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Telegram's TON Blockchain to Officially Expand in the US

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In what is certainly an important development for this state of the industry within the country, Telegram has announced that its The Open Network (TON) Blockchain will officially expand in the US. Indeed, the network connected to the Telegram messenger is seeking to embrace the pro-crypto regulation that is expected under United States President-elect Donald Trump, according to a Bloomberg report. The entire industry is expecting favorable regulation to be a key impact of Trump’s return to the White House. Moreover, the returning commander-in-chief is expected to issue executive crypto policy orders on his first day returning to the Oval Office. JUST IN: Telegram's TON blockchain to expand to US. — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) January 14, 2025 Also Read: Toncoin Rebounds as Telegram Founder Breaks Silence on Arrest Telegram Expanding to US as Pro-Crypto Regulation Expected Under Trump In November of 2024, Donald Trump emerged victorious in a historic United States presidential ele...

Dan Morehead Unveils Pantera Capital’s Crypto Holdings, Says Firm Owns Bitcoin and Other ‘Interesting’ Altcoins

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The CEO of digital assets-focused investment firm Pantera Capital says his firm owns a handful of other crypto in addition to Bitcoin (BTC). In a new CNBC interview, Dan Morehead says that he thinks Bitcoin and crypto still have more room to the upside this cycle. Morehead notes that his firm has accumulated positions in three altcoins including the layer-1 protocol Solana (SOL). “The fun thing about crypto is we’ve been doing this for 11 years, and Bitcoin has a little bit more than doubled this year… On average, it has done that for 11 years in a row. So crypto going up double is not remarkable. We’re normally long because the markets are going to go up another huge amount, another order of magnitude possibly.  We’re typically long. We’re always just looking at which other tokens are interesting. We have a big position in TON, Telegram’s token, Solana, ONDO. Those are some of ours.”   In May of this year, Morehe...

Are Telegram chats actually encrypted? | Protos

Authorities in France have arrested Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram and Russia’s largest social network, VK. Last week, he was in Azerbaijan at the same time as Vladimir Putin. Around the world, hundreds of millions of Telegram users are suddenly questioning a fundamental promise of Pavel Durov: “All chats are secure.” As of May 2020, Telegram claimed that Durov was the sole financier of its messenger. The application boasts between 700 and 950 million monthly active users. Since 2017, he has repeatedly assured his fans, “Everything is secure.” However, many cybersecurity experts have questioned this characterization. Although Telegram’s end-to-end encrypted “Secret Chats” are widely regarded as a truly secure messenger between two devices, there are vulnerabilities in Telegram’s group and standard chats – dwarfing the popularity of Secret Chats by orders of magnitude. In Telegram, end-to-end encryption is optional . Creating a Secret Chat requires several extra steps and do...

TON Ventures Debuts as Telegram Gets $40M to Fund Crypto Projects

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With the success that The Open Network has seen so far this year, TON Ventures has officially launched, with Telegram getting a $40 million investment for its crypto projects. Indeed, several senior builders from the network have created the new fund that will help develop the platform’s continued on-chain applications. TON accelerator program former head Ian Wittkopp will lead the newly launched fund. Moreover, he will be joined by the former head of gaming at the TON Foundation, Inal Kardan. The project has a clear roadmap for aiding the development of several blockchain projects. Source: Medium/Redficrypto Also Read: Toncoin (TON): The Telegram-Linked Crypto to Watch in 2024 TON Ventures Launches as Telegram Ecosystem is Set to Get a Major Boost Telegram’s TON NEtwork has made waves this year. Indeed, that fact is clearly seen in the success of its Toncoin (TON). In the last seven days, the asset has increased more than 25%, according to CoinMarketCap. Those gains contrib...