Telegram launches in-app browser and App store! Integrate TON applications and simplify user experience]

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Telegram, a privacy messaging software, announced in an update announcement on July 31 that it will launch an in-app browser and mini-app store to support direct viewing of all decentralized applications based on the TON network, and to switch websites smoothly without losing any progress. and chat rooms, once again simplifying the user's integrated experience of Web3 and Web2.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov stated in an article published on August 1 that the Telegram browser allows users to switch between websites and messages. This feature has built-in functions such as search, bookmarks, and multi-tab pages.

The Telegram team demonstrated how to use the new features in an article, writing in a description of the browser features:

"Telegram's browser supports decentralized websites (TON Sites) hosted on TON - available on all mobile and native desktop applications. This allows our nearly 1 billion monthly users to immediately use Web3."

Telegram also launched the Mini App Store (Mini App Store) in this update, and made many improvements to help promote the mini Apps on its platform, such as adding App tags in the search function, and developer-provided App preview, and share the mini-App content to the user's Story (such as Instagram's limited-time dynamic function).

Many gaming mini-apps on Telegram have become popular this year, such as the Web3 click-to-earn game Catizen, which has earned $16 million in in-app purchases. Another click-to-earn money game, Hamster Kombat, uses the native token Toncoin ($TON) of the blockchain The Open Network (TON). The Hamster Kombat team released a new white paper on Tuesday to introduce its native token in detail. economic model.

This Telegram update also includes other new features, such as the ability for users to send Stars (units of the mini-app payment system) to friends and the use of weather widgets in Stories. $NOT