- New Telegram Verification Program Allows Third-Party Consortiums to Independently Verify Business Accounts
- The measure aims to “prevent[ing] scams” and “reduce[ing] disinformation”
- Additional changes to the platform for January 2025 include gift-to-NFT conversions and a filter in the search bar.
Popular messaging platform Telegram has introduced a “decentralized” verification system, allowing large, already verified organizations to verify entities in their sector.
In a blog post, the company noted that while accounts verified under the original system will retain their standard blue verification mark, those that have gained third-party verification will have a unique logo reflecting their respective industries (a fast food chain receives a carrot, for example). example) along with a note about which organization verified the account and why.
The move, which Telegram says sets a “new security standard,” appears, on paper, to be a more secure way to outsource verification than, for example, X Premium, whose introduction to the platform formerly known as Twitter notably eliminated ticks. centralized verification. in favor of being able to pay one directly.
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The flip side of decentralization is that it is the core concept of electricity-intensive, climate-warming technologies such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which gifts received on Telegram can now be converted into: Avoid fraud on its platform by introducing a means with which, in theory, money could be laundered.
“Collectible gifts have special attributes and can be transferred to other users or auctioned on NFT marketplaces,” the blog post says. “Collectibles also receive a random set of secondary traits. […] “Every collectible gift is a unique work of art, and some will be rarer than others.” Anyway, it’s not interesting.
Elsewhere, you can now react to service messages and the search bar lets you filter between chats, channels, media and more; which, to be fair, is helpful.
Through TechCrunch
