Telegram gift glossary: every term in plain words

Updated 13 November 2026 · 4 min read

Telegram gifts come with their own vocabulary, from model and backdrop to floor and market cap. This glossary defines each term in a sentence or two, with a link to where you can see it in use. Figures are from Sales Tracker's data as of November 2026.

Gifts and upgrades

• Telegram gift: an animated item bought with Telegram Stars and sent to a user or a channel. It appears on the recipient's profile. What Telegram gifts are.
• Stars: Telegram's in app currency. Gifts are bought with Stars and upgrade fees are paid in Stars.
• Limited gift: a gift Telegram issues in a fixed number. When it sells out, no new ones can be bought.
• Upgrade: paying a fee in Stars to turn a gift into a unique collectible. It is permanent. How upgrading works.
• Upgraded gift, collectible: a gift after its upgrade, with a serial number, a model, a backdrop and a symbol.
• Gift NFT: an upgraded gift moved to the TON blockchain, held in a TON wallet. Telegram gift NFTs.
• Collection: all gifts of one kind, such as Plush Pepe. Sales Tracker counted 125 upgraded collections in November 2026.

Traits and rarity

• Model: the artwork of an upgraded gift. A collection can have well over a hundred; Desk Calendar has 157.
• Backdrop: the coloured background behind the model. Every backdrop.
• Symbol: the small icon repeated across the backdrop.
• Rarity percentage: the share of a collection's upgraded gifts that carry a trait. 1% means about one gift in a hundred.
• Rarity tier: Telegram's grouping of models into Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary.
• Serial number: the gift's place in its collection, shown as #1, #2 and onward. Low numbers and patterns like #1111 sell at a premium.
• Monochrome: a gift whose model colours match its backdrop.
• Black backdrop: Black and Onyx Black, popular enough to carry their own floor on collection pages.
• Crafted model: a model obtained through Telegram's crafting feature rather than an upgrade.
• Burned: a gift used up in crafting. It leaves the collection's supply for good.
• Supply, issued: how many gifts of a collection exist as collectibles. Plush Pepe had 2,825 in November 2026.

Telegram gift rarity explains how these combine into a price.

Prices

• Floor, floor price: the cheapest listing right now, for a collection, a model or a backdrop. What the floor means.
• Model floor: the cheapest listing of one model. The fair comparison for a specific gift.
• Last sale: the most recent completed sale. Current, but one trade.
• Median sale: the middle price of completed sales over a period. The steadiest measure of what something sells for.
• Average sale: total volume divided by the number of sales. Pulled up by a few big trades.
• 24 hour change: on Sales Tracker, the average sale of the last 24 hours against the 24 hours before.
• Volume: the total TON paid in completed sales over a period.
• Market cap: a collection's floor times its supply. All collections together were worth about 129.1M TON on 13 November 2026. Telegram gifts market cap.
• Estimated value: Sales Tracker's estimate for one gift, from sales of its model with adjustments for backdrop, monochrome and number.
• Deal: a listing priced under what similar gifts usually sell for. Deals.

Markets and money

• TON, Toncoin: the coin of The Open Network. Gifts, usernames and numbers are priced in it.
• GRAM: the name the Sales Tracker app uses for TON. GRAM price.
• Marketplace, venue: a place where gifts are listed and sold: Portals, MRKT, Tonnel, Getgems, Fragment, Market App or Telegram's own market. Marketplaces compared.
• Mini App: an app that runs inside Telegram. Most gift marketplaces are Mini Apps, and so is Sales Tracker.
• Listing: a gift put up for sale at a fixed price.
• Offer: a bid a buyer makes on a gift, which the owner can accept.
• Buyer fee: a fee some venues add on top of the listed price. Sales Tracker's sale prices include it.
• Portfolio: everything held by one profile or wallet, valued at today's prices. Portfolio value.

Usernames and numbers

• Collectible username: a Telegram @username held as a token on TON and traded on Fragment. Usernames.
• +888 number: an anonymous phone number that exists only on Telegram, held as a token on TON and traded on Fragment. It signs in without a SIM card. +888 numbers.
• Fragment: Telegram's platform for TON collectibles at fragment.com.
• Auction: a Fragment sale where bids rise until a deadline, as opposed to a fixed price listing.
• First sale, mint: the first time a username is sold. Later sales are resales.

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