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🏳️ Gram Wallet in Telegram is ready and is now accessible to a select group of users.🤩 We'll be gradually…

🏳️ Gram Wallet in Telegram is ready and is now accessible to a select group of users.🤩 We'll be gradually rolling it out to our billion+ users over the next couple of weeks.⚡️ Thanks to the validators who approved the smart contract that powers it, future upgrades of the wallet won't require painful migrations.This is just one of the innovations we've built to make non-custodial wallets usable ✨

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Published: August 31, 2026 at 4:30 PM UTC
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