## Introduction

Amongst all those with the thriving user bases, Telegram is supposed to stand out as a service-contributor focused on stickers monetization. Thanks to the expansion of NFT stickers and Point Of Sale (POS) in TON and USDT, Telegram intends to provide creators with new channels for gaining money.  

## Telegram's Venture into NFT Stickers

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As cited in the article by 3DNews, Telegram is getting ready to release NFT stickers, so creators will be able to share their artworks and make them even more valuable and profitable for content makers. NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) are one kind of special digital properties which are traded and sold on the blockchain based platforms. The NFTs will not only allow the stakeholders to enjoy the ownership of the stickers but also enable them to obtain a different level of value to these digital arts.

## Earnings for Sticker Creators

Under the agreement of the system, sticker creators will be able receive the most attractive 95% from the profit of their NFT stickers. This action likewise illustrates Telegram's pledge to the community of creatives to backup and appreciate them. In this way, Telegram makes this a very lucrative offer some of the most creative person among us and choosing to put out very good quality becomes very easy.

## The Role of TON and USDT

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Along with introducing TON and USDT as the main currencies for the sticker payments, this platform will also provide the opportunity for the online users to make the payments via cryptocurrencies. TON, developed by Telegram, is a blockchain platform; on the other hand, Tether (USDT) is the most prevailing stablecoin stabilized by U.S. dollar. Another benefit that S-Coin brings along is that it will serve as a mediator to enable the smooth and secure payment experience while customers are buying NFT stickers.

## Relevance to the Ukrainian Market

Now, Ukrainian artists will be able to promote their skills and sell their stickers through the NFT platform on Telegram. These efforts not only promote creativity within the country but also provide the Ukrainian artists with the opportunities to reach a global audience and earn money from their artistic endeavors.

## Implications for the Sticker Market

NFT stickers will have both TON and USDT payment methods to support the overall growth of the sticker market. Stickers nowadays are a permanent component in digital conversation, which allows people to share their feelings, jokes, or creativity in texts. The possibility of making money will push sticker creators to come up with more creative and better-looking designs that ultimately enrich the stickers market with a variety of stickers.

## Conclusion

Telegram’s move for NFT stickers and real time payments in TON and USDT demonstrate new powers of the messaging platform. Through empowering sticker makers with an income earning opportunity and in doing so giving to Telegram users unique and worthwhile digital assets, Telegram alters the way in which stickers are perceived and used. This forward-looking approach matches the principle that Telegram espouses on its support for the creative community and stimulating innovation within the messaging space.
As fans can hardly wait for the NFTs stickers, the future perspective is immense and promising for creators worldwide.

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# The Blockchain Crystal Ball: Inside Polymarket’s Quest to Monetize the Future

Have you ever wanted to bet on whether life will be discovered on Mars by 2027? Or perhaps whether a high-profile tech CEO will make his next big decision during a "meditative retreat"? Welcome to Polymarket – the world’s largest decentralized prediction platform, where the future has a price tag and every global event has its own odds.

Polymarket is more than just another crypto casino. It’s a hybrid of a social network, a stock exchange, and a bookmaker, where instead of trading shares in companies, people trade the probability of real-world outcomes.

### "Wisdom of the Crowd" or Collective Gambling?

The core philosophy behind the platform is the idea of "collective intelligence." Polymarket’s founder, Shane Coplan, argues that betting markets are far more accurate than traditional opinion polls. The logic? In a survey, people say what they think they should say; on Polymarket, they put real money (in the form of cryptocurrency) on what they actually believe will happen.

Every "Yes" or "No" bet shapes a probability curve. Today, journalists, analysts, and even politicians watch these charts like a weather forecast:

* Elections: Polymarket frequently predicts political outcomes more accurately than major polling firms.
* Pop Culture: From Oscar winners to the exact date of the next Taylor Swift album drop.
* Science & Tech:  Will AI become "alive" (sentient) and start thinking for itself this year? The market is already taking bets.

