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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Telegram.\n\nNikolai Durov is a programmer and mathematician who co-founded VK and later Telegram with his brother Pavel. Telegram's FAQ credits him with the technology, including the custom open data protocol he developed for the app.\n\n## What Nikolai builds\n\n- [Telegram Bot API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/telegram-bot.md), graded E, 43/100, in Messaging APIs. The Telegram Bot API is Telegram's HTTP interface for bot accounts. A bot sends and edits messages, media and polls, manages chats and takes payments, and receives user messages by long polling or webhook, with a token issued by @BotFather. Co-founder, Telegram, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Aliaksei Levin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aliaksei-levin/), Telegram Bot API server contributor/maintainer (GitHub: levlam)\n- [Pavel Durov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pavel-durov/), Founder and CEO, Telegram\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Nikolai Durov?\n\nNikolai Durov is a programmer and mathematician who co-founded VK and later Telegram with his brother Pavel. Telegram's FAQ credits him with the technology, including the custom open data protocol he developed for the app.\n\n### What does Telegram Messenger Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Telegram Bot API from Telegram Messenger Inc.. The Telegram Bot API is Telegram's HTTP interface for bot accounts. A bot sends and edits messages, media and polls, manages chats and takes payments, and receives user messages by long polling or webhook, with a token issued by @BotFather.\n\n### How are Nikolai's tools graded?\n\nTelegram Bot API is graded E, 43 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://github.com/tdlib/telegram-bot-api\n- https://github.com/levlam\n- https://github.com/tdlib/telegram-bot-api/commit/e3e9dd8e5b3d7ab8537cd5a10dc31d5ffa8f82d1\n- https://telegram.org/faq\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/telegram-messenger\n- https://core.telegram.org/bots/faq\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Durov\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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