Telegram gift NFTs: what they are and how they trade

Updated 13 November 2026 · 3 min read

A Telegram gift NFT is an upgraded Telegram gift: a unique collectible with a serial number, a model, a backdrop and a symbol, which its owner can move to the TON blockchain and trade like any other NFT. As of November 2026, Sales Tracker indexes 12.07M upgraded gifts across 125 collections, and has recorded 15.1M sales worth 249.5M TON since January 2025.

From gift to NFT

Every Telegram gift starts as a plain item bought with Telegram Stars. A plain gift is not an NFT: it has no number and no traits, and it can only be kept or converted back to Stars for a limited time.

Upgrading changes that. For a fee in Stars, Telegram turns an upgradable gift into a collectible with a serial number and three random traits. From then on it is one of a kind. The upgrade guide covers the steps and what each trait means.

An upgraded gift lives on Telegram first. It shows on the owner's profile, can be worn as an emoji status, sent to someone else or put up for resale inside Telegram. Since January 2025 the owner can also move it to the TON blockchain, where it becomes an NFT in a TON wallet. Telegram asks for the account's two step verification password before the export.

What makes each gift NFT unique

• Collection: the kind of gift, such as Plush Pepe, Durov's Cap or Snoop Dogg. There were 125 upgraded collections in November 2026.
• Model: the artwork. A collection can have up to 157 models; there are 7,940 in all.
• Backdrop: the background colour.
• Symbol: the small pattern across the backdrop.
• Serial number: its place in the collection, such as #1 or #1337.

Each trait has a rarity percentage, the share of the collection that carries it. Lower is rarer, and the odds of a full combination multiply. A gift's public page at t.me/nft/GiftName-Number shows all of it, and so does its page on Sales Tracker. Telegram gift rarity explains how much each trait adds to the price.

Where gift NFTs trade

Gift NFTs trade on several venues, and most of the volume never touches a wallet directly: the Mini App marketplaces keep a TON balance for you.

• Portals, MRKT, Tonnel and Market App: Telegram Mini Apps that settle in TON.
• Getgems: the NFT marketplace on TON, for gifts moved to the blockchain, used with a TON wallet.
• Fragment: Telegram's platform for TON collectibles, which also sells usernames and +888 numbers.
• Telegram's own resale market, inside the app.

In the 30 days to 13 November 2026, gifts sold for 39.9M TON across these venues. MRKT and Portals carried about 78% of the volume. Telegram gift marketplaces compared sets them side by side.

See every marketplace

What a gift NFT is worth

Prices span a huge range. On 13 November 2026 the cheapest gifts of the busiest collections listed for about 4 TON, the Plush Pepe floor was about 6,749 TON, and the largest single sale on record was Plush Pepe #2 with the Hothead model, at 158,814 TON in January 2026.

For one gift, three numbers matter: the floor of its model, the recent median sale of that model, and any premium for its backdrop and number. The gift's page on Sales Tracker shows all three with an estimate. To value every gift on a profile at once, open the portfolio in the Mini App, or look up any public @username.

Floors on 13 November 2026. Every collection's live floor is on Telegram gift prices.

All Telegram gift prices

Gift NFTs and other Telegram collectibles

Telegram has two other kinds of collectible on TON: collectible @usernames and anonymous +888 phone numbers, both sold on Fragment. They work like gift NFTs in that a token on TON proves ownership, but they have no models or backdrops. The guide to usernames and numbers covers them.

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