REP Summer '25 Recap
June, July and August were the months of growth — in partnerships, in users, in functionality, and in meaning.
REP Guide to Telegram Stickers
More than $10M in primary market sales. Over $500K in daily trading volume. Collaborations with Pudgy Penguins, BAYC, Azuki, Doodles, and many more.
Flex-to-Earn: Telegram Gifts 101
$304 million FDV and $210 million MC. Over 200,000 active traders. Dozens of marketplaces emerged in just half a year. Pudgy’s @lucanetz and @SnoopDogg themselves joined the show. Even if that doesn’t sound immediately exciting to a typical crypto OG (whose dopamine receptors may be completely fried) — Telegram Gifts are quickly becoming a major development for Telegram, TON, and, by extension, the broader crypto space. After all, in this phase of the cycle, it’s still rare to see an asset bought for $30 later sell for $37,400 (Plush Pepes). It is about trading, speculating and , status demonstration and identification, social flexing merging with onchain hierarchy - similar to what was happening in the 2021 NFT bullrun, yet in a much...