A quick update regarding my post from a while ago.

DAOLama shut down due to internal conflicts within the DAOLama team. I hope nobody lost money because of that post.

Laffka, on the other hand, is still active, operating normally, and has no plans to shut down. (Besides, there’s no team drama to worry about 😁.)

You can still instantly borrow $GRAM using your NFT stickers as collateral and later repay the loan to get your stickers back.

Laffka has consistently offered a higher LTV than the alternatives, allowing users to borrow a larger percentage of their collateral’s value.

They also recently added the ability to sell NFT stickers even while they’re being used as collateral, making it even easier to repay your loan without having to redeem the stickers first.

Telegram has effectively killed the NFT Stickers narrative.

Projects like DOGS and Notcoin managed to bring some of the biggest IPs into NFT Stickers — and into the Telegram ecosystem — without any real support from Telegram itself.

Ironically, this was a vision Telegram originally introduced. Durov proposed the idea, while Notcoin and DOGS actually turned it into reality.

Instead of building on that momentum, Telegram chose to ignore it.

This is not financial advice, but I wouldn't call Telegram Sticker NFTs dead just yet.

Some of the biggest IPs are already involved, and it's hard to imagine major brands that care about their reputation simply abandoning their NFT sticker collections.

For example, Pudgy Penguins' plans for a sticker holder airdrop are still on the table.

With MRKT no longer supporting NFT sticker trading, Laffka is now the most liquid marketplace for NFT stickers.

It already handled 40% of the total NFT sticker trading volume before MRKT’s exit, and now it’s the #1 place to trade.

Plus, you can get instant $GRAM loans backed by your NFT stickers.

You can now find all of my channels in one place using Telegram’s new Communities feature.

If you don’t see it at the top yet, just update your Telegram app.

😳 wow

https://t.iss.one/updated/1015

By the way, I came across a post from the current owner of the Portals Gifts marketplace. He forwarded a message from al robin talking about "NFT 2.0" (if you're interested, check the screenshot. I'll post an English translation of it in the comments).

So this is coming from someone who's supposedly "well-known" in the TON/Telegram space... but what is he actually known for?

As far as I know, he just spent his time sucking up to big influencers and adding them to his channel's wall, where they do nothing but shitpost.

It's funny reading such "important" opinions from someone who spent his entire career sucking up to every influencer he could find just to get them posting in his channel. xD

While the NFT sticker scene has been pretty quiet lately (which is why this channel has been a bit silent too), there are still interesting things happening across the TON ecosystem.

For example, the TON Core team recently launched an official blockchain explorer. Until now, there wasn't an official TON explorer — Tonviewer and Tonscan were both built by third-party developers.

If you're interested in everything happening across TON, not just NFT stickers, make sure to follow our second channel:

https://t.iss.one/TheGramTimes

Co-Founder of Chimpers also joined the conversation, replying under Telegram's post on X.