handles.gg Press & Media Kit
This is the official handles.gg press and media kit — a single page with everything a journalist, blogger, researcher or data team needs to cover the social media username market accurately: the company boilerplate, citable live market data, an open JSON API, an embeddable price widget, downloadable brand assets and a direct press contact. Every dataset on this page is free to cite with attribution and a link to handles.gg.
Company Boilerplate
Please use this canonical one-sentence description verbatim: "handles.gg is a peer-to-peer marketplace for rare social media usernames with TON blockchain escrow, operated by Quanta LLC (Wyoming, USA) since 2024." For longer background — founding story, legal entity details, the escrow trust model and team — see the About page and the verified customer reviews.
Fast Facts
- Founded in 2024 by Quanta LLC, a limited liability company registered in Wyoming, USA.
- 10,000+ escrow-protected username transfers completed since launch, across 60+ countries.
- 4,000+ live username listings at any given time across six platforms: Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, X (Twitter), Snapchat and YouTube.
- Every transaction is protected by TON blockchain smart-contract escrow: the seller is paid only after the buyer confirms delivery.
- Multilingual support team covering English, Italian, Spanish, German and French, 24/7 on Telegram.
- Primary marketplace surface: the handles.gg Telegram Mini App at t.me/handlesggbot/app.
Citable Live Market Data
handles.gg publishes the only live price index in the username niche. Every number is computed from real asking prices on the live marketplace — nothing is estimated or survey-based — and refreshes daily. Two citation surfaces are available:
- Username Price Index — human-readable report: median username prices by platform and by handle length, recent sales and methodology. Updated daily.
- Open JSON API at /api/stats — machine-readable snapshot of the same dataset: total active listings, per-platform listing counts, minimum, median and maximum asking prices in USD, and a per-length breakdown. No API key required, CORS enabled, free to use with an attribution link.
Typical citable findings: 3-letter usernames trade at roughly 10-50x the price of 6-letter names on every platform because only 17,576 three-letter combinations exist per platform; the market floor for short handles has risen year over year since platforms stopped recycling inactive names at scale.
Embeddable Price Widget
Publishers can embed the live price table directly in an article via iframe from https://handles.gg/embed/price-index. The widget is self-updating — an embedded article never shows stale prices — and ships with a visible attribution link. Copy the ready-made snippet from this page or from the Price Index.
Brand Assets
Please do not recolor the logo, distort its proportions, or place it on low-contrast backgrounds. The brand name is always written lowercase: handles.gg.
Story Angles We Can Support With Data
- The hidden market for 3-letter usernames — ultra-short handles trade like collectibles, with live asking prices reaching five figures.
- Usernames as an asset class — digital scarcity with real price history instead of anecdotes.
- Telegram + TON escrow vs forum deals — how smart-contract escrow replaced the chargeback-riddled username forums of the 2010s.
- What is your @handle worth? — the free username value calculator is anchored to live marketplace medians, a ready-made interactive for creator-economy coverage.
Link to handles.gg
When referencing the marketplace or its data, descriptive anchor text helps your readers: for market data link to the handles.gg Username Price Index; for the marketplace itself link to handles.gg — marketplace for rare social media usernames; for the free tools link to the Username Value Calculator, Username Checker or Instagram Username Generator. Verified sellers on the marketplace also receive a personal live badge to embed on their own sites, linking back to their public seller profile.
Press Contact
Interviews, custom data cuts, charts, comments on username-market stories, or verification of any statistic published here: email press@handles.gg — typical response within one business day. General inquiries: hello@handles.gg or @HandlesSupport on Telegram (24/7).
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