{"id":22603,"date":"2025-04-01T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/pavel-durov-earns-95-8-million-rubles-from-nft-bricks\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:58:04","slug":"pavel-durov-earns-95-8-million-rubles-from-nft-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/pavel-durov-earns-95-8-million-rubles-from-nft-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Durov Earns 95.8 Million Rubles from NFT Bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1, an NFT gift in the form of a brick appeared on the Telegram messenger. All 7,000 units were sold out within 34 minutes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXemnqe66sUUYsqBOqeyHp3-Zp7o8xu_RhuoiUtZiH0Bxizxy9KEHrOjgRCGhEITe-v7iIBIFrc_FXxY6Z1gFqdDXpsC3xQb-2ElXdAAeROpP4C-Q_tLsPDDXlGQ-_00Hb3bAdU8PA?key=kBbMybfqn7gYIkrk36cL8j9A\" alt=\"Pavel Durov Earns 95.8 Million Rubles from NFT Bricks\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Telegram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The price of one brick was 5000 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/pavel-durov-announces-launch-of-telegram-stars\">Telegram Stars<\/a> (13,690 rubles at the time of writing). Thus, Pavel Durov, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/pavel-durov-discusses-bitcoin-holdings-telegram-ipo-and-government-requests\">sole owner<\/a> of the messenger, earned over 95.8 million rubles from the April Fool&#8217;s token.<\/p>\n<p>The first NFT gifts on the TON blockchain appeared on Telegram at the end of 2022. The TON Gifts service was launched by a team of independent developers.<\/p>\n<p>On October 5, 2024, Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/telegram-to-introduce-nft-conversion-for-gifts-on-ton-blockchain\">added<\/a> a feature for sending gifts using its internal currency. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the summer of 2024, the messenger underwent a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/telegram-unveils-web3-browser-app-store-and-currency-gifting-feature\">major update<\/a>, launching a Web3 browser, an app store, and allowing users to gift Telegram Stars to contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1, an NFT gift in the form of a brick appeared on the Telegram messenger. All 7,000 units were sold out within 34 minutes. Source: Telegram. The price of one brick was 5000 Telegram Stars (13,690 rubles at the time of writing). Thus, Pavel Durov, as the sole owner of the messenger, earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22602,"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":[1213,1423,723],"class_list":["post-22603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-pavel-durov","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"104","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22603","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=22603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}