🔎 Telegram appears to be preparing something involving animations.
A Telegram developer has resumed work on
tlottie — the custom animation engine used to render Telegram stickers and emoji. After around
5 years of inactivity, the project is being actively updated again.
According to the published benchmarks, rendering performance is now
2–3× faster across
17,000 Telegram animations. The biggest improvements are seen with
64px animations — the exact size used for sticker panel previews and emoji in the keyboard.
This doesn’t confirm anything on its own, but it does suggest Telegram is optimizing for a level of animation usage that doesn’t exist today.
Could this be preparation for NFT Stickers or something closely related? Time will tell.
Source: https://t.me/reseachy/68