Telegram's Cat Mittens

According to the project, Mittens is the black cat that Telegram adopted years ago as the company's pet, and the @telegram account on X often features it. As examples, the community links Telegram posts from about October 2021 to September 2023, well before the token existed. One of them jokes about a 'spooky creature' demanding treats. The token's original profile introduced the character as 'Mr. Mittens - Telegram's Cat', a cat that 'delivers messages fast'. The character comes from Telegram's own posts. The token is a separate community project built on that meme.

According to the project's Telegram channel, Mittens launched on 16 April 2024 and was rugged by its original developer the day after. The community then took the project over: the channel says it claimed ownership on 26 April 2024, and it now describes Mittens as a community takeover (CTO) project. The community gathers in the Telegram channel @Mittenston. One of its posts links the DeDust pool of this token, and DEX Screener lists the same channel among the socials of the token's DeDust and STON.fi pools.

The project is run by its community team. Its Telegram channel calls Mittens a 'pure CTO project' and says the team has more than 20 members, who say they spend their own money on it. Posts in the channel are forwarded from members named Lucas, Ezah and AltcoinDe6en.

The project points to several public interactions, all described in its own account. It says the @telegram account on X posted about $MITTENS around 16 May, 28 May and 10 July 2024, and the team reads the 28 May post as an endorsement. It also says Telegram shared a new photo of the cat around July 2026. On the TON side, the project says TON CEO 'Max Crown' followed its X account and that @ton_blockchain has interacted with Mittens more than 50 times. Follows, replies and posts of this kind are social-media interactions, not a partnership with Telegram or TON.

In 2024 the team applied to The Open League through the TON Research forum. The thread ends with the organisers congratulating the project on being approved to join a season of the competition. This was admission to a competition, not funding. According to the channel, the team was set to speak about the Mittens narrative on stage at the MEMECON conference in Singapore, held during Token2049, on 21 September 2024. In October 2024 the project also announced that it had applied to the TonMemelandia 'Memecoin Mountain' competition.

Mittens trades on TON decentralised exchanges. DEX Screener lists a DeDust pool and a STON.fi pool for the token, both paired with Gram, the native coin of the TON network. According to the team, the pool liquidity is 100% burned, the contract has been renounced and taxes are 0%. The project lists itself on tracking sites including DEX Screener, DEXTools, GeckoTerminal, CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap.