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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.

A tenth handle, and a live one: 18 August 2026

The nine handles above were swept on 1 August 2026. The same sweep was re-run on 20 August 2026 across every Telegram handle cited on the 146 pages of the ecosystem directory — 56 distinct handles, all of which resolved. The original nine had been corrected on their pages. One new handle matched the signature: @FotonMarketplace, cited for Foton.

It fits the pattern exactly, and dates itself precisely. The channel was created on 18 August 2026 at 07:11:55 UTC. Ten seconds later, at 07:12:05, it posted the Collab.Land token gate. It has one subscriber, no description, and no other posts. The verify button leads to @Collabslands_bot — a fourth spelling of the imitation, and the first that does not play on letterforms at all. It simply pluralises the brand, which reads as a typo rather than a substitution.

Two things separate this case from the other nine. The first is that Foton had not been written off: it was listed on this wiki as operational until this handle was found, and the finding is part of why that page now reads dormant. A recycled handle is evidence about a project as well as a hazard beside it — a team still answering for its work notices when its channel changes hands, and fixes the link. The second is that the project's own website still links the handle. foton.is has not been rebuilt since April 2023, and the Telegram link on it now delivers visitors straight to the gate. The other nine were reachable only through stale citations; this one is reachable through the front door.

The practical consequence for reading this wiki is that a handle checked clean is checked clean on a date. Three weeks separated the two sweeps, and one handle turned over inside them.

An eleventh handle, published by the ledger: 30 August 2026

The sweep was re-run on 30 August 2026 across every Telegram handle cited on the 148 pages of the ecosystem directory – 62 distinct handles, six more than the August sweep found, all of which resolved. One matched the signature, and it reaches the reader by a route none of the first ten used.

@DELIVER_XRD is cited for DELIVER, a meme token whose trading moved on and whose own website has gone. The channel now answering at that handle was created on 1 June 2026 at 00:09:52 UTC and posted the Collab.Land token gate four seconds later, at 00:09:56. It has four subscribers, one photo, no description and exactly two posts, the “Channel created” notice and the gate. The verify button leads to @collabland_access_bot, a fifth spelling of the imitation and the most plausible-looking yet: it is the real brand, an underscore, and a word Collab.Land does not use.

What is different is where the citation comes from. The first nine were reached through stale links on this wiki, the tenth through the project’s own abandoned website; this one is published on the ledger. The DELIVER token’s own metadata carries social_urls = ["https://t.me/DELIVER_XRD", "https://x.com/DELIVER_XRD"], read at mainnet epoch 339,487 on 30 August 2026. The token was created on 29 January 2025, sixteen months before the channel that now answers there, so the metadata is original and the channel behind it is not. This wiki cites the handle because the ledger does, and so will any wallet, explorer or token aggregator that renders a resource’s socials.

That record is correctable, and not by this wiki. The token’s supply is sealed – burner, minter, freezer and recaller, and every one of their updaters, are DenyAll – but its metadata is not: metadata_setter resolves to Owner, and the owner badge {eb1f07d8…} of resource_rdx1ng362xkr… is unburned and sits in account_rdx128jcfayxelltc45l7u676pxxr8hhdx8wlkmme93fea47jeg4ep592w, where it has not moved since 20 December 2025. One metadata update from that account would repoint the record. Nothing prevents it except that nobody is watching.

The 20 August sweep did not miss this handle. It was not cited then: it entered this wiki at 22:11 UTC on 20 August, hours after that day’s sweep ran, in the revision that read the token’s on-ledger facts and copied its socials across. A sweep covers the citations that exist while it runs, and a page that gains a citation afterwards inherits none of its assurance.

The handles the ledger publishes: 30 August 2026

Every sweep above began with a citation on this wiki. That is the wrong starting point for a handle a token carries in its own metadata, because the wallet, the explorer and the aggregator will render it whether or not any wiki ever cited it. So the sweep was run again from the ledger instead. The 148 pages of the ecosystem directory name 72 distinct resource addresses; all 72 were read from the Radix Gateway on 30 August 2026, and twelve of them publish a Telegram handle in social_urls or telegram_profile_url. Each of the twelve was then resolved against Telegram itself rather than read off a web page.

Handle in the token’s metadataTokenWhat answersCreated
@defiplazaDFP2Group, “DefiPlaza: Turning IL into Profit”10 May 2021
@xrdSingularityXSINXGroup, “Space Cafe (SINX)”25 Aug 2022
@astrolescent_officialASTRLGroup, “Astrolescent Official”30 Sep 2023
@chugchugchugchugANTHGroup, “CHUG”6 Feb 2024
@WeAreMonstasMXRDGroup, “WeAreMonstas”21 Mar 2024
@addixanonymousHITGroup, “$HIT Zone”22 Mar 2024
@radixreviewRRChannel, “RADIX REVIEW”4 Oct 2024
@HugZoneHUGGroup, “Hug Zone”9 May 2025
@hydraxrdHYDRGroup, “HYDRA”7 Feb 2026
@ascent_xrdASCENTGroup, “Ascent”4 Jun 2026
@DELIVER_XRDDELIVERRecycled – channel “deliver_xrd”, four subscribers, Collab.Land gate1 Jun 2026
@WhyNotXRDWHYHeld by nobody – USERNAME_NOT_OCCUPIED–

Ten of the twelve are what the page beside them says they are. The eleventh is the recycled channel recorded above. The twelfth is a state this advisory had not seen before, and it is the one worth naming: WhyNot’s $WHY token publishes https://t.me/WhyNotXRD in two metadata fields, the project’s Linktree publishes it too, and Telegram reports the username as unregistered. It is not a dead channel. It is an empty slot, and it is the precondition for every other row in the tables above: the recycled handles were all in this state first, for as long as it took someone to notice.

The creation dates are the reason the resolution has to be done at Telegram rather than at a web page. A channel that answers at the right handle can still be younger than the token that cites it, and only the creation date shows it: @DELIVER_XRD answers, looks ordinary from a link, and postdates the token’s metadata by sixteen months. Two of the twelve are legitimately recent for the same reason and are not suspect at all – @hydraxrd and @ascent_xrd belong to projects that started in 2026. A date does not decide the question; it is what makes the question askable.

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 imitations found across the three sweeps work by substituting or adding a character that is hard to see in a sans-serif font, or by simply reading as plausible:

  • @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.
  • @Collabslands_bot – the brand pluralised, which reads as a typo rather than a substitution.
  • @collabland_access_bot – the brand spelled correctly, with a suffix Collab.Land does not use.

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.
  • Check whether the project is still running at all. A handle is most worth doubting when it belongs to a project that has stopped, and the ecosystem operational status index lists which Radix projects are operating, dormant or closed.

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.

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