Onchain and offchain: where are your gifts stored?

Gifts can have two statuses. This post is for beginners to make it clear how both formats work:

Offchain aka "outside the blockchain"

A gift that "lives" inside the Telegram database. It stays tied to your Telegram account.

Pros: easy transfer within Telegram (the first one after upgrading is free, following ones are 25 Stars each), and you can also trade them on Getgems.

@gemsrelayer: to sell an offchain gift or withdraw a purchased one to Telegram (via the "Withdraw" button), the official @gemsrelayer bot is used — it acts as a secure bridge.

Cons: not a full NFT yet. Can’t be sent to a regular crypto wallet. If you lose access to your Telegram account, you lose your Gifts too.

Onchain — already on the blockchain

A gift that has been minted and turned into a real NFT on TON with a record in the blockchain. It is stored in your non-custodial wallet (like Tonkeeper or Wallet).

Features: complete ownership capabilities. You can transfer it to any TON address, trade on Getgems, or display it on your Telegram profile using Fragment.

Bridging the two worlds

Any offchain Gift can become onchain through minting — a transaction that records it on the TON blockchain. You can do this right on Getgems with just one click on the "Mint gift" button.

#glossary

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Market consensus

Every market finds its sweet spot over time, and Telegram Gifts are no exception.

Starting today, the trading fee for both onchain and offchain gifts is 2%.

Over the past year, we've seen it all: 5% fees, then 0% during the peak hype, and now a moderate 2%.

This fee helps prevent market manipulation, ensures a clean trading environment, and supports our infrastructure

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Gift minting explained

Last time we talked about TON network fees. Next up: turning Telegram gifts into NFTs

Minting — is the process of creating an NFT on the blockchain. The network assigns a unique place in the blockchain to the digital object, turning it into your personal secured property.

Why are some Gifts marked as “offchain”?

Not every Telegram Gift is an NFT.

Initially, it may exist in an "offchain" format kept only inside Telegram. Moving it to the TON blockchain can be done directly inside the messenger.

But if you own the gift on Getgems (by previously transferring it to @gemsrelayer or purchasing it on the marketplace) → open the gift page on Getgems, hit the "Mint gift" button, and confirm the transaction in your wallet. It will require some network gas + a 0.2 GRAM fee.

Once minted, the "offchain" label disappears, your Gift becomes a proper onchain NFT in your wallet, and you can trade it on Getgems or show it off on your Telegram profile.

#glossary

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Meet GameBoard

Ruining friendships over Monopoly is a classic. Doing it on your own NFT board? Hits different.

👥 Umbrella Laboratory (creators of Lobsters) presents GameBoard NFT — a collection of 1,500 playable NFT boards for miniPoly, the Monopoly-inspired board game on Telegram. Each board is a fully playable game field featuring one of 47 unique designs, from Cyberpunk to the ultra-rare Anonymous 1/1.

Sale: Live now
Total supply: 1,500 NFTs (FCFS, no wallet limits)
Sale ends: July 20, 1pm UTC, or upon sellout. Any unsold NFTs will be burned
💰 Price: 29.99 GRAM per NFT

🔗 Check out the launchpad page for all the details and #DYOR 👍

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Wait… who fast-forwarded to Q3?

So far 2026 brought 407,000+ new users and many updates to Getgems. So that you don't lose anything, here’s the TL;DR

Smoother trading: launched offchain Gifts sales in a click via bundles, auto-price reduction "Falling Price", NFT multi-selection, Gift minting via Getgems and Estimated Price right in the TON Wallet.

For Telegram Stars:

added

USDT payments

! Tip: buying via Getgems is

30% cheaper

than directly in Telegram.

Mechanics & activities:

launched

Lucky Buy

— a transparent way to grab Gifts below market price (banger saving

stats

). Celebrated Lunar New Year with

Hong Bao

,

distributing

treasury proceeds back to holders, joined

Gift Fest

, and distributed event rewards: exclusive

Season 1

and

Season 2

badges.

Releases and milestones:

held launchpads, celebrated

4 years of Getgems

and

3 years of Getgems Domains

, and issued monthly

sticker digest

.

Ain't no stopping here and will announce something massive soon — it will be hot!

Which update did you find most useful? Share in the comments

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TON network fees: how they work

Last time we covered royalties, now let’s dive into blockchain gas

Network fee — is a payment for processing transactions. To buy/sell an NFT, you need to have a minimum of 0.3 GRAM on your balance: it's requested by the network's smart contract, and without this gas the transaction won't ride anywhere.

What else: upfront fees and returns
You might wonder: "Do I need to pay 0.3 GRAM on every transaction?"

No, not the whole amount

Due to the network architecture, it asks for a bit extra upfront so that the transaction is guaranteed not to get stuck.

