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Kazakhstan is advancing a dual model by piloting its digital tenge CBDC alongside the Evo stablecoin as part of its push to become a crypto hub.

Following the initial rollout in Wallet on Telegram, xStocks is planned to expand across the self-custodial solution, TON Wallet, in Q4 2025.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov revealed he bought thousands of Bitcoin in 2013 at $700, and the investment has allowed him “to stay afloat.”

Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov said that French intelligence pressured Telegram into censoring political content, which he refused to do.

Durov said French law enforcement officials are still “struggling” to find evidence of wrongdoing even one year on from his arrest in 2024.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested one year ago and has since then been required to stay in France while under investigation.

With 19 EU member states backing it, the Chat Control proposal could mandate pre-encryption message scanning on apps like WhatsApp and Signal by October.

Telegram is opening up to Ethereum DeFi with the mainnet launch of Tac, a layer-1 network designed to connect EVM DApps to TON and Telegram ecosystems.

The TON Foundation could have avoided its golden visa controversy in the UAE with a brief legal review, a local lawyer told Cointelegraph.

The Telegram founder will once again be allowed to travel to Dubai for a short period before returning to France, where his case is ongoing.

According to the Telegram founder, France’s political leaders continue to make poor choices regarding censorship.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Pavel Durov’s first since being indicted on six charges in 2024, said his company did nothing wrong.

xAI’s Grok could soon be accessible in Telegram and will offer chats, text editing, chat and document summaries, inbox agents, group chat moderation and more.

Pavel Durov is a keynote speaker at the Human Rights Foundation's Oslo Freedom Forum, a summit for universal human rights and autonomy.

Durov did not name the EU country that asked him to censor "conservative voices" on the platform but hinted at it with a baguette emoji.