📰 Three gifts have received wallpaper support, meaning they can be used as unique wallpapers for your PMs. Recently added: 🎁🎁🎁. Previously, only the following were supported: 🎁🎁🎁🎁.

Source: 💌💌💌

UPD: The wallpaper used by 🎁🎁 is broken on Android client. These same gifts can also be used to decorate reply boxes [color names].

📰 References to a new API support were found in the MTProto source code, which supports colored inline buttons along with premium emoji support. There will be three colors: 💙blue (bg_primary), ❤️red (bg_danger) and 💚green (bg_success). Premium emoji in inline buttons won't require a costly username, only a premium subscription for the bot owner.

🤖 These new features can be found in both the Android and iOS clients; beta version 12.4.

📰 This is what colored inline buttons with premium emoji look like.

📰 @durovs_code published an exclusive report revealing the true reason why the Telegram x Grok collaboration failed. 🤖🔒 Briefly, according to sources close to the negotiations, Durov and Musk reached an impasse over user privacy. 🔑
Furthermore, Grok wasn't the only candidate for the collaboration, for example, there was Perplexity.
It's also known why Telegram found it more profitable to create its own AI network, "COCOON", in terms of both finances and privacy.

🗞 The article was published in both languages — English » and Russian »

📰 Telegram Desktop 6.4.3 received a settings search function.

Gift crafting

Add up to 4 Gifts to craft a new one

⚠️If crafting fails, all selected gifts will be consumed.

📰 Telegram has changed the condition for bots to send premium emojis. 😃 Now owners of bots needs a Telegram Premium subscription enough! 🫰 Bots will be able to send not only messages with such emojis, but also reactions (you need to write from the API documentation).

👨‍💻 Previously, this happiness required linking @usernames with a pledge of 1000 TON to such usernames. 💎 Without such usernames, bots are still:
• cannot send premium emojis in inline mode (fixed already),
• cannot send premium emojis in channel posts directly. 🤫

✨ A new 3-party verification checkbox has appeared — @hold; the @fuhao profile and his @china77 channel were immediately verified.

Context:
🔪 Roman Novak (now deceased) defrauded a Chinese TON investor of $280,000. Here's what Fuhao reports:

On August 22, he borrowed 250,000 USDT from me, using two usernames, @hold and @fintopio, as collateral, and promised to pay me 10,000 USDT in interest every week. And on September 10, he borrowed another 30,000 USDT from me, using Pepe #7 as collateral, for a total of 280,000, but he [...] never paid the interest or the principal. Trust turned into a huge loss.

This guy has such a reputation, constantly suffering from scams directed at him.

📰 Just today, TON channels started talking about the @fuhaoVerifierBot bot. It's verified, but there's no avatar. There's no indication that this bot was used for verification by the organization "Hold".

Bot API 9.4

🎨 Custom Emoji and Buttons
• Bots can now use custom emoji in outgoing messages if their owner has Telegram Premium.
• Keyboard and inline buttons now support background colors and custom emoji.

💬 Private Chat Topics
• Bots can now create new topics in 1-on-1 chats.
• Via the BotFather Mini App, bot owners can also prevent users from creating or deleting topics.

🤖 Profile Info
• Bots can now set and remove their own profile pic.
• User profile audios are now visible to bots.

🎁 Gifts
• Unique gifts now include model rarity information.
• Out-of-the-box support for detecting gifts burned after crafting.

✈️ General
• Bots now handle service messages when a chat owner leaves or ownership changes.
• Video objects now include a list of available qualities.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#february-9-2026