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Telegram to Launch Non-Custodial Gram Wallet
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22 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced a native non-custodial Gram wallet launching across all Telegram apps this summer, giving over 1 billion users direct access to zero-fee crypto transactions. The new wallet will coexist with the existing custodial Wallet product by The Open Platform, which offers broader trading and asset management features.
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◆ The Wire takeaway
Telegram just became a crypto wallet distributor to 1 billion people overnight—if you build trading infrastructure, liquidity, or settlement rails for Gram, your customer base just multiplied by orders of magnitude. The existing custodial wallet stays; yours now competes on depth of features, not access.
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Fintech · telegram · crypto-wallet · gram-toncoin · non-custodial · distribution-scale