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Bot API 9.0 Announcing the largest Bot API update of 2025 (so far😈) 🏪Telegram Business 2.0 • Bots can now fully customize the branding of Business Accounts – managing their name, username, bio and profile pictures. • Introduced support for managing Paid Gifts🎁, including conversions, transfers and upgrades. • Bots can now check ⭐️ Telegram Star balances and transfer Stars from managed businesses. • Bots can now easily mark Business messages as read or delete them. • Added extensive support for managing stories on Business accounts – featuring photos, videos and interactive elements like links, locations, reactions, weather info and even Gifts. • All stories posted by bots can also be edited or deleted. • Introduced granular Business permissions, giving users even finer control over connected bots. 🗃️Mini App Storage • Mini Apps can now store data locally on the user's device. • Sensitive tokens can be safely persisted in a specialized secure storage. 🎁Telegram Gifts • Introduced support for unique Gifts – with detailed model, symbol and backdrop info. • Bots can also check which Gift types are accepted by users and chats. ⭐️Paid Messages • Bots can now track how many Stars users paid to send a message. • This includes out-of-the-box support for paid messages in both groups and business accounts. ⭐️Telegram Premium • Bots can now gift a Telegram Premium subscription paid in Stars. • And more, see the full changelog for details: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#april-11-2025