{"id":508376,"date":"2023-09-18T15:33:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=508376"},"modified":"2023-09-18T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:37:51","slug":"telegram-adds-crypto-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/508376-telegram-adds-crypto-wallet.html","title":{"rendered":"Telegram adds crypto wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/tginfoen\/1723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiled<\/a><\/strong> an integrated cryptocurrency wallet feature, letting users access their cryptocurrency holdings from within the app.<\/p>\n<p>The feature isn&#8217;t available to all users yet; only those who interacted with the @wallet bot will see the crypto wallet section in their Telegram menu in the latest version of the app.<\/p>\n<p>However, Telegram promises to roll it out to more users in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the new version of Telegram, users who have previously used the @wallet bot now have a section with a crypto wallet in the application menu,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The addition comes after Telegram and TON Foundation announced a partnership at the TOKEN2049 conference.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies committed to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The @wallet integration will be available to approximately 800 million Telegram users around the globe, barring the US.<\/li>\n<li>Telegram will grant TON projects and associated partners privileged access to advertising on its platform.<\/li>\n<li>TON aims to engage 30% of Telegram&#8217;s user base by 2028.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Now @wallet will have direct access to all 800 million users of the messenger (excluding US citizens) by integrating the service into the menu,&#8221; Telegram said.<\/p>\n<p>The integration of @wallet in the Telegram menu forms part of the company&#8217;s goal to democratise access to cryptocurrency for its user base.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/508356-ethereums-successful-merge-could-bog-down-network.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ethereum&#8217;s successful Merge could bog down network<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram has announced a crypto currency wallet mini-app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":447670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[191,23753,89426],"class_list":["post-508376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-telegram","tag-ton-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508454,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508376\/revisions\/508454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}