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The author of .lipsed reconstructed the timeline of Pavel Durov’s conversation with the Platho developer. The strangest detail: Platho’s NFT collection had a “scam” label in TONviewer, and after a few messages in the chat with Durov, the label disappeared.

Telegram is testing a new anti-blocking route: MTProxy traffic can be carried through HTTPS/WebSocket, making it look much closer to ordinary web traffic. The domain can still work like a normal website, while the proxy part only opens for the Telegram client after verification.

Pavel tested Platho, an encrypted backend-free messenger built on TON, by sending 1 GRAM to the project wallet and creating a channel inside the app. The reaction was instant: users started grabbing domains before anyone even knew where this experiment was going.

A curious repository appeared on TON Core developer Petr Makhnev’s GitHub: wallet-engine. It is a Rust library that handles the internal logic of a TON wallet — creating and importing wallets, reading balances and transaction history, signing transfers, working with TON Connect, and more.

A rough estimate puts Telegram’s ordinary gifts revenue at around 21,000 Stars per minute. That is about $320 every minute, before we even start talking about bigger mechanics, limited drops or secondary market activity.

Telegram Desktop developer John Preston published tproxy-server, an experimental Web proxy for Telegram. He says it is only a proof of concept, but the idea is easy to read: make Telegram traffic look like normal HTTPS activity while keeping the MTProxy logic underneath.

TON update 2026.07 fixed what 2026.06 broke, and TON Core is already preparing the next move. On August 17, update 2026.08 is expected to split validator and collator functions, a change designed for the kind of load Telegram’s native Gram Wallet could bring.

Telegram Messenger announced another challenge, this time for Mini Apps. Developers need to show their app, explain why it is useful, and attach a t.me link so people can actually open it.

Telegram Messenger launched an “IRL Moderation” challenge. The task is simple: do something useful in your neighborhood, like cleaning up a park, helping a neighbor with their lawn, or another small good deed, then post before-and-after photos.

GRAM’s validator count dropped by 59% over the last 24 hours. For a network that keeps pushing reliability, decentralization and Telegram-scale infrastructure, that is not exactly the kind of chart you want people to screenshot.

After the 2026.06 update on July 22, some TON validators started slowing down. Block production dropped from 2.47 to 2.30 blocks per second, while network delays increased.

Pavel Durov has been added to Russia’s list of terrorists and extremists. This follows the case around the Telegram dating bot “Daivinchik”, which had already led Russian authorities to place Telegram’s founder on the international wanted list.

The Swiss foundation regulator ESA has accepted the evidence package from the investigation into $4.66M in payments to RSquad. This is not a verdict yet, but the story has moved beyond Telegram threads into a place where TON Foundation may be asked for official explanations.

Sasha SquarePants posted his diagnosis for TON memecoins on X: almost all of them are dead, while the remaining ones survive on fake volume and pump-and-dump schemes. A strong take, especially from someone whose own TON experience was built on very similar market math.

Pavel Durov said that a native non-custodial Gram Wallet will appear in every Telegram app this summer. According to him, this should become the largest non-custodial crypto wallet rollout in history.

Rivol released its second major investigation this week — this time about the TON Ecosystem Reserve. At the center of the story are 531M TON, presented in 2022 as a “community donation”, while almost the entire reserve allegedly came from linked early-miner wallets connected to Telegram’s orbit.

Researcher Rivol broke down how TON Foundation transferred at least $4.66M to RSquad between January 2025 and June 2026. According to the investigation, the pattern repeated three times: a project failed or froze, and the same team received the next contract.