Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, a privacy-focused messaging application, announced that they will offer special group and usernames that can be used in the application.
Layer-1 blockchain developed by the Telegram team. The Open Network (TON) domain name sales 244,000 dollars earned. On top of that, Telegram founder Pavel Durov August 22 In the message he published on the Telegram channel, which can be used in Telegram private group and usernames announced that they will be available for sale.
Durov secures the sold usernames with NFT-like smart contracts He stated that they will keep it in the blockchain. Also for trading of acquired user and group names a secondary market platform He said they could build it. According to the information in Durov’s message, in the future, emoji and stickers may also be included in the market as elements of this ecosystem.
In the CEO message, the platform is likely to be able to write secure smart contracts. It will be removed on TON because the smart contract language created by themselvesnude reported. Also, the CEO will be posting more on Telegram in the coming weeks. Web 3.0 announced that they are considering incorporating the elements.