TON Stewards have added crypto to Telegram, paving the way for payments.

Bots allow users to buy and send toncoins within the app, as well as purchase bitcoins.

According to a tweet posted on Tuesday, the TON Foundation has integrated crypto payments into Telegram, enabling the messaging app’s 550 million users to send and receive Toncoin.
The “@wallet” bot allows users to purchase bitcoin (BTC) but only toncoin (TON) may be transmitted within the programme.
The TON Foundation, the project’s steward, said Thursday that the goal is to make sending toncoin “feel like sending a text message,” referring to the cryptocurrency. The bot has already been utilised by 800,000 Telegram accounts, according to the company.
According to the foundation, “We expect this functionality to grow into consumer-to-business payments, so that individuals can simply obtain products and services by transferring toncoin via bots in Telegram’s app.”
As an example, Twitter uses third-party payment systems like Jack Mallers’ Strike app to accept bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network for its Tips function. Ethereum scaler Polygon was announced by payments giant Stripe last week, and Twitter was the first firm to try it out.
Telegram abandoned the TON crypto project in August 2020 after a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States (SEC).
More than $1 billion in TON (tokens) was recently raised from the foundation’s users.

Ref : https://cryptonewzzz.com/2022/04/28/ton-stewards-have-added-crypto-to-telegram-paving-the-way-for-payments/