The crypto-friendly communications platform Telegram has launched a browser and mini app store along with other updates.  

Users can switch between websites and platform messaging with the browser, which includes decentralized websites called TON Sites, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said on the messaging app.

"Telegram's browser supports decentralized websites hosted on TON — in all mobile and native desktop apps. This makes Web3 immediately available to our almost one billion monthly users," the Telegram team wrote in a Wednesday blog post. 

Telegram users can also send Stars, units of the mini-app payment system, to their friends, in addition to improvements to the platform's app store such as search options, previews of the app from developers and sharing mini apps into a …