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#Telegram Pump.fun just opened a door into TON. Four chains in four days, and TON was number four. • Pump.fun app users can now buy TON tokens straight from their USDC balance • TON Community says every TON token is tradable there • Monad, MegaETH and X Layer went live on the app in the same four days My take, as someone who used to invest out of a Telegram fund: TON never lacked users. It lacked an easy way for outside money to get in. This is one. But on Pump.fun, TON is one tab of many. Me…

#Telegram My Grok Bot now takes payments on Telegram. Sell in Stars, get paid in crypto. • Buyer pays Stars right in the chat • Seller's Grok Bot wakes in 1.7s and delivers • Seller gets GRAM in their own wallet My own 25 Stars test order: result back in 80s after payment. Refund tested on an earlier order. How sellers get paid, and the 2-step setup, are in the write-up on X. Access it: https://x.ai/bot/oATCkOeFDQDX9VlDdOlO0 "Sell in Stars, get paid in crypto."

#Telegram is quietly building an AI agent. And it may not earn a cent from it. Leak watchers found a hidden "Agent" feature in Telegram Beta for macOS: • Paste your own API key from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok or OpenRouter, then chat with @agent • Your key. Your bill. Paid to OpenAI or Anthropic, not Telegram • The $300M Grok deal announced in May 2025 was never confirmed as signed My take: this looks like a move made out of necessity. Telegram still hasn't found a way to make money from A…

A dog in a gas mask now outranks Durov's own cap. I sorted Telegram Gifts by market cap and the top of the list surprised me: • Resistance Dog sits at #2 with 8.28M TON • Only Plush Pepe is ahead, at 17.52M TON • Scared Cat, Snoop Dogg and even Durov's Cap all rank below it What does a ranking like this say about where Gifts value really comes from? 🤔

#Telegram Someone paid 60,000 TON (~$81,184) for the Telegram username "pikachu". • Yesterday I posted about "kuromi" going for 15,000 TON. Turns out a day earlier, "pikachu" sold for exactly 4x that. • The last two bids: 51,980 → 60,000 TON, 38 minutes apart. • Someone really didn't want to lose a cartoon mouse.

#Telegram Someone just paid $20,296 for a Telegram username. • kuromi = 15,000 TON (~$20,296) — 19 bids, top sale of the day • Kuromi is a Sanrio character. That's the premium. • anatoly = 5,000 TON (~$6,749) — a name a lot of Russians and Ukrainians actually use. I think it's cheap, and worth collecting. Username auctions on Fragment keep printing numbers like this…

Coding agents are all getting good. The workflow around them is where the gap is now. Orca (@orca_build) just shipped a cool UI/UX update: • Updating a skill shows exactly where it lives: 1 skill, 2 locations • It keeps running in the background while you work • When you run several coding agents at once, the tool isn't a nice-to-have. It's the workflow. Here's why I think tooling is the next edge…

Didn't see this coming: Durov's Telegram balance is up another few thousand dollars 👀 💎 5,126 GRAM ≈ $6,872 • New feature: buy a Gift on Telegram and stick it straight onto your balance card • It doesn't look limited to specific Gifts • That could mean a lot more reasons to use Telegram Gifts Will it push Gift prices up? Not sure yet. But I'm watching.

People are underestimating what's changing inside Telegram 👀 I spent a few days exploring Telegram #Money. The wallet isn't the real story. What it unlocks is: • It's not launching into an empty room: channels, bots and Mini Apps already have users • AI makes software cheap to build, but it can't copy a community, so distribution matters more • Receiving money is only step one. The real question is what you can do with it next I also burned $2,500+ in Gifts testing this. Here's what happened…

My "a-ha" moment in #Telegram again. 😎

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AI can generate hypotheses. It can't make validation disappear. But the question that stayed with me: if AI takes over junior research work, where does the next generation learn judgment? Learn from the Google Research https://x.com/howard_/status/2107375303031247260?s=20

High transaction vol doesn’t necessarily make a good business. And a good business doesn’t necessarily need massive transaction volume. A few thoughts on AI, consumer apps, and #Instinct, inspired by @InvestLikeBest. https://x.com/howard_/status/2107136763953299785

Cloudflare just brought multiple AI search providers under one API, with no markup. The real story isn’t cheaper search; it’s why Cloudflare may be willing to give up the margin to own the distribution layer for AI agents. I break down the playbook, the business strategy, and what it could mean for AI API builders: https://x.com/howard_/status/2106990506643464195?s=20

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TON validators are voting to put Telegram's wallet code in the network config — every wallet upgrades at once. The catch: you can't freeze your own version. Read more: https://x.com/howard_/status/2105225199130231237 ——— 💳 Earn 5% Cashback at Plasma Card

Aside is the most useful AI tool I've tried in the past three months. It isn't just another chatbot bolted onto a browser. It feels built around the agent. First, I can use the AI subscriptions I already pay for instead of starting from scratch with another stack. Second, Aside builds memory from my browsing and work, so context compounds rather than disappearing at the end of each chat. Through MCP, I can carry that context into tools like Claude Code or Codex. The part that really sold me …

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