How to buy telegram username

Let's imagine, that you like one username and want to put it into your account and suddenly find out that it is occupied🥲

Don't go sad, because it could be bought if you see this line under it -> push "Learn more"

When you push it you will be moved to Fragment

Fragment is a TON marketplace, created by Telegram team for selling telegram usernames

and anonimous numbers

It is actively using by community to share rare assets. Prices some of them reachs thousand of TON. The most expensive username was sold for 994'000💎 (2,2 mln$)

When you have pushed "learn more" you will appear on the fragment page of the username you'd like to buy and will see the price in TON

Now, let's watch in details how it does work.

First step is to register Tonkeeper wallet (instruction is here - click)

Then open "Browser" tab in it and choose "Fragment"

Connect your wallet and return back to Fragment

👍 Congratulations, now you are verified player on the fragment field⚡

Lets return to the page of the username you'd like to buy, push "Place a bid and start the auction"

After confirmation inside Tonkeeper app you will see the next picture: now this username is on auction (thanks to you) which will end after 6 days. If somebody will place higher bid (the step in our example is 6💎) you will be allerted and refunded to make bid more higher.

After auction ended you will see it's coming in Tonkeeper history:

Now you can bound it through Fragment to your telegram account. To do it go to "My assets"

...push Assign to Telegram and choose Telegram account you need to assign to it

The go to that Telegram account / channel -> settings-> Public

push inactive username to start showing it in channel description

Voila! It is shown now and could be used for accessing to your account or channel