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​More than 50 Telegram usernames have found new owners.

Yesterday evening, the first Telegram username auctions kicked off on the Fragment marketplace, which launched last week.

The top five most expensive usernames were:

@auto — 900,000 TON
@bank — 850,000 TON
@avia — 800,000 TON
@chat — 700,000 TON
@fifa — 600,000 TON

The total amount spent on usernames came to about $9.12 million per Toncoin’s price at the time of writing.

Congratulations to the auction winners.

Once you get your hands on a username on Fragment, you’ll get access to all TON DNS possibilities.

For example, you can assign your new username to a wallet and use that instead of a long wallet address.

To do so, you go to the NFT section in the Tonkeeper crypto wallet, select the username, and tap “Link current wallet address” to assign the domain to your wallet’s address.

You can find a more detailed guide on assigning TON DNS usernames in the “Is it possible without a Chrome extension?” section.

It’s worth noting that at the moment, only tokenized Telegram usernames minted on the TON blockchain have access to TON DNS functionalities — i.e., only those bought on Fragment.

However, Pavel Durov has promised that users would be able to sell their usernames on Fragment to all Telegram users shortly.