Portals vs Tonnel vs MRKT vs Fragment vs Getgems: Fees, Coins and KYC for Telegram Gifts

This guide compares seven Telegram gift marketplaces for anyone weighing Portals vs Tonnel vs MRKT or choosing between Fragment and Getgems. Telegram’s own market works inside the app with Stars, while its TON balance is topped up through Fragment. Fragment and Getgems connect to a TON wallet. Portals, Tonnel and MRKT run as mini apps and hold an item while it trades there. TgSuperGifts, the store behind this blog, sells collectibles priced in US dollars and does not buy them from users.

How do the seven platforms compare at a glance?

The main differences are the fee on a sale, the coin you pay with and whether the platform holds your gift while it is listed.

Since 15 June 2026 Toncoin has been called Gram (GRAM) on the same chain, so amounts in TON and GRAM mean the same coin. Telegram lets you resell, transfer or export only upgraded, collectible items; our explainer on what collectible Telegram gifts are covers the basics.

How does Telegram’s built-in market work?

The in-app market sits behind the Send a Gift button on any profile: switch to Collectible to see upgraded items put up for resale. Telegram added it in May 2025; being part of the app, it needs no outside bot and no deposit. The seller keeps the item on their profile until the purchase, when Telegram reassigns it to the buyer.

Checkout offers Stars or TON, unless the seller accepts TON only. The choice matters: something bought with Stars cannot be passed on for 21 days, while a TON purchase has no such hold. Sellers give Telegram a share, by default 20% on Stars sales and 10% on TON sales per its developer docs; the live rate comes from Telegram’s servers, and an August 2026 test by the wallet company Gem Wallet matched it.

For an item nobody is selling, Offer to Buy lets you name a price; Telegram holds the payment for 6 to 72 hours and refunds it in full if the owner says no or time runs out. A Value line on each collectible gives a reference price from the last month of sales on Telegram and Fragment.

What makes Fragment different?

On Fragment, a website, gifts exist as NFTs on TON and change owners for GRAM sent from your connected wallet. On 29 October 2026 its gifts section showed 122 collections and about 1.46 million items. Lots sell at a buy-now price or at auction, with ownership history on each lot page.

Fragment takes 5% of every sale, including a winning auction bid, and blockchain network fees come on top. Its FAQ puts them at about 1 Gram, though TON fees were cut sixfold in spring 2026.

To sell there, you export the gift from Telegram, which requires two-step verification turned on more than 7 days earlier and a login on that device older than 24 hours. Purchases are final, and Fragment holds no keys, so a lost wallet cannot be restored. Its own pages say nothing about ID checks for gifts, though some third-party guides report them. Getgems says Fragment may ask for KYC when an NFT gift moves from your wallet back into Telegram, while displaying it on your profile needs none.

How does Getgems handle Telegram gifts?

Getgems, a TON-based NFT market that runs both at getgems.io and as the @GetgemsNftBot mini app, accepts these collectibles in two forms. An on-chain item never leaves your wallet until a smart contract swaps it for coins at the moment of sale. Getgems keeps no internal balance, so proceeds arrive directly in your wallet.

Off-chain items stay on Telegram’s servers and are tied to your Getgems profile. You link your Telegram account first, then send the upgraded piece to @gemsrelayer; Getgems puts Telegram’s charge for that at 25 Stars and says the first transfer after an upgrade is free. The item can be withdrawn to Telegram for a GRAM fee, and two weeks after the deposit it can be minted into a full NFT for 0.2 GRAM plus gas.

Gift sales have carried a 2% fee since 10 July 2026, after spells at 5% and 0%; older general terms still say 5%. Buyers should keep at least 0.3 GRAM above the price for gas, and most of it comes back. You can pay in GRAM or USDT, though USDT is not available for auctions. A wallet is enough to start; the terms reserve the right to ask for KYC.

How does Portals Market work?

