How to buy and sell Telegram gifts

Updated 12 November 2026 · 4 min read

Upgraded Telegram gifts trade on several marketplaces at once, and the same gift is rarely the same price on all of them. Sales Tracker follows Portals, MRKT, Tonnel, Getgems, Fragment, Market App and Telegram's own market. As of November 2026, 1.95M gift sales worth 43.1M TON closed across them in the last 30 days.

What you can trade

Only upgraded gifts trade. A regular gift can be kept or converted into Stars, but it has no resale market. Once upgraded, a gift has a unique number and traits, and its owner can transfer it, list it or move it to the TON blockchain. If your gift is not upgraded yet, start with how upgrading works.

Most marketplaces settle in TON. You need a TON wallet or a balance on the marketplace to buy, and you get paid in TON when you sell. Telegram's own market also accepts Stars.

The marketplaces

Each venue works a little differently. Here is what each one is, in plain terms:

• Portals: a gift marketplace that runs as a Telegram Mini App. You deposit TON, then buy and list without leaving Telegram.
• MRKT: another Mini App marketplace for gifts, with listings and offers inside Telegram.
• Tonnel: a Mini App marketplace for gifts, also used from inside Telegram.
• Market App: a Mini App marketplace for gifts and other Telegram collectibles.
• Getgems: the long running NFT marketplace on TON. It trades gifts that have been moved to the blockchain, and you connect a TON wallet to use it.
• Fragment: Telegram's own platform for collectibles on TON, best known for usernames and anonymous numbers. Gifts exported from Telegram go to the blockchain through it, and gifts trade there too.
• Telegram's market: resale built into the Telegram app. Owners set a price in Stars or TON, and buyers can make offers that are refunded if declined or expired.

Each marketplace page in Sales Tracker shows its volume, sales, live listings, median and largest sale, its rank by volume and its cheapest gifts. For Telegram's market, Sales Tracker shows listings and floors.

See all marketplaces

Why prices differ between markets

Each marketplace has its own sellers, its own buyers and its own fees. A seller on one venue may not have listed on another, so the cheapest Plush Pepe or Durov's Cap can sit on a different venue every hour.

Fees change what you really pay. Some venues add a buyer fee on top of the listed price, and sellers on Telegram's own market get the price minus a commission. Where a venue charges a buyer fee, Sales Tracker's sale prices include it. Check the current fee on the venue itself before you trade, because fees can change.

Liquidity differs too. A busy venue fills a sell order fast, while a quieter one may hold your listing for days. The Marketplaces page shows each venue's share of volume and sales over 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or all time.

How to compare before you buy

Compare marketplaces puts two venues side by side and lists where each gift is cheapest. For every gift it shows the floor on each marketplace, the gap between them and how many gifts are cheaper on each side.

For one gift, open its page and choose By market. It lists the cheapest listing of that gift on every venue, with how much more each one costs than the cheapest. You can narrow it to one model or backdrop.

Each marketplace page also has a Best price list: gifts whose lowest price anywhere is on that venue, with the saving over the next marketplace.

Compare marketplaces

Tips to avoid overpaying

1. Compare by model, not by collection. A collection floor is the cheapest model, so it tells you little about the gift you want. Check the model floor on the gift's page.
2. Look at completed sales. Filter Sales to the gift and model over 7 or 30 days, and use the median rather than the highest or lowest trade.
3. Check every venue. The same model can be cheaper on another marketplace, and the gap can be large on less traded gifts.
4. Count the fees. Add any buyer fee to the listed price before you compare two offers.
5. Confirm the exact gift. Open its t.me/nft link or its page in the Finder and check the number, model, backdrop and symbol match the listing.
6. Trade through the marketplace. Paying someone directly and waiting for a transfer leaves you with no protection if it never comes.
7. Check whether the gift can move. Telegram can block a transfer or export for a while after a gift changes hands, so read the gift's status before you count on reselling it at once.

The Deal Finder helps with the first three steps. It compares live listings on every venue with recent sales of the same model and backdrop, and leaves out listings that already sold or that their marketplace has not shown for 12 hours.

Selling a gift

To sell well, price against what sold, not against the lowest listing:

• Find the model floor and the recent median for your model. If your backdrop is rare or black, check its floor too.
• Look at your gift's estimated value on its page. It accounts for the backdrop, a monochrome match and the number premium.
• List on the venue with the most activity for that gift. The gift's By market view shows how many are listed where.

Once listed, an alert tells you when the floor of your model drops under your price, so you can adjust. To track everything you own, open your portfolio. More on pricing in how to tell what a Telegram gift is worth.

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