{"id":23457,"date":"2025-04-27T14:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegrams-pavel-durov-receives-nft-frog-valued-at-4-million-rubles\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:45:20","slug":"telegrams-pavel-durov-receives-nft-frog-valued-at-4-million-rubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegrams-pavel-durov-receives-nft-frog-valued-at-4-million-rubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram&#8217;s Pavel Durov Receives NFT Frog Valued at 4 Million Rubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pavel Durov, the head of Telegram, has received one of the most expensive NFT gifts within the messenger&#8217;s ecosystem \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/nft\/PlushPepe-1\">Plush Pepe #1<\/a> from the Plush Pepes collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfco2o6HHNFXwT_DsKSH-hmPxujPfEkL895-RZC_NI-0z5qjEC-rmUFksVQ0e4Qoxpcp8SvqWReTknUEQCJ4JJhNaaU73uEJAAUn7fkbCfvaP0ZHyDzVVmOgqVOBLo0eujKnWvnMA?key=zI0pqY6KgU7GX6iKxs47tJQK\" alt=\"\u0414\u0443\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0443 \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0438\u043b\u0438 NFT-\u043b\u044f\u0433\u0443\u0448\u043a\u0443 \u0437\u0430 4 \u043c\u043b\u043d \u0440\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0435\u0439\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Telegram.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the Telegram channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/s\/d_code\/22207\">\u201cDurov&#8217;s Code\u201d<\/a>, the sender is the founder of the <span data-descr=\"over-the-counter trading\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OTC<\/span> marketplace for gifts in the messenger, Mr FreeMan. The token purchase on the secondary market <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/GiftNotification\/392947\">cost<\/a> him 14,850 TON (4 million rubles or $47,000).<\/p>\n<p>The first NFT gifts on the TON blockchain appeared in 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, the messenger <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 April 2025, Durov <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/pavel-durov-earns-95-8-million-rubles-from-nft-bricks\">earned<\/a> 95.8 million rubles from NFT bricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pavel Durov, the head of Telegram, has received one of the most expensive NFT gifts within the messenger&#8217;s ecosystem \u2014 Plush Pepe #1 from the Plush Pepes collection.\u00a0 Source: Telegram. According to the Telegram channel \u201cDurov&#8217;s Code\u201d, the sender is the founder of the OTC marketplace for gifts in the messenger, Mr FreeMan. The token [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23456,"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":[1161,1213,1423,723],"class_list":["post-23457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-memes","tag-nft","tag-pavel-durov","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"227","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23457","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=23457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}