Gram Asia declares that it is the largest holder of the Gram token. Representatives of the company said that soon they will launch a token sale.When will it happen?What exchange will trade Pavel Durov’s token?We can say that the token can be bought on the open market.The information was leaked to the that the Telegram Open Network coins will be put up for sale on July 10, 2019. They will be traded on the Liquid Exchange. However, representatives of the Korean company Gram Asia, which considers itself the largest coin holder, will deal directly with the distribution of the coins.It is not yet known how many coins will be put up for sale. Including, the starting cost of tokens is kept secret. The Liquid Exchange team claims that the sale of Gram using the third company is nothing but the Telegram work strategy. In this way, the TON project wants to prevent possible problems with the law.The head of Liquid Exchange said that the TON project team had long planned to launch a public sale between the launch of testnet and the start of operation of the main network. The Durov’s team planned to work with the regulated exchange even before the full listing will be held in October.In addition, the head of the exchange said that after buying coins, investors will not be able to resell them immediately. All funds will be frozen until the official release. They will be stored on wallets until autumn. It should be noted that Durov is forced to launch his project until October 31. Otherwise, he will need to return the investment. Before the sale starts, the project team will check every potential investor. At the same time, representatives of some countries will be denied to buy coins.One of the experts said that the main growth in price will be at the time of the official launch of the entire project. Therefore, now we can safely predict that the cost of pre-sale will be relatively small. Almost every user of social networks will be able to buy a few hundred coins.Thus, the Gram coin will appear on the regulated exchange long before the official release. At the same time, it is not clear how much the token will cost. It is interesting that investors who want to buy a coin before the release will not be able to sell it before the official launch of the Telegram project.

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Many people envy the success of Telegram messenger. For a rather short time, Pavel Durov could make the service popular worldwide. How did he manage it? What events preceded the creation and rapid development of messenger number 1 in the world?Telegram messenger: at the very beginningThe history of Telegram began in the winter of 2011. At the end of the State Duma elections, Russia was shaken by large-scale actions of protest, meetings, and processions of opposition which disagreed with the election results. Strangely enough, coordination and correspondence of opponents were made through social network “VKontakte”. The government addressed the CEO of “VK” Pavel Durov with the demand to ban the opposition members’ accounts, but he refused.5 days later he received a summons from the prosecutor’s office, and he ignored it. Security officers decided to visit Pavel. The investigator of the prosecutor’s office, together with the OMON group came to Durov home, but nobody let them in. OMON did not dare to break the door, and Pavel Durov realized that he could not send a message to his brother and warn about danger. He had a revelation – a new, more secure system is necessary. This situation was resolved by the New Year.In March 2012 there was another conflict in which Pavel was involved. He learned that co-founders of “VK” are trying to sell the shares behind his back. Pavel decided to block the accounts of partners. Then it was reported in the VK network that the auction on page numbers of id3 and id4 is organized. At the same time, Pavel realized that he only had 12% of shares. Indeed, it is hard to tell what motivated Durov to launch the development of Telegram: fear of security officers or fight against partners. Anyway, in April 2012 the development of the Telegraph started. In fact, it was the primary name of the messenger.Pavel Durov understands that all the new things are upgraded old ones. In this regard, knowing about the shortcomings of WhatsApp, he makes a decision to take this service as the basis of his project. The limitation of “donor” is the lack of servers for the storage of a history of correspondences. For convenience, all data was stored on phones. The data transmission rate was important for Durov. Respectively, he tested the new project himself. The overall process of creation was quite prolonged. Eventually, an upgraded version of IOS was created, and developers started Telegram again.Why was Durov forced to launch the project promptly?In April 2013 some very important events took place.Durov’s partners in “VK” decided to sell their shares. In turn, the investment fund of I. Shcherbovich of UCP got 48% of shares of the social network.Pavel Durov, driving through the city in his car, hit the police officer. The latter rolled several meters on Mercedes hood. Pavel did not calm down and made several controversial comments towards law enforcement agencies. They were not that forgiving and filed criminal charges to him. Pavel had to lie low.On the air of the “Dozhd” channel, Leonid Parfyonov informed that Durov decided to create a new social network and went to America. Here his new “partner” Shcherbovich indignantly said that Durov cannot create a new project within the walls of “VK without his involvement. Therefore, Durov renamed the project Telegram at once.In April 2014 the conflict with investors reached the maximum speed. At first, the fund received partial control over assets of the new messenger. It caused Durov to leave “VK”, but later he changed his mind and left his CEO’s post. He simultaneously started litigations with Shcherbovich’s fund.In September UCP b Mail.Ru Group signed the settlement agreement. Only at that time, Pavel could regain complete ownership over Telegram.The problems connected with Durov’s unwillingness to transfer the user keys of TelegramThe first warning signs appeared after Durov’s words that Telegram will not give out a word from users’ correspondence. The same was related to their personal data. The well-known words told by Durov within the TechCrunch Disrupt conference became the climax. He said: “WhatsApp sucks”. Once again Pavel said that the fear of losing personal correspondence is stronger than the fear of terrorists. Firstly the authorities of Iran reacted. For ensuring national security the messenger was blocked by the decision of the court. At that time throughout the region of 40 million people used Telegram! These negative events took place during the 2015 – 2016 period.Problems with the Russian authorities appeared in 2017. In June Roskomnadzor demanded to enter the messenger in the register of distributors of information. Durov was not against under the condition that he is not forced to ensure respect for “anticonstitutional and technically impracticable Yarovaya’s Law”.In July the representatives of FSB with the requirement to issue detailed information on 6 users who were suspected of terrorist attack addressed Durov. Durov ignored the inquiry. In a month the court made the decision to fine Telegram 800 thousand rubles.At the moment the harassments of Telegram continue. The management of law enforcement agencies says that Telegram will slow down and get bugs further. Durov is looking for professional lawyers to challenge the judgment as it contradicts Article 23 of the Constitution of Russia.New Telegram projectUnderstanding that the Blockchain technology is the future, Durov makes the decision on creation of the cryptocurrency TON project where Gram coin will become a financial instrument. Durov puts ambitious purposes before himself and the team of developers: to reformat the Internet. The Blockchain technology which was specifically adapted under social network is the cornerstone of the project. The project has to be launched until October 31, 2019. In the closed ICO, Durov could attract $1.7 billion on its development. Trial sales of coins have already started on July 10.Thus, despite active counteraction of the authorities, and problems with partners, Durov could create messenger number 1 in the world. It is considered one of the most reliable and safe messengers. Its triumphal procession and extended development of popularity will be able to grant the TON project.

