🧠 Who is the real buyer of Telegram usernames? (Part One)

In the real world, people are recognized by their clothes, cars, and watches.
But in the digital world, your username is you.

📍 When someone spends tens of thousands of dollars to own an ID like @nerd, @monk, @boss, or even a simple numeric combination, that person is not just looking for a "name." They are investing in prestige, the future, or even dominance in the digital space.

🧬 Psychology of the real buyers

1. Long-term investors:
Like someone who buys land and holds onto it. They are neither consumers nor impatient. They just know these usernames have a future, especially on networks like TON where names can be truly owned.

2. Professional branders:
For them, @Name = Identity
The name must be printable, promotable, and brand-assemblable.
Something people can easily say and remember.

3. Username traders:
They know when to buy and when to sell. They look for trending, unique, or rising usernames. Their business is usernames.

4. Diplomat collectors:
Those who seek to build a collection; for example, all numbers from 111–999 or all 4-letter words. For them, every name is like a rare collectible piece.

5. Name psychologists:
They buy usernames that carry a message. Like @Savage, @Rebirth, @Legend
Names that create feelings, attract audiences, and even build identity.

⁉️ Which category do you belong to? Investor, collector, or brand builder?

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🏴‍☠️ Telegram Anonymous Numbers Price – The floor price for each number is $2,500.

The market for Telegram anonymous numbers remains hot, and demand is still strong. These numbers can be rented out or quickly sold at floor price.

For reference, non-vanity anonymous numbers on Telegram were mostly sold for 9 TON, and on December 9, 2022, as prices surged daily, sales were completely halted at a peak price of 99 TON. Since then, only the secondary market has remained active.

Statistics on Telegram Anonymous Numbers:

🔴 Total Anonymous Numbers Minted:
🟢 136,566

🔴 Total Unique Holders:
🟢 46,707

🔴 Holders with 1 number:
🟢 32,393

🔴 Holders with 2–5 numbers:
🟢 11,090

🔴 Holders with 6–24 numbers:
🟢 2,695

🔴 Holders with 25–50 numbers:
🟢 290

🔴 Holders with more than 50 numbers:
🟢 239

🔴 Most Expensive Number (+888 8 888):
🟢 300,000 💎

🔴 Top Whale Holdings:
🟢First Whale: 3,912 numbers
Second Whale: 1,366 numbers
Third Whale: 1,033 numbers
(Note: The first and second whales have reduced their holdings, the third remains unchanged.)

🔴 Current Floor Price for Sale:
🟢 750 💎
🟢 Equivalent to: $2,467 💵

🔗 Official Sales Site: Fragment
🔗 Collection on GetGems: GetGems

Are you a fan of these anonymous numbers? Would you like to own a Telegram account with one?

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🎁 One of the most expensive Plush Pepe

Two night ago on Fragment the auction for Plush Pepe Cozy Galaxy with a black background ended. There was only one bid, and the gift sold for 30,000 TON (≈ 93,435 $).

Initially, Pepe was bought in January for only 25 $ — the final profit amounted to ≈ 93,410 $.

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🧩 one username, one story: (Part Two) — @money

The price of an insight… or maybe a missed opportunity?

The story begins in 2015, when Telegram introduced the ability to create channels.
A user named @ramcode, who was an old and savvy Telegram user, registered several single-word and attractive usernames:

@money, @auction, @travels, @lenta, @kasta

But not everything lasts forever…

🔹 @auction was reclaimed by Telegram itself due to inactivity.
🔹 @travels was sold for only $5, but later traded for an astonishing 170,000 TON.
🔹 @kasta was sold for 1,500 rubles (a few dollars), and later sold for 1,880 TON.
🔹 But his most profitable sale was the username @lenta, which he sold for 9,368 TON.

🎯 But the real star of our story is @money

On February 8, 2021, when the platform Fragment.com did not yet exist (it launched on October 26, 2022),
@ramcode sold the username @money in a private deal to a user named @character for only $2,500.

⌛ About 2 years later, on September 23, 2023, the same username was sold on Fragment.com for an extraordinary price of 92,400 TON.

