Pavel Durov

Billionaire and Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the messenger could have a platform for auctions for the sale of short and memorable nicknames. He wrote this on the telegram channel.

He noted that he was impressed by how successfully domain names were sold on the TON DNS crypto service: some were bought for more than $200,000.

He announced that other elements of the Telegram ecosystem may also be available for sale: stickers or emojis, for example. In Durov’s idea, users could transfer them to each other in transactions protected by smart contracts.

Telegram users immediately reacted to this news: The post garnered more than 21 thousand dislikes. Some users liked the idea: There were about 6.5k likes at the bottom of the post. Durov then hid the reactions to the post.

Earlier this summer, a paid subscription appeared in Telegram, which makes it possible to bypass some restrictions: download files faster, turn off ads, decrypt voicemails, subscribe to a thousand channels, fix up to 10 chats, as well as ban interlocutors. sending audio and video messages.