{"id":68924,"date":"2022-10-21T14:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=68924"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:57:52","slug":"telegram-team-to-launch-blockchain-platform-for-selling-usernames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/telegram-team-to-launch-blockchain-platform-for-selling-usernames\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram team to launch blockchain platform for selling usernames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegram team announced an imminent launch of a marketplace to sell account identifiers.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?21\" data-telegram-post=\"username\/6\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, work on the TON-based blockchain platform is &#8220;nearly complete&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Founder Pavel Durov <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/durov\/194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> the marketplace&#8217;s launch in August. He said he is &#8220;impressed&#8221; by the TON team&#8217;s auctions for selling domain names.<\/p>\n<p>According to Durov, on the new platform owners of names will be able to transfer them to interested parties in secure blockchain-based deals via &#8220;NFT-like smart contracts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels, stickers or emoji, may also become part of this market,&#8221; added the founder of the messenger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, in May 2020, Durov announced the shutdown of the Telegram Open Network (TON) project amid a legal clash with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a ban on token distribution.<\/p>\n<p>After the shutdown of TON, several independent teams continued to work on a blockchain based on the project&#8217;s code. Among them are <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-everscale-ever\">Free TON<\/a> (renamed to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/free-ton-renamed-to-everscale\">Everscale<\/a>), a Chinese project by TON Community and NewTON.<\/p>\n<p>The latter in May 2020 launched the test network NewTON Blockchain. In August 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/telegram-hands-over-the-ton-org-domain-to-independent-developers\">the TON team transferred the domain ton.org<\/a> and the project&#8217;s GitHub repository to the project, which renamed itself The Open Network.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Durov <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/pavel-durov-backs-toncoin-developers-as-token-price-climbs-46\">publicly supported<\/a> the developers of this network.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegram team announced an imminent launch of a marketplace to sell account identifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[822,723],"class_list":["post-68924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-marketplace","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"33","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68926,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68924\/revisions\/68926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}