As soon as the operation goes through, the blockchain automatically returns most of the amount back to your wallet. The actual fee ends up being just pennies.

For offchain Gifts, the network will request an even smaller amount — often ~0.0012 GRAM.

#glossary

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⭐️ Telegram Stars? Yep! With USDT? Easy-peasy!

Now you can buy Telegram Stars not only with GRAM (ex-TON), but directly with USDT. Very handy for your favorite apps and donations.

Extra perks in Gems: every 50 Stars purchased = 1 Gem.

Grab Telegram Stars and stack up Gems!

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Introducing Predict by the Getgems team

Heard of Polymarket? It just landed on Telegram as a native mini-app — built by yours truly, the Getgems team! Now you can monetize your market analysis, sports or event predictions without leaving Telegram

How it works?
• Connect your TON wallet.
• Top up your balance with USDT on TON.
• Buy and sell your predictions.

What's available right now:
• World Cup matches & results,
• Tennis tournaments,
• UFC fights,
• Crypto market movements,
• Major social events.

Confident in your prediction? It’s time to put it to the test:

Start trading on Predict

Join the Predict channel for the latest markets and project updates.

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Better late than never!

Introducing bundles on Getgems — a new way to buy and sell multiple NFTs as a single lot.

You can put together your own set of NFTs and put it up for sale at a single price. The buyer no longer needs to choose NFTs individually — just buy the ready-made set.

At launch, bundles are only available for offchain Gifts.

To create a bundle:
• choose several gifts in your profile,
• they must not be listed for sale,
• the floor price of the chosen NFTs must be under 10 TON.

Early-stage features:
— Zero fees (for now)
— Purchases through bundles are not counted in collection volumes and profile stats
— Offchain only (for now)

We'll be expanding these features in upcoming updates, and in the meantime, we'll keep an eye on your feedback to keep improving bundles

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June Sticker Digest? Bring it on!

That was last month's NFT sticker recap. Now, onto the biggest news of June, let’s dive in 👇

VeVe — now on TON!

Veve collaborated with Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars, and now they have made their entry into the ecosystem, selling out their first Genesis VeVenaut. Secondary market trading is already in full swing on Getgems, ranking #1 in Top Stickers.

Goodies — memes and the Durov family

They just dropped the official pack for internet icon Joe (yep, that yellow EmotiGuy ) alongside The Egg pack. You'll need The Egg to craft rare Baby Durov Gold or Holo.

@goodies

ZarGates, Sticker Pack and Lambo — are not giving up their positions in the top 5 for stickers, holding activities, while ZarGates is also preparing for the release of the Heroes of Valdir Collection.

@ZarGatesChannel, @sticker_community

Top Sticker Sales:

Gold bone #18 — 1,111 GRAM
Gold bone #15 — 1,070 GRAM
Rainbow Egg #43 — 1,000 GRAM
Gold bone #10 — 1,000 GRAM

Set up filters on the website or in the Mini App to collect your perfect sticker set!

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$TON → $GRAM

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Royalties explained

New gems get tripped up by how the secondary market works — so let’s break down one of the most requested topics: royalties

Royalties — are basically a % fee from every resale on the secondary market that goes straight back to the NFT Collection creator. This allows creators to earn from their art in the long run, not just a one-time profit during the primary sale.

Important: domains and usernames
A frequent question is: "If I mint a domain, do I get royalties when it's resold?"

Nope.

Registering a domain doesn’t make you the “creator” of the asset — you’re simply claiming a name onchain within an existing collection.

Royalties are credited to the creator of the Collection. If an NFT is added to an already existing collection, the reward goes to its creator, not the owner of the NFT itself.

On Getgems, royalties can be set anywhere from 0% to 50% — it’s fully up to the creator.

#glossary

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VeVe debuts on TON!

VeVe is one of the largest digital collectibles projects, widely known for its collaborations with Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars. Soon on TON?

The project has debuted beta version and their first sticker pack in the TON ecosystem — Genesis VeVenaut. Over the weekend, it went live and sold out via the VeVe Telegram Bot.

Secondary market trading is live on Getgems, with the collection already trending in the Top Stickers section.

This is VeVe's first launch on TON. We are excited to see how the project adapts its collectible format to the Telegram audience. So looking forward for the upcoming releases from the legendary brands in their portfolio!

#promo #DYOR #NFA

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🫦 Mint your gifts to the blockchain

Just a reminder: on Getgems it takes just a couple of clicks and now 0.2 TON to turn your Telegram Gift into a real blockchain NFT!

The NFT is stored in your wallet, belongs solely to you and you can do whatever you want with it: store in wallet, display on your Telegram profile, transfer, or trade!

