Choosing a payee

Who can receive creator fees, and how usernames are matched.

#Who can be paid

Any public Telegram @username:

• A person. They claim from their own Telegram account.
• A public channel. An admin of the channel claims.
• A public group. An admin of the group claims.

The username must be 5–32 characters long, start with a letter, and contain only letters, digits and underscores. This matches Telegram's own rules.

#How names are matched

Usernames are case-insensitive. @Gram_Cat and @gram_cat are the same payee and share one vault. The leading @ is optional.

#The payee doesn't need to know

You can launch a coin for someone who has never heard of TelePump. Fees wait in their vault until they claim them.

#Usernames that change hands

Telegram usernames can be released and taken by someone else. Fees always follow the username, not the account that held it at launch. Whoever owns the handle when claiming receives what's in the vault.