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TON Labs raises $6M in support of Free TON blockchain
TON Labs, the development arm behind the Free TON blockchain, raised $6 million through an investment round led by venture capital firm Runa Capital. The funding will go toward building out a new product environment for the Free TON blockchain, which the company describes as the fastest decentralized protocol due to
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TON investor demands $100M compensation from Durov
Da Vinci Capital, a major investor in Telegram’s $1.7 billion initial coin offering, has reportedly requested compensation for the failed launch of the Telegram Open Network, or TON.Investors at Da Vinci Capital reportedly sent a letter before claim to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, stating that the fund is planning legal
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Free TON achieves mainnet status after reaching ‘sufficient decentralization’
The Free TON project, a community-led software fork of Telegram’s ultimately ill-fated attempt at launching a blockchain, announced on Tuesday the launch of the project’s effective mainnet.The network had originally launched in May 2020, building on Telegram’s code base but otherwise showing no association with the communications company and related
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Telegram Will Shut Down the TON Testnet by August 2020
Although Telegram has terminated its blockchain project, Telegram Open Network (TON), in May 2020, the TON test net has been apparently running for almost one year.In a July 6 update, the official TON development group on Telegram announced that it would be discontinuing its support of the test network for
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Russia to Reportedly Investigate an Allegedly Fraudulent TON Offering in UK
Shortly after lifting the country’s Telegram ban, Russian authorities began investigating potentially fraudulent offerings involving the company’s unlaunched token, Gram. The token was at one time meant to serve a new blockchain ecosystem known as the Telegram Open Network, or TON.Reports indicate that Russian prosecutors are set to investigate a
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Telegram Quits Court Fight With SEC Over TON Blockchain Project
Telegram has thrown in the towel in its court battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and will no longer be fighting the ban on its blockchain token project. In a filing on Friday (see bottom), the messaging app provider said it was withdrawing its appeal over a previous
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Bitcoin Breakout Hopes, R.I.P. TON, Trump Threatened: Hodler’s Digest, May 11–17
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cryptox in one link.Top Stories This WeekBitcoin price charts hint at the most
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Qiwi Co-Founder Reissues $17M TON Investment as Loan to Telegram
Sergey Solonin, co-founder of the Qiwi group, and TON investor to the tune of $17 million has decided to reissue his investment as a loan to Telegram, according to a report by Forbes Russia, May 16.Telegram Open Network troublesFollowing Telegram’s well-documented court battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Aggrieved Investors Mull Suing Telegram Over Canceled TON Blockchain Project
Investors in Telegram’s TON project are in discussion to sue the company after it abruptly shuttered the blockchain effort earlier this week, according to four individuals familiar with the situation. It’s not the ambitious project being shut down that upset investors but the options they were given: Take back 72% of
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