Durov blasts EU "banana republic" surveillance push
The Telegram founder's rebuke lands as Brussels weighs measures to extend lawful intercept powers across messaging apps, framing the fight as one over free speech rather than compliance.
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The Telegram founder's rebuke lands as Brussels weighs measures to extend lawful intercept powers across messaging apps, framing the fight as one over free speech rather than compliance.
Noman Saleem gets over a year in prison and three years of supervised release for running bogus Telegram handles impersonating popular crypto influencers.
India moved to ban Pavel Durov's Telegram platform this week, sending GRAM and the broader Indian crypto market into a…
The change is branding-only — wallets and apps will update over three weeks, but The Open Network blockchain itself stays TON.
The TON blockchain is reviving the Gram token brand, with Telegram CEO Pavel Durov declaring that the network is…
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has publicly stated that the platform has "never disclosed a single byte" of private…
The Telegram founder's broadside lands a year after his own arrest in Paris and flips the script: France's regulator, he argues, is doing in the open what it prosecutes others for.
Durov's move makes TON, in substance, Telegram's chain — a structural claim on every financial transaction across a 1B-user surface, but one that critics say runs opposite to the decentralization…
Telegram stepping in as the chain's largest validator narrows the long-standing narrative-vs-execution gap that capped TON's multiples against its billion-user distribution story.
Telegram is replacing the TON Foundation as the ecosystem's primary driver — and staking itself as the chain's biggest validator, with technical upgrades and developer tooling queued for the next 2–3…
Telegram taking over the validator seat from the TON Foundation is the structural shift — the fee cut and the April 10x speed upgrade were the appetiser, and a refreshed ton.org and developer toolkit…
The pivot ends the TON Foundation's role as primary steward and concentrates technical and validator responsibility inside Telegram itself — a structural shift for a chain that has long needed a…
Pavel Durov's count — 41 attacks in 3.5 months — is the first public estimate tying the wave of France's physical crypto attacks to leaked government tax data.