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Football is the world’s most popular sport, yet its billions of fans have historically been spectators rather than active participants with a real stake in the game.
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Telegram News
Founded in 2013 by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, Telegram is a cloud-based encrypted messaging service with over 400 million users. Through its purported security and strict adherence to principles of censorship-resistance and privacy, the Telegram messenger app has become a popular choice for individuals seeking secure communication channels, much to the dismay of governments and regimes around the world.
The company made waves when it announced that it was building a blockchain and cryptocurrency system, called the Telegram Open Network, or TON. The project sought to address the scalability bottlenecks of existing blockchains and integrate TON into its 400-million-plus user base. In early 2018, the project raised $1.7 billion through several rounds of private sales in an initial coin offering.
As the largest crowdsale in the space to date, TON quickly caught the attention of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. When the network was about to launch, the SEC halted the distribution of TON’s GRAM tokens to investors, citing the assets as an unregistered securities offering and questioning Telegram’s intent given that the Durov brothers had essentially been funding the platform without baking in any revenue model.
The TON codebase has since become open source, with other initiatives picking up the torch.
The SEC vs. Telegram case has vast implications for the future of cryptocurrency regulation moving forward.
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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.
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According to the Telegram founder, France’s political leaders continue to make poor choices regarding censorship.
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Telegram mini-games reached a zenith in 2024, but the TON blockchain still averages over 2.1 million active wallets.
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By applying a TradFi and DeFi combination, Affluent aims to allow users to earn interest in a manner as simple as depositing assets with a single click via Telegram.
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In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Pavel Durov’s first since being indicted on six charges in 2024, said his company did nothing wrong.
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Representatives for The Open Network (TON) said the outage was caused by an error in the masterchain dispatch queue and was resolved.
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The messaging platform will use most of the proceeds to repay existing bondholders, with the remainder allocated as working capital to support ongoing operations.
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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.
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Nikola Plecas joins TON Foundation to lead its global payments strategy as the network scales for Telegram’s massive user base.
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Telegram’s bond raise includes a 9% yield and a 20% IPO discount, attracting institutional investors like Citadel alongside BlackRock and Mubadala.
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The co-founder of Telegram-based crypto project Blum, Vladimir Smerkis, is in custody in Moscow over accusations that he committed large-scale fraud, TASS reports.
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Haowang Guarantee, formerly Huione Guarantee, has announced that it will cease operations following a massive Telegram purge of merchant accounts.
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With 72M+ users and addictively simple gameplay, TapSwap is more than just a crypto fad — it’s evolving into a full-scale blockchain gaming platform.
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The viral Paws Telegram Mini App behind the tap-to-earn craze has migrated from TON to Solana, launching a new token and expanding into NFTs, DeFi and Web3 gaming.