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Telegram to Launch Non-Custodial Gram Wallet

Published

22 July 2026

Topic

technology

Sectors

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Geography

Europe

Source

Read at forklog.com

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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. Wire is Fusion42's founder-focused intelligence feed: each story is connected to the funds and startups it names — every one with a live profile on Raise or Scout — so founders can follow the capital and the momentum behind the headline rather than just the headline itself. Wire analysis is one of the live surfaces Arthur reasons over.

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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Crypto & Web3 · Fintech · telegram · crypto-wallet · gram-toncoin · non-custodial · distribution-scale