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Pavel Durov Announces Gram Wallet: Potential of Native Self-Custody Wallet in Telegram

Published

22 July 2026

Topic

technology

Sectors

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Source

Read at bitcoinfoundation.org

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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.

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

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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Crypto & Web3 · Fintech · telegram-crypto · self-custody · blockchain-integration · messaging-payments