Wallet in Telegram, a third-party wallet built into the Telegram app, is rolling out perpetual futures support through Lighter, a perpetuals decentralized exchange.
Launching Thursday, perpetual futures are available to Telegram users via the integrated custodial solution Crypto Wallet, the platform said. The integration lets users open long and short positions with up to 50× leverage across more than 50 assets, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Toncoin (TON), as well as tokenized commodities and stocks.
“Perpetual trading has traditionally been intimidating for retail users,” said Andrew Rogozov, CEO of The Open Platform, which develops Telegram-based protocols and apps on The Open Network (TON).
Lighter brings leverage inside chat
The integration pushes leveraged derivatives into one of crypto’s largest consumer distribution channels, extending a trend where perpetual futures move from specialist exchanges into everyday app environments, even as the products remain complex and high risk.
Lighter founder and CEO Vladimir Novakovski said the integration enables near-instant perpetual trading within the app: “By integrating perpetual trading into Wallet, users can move from chat to market in seconds, making taking a position as simple as sending a message.”
Perpetual futures, or perps, are derivative contracts that let traders speculate on price movements without owning the underlying asset.
Retail derivatives push accelerates further
Lighter’s rollout on Telegram comes amid massive growth in the sector, with perps almost tripling volume in 2025. According to CryptoQuant, perps accounted for up to 90% of derivatives volumes on major crypto exchanges in 2025.
Wallet in Telegram’s integration with Lighter is not the first time perps have reached Telegram. In October 2025, Blum, a hybrid crypto exchange designed as a Telegram Mini App, launched a similar feature that initially allowed traders to go long or short on 20 assets with up to 100× leverage.
Wallet in Telegram also rolled out access to tokenized stocks via an xStocks partnership with US crypto exchange Kraken in October 2025.
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