
The crypto wallet built into Telegram's settings: buy, hold and send USDT, Bitcoin and Gram (GRAM, called Toncoin until June 2026), with free transfers to other Wallet users and a P2P market. The main Crypto Wallet is custodial and requires identity verification; it is unavailable in the US, the UK, most of the EU and dozens of other countries.
Wallet (@wallet) is the crypto wallet that Telegram shows in its own Settings; it also opens as a bot. It has two parts. Crypto Wallet is custodial: the operator stores the keys, so there is no seed phrase to write down, and the team can help you regain access if you lose it. There you buy, sell and hold USDT, Bitcoin, Gram (the coin of the TON network, called Toncoin until June 2026) and other assets, send them to a Telegram contact from a chat, and buy or sell on a P2P market. The DeFi account is self-custodial: you keep the seed phrase and use it for staking, NFTs and TON apps.
Transfers to other Wallet users are free. A withdrawal to an outside address has a fixed fee, for example 1 USDT on the TON network, 3.5 USDT on TRON or 0.05 GRAM. Buying USDT with a bank card is fee-free up to a limit that depends on your tier, €300 on the base one; the P2P market charges no purchase fee. Wallet also sells tokenized US stocks and ETFs, which follow a share's price without giving you the share, and pays interest on balances in its Earn account.
Crypto Wallet is run by TG Wallet Inc. in Panama and describes itself as independent from Telegram Messenger; the site warns that its jurisdiction requires no licence and gives no statutory consumer protection. Registration includes identity verification. It is not offered in the US, the UK, most EU countries and dozens of other countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, while the DeFi account works almost everywhere. Before keeping money here, turn on Telegram's two-step verification and a Wallet passcode.
Free Free wallet and free transfers between Wallet users; withdrawals have a fixed fee per asset (1 USDT on TON), and card purchases of USDT are fee-free up to a tier limit (€300 on the base tier).
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No. It is built into Telegram's interface, but Crypto Wallet is operated by TG Wallet Inc. in Panama and calls itself an independent service not affiliated with Telegram Messenger. @wallet is its own bot, linked from wallet.tg.
The custodial Crypto Wallet is closed to people located in or resident in more than a hundred jurisdictions, including the US, the UK and most EU countries; the list is on help.wallet.tg. The self-custodial DeFi account is available almost everywhere, and the terms forbid using a VPN to get around the restriction.
Nothing to another Wallet user. To an outside address there is a fixed fee per asset, for example 1 USDT on TON, 3.5 USDT on TRON or 0.05 GRAM.