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Following the official halting of Telegram’s TON blockchain project, Co-founder of Qiwi Group Sergey Solonin has decided to loan his $17 million investment back to the company, according to a recent report by Forbes RU.$17 Million Investment Stays In TelegramThe past several weeks have been particularly challenging for Telegram’s blockchain project called TON. Firstly, the prolonged legal battles with US authorities led to missing the April 30th, 2020, deadline to launch the network and to...

Telegram has ended its dealings in cryptocurrency. An encrypted messaging service, Telegram initially announced a token sale of its new “GRAM” token, which garnered the company more than $1 billion in additional funds, but thanks to a longwinded fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), it looks like the GRAM is never going to get off the ground.The Battle Is Lost for TelegramThe GRAM token was supposed to work in cahoots with the company’s new TON blockchain. Customers of the...

Telegram has announced it will be ceasing all active involvement with the TON blockchain. The CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, announced the news in a Telegra.ph post on May 12, 2020, which declared Telegram’s work with TON officially finished. Durov announced:“I am writing this post to officially announce that Telegram’s active involvement with TON is over.”The news comes shortly after an independent group of developers decided to hard-fork away from Telegram’s version of TON. The newly created...

The TON blockchain marked its independence day on May 7, after a group of developers hardforked the code initially meant to be used exclusively by Telegram.As Telegram remains embroiled in a legal saga with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an independent group of validators and developers elected to bypass the regulatory furor by launching the open-source Free TON.TON’s Declaration of DecentralizationTaking advantage of a loophole that may be the first of its kind,...

The popular messaging application Telegram has delayed the release of its Gram tokens until April 2021 due to the pressure inserted by the SEC and US district courts. The company is offering two options for investors to reimburse their investments or to allocate them into the messaging app.Telegram Postpones GramPavel Durov’s company has sent a letter to all Telegram Open Network (TON) investors – the blockchain network behind the future cryptocurrency Gram. The token will not be issued by...

Encrypted messaging service Telegram is putting up a fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Telegram Is Duking It Out with the SECThe company is in hot water after the government organization claimed Telegram had failed to properly register a token offering a few years ago that resulted in more than $1 billion in revenue for the messaging service. The enterprise made quite a bit of money after promising delivery of its new “gram” tokens to several individual investors, though...

Telegram cannot sell Grams outside of the U.S. either, even after the company argued that the tokens wouldn’t reach American investors. New York Judge, however, found those claims insufficient as Telegram couldn’t adequately address them.Telegram’s Issues Spiral OnAs Cryptopotato reported last week, U.S. District Court officially halted the Gram tokens sale following a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Telegram, the firm behind the future blockchain-based project,...

Schnelles und sicheres Messaging verspricht Telegram mit seinem Blockchain-Projekt. Die aktuelle Lage bedroht nun jedoch dieses Projekt und könnte es zum Aufgeben zwingen. Es wird berichtet, dass bereits einige Großinvestoren ihr Investment zurückfordern, was in der momentanten Finanzlage Telegram zerstören könnte.Crypto News: Telegram vor ungewisser ZukunftEine russische Seite berichtet, dass die Investoren abspringen und das Telegram Open Network (TON) verlassen wollen. Angeblich haben sie...

The popular encrypted messaging application Telegram won’t be able to issue its GRAM tokens, for now. This becomes clear as a US District Court granted an injunction against the company in its lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Howey Test Positive: GRAM Are SecuritiesTelegram’s GRAM sale has been officially halted following a lawsuit filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. According to a document issued by a United States District Court on March 24, the...

Telegram investors and developers created a foundation within the TON ecosystem to defend the project from the SEC. The TON Foundation participants, not Durov brothers, will manage funds and code.While the SEC is preparing to destroy Telegram for avoiding the U.S. securities law, Telegram keeps receiving help from unexpected parties. This time, Telegram’s key investors have formed a circle for coordinating the development of the network. They have no connection to Nikolai Durov and Pavel...