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A recycled Telegram handle is a username that once belonged to a project's own channel and has since been re-registered by someone else. The handle survives the project; every link that ever pointed at it — wiki entries, old tweets, exchange listings, documentation, search results — now points at whoever holds it today. For a Radix ecosystem that has accumulated several years of wound-down projects, that makes abandoned handles a standing supply of pre-trusted traffic.

On 1 August 2026 a sweep of every Telegram handle cited under this wiki's ecosystem directory found nine that no longer belong to the projects named beside them. All nine share one signature: a channel with a single subscriber, no description, and exactly two posts — the automatic "Channel created" notice, and a message styled as a Collab.Land token gate reading "This community is now protected by Collab.Land … Click below to verify your wallet and gain access." The button beneath it leads to a bot whose name imitates Collab.Land's without matching it.

This page records what was observed, so that the citations elsewhere on the wiki can be read for what they are: dead handles, not project channels. It is not an allegation about any of the projects listed — in most cases the project simply ended, and the handle outlived it.

The handles observed

Creation timestamps and subscriber counts below were read from each channel's public t.me/s/ preview on 1 August 2026. Seven of the nine channels were created inside a thirty-second window on 29 June 2026 — the fingerprint of one batch registration rather than nine unrelated events.

HandleProject it is cited forChannel created (UTC)"Verify" button target
@RadLandNFTVikingLand29 Jun 2026, 20:06:08@CollabLandlBot
@phoenix_xrdPhoenix29 Jun 2026, 20:06:16@CollabLandlBot
@backeum_newsBackeum29 Jun 2026, 20:06:17@CollabLandlBot
@hardmoneyprojectThe Hard Money Project29 Jun 2026, 20:06:17@CollabLandlBot
@juicystakeJuicy Stake29 Jun 2026, 20:06:18@CollabLandlBot
@stabilislabsStabilis29 Jun 2026, 20:06:26@CollabLandlBot
@ImpahlaImpahla29 Jun 2026, 20:06:38@CollabLandlBot
@fibonaccifiFibonacci Finance19 Mar 2026, 10:26:06@collab_land_accessbot
@RadixnodeRadixNode.io30 Jul 2026, 03:13:02@coIIab_Iands_bot

Every one of these projects is recorded on this wiki as closed, dormant, or long inactive, or was found in this sweep to be operating far below the scale its page implied. That is the population being farmed: handles whose owners are no longer around to reclaim them, attached to pages that readers still arrive at.

Telling the real Collab.Land bot from a fake

Collab.Land is a real and widely used token-gating service, which is exactly why it is worth imitating. Its documentation is unambiguous about the only handle that is genuinely theirs: "The true Collab.Land bot is named @collablandbot … Make sure you are interacting with the correct bot @collablandbot. There are many imposters with similar names."

The three imitations found in this sweep each work by substituting a character that is hard to see in a sans-serif font:

  • @CollabLandlBot — an extra l before "Bot" (seven of the nine channels).
  • @collab_land_accessbot — a plausible-sounding suffix that Collab.Land does not use.
  • @coIIab_Iands_bot — capital I standing in for lowercase l, three times over.

The last is the classic form of the attack: in most interface fonts a capital I and a lowercase l are the same vertical stroke. Collab.Land publishes security guidance on this and accepts reports of impersonating bots.

What a reader should do

  • Never connect or "verify" a wallet from an unsolicited token gate. A verification prompt is only meaningful if you went looking for the community first — a gate that greets you in an empty channel is the whole attack, not a step in it.
  • Read the channel, not the handle. One subscriber, no description, a creation date measured in weeks, and a single pinned prompt are all visible before you click anything. A real project channel has history.
  • Get handles from the project's own site, or from a source you can date. A Telegram link in an article from 2023 says only where the project was in 2023.
  • Compare the bot handle character by character against @collablandbot. Copy it into a monospaced field if the letters look alike.
  • Nothing legitimate needs your seed phrase, and very little needs a signature to prove you hold a token. Treat any signing request from a verification flow as the point to stop.

The same reasoning applies to domains as well as handles. A wound-down project's website can be re-registered exactly as its Telegram handle can — the Instabridge domain now redirects to rotating gambling pages, and this wiki's guide to buying XRD was itself routing readers through it until 1 August 2026. An old link is a claim about the past, not the present.