### The Ethical Fault Line: Betting on Human Suffering

However, where there is absolute market freedom, a darker side inevitably emerges. Because the platform is decentralized and largely driven by user demand, markets often crop up that make observers feel more than a little uneasy.

The most controversial section involves "tragedy betting." There are active markets on war zones, including Ukraine, where users bet on whether a specific city will fall by a certain date or when the next missile strike might occur. For a user in California, it might just be a red or green line on a screen representing a profit margin. For someone on the ground, it’s a matter of life and death.

With over $100 million already wagered on conflict-related outcomes, it raises a haunting question: Is it ethical to profit from catastrophe? When a financial gain is directly tied to the destruction of a city or a natural disaster, the line between "futurism" and "disaster voyeurism" becomes razor-thin.

### Manipulation and the "IPSO" Machine

Despite its image as a "source of truth," Polymarket isn't immune to the games of the ultra-wealthy. Research from Columbia University recently suggested that up to 25% of all wash-trading (fake bets) might be occurring on the platform to manipulate market prices.

This makes it a potent tool for shaping public perception. By injecting a few million dollars into a specific outcome, a single actor can artificially spike the probability of an event. Tomorrow, major news outlets like the BBC or CNN might report on it, citing the "market’s prediction", and suddenly, the narrative has been shifted. In this game, the house (and the whales) almost always win.

### What’s Next? The Evolution of Information

Polymarket has already partnered with Google, meaning betting odds for future events may soon appear in search results alongside the weather or stock prices. We are moving from "Googling" facts to "checking the odds."

Should we trust it? As a tool for analyzing human sentiment, Polymarket is undeniably powerful. But it’s vital to remember that behind every percentage point on the screen is a real-world event. While someone wins tokens on a war prediction, others are living through the reality. In the world of high-stakes predictions, we must ask ourselves: just because we can bet on everything, does it mean we should?

From election results to war zones: Polymarket turns the future into a stock exchange. Explore the ethics of tragedy betting, the risk of market manipulation, and why Google is integrating betting odds into search.

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# Identity Inflation: Why the Tech Market Never Wants You to Feel "Finished"

Have you ever wondered why, despite every AI tool you adopt and every productivity "hack" you master, that feeling of "I’ve made it" never actually arrives?

There is a calculated reason for that: The market thrives on you feeling like a "Beta Version" of yourself. We are living in an era of Identity Inflation, where our "Self" has become a product with an expiration date, just like an old iPhone.

### From Stable Foundations to "Liquid Modernity"

A few decades ago, professional identity was relatively solid. You became an architect, a doctor, or a craftsman, and that was your foundation. You were "okay" simply because of your presence and your mastery.

Today, we have entered what sociologist Zygmunt Bauman called "Liquid Modernity." In this state, nothing holds its shape. Jobs, technologies, and social structures are in constant flux. Because the world is "liquid," the market insists that your identity must be fluid, too.

* The Logic: You buy a product once. You buy a transformation forever.
* The Result: You are treated like an iPhone 10 in a world that just announced the iPhone 17. You are still functional, but the market whispers: "You are obsolete. You need an update."

### The "Burnout Society" of Endless Upgrading

Under the guise of "self-growth," we are being fed the idea that our current self is insufficient. Philosophers like Byung-Chul Han describe this as the "Burnout Society." We are no longer "subjects" who follow rules; we have become "projects" that must be endlessly optimized. We are self-exploiting in the name of a "better version" that never actually arrives. We are told we are only "okay" if we level up Skill A, if we automate with AI Tool B, or if we rewire our brain with Framework C.

There is no finish line. It’s a hamster wheel where every "better version of you" only highlights the flaws of the version you are today.

### Surveillance Capitalism and the Unstable "Self"

This isn't just happening by accident. In her landmark research on "Surveillance Capitalism," Shoshana Zuboff explains that the tech giants aren't just harvesting your data – they are seeking to modify your behavior.

The market loves an unstable "Self." A person with a stable identity is a terrible consumer; they know who they are and when they have enough. But a person with a "Floating Identity" is the perfect target. They are:

1. Easily triggered by FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out).
2. Highly suggestible, because they lack an internal anchor.
3. Ready to buy "Transformation" over and over, hoping to finally reach the "final version" that doesn't exist.

