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Telegram to Launch Non-Custodial Gram Wallet
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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.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Crypto & Web3 and Fintech, and 2 sources have reported it.
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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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2 sources · 22 Jul 2026
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