Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the messaging app will bring a native, non-custodial Gram wallet to all of its apps this summer, calling it, in a post , “the largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet in human history.” Durov said the wallet would enable “instant zero-fee crypto transactions for over a billion users.”
? This summer will see the largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet in human history.
— Pavel Durov (@durov) July 21, 2026
⚡️Instant zero-fee crypto transactions for over a billion users are about to become reality.
We're bringing a native non-custodial Gram wallet to every Telegram app! ?
Durov did not give a fixed release date, list which assets the in-app wallet would support at launch, or explain how Telegram plans to cover network costs while offering fee-free transfers.
The Gram team, in a post on X , clarified that the rollout is happening in two stages. The first has already started: a web version of the Gram Wallet is live now, letting users create or import a wallet and store and send GRAM, jettons and NFTs through a browser. The second and larger stage, a native wallet built directly into every Telegram app, is what Durov's announcement was describing, and Gram said it is planned for later this summer.
I was already about to announce that Gram Wallet had arrived in every Telegram app, but here it’s important not to mix up the two chapters of this story ?
— Gramio (@gramio_ton) July 22, 2026
The first chapter has already begun: the Gram Wallet web version is available right now. Open the website, create a new… pic.twitter.com/Qm8d0i5f1W
The web version is accessible now at wallet.ton.org , and a separate Gram Wallet product, built by the same developer behind MyTonWallet, is also available as a standalone iOS and Android app with an AI agent built in. According to Gram's post, that app supports four networks: GRAM, ETH, SOL and TRX.
The announcement extends Telegram's push deeper into TON following last month's rebrand of Toncoin to Gram, a name Telegram used for its original 2018 blockchain white paper before regulatory trouble forced the company to abandon the project. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Telegram in 2019 over that earlier token plan, and the company settled in 2020, agreeing to return more than $1.2 billion to investors and pay an $18.5 million civil penalty. Independent developers subsequently carried the open-source code forward into what became the present-day TON network, which Telegram has gradually reintegrated through advertising payments, creator tools and developer services over the past several years.
Telegram reported more than 1 billion monthly active users in 2025, giving a native in-app wallet a distribution base that would dwarf that of any standalone crypto wallet product. Whether that translates into meaningful non-custodial adoption will depend on details Telegram has not yet disclosed, including recovery mechanisms, regional availability, identity verification requirements and the exact fee-subsidy model behind the “zero-fee” claim.
