Telegram has launched a brand new on-line market to public sale uncommon usernames and channels. This net store has been constructed upon the Telegram Open Community (TON) blockchain, which was first considered by app founders Durov brothers in round 2018. Later in 2022, the TON mainnet went absolutely stay and operational. By way of this market, the moment messaging app will public sale 4 or 5 letter handles and make shorter usernames accessible for folks.
The launch of this blockchain market is meant to speed up the adoption of the know-how, that additionally makes for the underlaying spine of cryptocurrencies.
“For the primary time, social media customers will have the ability to transparently show that they personal their handles,” Andrew Rogozov, founding member of the TON Basis, was quoted by CoinTelegraph as saying.
The primary public sale of usernames on Telegram’s market will final for every week. Nonetheless, the date of the beginning of this public sale stays unclear.
The minimal worth for a four-character deal with is anticipated to be round 10,000 Toncoin or Rs. 13 lakh. As per CoinMarketCap, the native token of the TON blockchain is priced $1.67 (roughly Rs. 140).
Particular person Telegram customers may even be given an choice to public sale off their very own usernames.
Telegram chief Pavel Durov had first hinted about launching this market in August. On the time, he had recommended that hundreds of thousands of reserved Telegram addresses might be auctioned as property on the blockchain.
He was impressed by the sale of over 2,000 ‘.ton’ domains — a sale which totaled 2,392,002 Toncoin, every of which trades for $1.33 (roughly Rs. 100) netting roughly $3 million (roughly Rs. 24 crore) earlier this yr.
The primary auctions on TON DNS went stay on July 30, and very like the Ethereum Identify Service (ENS) “.eth” domains, the “.ton” variant permits customers to entry decentralised purposes in a easy approach without having to kind an extended string of letters and numbers from their pockets addresses.
