Telegram, a prominent messaging app, has introduced a unique update permitting customers to develop accounts while utilizing anonymous numbers based on blockchain. In this way, there would be no need for allocating specific cell phone based numbers to create an account. The app in advance conceals the private phone numbers of the people from those users who are not added to the app.

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Telegram to Offer No-Sim Accounts by Using Anonymous Blockchain Numbers

Nonetheless, the customers will now have the capability to conceal their number from whoever they want. This feature would be extremely attractive to people giving more importance to the privacy-focused features. The company has turned into a famous application for people who are crypto enthusiasts. The development is included in a 9.2 update introduced on the 6^th of this month.

This update additionally lets the customers set auto-delete timers for new chats and messages. Consumers who intend to utilize the latest feature require purchasing anonymous numbers powered by blockchain technology from Fragment. The Fragment is a decentralized auction forum established by Pavel Durov – the creator of Telegram. The platform trades anonymous numbers and user names that are compatible just with Telegram.

The purchases are carried out on Fragment via the affiliate token of Telegram called The Open Network (TON). Unluckily, for consumers based in the United States, no services are provided by Fragment. After purchasing a number, there are some private numbers offered by Telegram to get verification codes following signing in to the platform. Furthermore, people can buy any of the random numbers for 9 TON tokens (up to $16). They can also sell them through auction.

It seems that a few particular numbers are in high demand like “+888 8 888.” At present, this number has the top bid of almost 33,075 TON tokens ($60,527). After the crash of FTX in November, Durov declared on the 30^th of the same month through his official Telegram channel.

Platform Pursues Establishing Decentralized Exchange and Non-Custodial Wallets

He declared that the firm was constructing a package of decentralized instruments to cope with yet another incidence of malfeasance through a centralized crypto institution. Durov additionally revealed that the platform was making a strategy to introduce non-custodial wallets as well as a decentralized exchange along with the rest of the apps.