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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📉 Kiddy is Cashing Out — Another High-Value Username Hits Auction

One of kiddy’s top purchases is back on the auction block, and it already carries a $250,000 bid — the same handle he acquired in February 2024 for 245k TON (~$664k).

With 6 days left on the timer, there’s a real chance this sale breaks past his original buy-in, especially considering how Fragment auctions have behaved throughout 2025.
Kiddy remains one of the largest collectors of Fragment’s second wave: from bitget, startup, program, media, investments, machine, venture, paradigm, netflix, government, messari, tech, programmer, margin, futures and dozens more. Most of these were accumulated in early 2024 — and now the trend appears to be reversed as he gradually unwinds positions.

Where does this one settle?
🗿 250k
💅 300k TON+
🚀 400k TON+
⚡ 500k TON+
🐳 1M TON+

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🔴 Global Cloudflare Outage Halts Fragment’s Web Interface

Update: The issue has now been resolved.

A massive Cloudflare disruption early this morning took more than 600 million websites offline. Many major services — including Twitter and ChatGPT — were affected during the downtime.
During the outage, Fragment also went temporarily offline; however, the important part was this: auctions on the TON smart contract continued without interruption.
This meant some auctions briefly ran with unusually low competition — creating the possibility of unusually low final prices for a short window.

Key Points
- Cloudflare Down: A global outage caused websites and bots to fail loading, but the issue is now fixed.
- Fragment Offline (Now Restored): Only the web UI was down; auctions on-chain stayed active the entire time.
- Short Sniper Window: Auctions with < 2 hours remaining experienced reduced competition.
- Web3 Risk: No refunds or compensation — bids are always fully at the user’s own risk.

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⛔️ A Rare Anonymous Number Sold by Mistake for 14 TON — Resold Today for 8,000 TON

On 22 November, an unusual incident hit the Fragment anonymous-number market: the owner of +88801234000 accidentally sold this high-value number for just 14 TON (~$21) — far below the current floor.

For context: the floor price for non-special anonymous numbers is 1,650 TON ($2,580), and unique or patterned numbers often trade between 10,000–25,000 TON or more.
Example: +88811112222 was sold on 25 November for 46,555 TON (~$70,856).

After realizing the mistake, the original owner attempted to contact the buyer via a transaction message:

“88801234000, the sale of that number was a bug of the website and error. Contact me…”

But the story didn’t end there — today, the same number was listed again and sold for 8,000 TON, roughly 570× the accidental sale price.

Interestingly, the buyer who picked it up for 14 TON was Galya, a well-known trader previously interviewed by jpeg millionaire.

Interview links:
RU: https://telegra.ph/Zarabotal-na-prodazhe-NFT-za-vosem-mesyacev-chut-bolshe-25000-TON-34-tys----iz-intervyu-s-trejderom-Galya-u-nas-otmena-07-17
EN: https://telegra.ph/I-earned-slightly-over-25000-TON-equivalent-to-34000-USD-from-selling-NFTs-in-eight-months---from-an-interview-with-trader-Galya-07-17

■ Key Points
• 22 Nov — Mistaken sale: +88801234000 sold for just 14 TON.
• Market reality: Non-special number floor is ~1,650 TON; special numbers often 10k–25k TON.
• Comparison: +88811112222 sold for 46,555 TON on 25 Nov.
• Today: The mistakenly sold number was resold for 8,000 TON.
• Buyer at 14 TON: Galya, a recognized Fragment trader.

💬 What do you think?
Should platforms introduce more safeguards for accidental listings, or is this simply part of open-market dynamics?

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🔥 Fragment enters DefiLlama’s Trending List 🚀

DefiLlama’s Global Dashboard has finally added Fragment, and within hours the platform appeared among the largest daily collectors. The numbers speak for themselves: across Stars, Premium, Anonymous number and Telegram usernames, Fragment processes around $1.1M on regular days — and $5–7M during major Gift Release events 🎁📈.

What’s striking is that Fragment has been operating nonstop for three years, yet a large part of the crypto community is only now recognizing its true scale.

Key Points:
• Daily revenue: ~$1.1M 💵
• Peak activity: $5–7M during gift releases 🎉
• Reason for late recognition: Fragment was long seen as a “Telegram utility,” not a major TON economic engine

Why do you think the crypto community overlooked such a high-volume platform for so long? 🤔

Now that Fragment is visible on global DeFi charts — will this shift how TON is perceived, or is it just the beginning? 🌐✨

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