{"id":39579,"date":"2025-07-30T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=39579"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:32:15","slug":"telegrams-crypto-handle-gets-25m-offer-as-price-surges-70-fold-in-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=39579","title":{"rendered":"Telegram\u2019s @crypto Handle Gets $25M Offer as Price Surges 70-Fold in 2 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An early Telegram and toncoin (TON) user received a $25 million offer for the instant-messaging app&#8217;s @crypto username on Wednesday, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said in a post on the messaging system.<\/p>\n<p>The username was acquired for just $350,000 in 2023 and the holder of the username recently said: \u201cIf these can\u2019t be taken away from me, I want them all,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/durov\/438\">Durov&#8217;s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All Telegram usernames are tokenized on the TON blockchain, meaning that each username is unique and can&#8217;t be replicated.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 the most expensive username was @news, which sold for $5.8 million, while @auto sold for $5.2 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mariintheworld\/status\/1779762618871562538\/photo\/1\">Statista<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When people have direct ownership of their digital assets, magic happens \u2014 like this tokenized Telegram handle soaring 70x in value,&#8221; Durov continued in his post. &#8220;Telegram users are sovereign owners: no middlemen, no confiscation, all secured by TON smart contracts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toncoin has enjoyed a solid month in terms of price action, rising by 16% to  $3.38, in part due to an early month surge on the back of a deal to offer TON holders a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/07\/06\/ton-surges-on-uae-golden-visa-news-crypto-community-reacts-with-excitement-and-doubt\">golden visa in the UAE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early Telegram and toncoin (TON) user received a $25 million offer for the instant-messaging app&#8217;s @crypto username on Wednesday, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said in a post on the messaging system. The username was acquired for just $350,000 in 2023 and the holder of the username recently said: \u201cIf these can\u2019t be taken away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-39579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}