Portals Market is a mini app, opened through the @portals bot or at app.portals.tg, where you deposit a gift and trade it for GRAM. Its bot page showed 365,628 monthly users on 29 October 2026. Top-ups come from a TON wallet or, since 9 October 2026, from Telegram’s built-in wallet. Some items can be paid in rubles through SBP, the Russian fast payment system, which adds a Portals markup and a provider fee; neither is published. A gift bought with rubles is locked for a while; the June 2026 announcement said 7 days.

Sellers pay 2%, a fee that returned on 10 July 2026 after two months at zero, and some collections trade fee-free. Placing an offer costs 0.01 GRAM, taking a gift out costs 0.35 GRAM, and sending one to another Portals user is free.

You deposit by sending the gift from your personal account to @GiftsToPortals; a gift sent from a channel will not be credited. Portals then holds the gift off-chain, in its custody until you withdraw, so trades settle at once without a blockchain transaction. Its tools include binding offers, even on unlisted gifts, collection and trait offers, Quick Sale into the best bid and a cart. The docs mention no KYC, and they warn that fake accounts can rank above the real one in Telegram search.

What does Tonnel Market offer?

Tonnel Market is a mini app inside @Tonnel_Network_bot that offers a 0.5% trading fee and several ways to sell, from Dutch auctions to bulk sales. The post that split it into referral and protocol shares on 27 September 2026 does not say who pays it. Prices and balances are in TON.

You send an upgraded gift to @giftrelayer, paying only Telegram’s transfer cost, and trade it from your in-app inventory. NFT versions are accepted as well. Whatever you buy can remain in Tonnel for resale, return to your own profile or, from July 2026, be sent directly to someone else. Bringing items back to Telegram costs 0.1 TON each for the first five per day and 0.25 TON after that.

A Dutch auction listing cuts its price step by step on a timer and stops at your floor or at the first buyer. Dump prices a batch of up to ten items against the strongest standing bids in one go. With GiftHub you can bid on collectibles that sit on the profiles of users who have ever opened Tonnel. Pre-Market sells gifts still under Telegram’s lock; a 2025 post set the seller’s collateral at 20% of the price, held until delivery. No KYC policy was found; another 2025 post added a biometric check for fund withdrawals above 100 TON.

Is MRKT on Telegram really fee-free?

MRKT has charged no trading commission on gifts since 5 November 2025, after earlier rates of 8% and 5%. It is a mini app at @mrkt, which dropped stickers and in-game items on 10 July 2026 and now centres on gifts and CS2 skins. You buy from an internal GRAM balance, and the web version, out of beta since 10 June 2026, accepts TON, USDT, USDC, BTC, ETH and SOL.

To list, you transfer the gift to @mrktbank, an account MRKT marks with the gift Heart Locket #141, and it then sits in MRKT storage. Taking gifts back to Telegram carries a fee, which holders of some collections can cut by half or to zero. A May 2026 post named 0.17 TON for withdrawals without saying whether that covers gifts or the balance.

You can also sell items as a bundle, place buy orders and stake collectibles for GRAM rewards. Pre-Market was switched off temporarily on 22 October 2026. The terms on mrkt.land, written around MRKT’s game skins market, allow KYC and AML checks at any stage, but they do not say whether they cover the gift mini app.

Where does TgSuperGifts fit?

TgSuperGifts is our web store, with a shop bot at @tgsupergifts_bot; it sells collectible gifts priced in US dollars and never buys them from users. Each price is converted into dollars at the current TON rate and includes our service fee. You pay in Stars or in crypto through Heleket, such as USDT, TON or BTC; network and exchange fees come on top.

The item stays on sale until your payment clears. Then we take it off the catalog, buy it from the current owner, and our delivery account @tgsupergifts (an ordinary Telegram account, not a bot) sends it to your username with a short note, normally within minutes. Checkout asks only for a username and an email; Heleket may hold a crypto payment under its AML/KYC checks. If we cannot buy the item, @tgsupergift_support_bot handles the refund, as our page on how our orders and refunds work explains.

