Telegram Rolls Out Non-Custodial Wallet to 1B+ Users
The rollout could put token transfers and digital collectibles inside a messaging platform with a billion-plus audience, bringing crypto access closer to everyday users.
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The rollout could put token transfers and digital collectibles inside a messaging platform with a billion-plus audience, bringing crypto access closer to everyday users.
The free tool lets creators accept payments in supported coins and receive their chosen asset directly, without an account, merchant gateway or hosted balance.
Durov frames it as a friction-killer: instant, zero-fee crypto rails baked into an app that already has a billion-user distribution channel.
Pavel Durov says every Telegram user gets a self-custody wallet with zero-fee crypto transfers this summer, collapsing the onboarding gap between messaging apps and self-sovereign crypto.
The native wallet lands on Telegram's existing billion-user rail without onboarding into a separate app, a distribution surface no other non-custodial wallet in crypto has ever come close to.
The platform's wallet-to-wallet model sidesteps the pooled-custody attack surface that drained KelpDAO, Drift, and Grinex in a single quarter.
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