would be giving some of these away soon 👀

📰 Yesterday, a French newspaper claimed that my detainment in France last summer ‘finally’ forced Telegram to comply with European rules. This is false. Telegram has always been compliant with EU laws. 🇪🇺

👮‍♂️ After last August, it was the French police that finally started to ‘comply with European rules’ — by sending their requests to Telegram in the legal way described by the EU’s Digital Services Act. As a result, French courts have been able to receive IP addresses of criminal suspects from Telegram. 🧑‍⚖️

🌐 The information about this legal way to reach us could be obtained on our apps, website or just by googling ‘telegram eu police’ — long before my detainment in France. Why the French courts and police had been ignoring this process clearly defined by EU law is still a mystery to us, but it’s unfair to say that Telegram somehow ignored European rules. Paradoxically, it was French law enforcement that for some reason had been ignoring them. 🤔

🇫🇷 I love France and respect its police force, so I didn’t want to embarrass anyone by pointing out the above. But I cannot ignore when such obvious misinformation about Telegram is spread. 🙅‍♂️

🥈 Telegram is the 2nd most popular messaging app in the world. We spend millions of dollars every year to ensure our compliance with laws across the globe. In the EU in particular, we always start preparing to comply with laws years before they even come into force. 🗓

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🌟 Will Pavel Durov Make a Return Appearance at TOKEN2049? 🔥

TOKEN2049 Dubai is coming up fast (April 30 - May 1)! The official website is live with a full speaker list, agenda, and ticket info (ranging from $999 to $4,999).

Notice anything familiar? Pavel Durov's image is everywhere – homepage, speaker banners, even the "Become a Speaker" button! It's clear organizers see him as the star of last year's show.

But here's the mystery: A key panel, "Scaling Crypto to a Billion Users," is scheduled for April 30 at 2:00 PM... but has no listed speakers. 🤔

What billion-user platform could unlock mass crypto adoption? Well, we all know the answer.

Last year at TOKEN2049, Durov unveiled USDt on TON, alongside NFT Stickers, Emojis, and more. Will Telegram’s ongoing legal battles prevent him from participating this year?

The clock is ticking! ⏳

NB: No official word yet on Pavel's return to frace.

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🎁🎁Happy Easter 🎁🎁🐐

🎁 New Telegram Easter Gifts are out! 🔥

• 200 ⭐️ (limited: 180k gifts only)
• 150⭐️ (limited: 250k gifts only)
• 75 ⭐️ (limited: 500k gifts only)

🛒 If you’re interested in purchasing one before it’s sold out, head to Telegram, Settings, select Send a Gift, and choose Buy Yourself a Gift. You’ll find it in the “Limited” section.

👀 Anyway, which is your favourite?

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✨ Congratulations to the NFT Gift winners!

👀 If you didn’t receive the gift directly in your Telegram account, please check the gift section in your Tonnel Bot profile. You’ll find it there.

⛏ By the way, Tonnel is one of the best marketplaces on Telegram for trading NFT gifts. There is also @Mrkt, which is yet to be launched, but you can join the waitlist to get early bird bonuses.

🎁We also have @Market_bot, which is currently under maintenance. However, Tonnel still stands out in terms of volume and user experience.

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😲 Last month, France nearly banned encryption. A law requiring messaging apps to implement a backdoor for police access to private messages was passed by the Senate. Luckily, it was shot down by the National Assembly. Yet 3 days ago the Paris Police Prefect advocated for it again. 🤦‍♂️

The members of the National Assembly were wise to reject a law that would have made France the first country in the world to strip its citizens of their right to privacy. Even countries that many Europeans view as lacking in freedoms have never banned encryption. Why?

Because it’s technically impossible to guarantee that only the police can access a backdoor. Once introduced, a backdoor can be exploited by other parties — from foreign agents to hackers. As a result, the private messages of all law abiding citizens can get compromised.

Aimed at preventing drug trafficking, the law wouldn’t have helped fight crime anyway. Even if mainstream encrypted apps had been weakened by a backdoor, criminals could still communicate securely through dozens of smaller apps — and become even harder to trace due to VPNs.

This is why, as I’ve said before, Telegram would rather exit a market than undermine encryption with backdoors and violate basic human rights. Unlike some of our competitors, we don’t trade privacy for market share.

In it’s 12-year history, Telegram has never disclosed a single byte of private messages. In accordance with the EU Digital Services Act, if provided with a valid court order, Telegram would only disclose the IP addresses and phone numbers of criminal suspects — not messages.

Last month, freedom prevailed. But it was a reminder: we must keep explaining to lawmakers that encryption isn’t built to protect criminals — it protects the privacy and safety of ordinary people. Losing that protection would be tragic.

The battle is far from over. This month, the European Commission proposed a similar initiative to add backdoors to messaging apps. No country is immune to the slow erosion of freedoms. Every day, those freedoms come under attack — and every day, we must defend them. 🛡

🐸 Manuel Stotz, the president of TON Foundation, has begun purchasing NFT gifts and displaying them on his Telegram profile.

👀 Looks like bro really got skin in the game.

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🥂 Last week, Manuel Stotz subscribed to DamX on X, now he has joined our community 😳

Let’s welcome him 🤍

🚀 TON Ecosystem Update – March 2025

March was a solid month for TON — here’s what went down:

Pavel’s back and it boosted confidence big time. Big VCs like Sequoia and Benchmark invested over $400M in TON💎

Infra upgrades: A new Pending API now lets you track transactions before they’re final. 90% of validators upgraded in just 48 hours — crazy fast.

DeFi is growing: Factorial’s TVL almost doubled to $29M. FIVA (TON’s first yield tokenization protocol) launched and hit $1M in days. Blum bot is popping off — they activated 75K users and made up 13% of all TON on-chain txns early April.

Payments just got easier: @wallet now supports ETH, DOGE, and XRP. RedotPay also lets you spend TON’s USDt at 130M+ merchants like Amazon and Starbucks using Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc.

GameFi & NFTs are heating up: Miomi game made up 5% of TON’s txns in early March. Tonnel NFT marketplace broke volume records. Someone even bought @cryptoholder username for 250K TON.

AI joins the party: Elon’s Grok AI chatbot is now live on Telegram — big step for AI inside TON.

TON is moving mad fast — and it’s just the beginning.

Read full update 😮

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