Bitcoin Slips Below $17K as Telegram’s TON Soars 10% (Market Watch)

The market continues to be rather uneventful, perhaps in anticipation of some major happening throughout the week. Bitcoin’s price has slipped below $17K, as the total capitalization sits below $880 b...

Telegram’s Toncoin (TON) Up 17% as Rival WhatsApp Crashes

TON may be the highest gainer for today, having surged by over 17%, but it is not the only coin surging at the moment. It appears that the Telegram-based Toncoin (TON) cryptocurrency is riding on the ...

As Telegram’s Toncoin Usage Grows, Failed Gram Investors Seeing Red

Some investors are suing Telegram, claiming they didn’t get fully paid for the failed GRAM coin … [+] project. It’s now morphed into Toncoin and a handful of original investors are f...

Four years on, Telegram’s blockchain project gains ground in Africa

It was 2018 when privacy-focused messaging platform Telegram announced that it was in the process of building a blockchain-based decentralized computer network technology called The Open Network (TON)...

Telegram’s TON In Talks With Three African Countries To Launch Stablecoins

TON Blockchain is working with Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of … [+] Congo to launch crypto p2p payments on Telegram. getty Africa has been widely reported a...

Russian crypto ban proposal draws denunciations from Telegram’s Durov and Navalny’s chief of staff

Opposition forces in Russia are not pleased with a recent proposal to ban cryptocurrency mining and trading in the country.  In two separate (and lengthy) Telegram posts from January 20 and 22, Leonid...

Former VK.com CEO Andrew Rogozov Joins TON Foundation As Founding Member To Oversee Product Efforts at Successor of Telegram’s Blockchain Project

January 21, 2022 – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates After years of building, The Open Network (TON) is excited to announce an exclusive addition to its team – Andrew Rogozov, former CEO of VK. Rogozov ...