Any Telegram Message Can Become an App; Bots Can Read TON Wallet Balances

According to TechFlow, on November 10, Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on X that any Telegram message can now become an app, under 4 KB in size, instantly loadable, natively rendered and interactive, with built-in payments and viral distribution mechanisms.

According to Telegram's official BotNews channel, this update is Bot API 10.4. Bots and AI agents can send native HTML widgets inside message bubbles, supporting dynamic layouts, interactive elements, and in-place updates; the same interface can also be reused across multiple messages.

For TON Wallet, widgets can integrate with Telegram's native wallet, supporting signing transactions to bots or notifying users of transactions; bots can also read users' wallet cards, including balances and NFT stickers, and identify service messages for wallet transfers.

In addition, button clicks can trigger ephemeral replies visible only to the clicker; Premium users can assign secondary usernames ending in agent, ai, app, game, etc., to up to two bots.

Source: TechFlow