Pavel Durov said that he received as a gift @pavel, bought for $ 80,000 in Ton cryptocurrency, from crypto entrepreneur

A tech blogger, Pavel Fedorov, just earned $80,000+ in TON from selling his username pavel on the Fragment auction platform
Durov also reported that in the last 1.5 years, user names and anonymous phone numbers for Telegram have been sold for $350 million.

As an early adopter of Telegram, Mr. Fedorov claimed the pavel username 9 years ago for free. He put it up for auction a week ago. After a fierce bidding war, the crypto entrepreneur founder, who owns crypto and many other Telegram handles, won the auction. In a surprising twist, founder gifted me the pavel name earlier today.

Congratulations to Pavel Fedorov, and many thanks to founder for the generous gift. This shows how Telegram users benefit from direct ownership over their names. $350M worth of Telegram usernames and anonymous numbers have been sold in the last 18 months.

The newest versions of Telegram allow you to see when and for how much a username was sold. To check it out, you can go to my channel’s profile and tap on pavel or snow. A few minutes ago, I bought paul on Fragment for 10,000 TON — to prevent more people from giving me generous gifts