Telegram Contest for Content Creators

🙏So, content makers, ready to fire up your CapCuts? Pavel Durov and his team have announced a contest with a prize pool of $50,000!

Here are the details:

Prize Pool: up to $50,000
Deadline: May 26, 2025 (23:59, Dubai)
Participation: Open to everyone
Results: June 2025

Task:

Create a video (up to 180 seconds) showcasing Telegram's leadership over WhatsApp — how key features appeared in Telegram first.

Main Requirements:

Video and text — in English;
You can use AI and suggested materials.

Criteria:

Clarity, visual impact, virality. Formats: TikTok, Reels, Shorts.

Submission instructions — closer to the deadline.

Will you ape into the contest or just skip it? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

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Time when farming X's gets risky:

⚡️Another crypto bro got snatched in France — a 23 y.o. investor was grabbed in the suburbs of Paris (Maisons-Alfort). The crew made him call his girl and hand over a Ledger cold wallet + €5K in cash. Then ditched him nearby.

2025 stats are looking grim:

⚪️32 kidnappings globally.
⚪️1/3 of them in France.
⚪️This is case #10 just in that country!

‼️2025 is on track to break records — only 2021 was worse (36 cases). And keep in mind, tons of these never even get reported. Crypto holders are turning into soft targets — cash + wallets = easy loot.

Rule #1 when you make it in crypto:
Don’t flex your bags all over socials.
The hunters are always watching the loudest whales. What’s your take on this? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

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Stablecoins are the #1 vehicle for illicit on-chain activity

🐶 FATF (aka the AML squad) dropped a report on virtual assets—stablecoins now account for the majority of sketchy transactions.

Abuse on deck:

⚪️Favored by terror squads, narco-cartels & DPRK hackers
USDT on Tron is — main channel for these ops.
⚪️FATF yells: strengthen licensing, watchlists, cross-border intel-sharing & tighten up DeFi tracking.

But here’s the flip:

⚪️TRM Labs says 99% of stablecoin txs are legit, and stablecoins make up > 60% of total crypto volume.
⚪️Shady activity is only 5% of stablecoin flow.

✅So yeah – stablecoins are the go-to tool for crooks right now.
But they’re also the workhorse behind legit everyday use.
Final calls:
1. Stablecoins = chief dark horse in illicit crypto.
2. Yet they’re also the backbone of most legal on-chain action.

You stacking USDT or pegged coins IRL?
Write in the comments!

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❤️ Sticker Pack x Telegram ❤️

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Bloomberg: Trump made $620M from crypto

🤬 Donald Trump’s fam is printing bags from crypto — Bloomberg says they’ve stacked at least $620 million thanks to token deals, stablecoins, and mining.

World Liberty (WLFI):

- Sold tokens for $550M — Trump’s side got $390M right off the bat.
- Still holding 22.5 billion $WLFI tokens (locked for now), worth $2B+ at peak prices.
- Their stablecoin USD1 could bring in $100M/year just from reserve earnings (like US Treasuries).

$TRUMPcoin:

- They dumped some — made $300M.
Still holding tokens worth $150M.
Another 800M tokens are locked (vested) — potentially worth $7B, but not counted yet.

Mining + American Bitcoin:

- Trump’s fam owns 20% of a mining startup planning to go public.
The company is valued at $3B+, though it only has around $120M in gear.

Crypto used to be a side hustle for Trump — now it’s a key part of his wealth. Back in 2021, 86% of his money was in real estate. Now crypto and stables are front and center.

Would you ape into a Trump-backed token? Is this smart investing or just meme magic?

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Welcome to America Party!

⚡️ Elon Musk announced the launch of a new political movement called the “America Party”. Here’s what we know so far:

⚪️On July 5, Musk posted on X: “The "America Party" has been created to give you your freedom back.”
⚪️Just a day earlier, on July 4, Elon ran a poll among his X followers: 65-80% voted in favor of forming a third party.
In the U.S., the game is usually two-sided - Democrats vs. Republicans. Elon wants to deploy a third chain into the mix.
⚪️The new party will also keep a strong focus on crypto — fiat, in Musk’s view, is outdated tech. He’s clearly betting on decentralization and digital assets as a pillar of the future economy.

💫According to Elon, the party plans to compete in 2–3 Senate and 8–10 House races, aiming to gain leverage in Congress. The campaign promises include: cutting national debt, deregulating outdated systems, upgrading military with AI, reducing bureaucracy, defending free speech, boosting birth rates — and handing out Mars tickets (ok, that part was a joke... maybe).