The buyer? A famous Chinese whale ( 8886 ) who immediately put it on his crypto channel.

📈 Today, that channel has over 5 million followers — thanks to the username: @money

In one of his personal channel posts, @ramcode said he kept all that $2,500 in Bitcoin — a decision that probably seemed reasonable at the time.
But?
If he had kept the username, he could have sold it for about $660,000 (USDT).

👀 If you haven't seen the first part of this series yet,
[ watch part one here ]

💭 And now a question:
If you owned the username @money,
would you have sold it for $2,500 in 2021?
Or waited for it to reach six figures?

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Many have probably seen the news that Pavel Durov phone number starts with +999.

Well, that number is actually a test number. It used to be available to anyone on Telegram’s test servers, and on production it was reserved for Telegram devs only.
It’s not some big secret — there’s plenty of info about +999 online.

Right now, test numbers like that are disabled even on test servers, and only Telegram developers can use them. So no, you can’t sign up for Telegram using one.

This isn’t some new batch of “anonymous” phone numbers (like the +888 ones). Why Pavel chose a test number isn’t clear — maybe he just liked it 🙃

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+999 is coming, +888 is falling?

In the bustling world of special telegram anonymous numbers, the rumor of the new +999 series entering Telegram has shaken the market. The prices of +888 numbers—which just a few weeks ago reached a ceiling of $3,000—are suspiciously falling. However, user "Oybek Abdurazakov" does not consider this drop to be a coincidence.

He believes that market makers (especially MM1 and MM2) have deliberately filled the media space with anti-+888 news, in a targeted effort to scare sellers and buy these numbers cheaply. The ultimate goal? To pump the price back up to around $10,000, perhaps by next spring.

The storyline is clear: Pretend something better is on the way (+999), knock down current prices, then surprise everyone again with a price surge.

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As expected, accounts with the +999 code have been frozen, and appeals to unfreeze them are not being accepted.

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🪙 New Post by Pavel Durov

🐳 In his new post, Pavel Durov mentioned recent investments by several major companies in TON and expressed his satisfaction with Telegram's use of this blockchain, writing:

🏆 Yesterday marked a historic milestone: for the first time, investors gained access to a TON-holding company listed on the US stock market (ticker: VERB) here. This company is allocating $558 million to accumulate TON coins — it never sells, only buys more over time.

↗️ VERB's shares more than doubled on their first trading day, pushing its market value above $1 billion and achieving unicorn status on day one. The list of investors includes longtime TON supporters like Kingsway, Vy Capital, and Ribbit, along with many new institutional backers.

🪙 TON (The Open Network) is an infinitely scalable blockchain that we helped develop years ago to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of Telegram users. Today, TON is the economic backbone of Telegram — just as a national currency supports a country's economy.

🌎 Everything on Telegram runs on TON: from payments to creators and app developers to advertising payments, mini apps, and collections like usernames, numbers, and gifts. As a result, TON is now the second blockchain by daily NFT transaction volume, second only to Ethereum.

🧠 It’s no surprise that Verb Technology — soon to be renamed TON Strategy — has chosen TON as its primary treasury asset. The company follows the MicroStrategy Bitcoin playbook, which allowed it to grow from $1 billion to over $100 billion in 5 years. The half-billion dollars Verb is investing in TON is just the beginning.

Given the market and TON's performance, how do you see TON's rate trend in the coming days?

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🔐 Code 77777: When Durov Himself Became a Victim of Telegram

On July 29, 2025, a critical bug appeared inside Telegram, where an ordinary user could get the technical support number (+999) in a completely stupid way. All you had to do was enter the confirmation code 77777. And that's it, you have a unique account. This code was the same for all accounts with test numbers — including Pavel Durov’s own account.

👾 That night, attackers submitted an account recovery request. After 7 days, the awaited “Reset Account” button appeared on the recovery page. Following receiving no response from Telegram—the attackers pressed the button, and Pavel Valeryevich’s account was deleted.

🧩 Among the usernames inside that account, one had not yet been minted as an NFT ( @unbrokensociety ) and was instantly freed for others to claim. The first person to take it was a newly registered user—whose account was deleted immediately.

