Telegram is printing money from ordinary giftsA 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.
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Estimated ordinary gift flow reached 21,000 Telegram Stars per minute In dollar terms, that is roughly $320 per minute Hourly revenue comes out to about $19,200 Daily revenue is around $460,800 Annualized, that gives roughly $168.2 million per year And this is only the ordinary gifts layer, not the full Telegram monetization machine Why it matters Telegram has turned small digital reactions into a real revenue stream Gifts look casual for users, but the math is already very serious Stars are becoming Telegram’s internal spending rail, not just a cute bonus feature For TON, this matters because user behavior is already being trained inside Telegram-native payments If Gram Wallet plugs into the same habit loop, the transition from gifts to crypto payments becomes much easierTelegram does not need to convince users to “enter Web3” with a conference speech. It can just sell them a pretty gift, charge Stars, and quietly build the payment muscle one tap at a time.
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