🏆 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%.

🏆 We just awarded $52,420 to the winners of the Telegram Art Contest.

🎨 The participants did an amazing job with the MiniDurov collectibles.

💎 Their skills and ideas will enrich Telegram’s TON-based NFT ecosystem.