⚙️ How it works

1. Find your gift
The "Mint Gift" button is available on the gift page or when selecting multiple gifts in your profile.

2. Wait for unlock
• If the gift was transferred via @gemsrelayer, it becomes available for minting after 14 days
• If it’s not ready yet, you’ll see a timer

3. Mint to blockchain
Mint one or multiple gifts in a single transaction. Cover 0.2 TON minting fee.

Try it on the website or in the Mini App!

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🪙 Toncoin Name Change — Community Vote

TON has changed substantially in recent months. Telegram is taking on a leading role in the network and is becoming its largest validator. The chain itself is now 10× faster with fees down 6×. Gram was the name the network's founders gave the token in the original TON White Paper, and it's never left the codebase.

That is why Telegram is proposing to rename the native token from Toncoin to Gram, a fitting moment to bring it forward.

The blockchain stays TON / The Open Network, only the token's name and ticker change. Balances, addresses, contracts, NFTs, staking, DeFi, all unchanged. No swap, bridge, claim, or migration. No action required.

⚠️ Any site, bot, or link asking you to "claim GRAM" or "migrate TON" is a scam.

How the vote works
Runs for one week on TON Vote, an established open DAO platform on TON ▪️ Voting power is weighted by TON balances

👉 Vote here

Hong Bao Updates: Treasury SOLD OUT!

All gifts from the treasury have been completely sold out! This means we are moving on to the final stage — distributing remaining profits among Hong Bao holders.

Final status and snapshots

2nd Snapshot: June 1, 12:00 UTC

Those holding Hong Bao at the snapshot time will be included in the TON distribution. Sending of TON will occur within 48 hours.

Sold in the 1st round:

Plush Pepe #1827 — 7 200 TON.
Plush Pepe #225— 7 139 TON.
Mighty Arm #461 — 160 TON.
Scared Cat #9686 — 158 TON.

Distributed during the 1st Snapshot (March 20): 14 546 TON

Sold in the 2nd round:

Precious Peach #112

—

297 TON.

Precious Peach #536

— 234 TON.

Durov's Cap #2611

— 420.5 TON.

Durov's Cap #3700

— 420.5 TON.

Durov's Cap #2063

— 420.5 TON.

To be distributed during the 2nd Snapshot (June 1): 1 792.5 TON

Total raised: 16 338.5 TON!

The treasury is empty, and the TON will soon be sent to their owners! Thank you to everyone who followed the progress and supported the Hong Bao experiment

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A whole month of Lucky Buy!

We recently launched Lucky Buy, and the first statistics are already in. Let’s take a look at the results of the new mechanic and how people are using it

Review of the First Month:

• 20 100+ TON — total user savings. Av. discount on success — 47% of the Gift's price.
• Biggest win: a purchase with a 1% probability, saving 158.86 TON!

• Popular Collections: Chill Flames (2710 sessions), Vice Creams (2453) and Snoop Doggs (680).
• Popular Attributes: Black background — 56 successful outcomes and 2,662 TON in benefits. 2nd and 3rd places — Copper and Moonstone.

• Gems balance: a total of 20 600+ Gems distributed.
• Most popular choice: 10–25% Probability range (~7,500 sessions). In ~6,500 cases, users chose the min. step of 1%.

The feature in short:

Lucky Buy is an alternative way to purchase off-chain NFTs worth 1–200 TON. You choose the probability of receiving the gift (1–75%) and pay the participation fee. Details and rules are in our previous post.

In contrast to mechanics where you must pay based "on blind faith", all Lucky Buy operations on Getgems run onchain: this ensures transparency, meaning the displayed probabilities are a 100% match.

Try Lucky Buy MTONGA

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May Sticker Digest is here!

Here's what we had last month. And now — the most important sticker releases in May, let's go

Goodies & Spring Release Boom

The platform welcomed Jupiter x Polymarket, the Caturnus Genesis space cat (featuring crypto analytics), and the Durovson meme pack. Plus, the nurse and male nurse sticker packs by RIKANI.

@goodies

Sticker Pack: platform launch

Sticker Pack took over the top stickers section in the last 30 days! Sticker Community launched a platform for creating and trading packs. On day one, 127 packs were launched, holder chats opened, and to increase the value of early collections, the authors have already completed the first buyback and burn of tokens.

@sticker_community

Elephant — Sticker Staking
Official staking is live for marketplace collections: holders can now stake their stickers in pools to farm the in-game $OFF token. The reward multiplier is determined directly by item rarity.

@elephantstore_news

ZarGates: the era of AI and PvP Vibe
The team dropped their Scratch Cards collection, teased the PvP Vibe AI platform, and kicked off a dedicated Trophy Road season. A massive AI character contest has also concluded.

@ZarGatesChannel

Top Sticker Sales:

Gold bone #15 — 1070 TON
Teddie Ultimate #8 — 569 TON
Teddie Ultimate #32 — 499 TON
Not Cap #844 — 342 TON

Check out the filters on the website or in the Mini App and update your collection with new arrivals!

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