💀 Telegram Money is live.

💀 Telegram Money is live. So where’s the promised rollout?

⚫️ It has already been several days since Telegram 13.0 was released, yet we still haven’t seen an official announcement for the anniversary update. Major Telegram releases usually come with a dedicated blog post. For some reason, that didn’t happen this time, even though Money is already available across all major platforms.

⚫️ The wallet launch in its current form raises an obvious question. Back in the summer, Durov promised the biggest self-custodial wallet rollout in history, bringing it to more than a billion users. Fine, the deadline slipped. But where is the promised scale? Money is still hidden by default, and users have to rely on workarounds just to get access. According to the stats, only around 81,000 users have tried the wallet so far, with just about 800 new addresses added today.

⚫️ That said, we do have one theory for why Telegram hasn’t rushed to announce it yet. The developers may simply want to polish the wallet first and only then open it up to everyone. Work is clearly still ongoing: for example, the Money section only appeared in Telegram WebA yesterday. TON Connect was also updated over the weekend, with Telegram’s built-in wallet becoming the default wallet option.

⚫️ So once again, it looks like all we can do is wait and hope the mass rollout is being saved for the official announcement. Otherwise, Durov’s already shaky credibility may take another hit.

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