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In the Russian segment of the Facebook social network, fraudulent earnings offers have spread through the Telegram Open Network (TON) platform, which has not yet been launched. It is reported by Kommersant. The publication of the fraudulent account on Facebook contains a link to a page that copies the popular Russian edition of RBC. It contains an “investigation” with embedded links to another site with a video about the “unique scheme” of earnings and […]

Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin spoke about the upcoming launch of the Telegram Open Network (TON) and the digital currency Libra from Facebook in an interview with BLOCKTV. "Libra has something that existing blockchains don't, which is access to 2.5 billion users. Existing crypto systems have something that Libra doesn't, which is a kind of credible claim to commercial and political neutrality. ”[…]

TON Labs, the developer of the infrastructure for the Telegram Open Network ecosystem, has announced the public launch of TON Labs Node Startup Edition, a complete set of development tools for the TON blockchain. This edition of ForkLog said company representatives. According to the developers, the source code of the TON blockchain, published on September 6, is an implementation of the Proof-of-Stake algorithm with sharding from Telegram. TON Labs […]

The developers of the Telegram Open Network reached the final stage before the full-scale launch of the project, introducing software for nodes and a block explorer for a test network. Initially, the release was planned for September 1, but was postponed for several days for unknown reasons. According to Dmitry Goroshevsky, Technical Director of TON Labs, about 100 […]

The Telegram blockchain will be compatible with Ethereum thanks to a special compiler. This is reported by CoinDesk, citing developers of tools for the new network. TON Labs technology startup CEO Alexander Filatov said his team, in particular, is working on Solidity. This compiler will allow decentralized applications created for Ethereum to also run on the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain. "Maybe, […]

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a report stating that terrorist organizations ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hamas receive funding in the cryptocurrency using the Telegram messenger. It is reported by Jewish News Syndicate. In particular, MEMRI noted that in January representatives of Izz al-Din al-Kassam (the military wing of Hamas) used the Telegram and WhatsApp messengers, and […]

The payment system of the Telegram Open Network (TON) project, despite its scope, is unlikely to be actively used by the Russians. This was in a comment by RIA Novosti the director of the ANO "Digital Platforms" Arseny Shcheltsin. In his opinion, the project will be primarily interesting as a development environment. “Our citizens sometimes do not attract cashbacks of 20-30%, they are unlikely to be mass […]