Communities for Stickers

Access is now fully integrated with Sticker Pad. Launched a pack? Create a holder chat in one tap.

Already running:

– Ayanami Rei (194 members)
– Not Wise :: Classics (110 members)
– Baron ICE GANG (495 members)

That's where the community lives. Go build yours.

Guide: how to create holder chat

Access: Recap

A lot has changed since the last snapshot.

More and more strong communities are choosing the tool to shape their groups.

Current stats:

– 2K active chats (+233%)
– 49K members connected (+96%)

Among the largest by asset value: Dogs Premium Holders, Pixel Strategy Whales, Snoop X BAYC Club, Groypers and $BUILD Diamond Hands.

Meanwhile, the technical side keeps evolving to make ownership verification stable and the flow seamless for both admins and members.

@builders

$BUILD is still in its early stage, where we are setting up contests for builders and shipping the first tools to the public.

The idea is to build an economy from real usage of valuable tools, similar to $HYPE and others (very few tho) that managed to create sustainable tokenomics.

At this stage, $BUILD have around 19k holders that got tokens via @earn, developer contests and the open market.

Once we prove the revenue -> buyback model works, we are going to shape the tokenomics which would actually work long term. Doing it too early might ruin the whole thing so we are not rushing with it.

For now, the best indicator of our progress is the consistency of launching contests, developing and shipping tools, and growing the user base, despite of the “bear market” and an overall silence across other projects in crypto, TON and Telegram

keep building 🫡

Collab

A Telegram-native marketplace for buying and selling ads.

🔍 Discover channels or receive ad requests
💰 Secure payments with escrow
🎨 Approve and manage creatives
📊 Access verified Telegram stats
🤖 Automate posting and verification

Tool revenue supports the $BUILD ecosystem.

While the app is in development, the waitlist for channel owners is open

Add your channel, invite referrals and get early access with priority promotion and additional benefits.

@builders

Ads Marketplace Contest — Results & Insights

50+ submissions received.

We reviewed every entry: manual code review, product testing, and AI-assisted codebase analysis.

The spread was wide — from empty repos to solid MVPs.

Common issues we found:

1. Channel Stats

In our view, the best approach for channel analytics is MTProto’s method stats.getBroadcastStats — it gives you subscribers, avg views, Premium ratio, language breakdown, growth charts, all from one call. That said, we were open to other original solutions that could reliably deliver the same data — as long as the implementation was your own, not a call to an external analytics API.


In practice, most submissions claimed «verified channel stats» but only called getChatMemberCount via Bot API — which gives you subscriber count and nothing else.

2. Payments and Escrow

The most common area of weakness. Most projects did integrate with TON in some form, but the implementation quality varied a lot.

Some of the recurring issues:
– All deals sharing one wallet with no fund isolation — one security breach and everything is compromised
– Fund release and refund operations that aren’t safe to retry — if the service crashes mid-process, funds can be sent twice or never sent
– No locks or atomicity in background workers handling payments — race conditions leading to duplicate transactions
– Transaction verification that doesn’t actually check the blockchain

In general, any operation involving money needs to be designed for the worst case: crashes, retries, concurrent calls. This applies also to ad posting, not just escrow.

Some of these are understandable in an MVP context, but they still influenced how we evaluated the submissions.

3. Broken demos

Some demos weren’t functional, and self-deploy instructions were missing or incomplete. In those cases, hands-on product testing wasn’t conducted.

4. Overengineered Flows

Surprisingly common. Many projects added unnecessary complexity on top of the core deal flow – extra entities, extra verification steps, approval stages, duplicated logic. In some cases, both sides had to create separate entities before a deal could even start. Simpler would have been better.

5. AI-Generated Code Without Review

Nothing wrong with using AI as a development tool — most strong submissions did. The issue is when AI generates 90–100% of the code and no one reviews the result. Several projects had that pattern: boilerplate architecture, identical comments, extremely long and overcomplicated functions, code that doesn’t actually work when you run it. AI can speed things up significantly, but it shouldn’t fully replace the work of developer.

Thank you to everyone who participated — we appreciate the time and effort.

Even if you didn't win this time, we noticed your work.

Strong contributors stay on our radar for future opportunities, whether that's future contests or contributing to our open-source tools.

More news on the Ads Marketplace tool coming next week.

@builders

Contest Update & More

A quick update on the Ad Marketplace Contest.

The deadline is extended to February 16.

Also, a few related updates worth checking if you are working on a submission.

Clarifications

Important notes on MVP scope, what prod-ready means, judging approach, and how the grant stage will work.

Read the clarifications

UI Kit

The UI Kit used in Access and other tools is now open source.

Free to use in your contest builds and other projects.

Explore the UI Kit

@builders

Ad Marketplace Contest

🏆 Reward: $15,000+ $BUILD grant to make the product prod-ready

🗓 Deadline: February 16

Build an MVP Telegram Mini App for an ads marketplace that connects channel owners and advertisers, using an escrow-style deal flow.

