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Telegram introduces an in-app browser, a mini-app store, and new features.
The chat app Telegram has announced the release of new features that make its platform much more powerful. These new features include an in-app browser and a mini-app store. The update, which was announced in a blog post on July 31, is a smart move to use blockchain technology and make the experience better for the app’s 950 million users around the world.
The brand-new in-app browser is meant to make it easier for users to connect to web apps that are not centralized. Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, talked about all the cool things that the browser can do. It’s easy to switch between talking and surfing the web, he said, and it has “all the features” of a normal web browser.
A tool called TON Sites is part of the Open Network blockchain. It lets people make and run open websites. Now that everything is in one place, it’s easy for everyone to get there. It came out in 2023. At first, a TON proxy was the only way to get to these sites. But the new software will help you get there faster.
Telegram enhances platform with blockchain integration and mini-app store
What Durov said about it, “opens the world of blockchain-based web to almost a billion users,” shows how important this change is. Telegram wants to use blockchain technology in its surroundings, which will make the platform more useful and open to more people. This move fits with that plan.
On the same day that the browser came out, Telegram also made its mini-app store fully working. You can get to the mini-app store through the search function in the Telegram app. This makes it easy for people to use their mini-apps. This new feature is meant to make it easy to find and use apps. Every month, 500 million active Telegram users use mini-apps.
This mini app store already has the “Stars” payment method set up. “Stars” are new digital coins that you can use to buy things in the mini-app world. They came out on June 7. Now people can send these stars to their friends, which makes the app a better place to meet new people and do business. One thing you can trade stars for is Toncoin, the first cryptocurrency on the TON network. This makes the stars more valuable and fits them in with the rest of the blockchain market.
Mini-apps gain traction
The fact that Telegram’s mini-apps are becoming more and more popular shows that they work. A lot of people are interested in applications like Notcoin and Hamster Kombat (HMSTR). In fact, Hamster Kombat is one of the Web3 apps that is growing the fastest. HMSTR has gained more than 300 million users since its start in March 2024. It is now getting ready for what it calls the “largest airdrop in the history of crypto” for its HMSTR token, which will go live on the TON network.
A second mini app called Catizen, which came out in March, has also been a big hit. HashKey Capital in Hong Kong put a lot of money into Pluto Studio, the company that made the app. This is because more than 500,000 people have paid for it.
There are still changes being made to Telegram to add new services and features. It’s now an even bigger deal in the tech and bitcoin worlds. Telegram is always getting better and getting more features. If a tool is simple to use and can do more, more people will use it.
