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Telegram Gifts: the complete guide to collectible gifts

Updated: November 3, 2026 · Bubble team

Telegram gifts are digital gifts bought with Telegram Stars and sent to other users. A regular gift can be upgraded into a unique collectible with its own serial number, model, backdrop and symbol. Collectible gifts can be transferred, sold, swapped and turned into NFTs on the TON blockchain, and a whole market with marketplaces, orders and auctions has grown around them.

What Telegram gifts are

Gifts arrived in Telegram in October 2024. You pick one from the catalog, pay with Telegram Stars and send it, and it appears on the recipient's profile. The recipient can keep it or, within a limited window, convert it into Stars (the gift disappears and returns fewer Stars than it cost). Some gifts are limited editions: once sold out, they can only be bought from other users. Gifts can be pinned on your profile (since March 2025) and grouped into collections (since July 2025).

Regular vs. collectible gifts

Marketplaces and Bubble only work with upgraded gifts. Under Bubble's terms, for example, regular (non-upgraded) gifts are not credited as tradable items, and if you send one it is neither paid for nor returned.

You pay for an upgrade in Stars. At launch in January 2025 it cost 25 Stars, which Pavel Durov said goes to TON blockchain fees. Today each gift type has its own upgrade price, which has gradually decreased over time since October 2025. Since late August 2025 you can also pay for someone else's upgrade, which makes upgrading free for them, and Telegram shows an approximate resale value for gifts.

Model, backdrop, symbol and rarity

• Model — the animated figure of the gift.
• Backdrop — the color or gradient behind it.
• Symbol — the small pattern on the backdrop.

Rarity is the share of a collection that has a given trait. In large collections models typically sit at 0.2–4%, backdrops at 1–2% and symbols at 0.2–1.5%. Crafting added tier labels: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary. A gift's price starts from the collection floor (the cheapest listing) plus a premium for a rare model, backdrop, symbol and a nice serial number. Bubble's estimate accounts for the model + backdrop combination, not just the model.

What you can do with gifts

• Wear them. Since January 2025 a collectible gift can be worn, which shows its icon next to your name.
• Theme chats. Since August 2025 a gift's model and backdrop can become a chat theme.
• Give and transfer them to users and channels.
• Sign them. Since August 2026 you can add a signature and a comment to a collectible gift bought on Telegram's market and sent to someone.
• Craft. Since February 2026 you can combine 1–4 gifts of the same type into an Uncommon, Rare, Epic or Legendary version. More inputs raise the odds, but all inputs burn whether or not the craft succeeds. Marketplaces label the results as “crafted”.
• Sell, buy and swap them on Telegram's market, on marketplaces and on Bubble.
• Bridge to TON as NFTs, and back.

Where gifts are bought and sold

Telegram has a built-in market for collectible gifts: Stars trading since May 2025, later GRAM as well. Per Telegram's API config, sellers receive 80% of a Stars price or 90% of a GRAM price, and these terms may change. New gifts have sold through multi-round auctions since November 2025, and purchase offers lasting 6–72 hours arrived in December 2025. Independent marketplaces include MRKT, Portals, Tonnel, Getgems, Fragment, Palace, Harbor, Pixel and others; see the marketplace comparison. Because the same gift is often priced differently across venues, aggregators appeared. Bubble shows listings from all of them in one feed, charges 0% on purchases from other marketplaces and adds orders, offers, swaps and alerts. Step by step: how to buy and sell gifts.

Gifts on TON: NFTs and GRAM

Since January 2025 collectible gifts can be moved to the blockchain as NFTs on TON. The official route goes through Fragment. You need your two-step verification password and a TON wallet, and Fragment may ask for identity verification (KYC). Since October 2026 (Telegram 13.1) you can also move a gift to your own TON wallet right from the send screen, without Fragment. Gift NFTs carry a 5% on-chain royalty on resales. On Bubble, gift ↔ NFT conversion is one action on the gift card and takes about 1–1.5 minutes each way.

On-chain prices are in TON's native coin. On June 15, 2026 it was renamed from Toncoin (TON) to Gram (GRAM). The name, ticker and logo changed, the blockchain is still called TON and balances stayed the same. Sites asking you to “migrate TON to GRAM” are scams.

Timeline

Sources: the official Telegram blog (telegram.org/blog) and Pavel Durov's channel.

The market in numbers

• 100+ collections and millions of gifts (Telegram, February 2026). Fragment lists 123 collections and ~1.48M gifts minted on-chain (November 2026).
• 10M+ gifts a month changed hands as early as April 2025 (Telegram blog).
• $296M cumulative sales, ~$128M market cap, 2M+ owners of ~9M gifts (Dune/Getgems data, November 2025).
• Fragment record: Plush Pepe #1821 for 88,888 GRAM (February 5, 2026). Pavel Durov bought Plush Pepe #858 for 15,000 TON (~$52,500) in August 2025.
• Primary sales: the Snoop Dogg drop made $12M in 30 minutes (July 2025).

Risks and safety

• Reverts. If a Stars payment is refunded, Telegram can roll back the related upgrade or transfer. Waves of such reverts hit marketplaces in April 2025 and February 2026. That's why Telegram sets per-gift dates for transfer, resale and export, and venues add their own holds; Bubble shows the remaining time.
• Scams. Watch out for cloned bots, fake “guarantors” and phishing “gift verification” bots. Use official apps only. Bubble's address is t.me/bubbl.
• Volatility. Gift prices are driven by demand and can go down as well as up. Nothing here is investment advice.

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