• Court to Telegram No gram sales
    Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's legal troubles are growing deeper (Photo: TechCrunch CC-BY-2.0)
    Cryptocurrencies

    SEC to Telegram: Too little, too late

    The Securities and Exchange Commission has told a judge that Telegram should not be allowed to issue $1.7 billion worth of gram tokens to non-U.S. buyers

    March 31, 2020 /

    Telegram had planned to launch the Telegram Open Network, or TON, blockchain on Oct. 31, 2019. At that time, it planned to create 2.9 billion gram tokens, which sold to the general public. The SEC said that public sale would be an unregistered and illegal securities offering, and sued to block it.

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  • Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is fighting The Man (via TechCrunch Disrupt SF, CC BY 2.0).
    Cryptocurrencies,  Regulation,  United States

    SEC: Telegram lied about its ICO

    The Securities and Exchange Commission is ‘deeply troubled’ by blockchain developer’s refusal to turn over bank records; Telegram condemns the SEC’s ‘scorched earth’ attack on SAFT utility token sales

    January 5, 2020 /

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a judge on Thursday to make messaging service turned blockchain developer Telegram open its books in an effort to stop what it believes is an illegal securities offering. Telegram raised $1.7 billion in the first quarter of 2018 by pre-selling 2.9 million gram tokens.

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