Telegram users can now send each other USDT, the world's largest stablecoin by market cap, within chats in the messaging app.

USDT has been added to Telegram's @wallet bot, expanding the messaging app's facility for buying and selling crypto, according to an emailed announcement shared with CoinDesk on Wednesday.

Integrating crypto payments into messaging apps like Telegram - in theory rendering sending cryptocurrency as easy as sending a text or a photograph - should be an extremely positive development for mainstream adoption.

Last April, bitcoin (BTC) and toncoin (TON) were added to @wallet's marketplace, with the latter also available to send within chats.

Stablecoins like USDT offer many of the benefit as other cryptos do but without the price volatility that often beset the likes of bitcoin and ether. Therefore they are a vital component for users who wish to keep their money in the crypto ecosystem but without risking it being on the receiving end of any sharp swings in value.

The addition of USDT could therefore prove an important development for Telegram's crypto service.

The messaging app's cryptocurrency journey goes back some years to its development of the Open Network (TON) blockchain project. However, this was abandoned in 2020 owing to legal battles with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

TON was however kept alive by members of its community calling themselves The TON Foundation, who have continued to advance the project.

Despite not being directly involved in TON, Telegram maintains an interest in the network, exemplified by building its blockchain-based auction platform Fragment atop it late last year.

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