### How to Not Become a Product

The biggest act of rebellion in 2025 is to reclaim your right to be "Finished." To realize that you are not software that needs an update every two weeks just to function.

Most of what is sold to us under the "sauce" of transformation is just a way to monetize our insecurity. When you hear phrases like "a new era of productivity" or "total AI business transformation," take a moment to ask yourself: Does this truly address a real problem, or is it merely another way of suggesting that who I am right now isn’t sufficient?

Being stable in a world that demands the constant destruction of your "Self" for the sake of new sales – that is the ultimate victory.

Are you a person or a project? Discover why the tech market treats your identity like a smartphone with an expiration date and how to reclaim your right to be "finished" in a world of constant updates.

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The war in Ukraine has changed many things. Somewhere it highlighted the main things, somewhere it shifted the focus to those things that are usually forgotten in daily routine. The war always touches our fears and doubts, and for the artists it turns them into images and stories. And yet, the street artists Feldman sisters managed to keep their pictures as vivid and cartoonish as they used to be before the war. But now the topics of the future, which the sisters embody in their work, are associated with protective charms: motankas (Ukrainian traditional dolls), Cossacks, and flowers (a symbol of rebirth). ***The sisters say that they hope for the best, and this hope at least heals if not saves them.*** And their native city Kyiv gives strength to survive everything without losing optimism. After all, the defeated is the one who gave up. And Ukrainians do not give up.

**Nicole and Michelle are well known in their homeland and beyond as street artists. Their works are on the walls in Brussels, Barcelona, Berlin, Athens, Sri Lanka etc.** But most are in their native Ukraine. However, recently more and more projects have been created for merchandise (clothing, books, tarot cards) and in collaboration with various foundations and brands. All in order to raise as much money as possible as donations and make their contribution to the future victory. 

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Their reflections on life are free of any system boundaries, because Sestry Feldman are basically children who grew up outside the system: educated at home and learned only what they wanted. That is why their thoughts are sometimes wise in the dad's way (the father who is an inventor gave them the most important pieces of life advice), magical in the mom's way (their names come from her dream) and sometimes not childishly naive, but crystal straightforward. There are two of them, as identical as two peas in a pod. They are both 27 years old. They assure that they rarely argue, and form their own rules of life together .

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`Within a day you should find time to learn, to create, and to love.`This is Dad's main and most beloved advice, which for our family is a daily principle.

**`On our website, we wrote that our creativity was born when we were.`** That's a joke, of course… or is it? We've both been painting and inventing things since we were kids. For example, we created sketches of a game in PowerPoint and already imagined how it would be sold in the computer store next door. We were not motivated by money or popularity, we were still kids. There was a huge desire to create something complete. Maybe we could have done something really original if our little brother hadn't deleted everything when we got into one of our childhood fights over nothing.

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`We have an obligatory tradition in our family to meet on every birthday. Even war could not change it.`We have a very big and close-knit family, five children altogether. We have a little brother and a little sister, a big brother and a half-sister. So it wasn't boring when we were growing up, although none of us tried to be a leader. There was a complete decentralization of power in the house.

`Mom and Dad weren't classic teachers, but they were our life teachers.`We attended music school, swimming, we always chose for ourselves, what we wanted to do. We went to school from the 6th to 9th grade. Our parents didn't want to send us to school themselves, but they didn't mind when we wanted to go there as well as when we decided not to go on. It seemed to us that we weren't learning anything there. What is learning, after all? It is a sincere desire to discover, to explore, and to create by having new experiences. That's what our parents taught us.

**`Recently we have painted one of the schools in Kyiv. Children should see bright colors and beauty.`** Especially nowadays. In the post-Soviet space, schools often look like gray prisons, what kind of childhood is that? So we want to continue this project.

