Cheques is the promotional and community channel for @tgmoments_bot, a bot that mints Telegram messages and posts as NFTs on the TON blockchain under the name "Telegram Moments." Forward a message to the bot and it gets minted as what the channel calls "the best digital footprint in history, in a single copy" — assuming the bot doesn't glitch, which the team jokes about openly. For channel owners specifically, there's an auto-mint subscription: posts get minted automatically ten minutes after publishing, with the delay built in so you can fix a typo or change your mind before it becomes permanent, and the subscription fee covers the blockchain gas.
The other half of the channel's activity is "cheques" — TON token giveaways distributed as password-protected multi-use vouchers. Recent editions tied the password to guessing an Oscar-nominated movie's original English title, split into hundreds or thousands of small activations (0.03–2 TON each) so more people can claim a share instead of one winner taking the whole pot. There's also a prediction mini-app called Questions, built around Oscar picks with its own prize pool, which the channel says got rejected from Telegram Ads for "gambling" despite having no deposits or referral system.
The brand voice is unusually candid and self-deprecating: posts joke openly about the bot breaking, about chasing reactions to look good "for investors," and about the audience skewing younger than you'd expect — one post acknowledges 13-14-year-olds among subscribers. That honesty is refreshing, but it's also a real caveat: a channel handing out crypto password-cheques to a partly underage, roughly half-Russian-speaking audience (per the channel's own stats) isn't something to take at face value without checking the bot's actual reliability yourself.
Posting is bursty rather than steady — stretches of activity around a specific cheque or mini-app event, then long stretches of silence — and content switches between Russian and English depending on the post. There's no discussion here of the NFT minting's technical mechanics, storage, or what happens to a minted "moment" over time; it's community engagement copy, not documentation.
This suits people already using or curious about @tgmoments_bot and TON-based Telegram NFTs who want the cheque giveaways and don't mind an irreverent, joke-heavy tone. It's not a place to evaluate the bot's technical soundness or business viability — the channel itself is the first to admit it doesn't always work as intended.
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