How to convert Telegram Stars to TON (GRAM)

Channel or bot Stars: TON through Fragment

Stars a channel or a bot received — and Stars you got for paid messages — are paid out by Telegram through Fragment, in TON (GRAM), to the wallet you connect on Fragment.

• The minimum withdrawal is 1,000 Stars.
• Each Star becomes withdrawable 21 days after it arrived.

Step by step — withdraw Stars from a channel and withdraw Stars from a bot.

Personal Stars: through selling and USDT

Telegram doesn't convert Stars bought or gifted to a personal account into TON. You can still get GRAM in two steps:

1. Sell the Stars in the Shiba Bank bot — it pays USDT on TON to your wallet.
2. Swap the USDT for GRAM inside your wallet: Keeper (formerly Tonkeeper) and Walt have a built-in swap.

More on selling — how to sell Telegram Stars; on the wallet — Keeper (Tonkeeper).

How much TON for 1,000 Stars

There is no fixed "Star to TON" rate: the amount is the bot's USDT rate for Stars divided by the price of GRAM in dollars. How much USDT 1,000 Stars bring is on the sell page, and the price of GRAM on the GRAM rate page.

Keep a little GRAM for fees

Every transfer on TON — even of USDT — pays a small network fee in GRAM. If your wallet has none, the transfer won't go. In the Shiba Bank bot there is «⛽ Gas»: 0.2 GRAM to your TON wallet for 50 Stars.

Frequently asked questions

Channel, bot and paid-message Stars — yes, through Fragment, paid in TON. Personal Stars — by selling them for USDT and swapping the USDT for GRAM.

Yes: Toncoin (TON) was renamed GRAM; the number of coins and the addresses stayed the same — TON became GRAM.

It depends on the bot's rate and the price of GRAM that day: take the USDT amount from the sell page and divide it by the price of GRAM.

Telegram makes each received Star withdrawable only after 21 days.