Tonnel
One of the oldest upgraded Telegram Gifts marketplaces. Known for low fees and well-developed floor-price analytics across collections.
Aliases: tonnel network, tonnel network bot, @tonnel_network_bot
Tonnel Network (t.me/tonnel_network_bot) is one of the earliest Telegram Gifts marketplaces — it existed before upgraded gifts became mainstream. It has held a meaningful share of the audience even after newer venues launched, thanks to low fees and solid floor analytics.
What Tonnel is known for
- First mover. Tonnel launched the moment Telegram made upgraded gifts tradable and built the first active trader base around them.
- Low fees. Historically Tonnel charges one of the lowest fee rates of any gift marketplace — a real edge for high-volume traders and cross-venue arbitrage.
- Floor analytics. Floor charts, 24h volumes, change% per collection. Some users open Tonnel specifically for analytics even if they trade elsewhere.
- Telegram-bot UX. The marketplace runs as a fully-featured Telegram bot with inline navigation plus a mini-app for browsing collections.
How to use it
- Open Tonnel (
@tonnel_network_bot). - Connect a TON wallet through TON Connect.
- Browse collections — each card shows floor, 24h volume and active listings.
- To buy, tap Buy and sign a TON transaction; to sell, tap Sell and set a price.
When Tonnel makes most sense
- Arbitrage. If a gift is 50 TON on Portals and 47 TON on Tonnel, the spread often more than covers network and marketplace fees. Large holders watch the gap across three or four venues simultaneously.
- Analytics. Before a sizeable trade it is worth sanity-checking the Tonnel floor chart — a fast price check, even if the actual trade goes through another marketplace.
- Low fee on a big ticket. At trades of tens or hundreds of TON the fee percentage starts to noticeably affect P&L.
Weaker spots
- Thinner liquidity on long-tail collections. Top collections trade close to Portals levels, but less popular ones can have a thin book.
- Less «polished» UI. Tonnel feels more like a first-wave Telegram bot — functional but visually simpler than Portals or MRKT.
- Clone bots. As with every marketplace, fake «Tonnel» bots show up in Telegram. A check against ton.app is mandatory.
Tonnel is most often used alongside Portals and MRKT — as an analytics tool, an arbitrage venue and a low-fee execution layer. It is slightly less newcomer-friendly, but once you get used to it, the lower transaction cost is tangible.