Tradeable NFT stickers are launching on Telegram via The Open Network (TON).
Open Builders – the team behind the viral tap-to-ear game Notcoin – and the DOGS meme coin community announced Tuesday that they are teaming up to open Sticker Shop. Telegram’s mini app will sell limited-edition digital sticker packs purchased through Stars, the messaging platform’s native in-app currency tied to Toncoin (TON).
Purchased stickers can be shared in chats and bought and sold through marketplaces (such as Getgems) as NFTs. Each sticker series is limited to a specific number, creating scarcity and potential value for collectors.
“More than 500 billion stickers are sent by users on Telegram every month. Tokenized stickers are the new meta for mass adoption,” said Sasha Plotvinov, founder of Notcoin and Open Builders, in a statement.
Sticker Shop will feature collaborations with projects such as Pudgy Penguins, Flappy Bird and the Bored Ape Yacht Club. Telegram trading app Blum is also dropping a series at launch, while the “King Dogs” sticker series will celebrate the DOGS meme coin on TON.
Pavel Durov, the co-founder of Telegram and one of the original builders of TON, said at the Token 2049 conference in April in Singapore that the messaging platform planned to tokenize stickers via the TON blockchain. This move would allow ownership rights for buyers and generate an overwhelming portion of the sales price as revenue for the creators.
Sticker Shop is inspired by Durov’s vision, as an Open Builders representative explained Declutterbut it is not an official Telegram project, nor a collaboration with Durov himself.