⏳ Then, the username was claimed by someone with an “older” account, but they lasted only 5 minutes before their account was also deleted. Mysteriously, the username was almost immediately returned to Durov’s possession.

⚠️ What followed was even more concerning:
Channels that initially reported the true reasons behind these account deletions were blocked. Innocent users—who hadn’t violated any Terms of Service—were deleted merely for attempting to reclaim Pavel’s “lost” username.

What can we conclude?

Technical bugs happen.
But deleting users without cause? That’s a choice.

Telegram’s team could have resolved this situation gracefully. Instead, Durov and his colleagues opted for radical measures that ironically violated their own platform’s rules. ( Fragment Community opinion )

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🐋 Whale/Collectors Watch — Part 1

📜 From the very day Fragment was born, one anonymous collector has always been present: 8886.ton.
In trading halls and conversations, he is known by this alias. Neither a newcomer nor a random hunter, this collector has been with the market from the start, and over time has built a portfolio that looks like a living museum.

🛒 Buying Pattern
His portfolio is anything but simple; it’s a mix of global, brandable, evergreen names:
💰 Crypto/Finance: @wealth @finance @bitc @ethe @nfts @exchange @money
🤖 AI & GPT Wave: @openai @aichat @talkgpt @gptme @freechatgpt
🌍 Geo & Global Keywords: @america @japan @canada @turkey @dubai @germany + Japan cluster (Hokkaido, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Nagasaki)
🛡️ VPN/Proxy: dozens of names from @purevpn to @windscribe and @mtprotofree → building a traffic empire
🎬 Media & Entertainment: @soccer @basketball @zee5 @bollywood @viral @prank
🔞 NSFW: a heavy cluster designed to capture massive traffic flows

💎 Key Assets
@wealth → a symbol of financial power
@openai → a flagship of the AI wave
@america → a global, unrivaled keyword
@money → simple, direct, and endlessly valuable as a brand

⚠️ Warning
The domain 8886.ton is now owned by someone else and has no connection to this collector. Be cautious of misuse.

📌 Our Take
8886.ton is not after short-term trades; he is building a username empire.
From AI to Geo, from Crypto to NSFW, he puts different patterns together.
Wherever there is commercial or traffic value, his footprint is there.

📈 This collector has held a piece of Fragment’s history in his hand since day one.
And today? He currently runs a Telegram channel called @money — a hub with millions of users where crypto news and analysis are shared daily.

📌 This is just the beginning of the Whale/Collectors Watch series. In the next parts, we’ll introduce other collectors who each control their own corner of this ecosystem.

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🔹 Hot sale of an anonymous Telegram number

The number +888 8 989 was sold on Getgems marketplace for 64,300 TON (~$199,973).
The market for anonymous numbers remains as exciting as ever.

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✈️ Telegram’s New Update & the First Official Gift Auction

Telegram’s v12.2.0 update landed with two standout features:
🎥 Live Story broadcasts with donations
🎁 In-app gift auctions
Just hours later, Telegram put the new system to the test with a 50-round auction for the Telegram Plane gift. The response was overwhelming, turning into one of the busiest bidding events ever hosted inside the app.

🔍 What Happened?
Telegram rolled out a structured 50-round sale:
• Round 1: 1 hour
• Rounds 2–50: 5 minutes each
• 20 items offered in every round
Bidding pressure spiked quickly. Getting into the top ranks required at least 400,000⭐️ (≈ $6,000).

📊 Key Auction Stats
🚀 Highest Purchase:
@dope → 10,079,524⭐️ (≈ $151,193)
📈 Average Winning Bid:
335,782⭐️ (≈ $5,037)
💰 Largest Account Top-Up:
@rosen → 10,000,000⭐️
⭐️ Total Stars Spent:
334,444,934⭐️ (≈ $5,016,674)
👤 Pavel Durov Joined In:
Purchased a collectible pin for 224,879⭐️ (≈ $3,373)
According to the official @auction channel, gift upgrades become available immediately once the auction ends.

❓ Your Take
Is this just launch-week hype, or the start of a new digital economy inside Telegram?

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