🏆 The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) ends today.

🇷🇺Students from Moscow and St. Petersburg won 2🥇gold and 2🥈silver medals — well done, Vladislav Zhiganov (#2 overall!), Maksim Kravchenko, Sergei Mukhanov and Vladimir Zvezdin!

🇺🇦Ukraine won 3 medals: 🥇 gold for Vladyslav Khalin, and 2🥈 silver for Illia Shevchenko and Daria Perekopska 💪

🇧🇾 Belarus took 1🥇gold and 1🥈silver, won by Kiryl Kardash and Fiodar Sashko, plus two bronze medals from their teammates.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan did well too, winning 1🥇gold and 3🥈silver medals to finish in the top five as a team, while Maksim Tsoy came #5 overall.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan picked up 2🥈 silver and 2🥉 bronze medals! 🤝

🇺🇿Uzbekistan, the host country, put on a great showing: 1🥈 silver for Jakhonali Khaydaraliyev and 3🥉bronze medals.

🇨🇳The strongest results of all, though, came from China 👏

At today's award ceremony, the IOI organizers are giving the 188 Algorithm Cups 🎁🎁🎁 to the winners. The organizers of the sister olympiad, IOAI, are sending the 220 Intelligence Cups 🏆🏆🏆 to their winners remotely.

These are the only digital collectibles Telegram has issued this year, so they could end up worth much more than the guaranteed $1,000 for gold.

We're proud to support the brightest young programmers of our time 🧠

💎 Telegram has applied for the .gram domain zone.

If the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains.

🖥 For example, @durov would get durov.gram, and @monk would get monk.gram.

Users would be able to set up their interactive websites hosted by Telegram — just by typing one prompt ✨

🚨 Two years ago, I was detained in Paris by police for 3 days — the longest they can hold someone before charging them.

In an unprecedented move, French authorities accused the head of a major platform of crimes committed by its users.

That investigation is still ongoing, although it makes less sense with each passing year.

Why?

Because we now have extensive evidence that Telegram was neither worse than other popular platforms at moderation, nor the worst at cooperating with authorities.

So why was Telegram singled out?

Over the last two years, we have seen a pattern emerge in multiple countries: Telegram is quietly pressured to grant political favors — such as illegal censorship or surveillance. When we refuse, local media and “non-governmental” organizations launch orchestrated campaigns portraying Telegram as a cesspool of crime, from child pornography to terrorism.

Our moderation is no worse than that of other major platforms. Yet these campaigns instill the idea that Telegram should be persecuted or restricted.

Suddenly, officials start caring about crime and protecting children — but only on platforms that reject their secret political demands. Platforms that accept such deals get away with almost anything — including literally selling ads promoting child pornography.

Is the French investigation against me political? It certainly fits the pattern we see elsewhere, mostly in authoritarian countries. And it definitely raises questions.

In time, this investigation may itself be investigated — especially now that Macron’s war against free speech is facing pushback. This month, France’s Constitutional Council struck down his social media ban for children under 15 on freedom-of-expression grounds.

In the end, freedom and truth will prevail ✊

A high-school student just made $20,000 from a Telegram Gift.

Jonathan He, an IOI gold medalist ranked #7 in the world, sold his Algorithm Cup — an NFT we gave to the top young coders this month — for 💎 15,000 Grams.

Happy for him. It's a meaningful sum for someone still in school, and I suspect a small fraction of what he'll go on to build.

20 years ago, $20K was enough for me to launch my first company. Within months, it had reached 1M users and raised $12M at a $60M valuation. 💸

I hope some of this year's winners put their Grams to similar use! 📈

🏳️ Gram Wallet in Telegram is ready and is now accessible to a select group of users.

🤩 We'll be gradually rolling it out to our billion+ users over the next couple of weeks.

⚡️ Thanks to the validators who approved the smart contract that powers it, future upgrades of the wallet won't require painful migrations.

This is just one of the innovations we've built to make non-custodial wallets usable ✨

💸 In just one month, Telegram has awarded over $2,222,000 to some of the brightest minds on our planet.

🎨 This week alone we distributed $222,000 among the winners of our two latest competitions — the Design Contest and the Digital Freedom Contest.

On top of that, over the past month we awarded prizes worth more than $2 million to the winners of the 2026 International Olympiads in Informatics and AI.

We're proud to support the best! 🎁

🤝 Telegram has become the sponsor of Codeforces — the largest competitive programming platform in the world.

⚡CodeForces organizes over 100 coding contests every year and has 4 million contestants signed up.

🌱 Since 2010, I've supported Codeforces through the companies I started.

🆙 But this year will be special. Its founder Mike wants to bring Codeforces to the next level — and we'll be happy to help him do that 🤝

💸 If your wallet doesn’t look like this, don’t even bother sending me money for my birthday! 🎂

✨ Designers × AI

🆕 The mockup era is over. Today’s AI tools give every designer a superpower: you can now craft your ideas, not just draw them.

The gap between “what if…?” and “look, it works!” has never been smaller, and that changed how we build features in Telegram.

Message @designers to submit your concepts.

✔️ We accept
– Working, ready-to-implement code
complemented by
– A demo video of your feature in action

🗑 We no longer accept
– Static mockups
– Demo videos with no code behind them
– Text-only concepts

No coding background? Curiosity, attention to detail and a good prompt will take you far.

The future of design isn’t drawn – it’s built.

🚀 Let's build it together!

(An example of what is possible by our iOS designer – this is a ready to use implementation not a motion video.) 👇

700K+ self-custodial wallets created on Telegram in the last 48 hours alone.

🦠 Adoption spreads virally. A wallet activates the moment someone receives Grams.

💪 The crypto revolution is going strong.

🔴 Crypto’s a sea of red.

🟢 Only Gram is up: +12%.

🌐 I'm not surprised. It’s the only coin built into a real social ecosystem.

💎 Still ridiculously undervalued — it belongs in CMC’s top 3.

One day it’ll get there.