.

Telegram’s AI scans and labels millions of public stickers so you can finally find the exact suspicious frog you need. 🤔

$100,400 just went to the 15 winners of the TON Consensus Challenge.

🧠 The smartest engineers on the planet — some armed with loyal AI sidekicks — helped us maximize the security of the new consensus mechanism.

🏆 Telegram contests offer generous prize money — and the only path to joining our engineering team.

🇦🇪 Dubai is full of traffic and crowds again. Already missing the Iranian fireworks — they helped clear the city of the easily impressed.

The UAE’s air defenses proved excellent under fire. For 0% tax, we get better protection than Europeans paying 50%.