{"id":172825,"date":"2023-09-26T02:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/telegram-starts-to-look-like-a-super-app-echoing-wechat"},"modified":"2023-09-26T02:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:25:10","slug":"telegram-starts-to-look-like-a-super-app-echoing-wechat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/telegram-starts-to-look-like-a-super-app-echoing-wechat","title":{"rendered":"Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/telegram-starts-to-look-like-a-super-app-echoing-wechat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Telegram, the popular messenger with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is reminiscent of WeChat\u2019s super app approach. Certain aspects of the ecosystem will be decentralized with help from two heavyweights: Telegram\u2019s crypto partner TON Foundation and WeChat\u2019s owner Tencent.<\/p>\n<p>Telegram has been working on a platform where third-party developers, from games to restaurants, can build mini apps to interact with users. <a href=\"https:\/\/core.telegram.org\/bots\/webapps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Telegram\u2019s own words<\/a>: \u201cDevelopers can use JavaScript to create infinitely flexible interfaces that can be launched right inside Telegram \u2014 and can completely replace any website.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To build out this super app platform, Telegram relies on a network of infrastructure partners both from the established tech world and the crypto space. Among them is The Open Network (TON) Foundation, which lays the blockchain groundwork for Telegram but operates as an independent organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram, the popular messenger with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is reminiscent of WeChat\u2019s super app approach. Certain aspects of the ecosystem will be decentralized with help from two heavyweights: Telegram\u2019s crypto partner TON Foundation and WeChat\u2019s owner Tencent. Telegram has been working on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}