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TON investors received letters from developers in which they described in detail the testing of the Blockchain platform. In April, some companies that participated in the testing as trade contractors gained access to the test version. At the end of May, developers announced the recruitment of the development team for testing the project. Pavel Durov indicated that the project will be launched in the third quarter of 2019. It should be noted that the TON project must be launched no later than 31 October 2019. Otherwise, Durov will need to return $1.7 billion to investors.The Bell online newspaper analyzed the technical documents of the project. Conclusions were made about the future prospects of the entire project based on a detailed analysis. There are: It is planned that the project will be able to replace the standard social network with a variety of convenient functions. TON provides personal services, applications, and even the ability to create sites based on blockchain technology. In addition, there are systems resembling web browsers. In addition, TON can be freely embedded into existing applications.The project will have a large variety of services. Still, the main one should be considered TON Payments and its wallet for cryptoactive assets. TON DNS service will remodel the addresses in a readable form. Many services will be implemented in Telegram. However, this messenger will not be the only application. There are plans to launch something similar to the social network like FB. The project architecture allows you to process millions of transactions per second.Security is provided using elliptical cryptography. For this reason, Fift programming language was developed.At the moment, low-level services are developed. In particular, the creation of smart contracts or transfer of funds. However, at the same time, it is not yet clear when the developers begin to develop middle and top-level services.The end product will include: Along with internal projects, the ability to connect the TON to external applications via special gateways is implemented.There is a possibility of the emergence of hybrid applications that will work both inside TON and outside the project. Telegram messenger will be TON’s service. Possible ones – TON Payments and TON Proxy.TON Payments has the option of not activating the wallet but at the same time making transfers to it. The funds will be credited to the account immediately after the activation of the wallet. Up to this point, they will be stored in Blockchain.Features of the test version of the projectFunds are transferred using Blockchain technology and smart contracts. TON is Blockchain, which consists of many individual Blockchains connected by one network. In addition to the main chain, there are 2 ^ 32 workchains. Also, each of them can be divided into 2 ^ 60 shardchains. Thanks to the use of such a scheme, it will be possible to process millions of transactions per second.Smart contracts are considered self-executing contracts. Technically, they look like an executable code written in a special language. They are provided with Gram coin.Smart contracts are inactive without a token. The developers created a special test giver for the test version, which issues 20 tokens to everyone who wants to test their smart contract.The file with the smart contract is moved to the Telegram Open Network Virtual Machine. It monitors the further implementation of the smart contract.Due to the combo of the created virtual machine and a special program language, all operations are carried out as quickly as possible.The project implemented a special encryption system, which is carried out using 2 schemes: EdDSA25519 (issues hundreds of signatures per second) and Curve25519 (used for asymmetric cryptography).What stage had been reached in the development?At the moment, the virtual machine that simulates a standard PC is ready. It is engaged in the implementation of the desired platform. All the services of the lowest level are almost ready. Framework for the blockchain client is ready. However, it still needs to be integrated into the instant messenger.Why the programming language was called Fift?It is most likely that Fift means “fifth.” However, because of the limitations of the OS, it is necessary to use a shortened version.The Bell specialists used all publicly available information to analyze the project. Many data are posted on the site test.ton.org. For today, Nikolay Durov signed four documents.Thus, it can be said that the new project is using the latest developments in the field of Blockchain technologies. Many of them are the work product of Durovs’ development team. We are waiting for the full launch of the project.

