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Communities for Stickers Access is now fully integrated with Sticker Pad. Launched a pack? Create a holder chat in one tap. Already running: – Ayanami Rei (194 members) – Not Wise :: Classics (110 members) – Baron ICE GANG (495 members) That's where the community lives. Go build yours. Guide: how to create holder chat 🌐

Access: Recap A lot has changed since the last snapshot. More and more strong communities are choosing the tool to shape their groups. Current stats: – 2K active chats (+233%) – 49K members connected (+96%) Among the largest by asset value: Dogs Premium Holders, Pixel Strategy Whales, Snoop X BAYC Club, Groypers and $BUILD Diamond Hands. Meanwhile, the technical side keeps evolving to make ownership verification stable and the flow seamless for both admins and members. @builders

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$BUILD is still in its early stage, where we are setting up contests for builders and shipping the first tools to the public. The idea is to build an economy from real usage of valuable tools, similar to $HYPE and others (very few tho) that managed to create sustainable tokenomics. At this stage, $BUILD have around 19k holders that got tokens via @earn, developer contests and the open market. Once we prove the revenue -> buyback model works, we are going to shape the tokenomics which would actually work long term. Doing it too early might ruin the whole thing so we are not rushing with it. For now, the best indicator of our progress is the consistency of launching contests, developing and shipping tools, and growing the user base, despite of the “bear market” and an overall silence across other projects in crypto, TON and Telegram

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Collab A Telegram-native marketplace for buying and selling ads. 🔍 Discover channels or receive ad requests 💰 Secure payments with escrow 🎨 Approve and manage creatives 📊 Access verified Telegram stats 🤖 Automate posting and verification Tool revenue supports the $BUILD ecosystem. While the app is in development, the waitlist for channel owners is open Add your channel, invite referrals and get early access with priority promotion and additional benefits. @builders

Ads Marketplace Contest — Results & Insights 50+ submissions received. We reviewed every entry: manual code review, product testing, and AI-assisted codebase analysis. The spread was wide — from empty repos to solid MVPs. Common issues we found: 1. Channel Stats In our view, the best approach for channel analytics is MTProto’s method stats.getBroadcastStats — it gives you subscribers, avg views, Premium ratio, language breakdown, growth charts, all from one call. That said, we were open to other original solutions that could reliably deliver the same data — as long as the implementation was your own, not a call to an external analytics API. In practice, most submissions claimed «verified channel stats» but only called getChatMemberCount via Bot API — which gives you subscriber count and nothing else. 2. Payments and Escrow The most common area of weakness. Most projects did integrate with TON in some form, but the implementation quality varied a lot. Some of the recurring issues: – All deals sharing one wallet with no fund isolation — one security breach and everything is compromised – Fund release and refund operations that aren’t safe to retry — if the service crashes mid-process, funds can be sent twice or never sent – No locks or atomicity in background workers handling payments — race conditions leading to duplicate transactions – Transaction verification that doesn’t actually check the blockchain In general, any operation involving money needs to be designed for the worst case: crashes, retries, concurrent calls. This applies also to ad posting, not just escrow. Some of these are understandable in an MVP context, but they still influenced how we evaluated the submissions. 3. Broken demos Some demos weren’t functional, and self-deploy instructions were missing or incomplete. In those cases, hands-on product testing wasn’t conducted. 4. Overengineered Flows Surprisingly common. Many projects added unnecessary complexity on top of the core deal flow – extra entities, extra verification steps, approval stages, duplicated logic. In some cases, both sides had to create separate entities before a deal could even start. Simpler would have been better. 5. AI-Generated Code Without Review Nothing wrong with using AI as a development tool — most strong submissions did. The issue is when AI generates 90–100% of the code and no one reviews the result. Several projects had that pattern: boilerplate architecture, identical comments, extremely long and overcomplicated functions, code that doesn’t actually work when you run it. AI can speed things up significantly, but it shouldn’t fully replace the work of developer. Thank you to everyone who participated — we appreciate the time and effort. Even if you didn't win this time, we noticed your work. Strong contributors stay on our radar for future opportunities, whether that's future contests or contributing to our open-source tools. More news on the Ads Marketplace tool coming next week. @builders 🌐

Contest Update & More A quick update on the Ad Marketplace Contest. The deadline is extended to February 16. Also, a few related updates worth checking if you are working on a submission. Clarifications Important notes on MVP scope, what prod-ready means, judging approach, and how the grant stage will work. Read the clarifications UI Kit The UI Kit used in Access and other tools is now open source. Free to use in your contest builds and other projects. Explore the UI Kit @builders

Ad Marketplace Contest 🏆 Reward: $15,000+ $BUILD grant to make the product prod-ready 🗓 Deadline: February 16 Build an MVP Telegram Mini App for an ads marketplace that connects channel owners and advertisers, using an escrow-style deal flow. Requirements — Marketplace connecting advertisers and channel owners — Two-sided flow: channel listings and advertiser requests — Verified channel data from Telegram — Escrow deals with automated posting Tech Build with any tech stack, focus on backend, keep the code clean and ready for open source. Full specs and details in the Contest App. Ask questions in @tools_community Participate @builders

Giveaway Tool A flexible Telegram tool for running giveaways. Built to reward your community, boost engagement, and grow your audience. ⚡️Create and manage giveaways 🎁 Choose any prize type, from physical to digital rewards 👥 Let users join by completing simple tasks or meeting conditions 📊 Track participation and performance in real time The tool is in MVP stage. It does not store user assets, and prize distribution stays fully on the organizer side. Github | Tools.tg @builders

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