⚫️ Just recently, we suggested that Durov's new ambitious project could be the active development of AI capable of influencing humanity's future. And now this idea is being confirmed to some degree. While in Kazakhstan, he called AI a way to achieve a "golden age" and announced Telegram's collaboration with Kazakhstan in this field.

⚫️ He has only outlined his AI development ideas for Telegram in general terms so far. But most relevant for the TON community is that he spoke about the "intersection of AI and blockchain." According to Durov, in the future, Telegram users will be able to "use AI features powered by a decentralized computing network."

⚫️ The key characteristics of this initiative are stated as:
· Transparency, enabled by blockchain
· Efficiency, enabled by smart contracts and the free market
· Privacy, where even the owner of computing power doesn't know what specific computations users are performing

⚫️ The collaboration with Kazakhstan will support all of this. Kazakhstan's supercomputer cluster will serve as the "first major source of computing power," and the opening of an "AI laboratory" has also been announced.

💡 It's difficult to say exactly how everything will look—we'll have to wait for more details. But some preliminary conclusions can be drawn:
· This sounds like good news for TON. Gifts mostly stay offchain and do little to help the blockchain, whereas here it could be more involved in a promising project.
· This all aligns with what we published in the column "What lies ahead for Telegram?"
· But for full-scale implementation, Durov may need more computing power than Kazakhstan is ready to offer. Perhaps that's why he said this is the first power provider.

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🏆 Beginner's guide to Telegram Gifts: the primary market

⚫️ This is the fourth post in our #gifts series. Previously, we explored the different types of gifts: there are «limited» ones that can be upgraded and then transferred to the blockchain. But how do you buy them?

⚫️ Let's start by examining not the resale market, which is available on many platforms, but the primary sale that happens within Telegram's own interface. When new gifts are released, they simply become available in the "Send a Gift" menu—and if you want to acquire one as an investment rather than to give to someone, you select the "Buy yourself a gift" option.

⚫️ Gift releases are not announced in advance, so anything can happen. It's possible there won't be any new gifts at all if Pavel Durov decides it would undermine the value of existing ones too much. Or perhaps a surprise star collaboration will be announced tomorrow, as happened with Snoop Dogg.

⚫️ Despite this uncertainty, certain patterns are known. New gift releases are often timed to holidays (for example, on February 14th there were gifts about love, on July 4th—about US). And they typically release several gifts at once in different price categories: some more "premium" (higher price, smaller supply), others "mass market."

⚫️ As soon as a new gift goes on sale, the hunt begins: many investors want to buy as many as possible. This led to the emergence of auto-buying bots that could snap up the entire supply within seconds of release.

⚫️ However, this prevented regular users from being able to buy anything. So Telegram began implementing restrictions: for example, giving the oldest Telegram accounts the first opportunity to buy, then gradually extending access to newer accounts. Thanks to this, the September 1st gifts weren't swept up in the first minute but sold over several hours.

⚫️ Besides bots, channels like @gifts_detector have emerged that notify users about new gift releases: you can subscribe and keep notifications on so you don't miss out. We are not affiliated with this channel and cannot guarantee its accuracy in the future, but it has worked well in the past.

👁 We've covered the primary market, and next time we'll move on to the secondary market: once a gift has been purchased from Telegram, what can you do with it next?

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⚫️ Yesterday’s release of the X1000 terminal is a good reason to take a look at how trading tools have evolved in the crypto world. In this Friday’s #opinion column — a subjective take on why things have led to this point and why terminals have become the “ultimate tool” for memecoins.

⚫️ Trading memecoins is basically like PvP battles in games. You’re competing with other traders, and the winner is the one who spots and buys the right asset first. That means the tools need to make everything as fast as possible. Yesterday we noted that X1000 doesn’t require transaction confirmations — but that's just a part of the story.

⚫️ The process of meme trading goes through several stages. First comes the discovery stage: finding out about new tokens that might be worth buying. Next is research: once you’ve spotted specific tokens, you need to assess how promising each one looks. Only then do you move to the actual buying and selling.

⚫️ Originally, these steps required different tools:
· To hear about a new token, you might scroll through a chat or Twitter.
· To check its details, you’d head to a service like DEXscreener.
· To buy, you’d go to a DEX.

⚫️ Copying addresses and jumping between platforms wasted time. That’s why trading bots appeared — shaving off some of that friction, though not entirely.

⚫️ Now trading terminals have taken center stage, combining all three steps into one tool. You can track new tokens, quickly analyze their key metrics, and buy them instantly.

💡 That cuts down on transitions. Just a little, but in the breakneck world of meme trading, that “little” can be what separates winning traders from "exit liquidity". Other blockchains have already seen this. If a new meme season kicks off in TON, it’ll become obvious here too.

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