Plain definitions of the words you see on gift and username marketplaces.
Collection: all gifts of one design, for example Plush Pepes or Durov's Caps.
Limited gift: a gift with a fixed supply; when it sells out, no more are made.
Upgrade: paying Stars to turn a limited gift into a unique collectible with a number and traits.
How to upgrade.
Model: the shape and look of a collectible gift. The trait that moves the price most.
Backdrop: the background colour of a collectible gift.
Symbol: the small pattern behind the model.
Rarity (‰): how many gifts out of 1,000 in the collection share a trait.
Rarity explained.
Floor price: the cheapest buy-now listing in a collection.
Floor explained.
Model floor: the cheapest buy-now listing of one model.
Listing: a gift or username offered for sale at a price the seller chose. An asking price, not a sale.
Recent sales: completed sales Fragment shows for a collection (it shows up to 60).
NFT gift: an upgraded gift exported to the TON blockchain, tradable on marketplaces.
Fragment: Telegram's official marketplace for usernames, numbers and gifts.
GRAM: the coin of the TON blockchain, called TON until June 2026.
GRAM vs TON.
Stars: Telegram's in-app currency, used to buy and upgrade gifts.
Collectible username: a Telegram @username owned as an NFT and traded on Fragment.
Auction: a sale where the highest bid at the end wins.
Username auctions.
Comparable sales (comps): past sales of similar items, used to estimate a fair price.
Snipe: buying an item listed well below its usual price before others do.
KYC: identity verification that a marketplace may ask for.
TG Gifts Index: our daily index of the whole gift market, built from collection floors.
See the index.