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District Judge P. Kevin Castel of the New York Southern District Court, has signed a document which requires a deposition from three members of the Telegram team, as the case regarding its GRAM token sale continues. According to the document, Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov himself is expected to testify, along with two others.Dated Nov. 25, the document states that the depositions will begin on December 10 with Telegram employee Shyam Parekh. Although it doesn’t state Parekh’s position...

As on date, a massive amount of data and content is being created and shared every second on the internet. Messaging apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram have been the hot mediums to move data. One of the major challenges these companies are facing today is to segregate the right information.With such massive data available, users are usually overwhelmed with excess data. Now, to enhance the user experience, messaging giant Telegram has come up with a new Data Clustering Contest for...

During the testing times for messaging giant Telegram, the investors of Gram tokens have decided to stand behind the company. As per the earlier plan, Telegram was all set to launch its Telegram Open Network (TON) Blockchain along with its native cryptocurrency.Telegram announced that soon after the launch, its investors who participated in Gram token sale year can sell them in open markets. However, in the last-minute restraining order, the U.S. SEC decided not to allow Telegram its Gram...

In what seems to be a continuing series of woes for Telegram and its TON blockchain, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has decided to postpone the hearing that will determine if the Grams token is a security or not to the 18th and 19th of February 2020.Though the company was doing its best to make its token publicly available, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a couple of moves by dragging the messaging app to court on...

Telegram’s launch of its TON blockchain and GRAMS token has hit yet another brick wall because the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken the issue of the launch of their tokens before a court. In a filing two days ago, the messenger app organization asked the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to deny the SEC the preliminary injunction. Just for reminder, the SEC had asked for it a filing of its own last week requesting Telegram to...

As we reported earlier, the long-awaited issuance of Gram tokens from Telegram on its Telegram Open Network (TON), was hit with a surprising roadblock when the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deemed it unlawful and filed an emergency action as well as a restraining order against it.Even though the company is not based anywhere in the U.S., the SEC claims that Telegram not only failed to register properly but also was not entirely forthcoming with its investors, most of...

In an interesting but not entirely surprising turn of events, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked Telegram to halt issuance of its forthcoming GRAM tokens. In a press release dated Oct. 11, the Commission said that it had already “filed an emergency action” and also a restraining order against Telegram Group Inc. as well as TON Issuer Inc., a subsidiary of the former. This came just a few weeks before Telegram promised to officially issue the tokens to...

In an unfortunate turn of events, messaging giant Telegram is facing major resistance from the U.S. SEC for token-sale of its native Gram (GRM) tokens. This has further resulted in the delay of the launch of the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain.Last Friday, the SEC issued an order calling Telegram’s token sale as “unlawful” under the agency’s securities laws. As a result, Telegram has push-ahead its plans of TON blockchain launch and GRM token issuance.Appraising the investors of this...

Ein Bitcoin im Messenger: Am 31. Oktober startet der beliebte Messengerdienst Telegram mit seinem GRAM Token. Bei über 20 Milliarden US-Dollar soll der Wert des Telegram Open Network (TON) binnen der kommenden fünf Jahren liegen. Eine Untersuchung des digitalen Vermögenswertfonds und Blockchain-Unternehmens Decentral Park Capital legt diesen Schluss nahe. TON-Kryptowährung Gram besitzt ausreichend viel Potential Das zur Untersuchung...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put a spanner-in-the-wheel of Telegram‘s $1.7 billion Gram (GRM) token offering. The securities regulator has asked the messaging giant to halt the sale of its digital currency calling its “unlawful”.As per the SEC press release on Friday, October 11, Telegram failed to register its token-sale offering with the regulator, in due time. The Telegram Group has been working on its blockchain project – Telegram Open Network (TON) –...