Which marketplace should you choose?

Pick by what you hold: Stars point to Telegram’s market, a TON wallet to Fragment or Getgems, and frequent trading to Portals, Tonnel or MRKT.

You have Stars and prefer not to leave Telegram

Telegram’s own market fits best. Stars cover the purchase, the collectible appears on your profile, and Telegram guards offers on both sides. Just remember the three-week hold on anything bought with Stars.

You want the NFT under your own keys

Choose between Fragment and the on-chain side of Getgems, since neither takes the item out of your wallet. The Getgems cut is 2% and it lists for USDT as well, while Fragment charges 5% and its sales count toward the Value line inside Telegram.

Portals vs Tonnel vs MRKT for frequent trading

On fees, MRKT is at zero, Tonnel at 0.5% and Portals at 2%; in all three the platform keeps the item for as long as you leave it there. Pick Portals for its range of offer types (binding, collection-wide, by trait), Tonnel for Dutch auctions and selling in batches, MRKT if you want to fund a balance with coins other than GRAM.

Looking for a Fragment alternative without a TON wallet

If your crypto sits in USDT or BTC, two routes skip the TON wallet. MRKT’s web version takes USDT, BTC and other coins, and the gift stays with MRKT until you withdraw it for a fee. TgSuperGifts sells at a dollar price with the fee included and delivers to your username; our guide to buying Telegram gifts with crypto covers that route. Portals takes rubles via SBP on some items, and Telegram’s market needs no wallet if you have Stars.

You want to sell

Start from the published cut: nothing on MRKT, 0.5% per trade on Tonnel (its post does not say which side pays), 2% on Portals and Getgems, 5% on Fragment and a default of 10% (TON) or 20% (Stars) on Telegram. Our article on how to sell Telegram gifts has the steps for each route.

What should you check before moving a gift?

Check the recipient, any hold date, the price and the current fee before an item leaves your profile.

• Recipient handle. Copy the deposit account from the platform’s official docs or channel (@GiftsToPortals, @giftrelayer, @mrktbank, @gemsrelayer). Something sent inside Telegram to a lookalike account is gone for good.
• Hold dates. An item cannot move before a resale or transfer date set by Telegram, except through a pre-market listing such as Tonnel’s, which sells it in advance against collateral.
• Price. Compare the listing with the Value line, our table of prices for every collection and the lots in our 122 gift collections.
• Today’s fee. Portals, Getgems, Tonnel and MRKT have each changed their rates since 2025.
• Codes. Portals and Getgems say support never asks for a seed phrase; treat such a request as a scam.

Frequently asked questions

Which platforms hold my gift while it is listed?

Portals, Tonnel and MRKT hold it from deposit until you withdraw it, and so does Getgems for off-chain items sent to @gemsrelayer. Fragment and on-chain Getgems leave the NFT in your wallet until it sells, and Telegram’s market leaves it on your profile. Our store takes no gifts from users.

Which platforms accept USDT?

Three of the seven: Getgems for listings outside auctions, MRKT through its web version, which also takes BTC, ETH and others, and our store via Heleket. Elsewhere prices are set in Stars, GRAM or TON.

Does Telegram charge a fee on Portals, Tonnel or MRKT trades?

The commission in Telegram’s documentation covers sales on Telegram’s own market. Portals’ docs mention no Telegram share on its internal trades. What you may pay Telegram is the transfer fee when an item goes in; Getgems quotes 25 Stars.

Do any of these platforms require KYC?

Getgems’ terms reserve KYC/AML checks, MRKT asks for a passport photo and a selfie before reviewing a ban appeal, and Heleket may hold a crypto payment to our store under its AML rules. Telegram’s and Portals’ docs set no ID requirement, Tonnel has no published policy, and Fragment’s pages are silent, though some guides report checks.

How we checked: facts were checked on each platform’s official pages, help centres and channels on 29 October 2026. Fees change often, so check the current rate before trading.