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Pavel Durov Announces Gram Wallet: Potential of Native Self-Custody Wallet in Telegram
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22 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Pavel Durov announced Gram Wallet, a native non-custodial crypto wallet launching on Telegram, promising instant zero-fee transactions to over 1 billion users. The rollout is positioned as the largest non-custodial wallet deployment in history.
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◆ The Wire takeaway
If you build wallet UX, onboarding, or recovery flows, Telegram just became your distribution channel and your competitor. One billion users now have native self-custody in their default messaging app—the bar for friction just dropped to near-zero.
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Fintech · Crypto & Web3 · telegram-crypto · self-custody · blockchain-integration · messaging-payments