# 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](https://salestracker.tg/guides/what-are-telegram-gifts).
- **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](https://salestracker.tg/guides/upgrading-telegram-gifts).
- **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](https://salestracker.tg/guides/telegram-gift-nft).
- **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](https://salestracker.tg/backdrops).
- **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](https://salestracker.tg/guides/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](https://salestracker.tg/guides/telegram-gift-floor-price).
- **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](https://salestracker.tg/guides/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](https://salestracker.tg/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](https://salestracker.tg/gram).
- **Marketplace, venue**: a place where gifts are listed and sold: Portals, MRKT, Tonnel, Getgems, Fragment, Market App or Telegram's own market. [Marketplaces compared](https://salestracker.tg/guides/telegram-gift-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](https://salestracker.tg/guides/telegram-gift-portfolio-value).

## Usernames and numbers

- **Collectible username**: a Telegram @username held as a token on TON and traded on Fragment. [Usernames](https://salestracker.tg/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](https://salestracker.tg/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.

[Open Sales Tracker in Telegram](https://t.me/SalesBot?startapp=app)

## Questions

**What does floor mean for Telegram gifts?**

The cheapest listing for sale right now. A collection, each model and each backdrop has its own floor.

**What is a model in Telegram gifts?**

The artwork of an upgraded gift. Each model has a rarity percentage, and rare models sell well above the collection floor.

**What does monochrome mean on a Telegram gift?**

The model's colours match its backdrop. Monochrome gifts often sell at a premium.

**What is GRAM in Sales Tracker?**

The app's name for TON (Toncoin), the coin Telegram gifts are priced in.

## Keep reading

- [Basics**What are Telegram gifts?**Telegram gifts explained: regular gifts bought with Stars, upgraded collectible gifts on TON, where they show on your profile and how people trade them.](https://salestracker.tg/guides/what-are-telegram-gifts)
- [Basics**Telegram gift floor price: what it is and where to check it**What the floor price of a Telegram gift is, how collection, model and backdrop floors differ, why floors move and where to see the live floor on every market.](https://salestracker.tg/guides/telegram-gift-floor-price)
- [Basics**Telegram gift rarity and serial numbers**What makes a Telegram gift rare: low serial numbers, rare models, black backdrops and symbols. How to search by trait and look up any gift by its number.](https://salestracker.tg/guides/telegram-gift-rarity)
- [Basics**Telegram gift NFTs: what they are and how they trade**What a Telegram gift NFT is: upgraded gifts, their traits, moving a gift to the TON blockchain, where gift NFTs trade and how to check what one is worth.](https://salestracker.tg/guides/telegram-gift-nft)

Source: https://salestracker.tg/guides/telegram-gift-glossary
Data: Sales Tracker (salestracker.tg), CC BY 4.0