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🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces — the largest competitive programming platform in the world. ⚡CodeForces organizes over 100 coding contests every year and has 4 million contestants signed up.🌱 Since 2010, I've supported Codeforces through the companies I started.🆙 But this year will be special. Its founder Mike wants to bring Codeforces to the next level — and we'll be happy to help him do that 🤝

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💸 In just one month, Telegram has awarded over $2,222,000 to some of the brightest minds on our planet.🎨 This week alone we distributed $222,000 among the winners of our two latest competitions — the Design Contest and the Digital Freedom Contest.On top of that, over the past month we awarded prizes worth more than $2 million to the winners of the 2026 International Olympiads in Informatics and AI.We're proud to…

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🏳️ 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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A high-school student just made $20,000 from a Telegram Gift.Jonathan He, an IOI gold medalist ranked #7 in the world, sold his Algorithm Cup — an NFT we gave to the top young coders this month — for 💎 15,000 Grams.Happy for him. It's a meaningful sum for someone still in school, and I suspect a small fraction of what he'll go on to build.20 years ago, $20K was enough for me to launch my first company. Within…

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🚨 Two years ago, I was detained in Paris by police for 3 days — the longest they can hold someone before charging them.In an unprecedented move, French authorities accused the head of a major platform of crimes committed by its users.That investigation is still ongoing, although it makes less sense with each passing year. Why?Because we now have extensive evidence that Telegram was neither worse than other popular…

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💎 Telegram has applied for the .gram domain zone.If the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains.🖥 For example, @durov would get durov.gram, and @monk would get monk.gram. Users would be able to set up their interactive websites hosted by Telegram — just by typing one prompt ✨

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🏆 The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) ends today.🇷🇺Students from Moscow and St. Petersburg won 2🥇gold and 2🥈silver medals — well done, Vladislav Zhiganov (#2 overall!), Maksim Kravchenko, Sergei Mukhanov and Vladimir Zvezdin!🇺🇦Ukraine won 3 medals: 🥇 gold for Vladyslav Khalin, and 2🥈 silver for Illia Shevchenko and Daria Perekopska 💪🇧🇾 Belarus took 1🥇gold and 1🥈silver, won by Kiryl Kardash…

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1️⃣3️⃣ Telegram turns 13 today. For over half that time — the past 7,5 years — it's been one of the 10 most downloaded mobile apps in the world. A whole generation has grown up with it 💪🎂 Happy birthday, Telegram!

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🇺🇿 The 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics starts today in Tashkent.🏆 The IOI is the ultimate coding competition for high-school students. Years ago, many members of the Telegram team won medals there. 🤝 To support the best young programmers in the world, Telegram will award the 235 winners exclusive digital collectibles — Algorithm Cups — worth at least $117,000 in total.🕌 It’s fitting that IOI is…

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🏆 The International Olympiad in AI finished yesterday in Astana.🇷🇺 The Russian team took first place in the team competition, and Artem Gorokhov from my home city won the individual event. Well done! 💪🇰🇿 I'm equally happy for the host country, Kazakhstan, whose Dauzhan Beketov took the second-highest individual score.👏📩We're in touch with the organizers to deliver the winners' prizes from Telegram…

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Last night, Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store because a single user had planted illegal pornographic content in a public group chat.⬅️ Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks.🧹Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds of moderation tools…

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🧠 The 2026 International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence starts today. As a token of support for those who will reinvent our civilization, we'll issue 🏆 240 exclusive Intelligence Cups to the winners.💵 We guarantee minimum buyback prices ($1,000 per Gold Cup, etc.), but the cups' limited supply may make them worth much more on the secondary market.Good luck, AI coders! 🍀

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💣 Russia has designated me as a “terrorist” for refusing its demands for mass surveillance and censorship on Telegram.Under Russian law, I’m banned from “publishing information on the Internet” 😌Russian officials have clearly got confused about who can ban whom from the Internet 😉

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🇬🇪 Very impressed with Georgia.🏔 The country is known for its warm people, ancient culture, local food and epic landscapes. But it doesn’t stop there.📈 Thanks to its government’s business-friendly policies, Georgia is becoming a major business hub.❎️ The country’s economy doubled in 5 years and is still growing by 8% a year.💼 International tech companies pay 0% corporate tax and just 5% on dividends and…

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🌍 This summer will see the largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet in human history.⚡️Instant zero-fee crypto transactions for over a billion users are about to become reality.💎 We're bringing a native non-custodial Gram wallet to every Telegram app! 🏳️

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🎠 Telegram now supports carouselsOne small step for messaging, one giant leap toward turning cat photos into keynote presentations. 😺

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🩵 Telegram now has a Rich Text Editor.It supports tables, headings, inline media, lists, AI content, formulas, and more.😈 Messaging apps will never be the same!