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`If you dive into art at the right moment — it will heal, if not save.` When war broke out, we panicked, just like everyone else. I remember the second day of it. Our whole family was in Kyiv, we didn't want to do anything. Then we started watching "Scary Movie". A great comedy, it turns out. We hadn’t laughed so loudly and sincerely our entire life, perhaps. So we were sitting together and laughing out loud. Someone would say — it's already mental, but we were saved at that moment.

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**`No matter how it sounds, the war is beneficial for Ukrainian culture.`** And the upbringing of morality. We started to think more about our history, roots and heroes. And look at how much other people around the world are learning about Ukraine and our culture. How much they listen with interest, how much attention and positive attitude they have. *You know, childbirth is not always pleasant, but there is no life without it.* Alexander Filonenko (contemporary Ukrainian theologian and philosopher — remark by the author) once said this. Great words.

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`Our culture is richer than Shevchenko's poems.` Although Shevchenko's poems are cool and it is certainly a big part of Ukrainian culture. Finally, we have learned about it ourselves. Since the Ukrainian topic has been actualized and expanded, art people began to dig deeper and wider into the past, outside the usual frameworks and without stereotypical thinking.

`In Ukraine we are home everywhere.` The idea came up to us to visit different cities of the country and to present something protective and magical. So we started to make pictures of the motankas (protective charm in a form of a doll— by author) on the walls in different cities. We come and do it, without any invitation or reason. Everywhere we feel a connection with people, just some kind of cosmic, maybe the reason for it is a common shared experience.

**Need to look for positive vibes around, life is too negative itself.**

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**`Our choice of colors and style have not changed, they have even become brighter.`** It is our visual representation of the world. We have not changed inside either. Just got more emotions.

`We do not pity any of the works created on the city walls that have been painted over. Well, do not pity yet.` The whole point of painting on the street is not to ask permission or regret that the painting cycle is over. There's a challenge in that. And now people often help instead of interfering. For example, the patrol police helped us to paint the Cossacks on the walls. And it was the strangest experience of all time. Why did we choose such an image? Well, it wasn’t conscious. But we do not think that they will be painted over by the people of public service. They will live on.

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Most of the works are in Ukraine, of course, most of them are in Kyiv — it is love at first sight and forever. We’ve seen no better city in the world.

**The streets of the city belong to everyone and no one.**

`In our work, we talk about what we care about.` We used to be interested in artificial intelligence and its impact on humanity. We tried to understand the subject of NFT. We realized that it demands being immersed completely, nothing happens by itself.  This is a complex IT-product, the success of which depends more on marketing skills than on ideas.

`Digital and real walls are two totally opposite stories.` Outdoor work is for everyone and has its own cycle, sooner or later it will get painted over. And we are absolutely fine with that. This means that the cycle of our work will come to an end. Wall art has a short life, but is always relevant. The work online belongs to someone, maybe that makes it even more temporary. Art must be seen.

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`If we have to learn something, it has to be something new.`The more diverse the knowledge, the broader the worldview. You can hear music, and through music you can see vivid visual images. It turns out that other kinds of art influence the context in which you are now. That's why we never wanted to get an art education, we'd rather do something related, like animation.

**`Thoughts are material if you really believe in them.`** This may sound absurd to some people. But we believe we can program our thoughts for a better future. Through a deck of our tarot cards it is possible to get a deep psychological experience. We created them after the war started. They contain all the archetypes of people and events in 78 images. It seems to us that this is not only a good form for creativity, but also a psychological practice for a person.

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**It's fun to sit and dream together. Writing those dreams down and then watching them turn into goals.**

**`We believe in people and their noble intentions.`** Right now, most people are volunteering and collecting donations. We are no exception. Very often people from foundations and various brands write and ask us to paint some specific things. We don't hesitate to give them away. We do not follow their fate, we trust our fellow countrymen.

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`The idea of a big trick, you know, like in the movie "The Prestige", inspires us.` People turn life into perspective, and no one knows the flip side. That's the kind of amazing trick Banksy is showing the world right now. His life is a road in art. We don't know how it can go on for so long, but the trick has succeeded. Still, it's a good thing that our lives are just lives, not prestige. Everything is straightforward, simple and in vivid colors. In that respect, despite all the events, our lives have not changed.

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