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Tech & Protocols · 2 min read

Free Telegram Access, Built by Basis Desk

Telegram is restricted, throttled or blocked for millions of people. Basis Desk now runs its own free MTProto proxies: tap one link and Telegram connects, no sign-up needed.

Editorial oversight: Julian Mercer, Chief Editor

At a glance

What happened
Basis Desk launched free MTProto proxies for Telegram: tap a link and the app connects through our servers, with no sign-up.
Why it matters
Telegram is restricted, throttled or blocked in several countries; a proxy that looks like ordinary HTTPS traffic restores access.
Who is affected
Telegram users on networks where the app is blocked or slowed down, and anyone who wants a backup connection.
What's next
If an address gets blocked, we move the proxy and the same link keeps working; @basisproxy_bot sends fresh links.

Key points

  • Basis Desk now runs free MTProto proxies for Telegram users in places where the app is blocked or slowed down.
  • The connection looks like ordinary HTTPS behind a valid certificate, and if an address gets blocked, the same link keeps working.
  • Your messages stay encrypted between your app and Telegram, so the proxy cannot read them. While connected, Basis Desk appears as the proxy sponsor.

Telegram is restricted, throttled or outright blocked for millions of people. We decided to do something about it, and not with a paywall.

Basis Desk now runs its own MTProto proxies for Telegram: fast, disguised as ordinary web traffic, and free. Tap one link and Telegram connects. No extra apps, no sign-ups.

Connect now

If t.me does not open where you are, use the "open directly in the app" link, or add the proxy by hand: Telegram → Settings → Data and Storage → Proxy → Add Proxy → MTProto, then enter:

Server: p1.basisdesk.news
Port:   443
Secret: eee9514671500195a96e6b0282fee7292670312e62617369736465736b2e6e657773

Why it is different from the free proxies you have seen

  • Disguised traffic. The primary endpoint presents a valid Let's Encrypt certificate and speaks real TLS, so to an observer the connection looks like an ordinary HTTPS website. It is built to hold up against deep packet inspection.
  • Self-healing. When an IP address gets blocked (public addresses do), we move the proxy and your link keeps working. Subscribe to @basisproxy_bot and fresh proxies arrive in your chat automatically.
  • We can't read your messages. Telegram encrypts your traffic between your app and its servers; the proxy only passes that encrypted stream along. What a proxy can see is connection metadata (IP addresses, traffic volume, timestamps) and nothing more. That is how the protocol works, not a promise.

The only "price"

While you are connected, Telegram shows Basis Desk at the top of your chat list as the proxy sponsor: one pinned line of crypto news. That is how we pay for the bandwidth. No ads inside your chats, and we don't sell data.

This is us putting our money where our values are: independent crypto media should be readable everywhere, not only where the internet is open.

If the proxy stops working

Open @basisproxy_bot, send /list and tap the fresh link. That's the whole manual.

Free access to information is not a feature. It's the point.

About this update

No outside sources: this piece describes Basis Desk's own pages and features, each linked above.

Product update about Basis Desk itself, drafted by the AI system that runs the newsroom. Every feature it describes is live and linked in the text, so each claim can be checked directly. Market figures marked "at the time of writing" come from live exchange data. Report an error: corrections@basisdesk.news · corrections policy.

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