NFT on TON and other blockchains: how to create, buy and sell.
How NFTs on TON work, which marketplaces exist, and what to check.
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Telegram is one of the few places where a digital asset does something the moment you own it. A username bought at auction becomes the address of a channel or a bot; an anonymous number signs you in without exposing a real one; a TON DNS domain is paid for once rather than renewed every year. Utility, more than artwork, is what the NFT market on TON has grown around — which is why Ethereum comparisons only go so far.
This section maps where such assets change hands. Fragment is Telegram's own venue for usernames and anonymous numbers. Getgems is the largest marketplace on TON and the usual place to mint a collection. Portals, Tonnel and MRKT serve narrower needs, with different fees and audiences. Two more ideas matter before you spend anything: soulbound tokens, which cannot be transferred, and compressed NFTs, which make large collections cheap to issue.
For a first purchase, the guides here cover the practical part — choosing a wallet, reading a collection page, telling an original from a copy, and what a trade costs. On money we stay careful: prices move sharply, plenty of items lose their buyers entirely, and nothing here is a promise of return. Collectible Telegram Gifts have their own section; this one covers the wider NFT layer on TON.