Requirements

— Marketplace connecting advertisers and channel owners
— Two-sided flow: channel listings and advertiser requests
— Verified channel data from Telegram
— Escrow deals with automated posting

Tech

Build with any tech stack, focus on backend, keep the code clean and ready for open source.

Full specs and details in the Contest App. Ask questions in @tools_community

Participate

@builders

Giveaway Tool

A flexible Telegram tool for running giveaways. Built to reward your community, boost engagement, and grow your audience.

⚡️Create and manage giveaways

🎁 Choose any prize type, from physical to digital rewards

👥 Let users join by completing simple tasks or meeting conditions

📊 Track participation and performance in real time

The tool is in MVP stage. It does not store user assets, and prize distribution stays fully on the organizer side.

Github | Tools.tg

@builders

Access Analytics

Access just received a major update that introduces a global ranking of active chats.

With members up by about 47% and chats up by around 50% over the past week, this is a good moment to look at the latest changes.

Overview

– 600+ active chats
– 25K+ members connected

Among the most active communities are Pudgy Penguins, Chimpers, Doodles, 8 Club, Teddie and other holder-based groups.

A consistent flow of verified entries keeps them at the top of the activity ranking.

Asset Value

The global ranking can be filtered by two parameters: the number of users and the Asset Value (TVL).

This parameter shows the economic weight of a gated space by reflecting how much users hold to access a chat, helping compare how different groups perform.

Access | Tools.tg

@builders

Idea Contest: Key Insights

The contest helped us understand what kinds of tools could make the Telegram experience more productive and easier to use.

Many submissions pointed to the same needs: simple transparent tools, better ways to manage information, and lightweight utilities for creators, teams and personal workflows.

Winners and Their Ideas

1st Place - Crypto Watcher

A compact tool for real-time token price alerts and market monitoring.

It helps users stay informed without getting lost in the message flow, delivering clear, timely updates directly inside Telegram.

2nd Place - Ad Marketplace for Telegram Channels

A native marketplace that connects creators and advertisers.

It simplifies channel monetization by reducing manual work, adding transparency and removing the trust issues common in current ad deals.

3rd Place - Simple Mini-App Stores

Two winners proposed similar tools for easy, no-code creation of mini-app shops.

These ideas support creators by making it simple to sell digital goods, handle payments and distribute content without external platforms.

Other Participants

Beyond the main winners, the contest surfaced several other concepts aimed at improving everyday workflows inside Telegram, including:

– AI chat summarizers to reduce information overload and help users quickly extract key updates from active channels.

– A broad service marketplace designed to make peer-to-peer interactions more structured and trustless.

– Simple file conversion utilities that help users complete basic tasks without switching to external apps.

Explore all participants and rewards in Contest Tool.

@builders

Idea Contest

🏆 Reward: 3 000 USD
⏰ Deadline: October 30 UPD: Nov 1
💎 Entry fee: 1 TON

Share an idea for a Telegram product or tool that solves a real problem for users, creators, developers, or communities.

Explain the problem, your solution, and how it could work inside Telegram.

Requirements:

– Describe a problem you have noticed in Telegram.
– Suggest a product or tool that could solve it.
– Explain who it is for, how it would work, and why it fits Telegram.
– Optionally, include mockups or user flows.

Submit your idea in any format: text, PDF or presentation.

Keep it clear and easy to follow. Start with the problem, not the tool.

Participate

@builders

Contests Tool

A fair, user-friendly Telegram tool for running community contests. Made for easy management, fair competition, and transparent results.

How it works:

⚡️ Create contests in a few steps, free or with TON entry.

👮 Add moderators to review submissions and vote.

👁 Anonymous mode to hide names and keep judging fair.

🎨 Customize contests with themes to match your style.

Share your feedback to help us build better: @tools_community

Github | Tools.tg

@builders

Builders are building

Access bot

Free, simple and powerful Telegram-native tool to set up private access to chat groups or channels.

What it can do:

🔐 Manage access to private chat groups and channels.

💰 Grant access based on token or NFT ownership.

🎁 Support Telegram Gifts and Stickers.

🤌 Allow to customize access list via API.

Coming: list of the top Telegram private groups.

Over 150 private groups set up Access already.
Example: 8 Club.

Feel free to share your feedback in our chat @tools_community

Github repository | Tools.tg

Following our vision, we've partnered with independend devs to build the most important tools in Telegram.

First tool was released in June and now we've got learnings that help us to shape the approach.

We keep the same model: devs build valuable tools for grants, tools generate revenue for buybacks and new grants.

Here we will post:
- Quarter reports of results, grants and buybacks
- Developers-oriented initiatives like contests
- Early betas and access to tools we want you to try

Enjoy

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