Do you think this party can actually make it in American politics? Or is it just another classic Musk hype move? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

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Need a support from Pavel Durov?)

🐶 Telegram’s founder just flagged a wave of scams hitting the platform: rare collectible gifts, premium usernames, and OG handles are mooning in value — and so are the number of extortion attempts. Scammers are now threatening to dox users unless they fork over high-value names or pay up. The grift game just leveled up(

⚡️ But there’s a plot twist — you can write Durov directly now. The catch? It’ll cost you 5,000💜 per message. Capitalism in action!

🚀Back in spring 2024 at TOKEN2049 Dubai, Durov said Telegram would tokenize more than just usernames — stickers and emojis are coming to TON as NFTs, with 95% royalties going to creators.
Fast-forward to June, and TON became the #2 chain globally by on-chain NFT trade volume, right behind Ethereum — thanks to a massive pump in NFT gift hype.

So what’s your move? You hodling these tokenized gifts, or already cashed out and chillin’ in the Bahamas?)

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Jack Dorsey is turning the future into the now

💡Block (née Square under Jack Dorsey) just dropped plans to push Bitcoin payments via Lightning Network on its POS terminals.
The pilot kicks off in the second half of 2025, and full merchant access is slated for 2026—pending the regulators' green light.

🫀 Dorsey says Lightning will enable ultra-fast, ultra-cheap BTC payments—customers just scan a QR code, and Square handles rate conversions and settlement.
Roughly 4 million sellers (mostly SMBs across the U.S. and beyond) will be able to accept BTC directly for goods and services.

🔥And it solves a big headache: Lightning tackles the high fees and slow settlement of on-chain Bitcoin—transactions are near-instant, with minimal fees, delivering exactly what everyone expects from crypto’s promise. That’s the kind of payment speed and efficiency users have been craving from digital money.

What about you? Are you ready to pay in crypto at the store, or would you still go old-school with P2P or cards? Drop your take in the comments!

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🤑 Today Notcoin released a cool game called Hitoku.

🕺 It's a music rhythm game with fun gameplay, various skins, and characters. For now, everything can only be bought with stars, but in the future, there will be an option to purchase with in-game currency (orbs).

💵The game also has leaderboards, and soon there will be tournaments with rewards that have real value.

Play

✍️ Write in the comments what you think about the new game

When the strongest finally throw in the towel

‼️ We recently covered the saga of James Howells — the guy from the UK who spent 12 years hunting for a hard drive with 7,500 BTC that his ex accidentally tossed into a Newport landfill back in 2013.

♥️ The dude offered the city a cut of the crypto stash — it’s worth around $950 million now — in exchange for permission to dig it up. But every time, Newport City Council said “no"(  And just days ago, he finally pulled the plug on the hunt.

What about you — would you have thrown in the towel over time, or would you have kept digging till the end? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

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A billion-dollar transaction

⚡️Trump’s crypto adviser and Bitcoin Magazine co-founder David Bailey fulfilled his “dream” on August 12 — buying $760M worth of bitcoin in a single order.

🔥Bailey is a well-known figure in the BTC community, owner of Bitcoin Magazine, and organizer of the largest crypto conferences in the U.S. He launched the Nakamoto holding company, which is going public and has already raised $710M from top investors like VanEck, Jihan Wu, and Ricardo Salinas.

‼️Nakamoto will become the first public holding to use bitcoin as a strategic asset and issue bitcoin-backed stocks and bonds. The goal — to make BTC a base asset for companies and even government institutions worldwide.

Do you respect the father of crypto? Do you hold bitcoin at all, or is your portfolio made up of alts and meme coins? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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The Day the Dollar Lost Its Gold

💡On August 14, 1971, Nixon “temporarily” suspended the dollar’s convertibility into gold at $35 per ounce. That “temporary” move became permanent — and real money was broken.

🐶 Every year, crypto exchange Coinbase reminds us of this moment, ending with Hayek’s 1984 prophecy:

«Good money will only return if we take it out of the hands of government. Not by force — but by creating something they cannot stop.»

And what do you think: does fiat have any chance of survival in the digital era? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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Giant exchange run by 11 people

🚀DEX platform Hyperliquid has become the most profitable company in the world by revenue per employee - $102.4M per person.

💰For comparison: Tether makes $93M, OnlyFans - $37.6M. Then comes a cosmic gap: Nvidia - $3.6M, Apple - $2.4M!

🐶Hyperliquid’s entire team is just 11 people. Minimum staff, maximum profit. That’s what the future of lean business looks like.

And what do you think: is the future in compact crypto-teams or in giant corporations?

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