- Telegram’s in-app browser will help decentralized web sites constructed on the TON blockchain.
- Customers can have entry to video games and providers throughout the mini apps, with Web3 help on each cellular and desktop.
Telegram now affords entry to decentralized web sites, because of the revealing of a brand new in-app browser.
In a July 31 announcement, Telegram stated the launch brings Web3 to tens of millions of the moment messaging platform’s customers.
“At present’s replace brings a brand new in-app browser that helps a number of tabs and makes Web3 accessible to nearly a billion customers, a Mini App Retailer, a brand new sort of mini apps, the power to reward Stars to associates — and rather more,” the Telegram staff famous.
Telegram reveals in-app help for TON Websites
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov additionally commented on the in-app browser help, noting that the TON blockchain will host the decentralized web sites dubbed “TON Websites”. Entry to the web sites might be accessible throughout Telegram’s cellular and desktop apps.
In keeping with the Telegram CEO, the addition of in-app browser help for TON Websites means Telegram’s greater than 950 million month-to-month customers now have a brand new option to entry Web3.
“The Browser lets customers change between viewing web sites and messaging, merging communication with information consumption. It’s outfitted with all of the options you’d anticipate from a browser — like search, bookmarks, and a number of tabs,” Durov wrote.
At the moment, greater than 500 million of Telegram’s practically 1 billion customers use mini apps each month. The brand new replace, which comes as a part of an earlier introduced launch for a Mini App Retailer, means extra of this person base may have recent entry to video games and providers.
Faucet-to-earn crypto apps on Telegram
Telegram’s crypto-friendly surroundings continues to see a surge in prime apps tapping into crypto gaming. One of many Web3 apps to hit dominance is Hamster Kombat.
This well-liked tap-to-earn recreation that has grown massively throughout the crypto group. With tens of millions of gamers, the tap-to-earn recreation is on the verge of one other milestone. It’s set to supply one of many sector’s most anticipated airdrops of the yr.
One other Telegram-based app attracting quite a lot of consideration is Catizen. Like Hamster Kombat, this mini recreation is constructed on the TON blockchain.
In a current submit, Durov stated Catizen has over 26 million gamers and has already managed $16 million in earnings from in-app purchases.