What is this chanel about?
This is the English version of the TON Info channel. We publish news about the TON Blockchain along with the related app changelogs.

What we have already posted about TON.
On October 11, the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against TON. On October 17, it became known that Telegram was ready to postpone the launch of TON until April 30, 2020, and the hearing itself was postponed to February 18. On October 31, the official GitHub page ton-blockchain published the source code of the Gram Wallet for various platforms. On November 13, Telegram demanded to reject the US authorities' lawsuit against the launch of the Gram cryptocurrency. On November 15, the test network testnet was fully reset, and all the Grams received earlier had burned out. After that, a new test network was created, called testnet2.

Estimated TON Release Date: April 30, 2020

Download Gram Wallet: Android, iOS, Desktop.

After creating a wallet, you won't have any Grams, you can ask for some in our chat @infotonchaten with hashtag #iwantgram.

Gram Wallet for Android from Telegram Info updated to version 1.1

What's new:
- Corrections in the texts.
- Source code updated to the latest version.
- The ban on entering non-Latin characters and numbers in the input field of secret words.

Download from Play Store.

#wallet #update

3 day no gram

On November 20 wallets @test_ton_bot was transferred to 150 000 GR. The bot is distributed to all Grama in less than a day.

And now on day 4 wallets handing out bot not replenished. About changes on the balance of the bot will report @GramResurs

At the moment the tokens for the test, you can ask us in the chat room @infotonchaten

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Gram Wallet in the official Telegram client

On the messenger translation platform, for the first time, there were lines associated with Gram Wallet. The first, which found an official mention was Telegram for mac OS.

In the future, we should expect the integration of the Gram cryptocurrency wallet into other Telegram clients.

#wallet

Telegram warned about fraudsters selling Gram

«Some websites offer Grams to the public and pretend to be affiliated with Telegram. Please be aware that these websites are not official and have no affiliation with Telegram. No Grams have been issued to anyone, and Telegram is not involved in any sales of Grams».

https://t.me/telegram/118

#TON #crypt

Ukrainian businessman sued for fraud cryptocurrency Gram for $159 million

A group of investors (among them are companies from the Marshall Islands, United Arab Emirates and Liechtenstein) the lawsuit claims that the doctor convinced them to invest $15 million in cryptocurrency Gram, which intends to release the messenger Telegram Pavel Durov.

The money received Aluxes Holdings, which was to buy the tokens and hold cryptocurrency on behalf of the investors. The plaintiffs said that the doctor had deceived them, saying that he is not interested in investing in the Gram, and Aluxes will act just as an investment Fund. In fact, says the lawsuit, Korotkov had intended to assign bought with the investors ' money tokens. Investors claimed damages of $159 million — 10 times more than they invested.

The case against Valery Korotkov considers arbitration court of the UK. The suit was filed on 7 November.

forbes.ru/newsroom/biznes/388459-na-ukrainskogo-biznesmena-podali-v-sud-za-moshennichestvo-s-kriptovalyutoy

#gram #courts

Telegram launched the second stage of the blockchain contest

Dates: 7 Dec - 22 Dec 2019.

Prizes: $100,000 will be distributed among the winners (+additional $100,000 will be subject to certain conditions).

Who can take part: 41 winners of the 1st stage.

Criteria to identify the winners:
1) The validity and efficiency of your code
2) The potential demand for your service from a consumer standpoint.

More information can be found in the publication of the contest.

#contest #blockchain

New details from John Hyman, the former investment Advisor to the Telegram

Today from the correspondence of John Hyman, the U.S. district court received information about the project investors, in addition it turned out that the Telegram received funds from investors through banks BNY Mellon and Credit Suisse.

The names of some private investors, invest in a TON through the California Foundation Elysium Ventures:
A Hong Kong billionaire, former owner of the brands Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors, Silas Chu
The Creator Of WordPress Matt Mullenweg;
Co-Founder Of Foursquare Naveen Selvadurai
Co-founder and CEO of review site Yelp Jeremy Stoppelman
Former chief-editor of TechCrunch, Alexia Bonatsos

John Hyman in correspondence described the range of investors ICO TON so: "a lot of applications from Russia and CIS countries, quite a lot from Israel and a fan club of Paul."

https://thebell.io/v-chisle-investorov-telegram-okazalis-osnovatel-foursquare-i-eks-vladelets-michael-kors

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