Most subscribed Telegram channels 2025
Hamster Kombat Announcement (@hamster_kombat) was the most-subscribed channel on the messaging platform Telegram, with around 43 million followers as of February 25, 2025. It is a Telegram-based game connected to the blockchain Hamster Network. Blum, a cryptocurrency trading app, ranked second with over 30 million subscribers.
Selling and buying Telegram usernames
Starting from end-October 2022, Telegram allowed its users to sell and buy usernames using the auction platform Fragment that used the cryptocurrency Toncoin (TON) for payments. As of February 2025, the most expensive username sold was @news. Its price stood at 994 thousand TON, or around 2.4 million U.S. dollars based on an exchange rate of 1 TON = 2.4 U.S. dollars as of December 2022). In total, as of November 30, 2022, Telegram usernames worth 50 million U.S. dollars were sold worldwide, as stated by Telegram’s owner Pavel Durov.
Most popular Telegram channels in Russia
In Russia, where Telegram originated, the most-subscribed Telegram channel is Meta Silense TON. As of February 2025, it had approximately 5.5 million followers. Besides the audience, performance of Telegram channels can be measured by views, reactions, and shares. In terms of average views per post, the leading channel in January 2025 belonged to Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of Russia.