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Telegram 5.7: features of innovations

At the beginning of the month Telegram launched new mobile applications under version 5.7. In particular, several new mechanisms have been implemented. They are used to set up an increased level of privacy. In addition, the developers have replaced third-party mechanisms when commenting in chat rooms.

After the updates, it became possible to hide the phone number, including contacts. In the settings you will be able to set exceptions. For example, the number will not be shown to anyone except the participants of a particular channel. Earlier, the number was shown to everyone, without exception, in automatic mode.

Important! You can now set exceptions for chats and other privacy settings. Prior to the changes, exceptions were set only for individual users.

Note that in this version is implemented, something like commenting for channels. To do this, a link of the channel and chat is made. The Discuss button will appear on the channel. In the future, all messages will be automatically relayed and fixed in the conversation.

After the launch of version 5.7, the connection of bots and sites has been simplified. The bot will offer to automatically log in to the selected site. Accordingly, by the time you log on to the resource authorization will be passed.

Additional innovations in version 5.7

1. An icon will appear to warn you of possible fraud associated with suspicious accounts.

2. For Android, confirmation dialogs have been redrawn and made more stylish.

3. For Android changed the interface to switch the theme of the application.

4. For Android simplified system to search for the necessary messages. In addition, the procedure for adding new users to groups has been simplified.

5. For iOS has introduced the possibility of establishing links to the allocation of the site or the entire text of the message.

6. IOS introduced the ability to support the necessary thumbnails for PDF files.

7. For iOS implemented the ability to support animated stickers in tgs format.

Separately, we need to dwell on the fact that Telegram has the ability to preview the channel. To do this, you no longer need to log in to Telegram. Clicking on the link you can get acquainted with the features of the channel. Now all information is available via a short link, type: t.me/s/…

This update is available for Android at Google Play and APKMirror. For iOS it is in the AppStore.

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CEO of Qiwi payment system thinks cryptocurrencies may substitute cash

The director of the Russian payment system and CEO of FinTech Solonin has told about his views of the cryptocurrency and banks future. He shared information about his part in the project Telegram Open Network.
Solonin about TON

The hype around the Paul Durov project has been huge. Sergey Solonin has underlined that he has been ready to invest more in the project. In the end, the TON team has created some restrictions and he could invest only 17 millions of dollars. His intention has been to invest at least 50 million. During the ICO there has been a huge queue of investors. The team of the project has taken the applications and cut them without any exceptions. However, Russian applications have been cut more.

To remind, TON creators have received numerous applications for investments for the total sum of $3.8 billion. This led to the decision of performing a closed round of token placement. In the end, the project has raised 1.7 billion dollars.

Solonin has underlined that the perspectives of the project are good but it will all depend on regulators. He has also predicted that the project will have many problems since there is no set legislation of cryptocurrency work.
Cryptocurrencies and banks

Despite the fact that regulators think of digital assets in a negative way, they will continue to appear. In the end, there might be no need for banks. Interesting that banks are more needed by regulators than by people. Cryptocurrencies, on the contrary, have success.

Solonin thinks that regulators will oppose the appearance of digital assets to the last. They don’t know what it is, how to regulate the market and what risks there are. Digital assets, however, will compete well and may substitute fiduciary currencies.

To remind, a light version of the TON blockchain has been launched and it has been announced that there will be a final stage of system tests. The cost of a Gram coin has been revealed. Currently, it costs from $2 to $8 with an average price of $5.1/ Forbes analytics think that the coin may cost $30 in the year 2028. The capitalization can rise up to $135 billion. This means that the forecast of analytics that Gram can compete with Ethereum and Bitcoin may come true very soon.

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