{"id":12848,"date":"2024-04-23T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T13:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegram-username-gifted-to-pavel-durov-after-80000-sale\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T13:44:17","slug":"telegram-username-gifted-to-pavel-durov-after-80000-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegram-username-gifted-to-pavel-durov-after-80000-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram Username Gifted to Pavel Durov After $80,000 Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech blogger Pavel Fedorov sold his Telegram username @pavel for $80,000 in TON tokens. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/durov\/265\">reported<\/a> by Pavel Durov.<\/p>\n<p>According to the messenger&#8217;s founder, Fedorov &#8220;claimed&#8221; his nickname nine years ago for free. He used the auction platform Fragment for the sale.<\/p>\n<p>The lot was purchased by the user @founder, who also owns @crypto and other similar nicknames. After the purchase, he gifted this username to Durov.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This demonstrates how Telegram users benefit from direct ownership of their names. Over the past 18 months, usernames and anonymous numbers have been sold for $350 million,&#8221; emphasized the head of the messenger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also noted that the new version of the app allows tracking the number and amount of transactions.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the post, Durov mentioned purchasing the nickname @paul for 10,000 TON (~$56,400 at the time of writing) to &#8220;prevent generous gifts&#8221; from other users.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the founder of Telegram announced Toncoin payments to content creators and cryptocurrency purchases within the app.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Tether added support for The Open Network (TON) by issuing tokens worth $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Developers of TON have unveiled a roadmap for 2024. It includes the implementation of gasless transactions, an update to Wallet 5.0, and the development of a new cross-chain technology called Teleport. The team also announced plans for expansion into the Asian market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech blogger Pavel Fedorov sold his Telegram username @pavel for $80,000 in TON tokens. This was reported by Pavel Durov. According to the messenger&#8217;s founder, Fedorov &#8220;claimed&#8221; his nickname nine years ago for free. He used the auction platform Fragment for the sale. The lot was purchased by the user @founder, who also owns @crypto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1423,723],"class_list":["post-12848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-pavel-durov","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"72","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}