Key points to remember:
- TON Tech launched Agentic Wallets on April 28, 2026, giving AI agents on Telegram direct access to on-chain spending.
- The open standard allows developers to build trading bots and DeFi agents on TON without vendor lock-in or custody risk.
- TON Tech’s Andrew Grekov Signal Agents will execute payments and interact with on-chain services within Telegram’s billion-user base.
Telegram AI agents get direct TON payments
The new standard, shared with Bitcoin.com News, closes a gap that limits AI agents to advisory roles. Agents can search, recommend, and schedule, but they have no autonomous way to act financially on TON without full access to the key and step-by-step confirmation from the user. Agent wallets fill this space.
Each agent receives a dedicated onchain wallet funded directly by the user. The user maintains ownership through their primary wallet. The agent transacts only within the balance assigned by the user. Access may be revoked at any time. No intermediary holds funds at any time.
The setup process is designed to stay out of the way. A user asks their agent to create a wallet, fund it and confirm the arrangement once. After that, the agent operates within its assigned scope without requiring further intervention for routine actions.
Telegram provides a convenient distribution channel for the standard. Its bot infrastructure and bot-to-bot communication already supports autonomous agent interactions with a user base of over 1 billion. Agent wallets expand what these agents can do in this environment: they can now make payments directly in the Telegram chat interface.
For developers, the standard opens up a set of applications that were previously difficult to build cleanly. Trading robots can run within predefined budgets. Decentralized finance (DeFi) agents can handle staking and portfolio management in isolated wallets. Automating payments for subscriptions and API usage becomes viable without routing funds through a custodian.
The standard integrates with existing TON infrastructure and does not require upgrades to existing TON wallets. TON Tech built it without vendor lock-in, allowing developers to implement and manage agent configurations independently. It comes with MCP and CLI tools and is compatible with leading AI models and agent frameworks.
For individual users, the model allows multiple agents to run simultaneously, each operating in its own isolated wallet with its own spending limit. Recurring payments and budget-constrained automation become tasks that users can assign and walk away from.
Andrew Grekov, director of TON Tech, described this change clearly. “Agents on Telegram can not only communicate, but also transact, making payments and interacting with on-chain services on behalf of users, without ever touching their keys.”
The standard is completely non-custodial and open source. TON Tech built it and maintains it as part of The Open Platform, the company developing the Web3 infrastructure within Telegram.
