Telegram for crypto payments / Need suggestions

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I’ve been running a crypto payment gateway for a while now (helps people accept crypto on their websites) and honestly the next logical step seems to be Telegram. What I’m thinking: A bot that lets creators, communities, and small business owners accept crypto payments directly through Telegram. Like, someone’s running a channel, community, or offering services through Telegram – they could just use this bot to get paid in crypto without ever leaving the app. The vision (rough): • Add bot to your channel/community • Customer wants to buy something → bot handles the transaction • Money goes straight to you, 0.5% transaction fee • No merchant fees, no KYC until you hit $5K I’ve already got a working crypto payment gateway with 57 merchants on it, so the infrastructure is there. The Telegram part is where I’m trying to figure out what people actually need. But here’s the thing – I don’t use Telegram bots that much myself, so I’m probably missing something obvious about what would make this actually useful vs. just another bot nobody needs. Questions I have: • What payment functionality do you actually wish existed on Telegram right now? • Are you running a channel/community that accepts payments? What’s your current setup? • Would you use something like this or does it seem unnecessary? • What crypto would you want supported? (I’m thinking BTC, ETH, BNB, Polygon, Tron) • Any features that would make it a no-brainer for you? Honestly just exploring this space right now. Might be a dumb idea, might be exactly what people need. Either way, feedback would help me figure it out faster.   submitted by   /u/AffectionateBreak955 [link]   [comments]