Telegram Launches ‘Secret’ Second Presale, $850 Mln To Be Raised

[Boluwatife]

Encrypted messenger service Telegram is reportedly raising a further $850 mln in a “secret second presale” of its TON token before launching the yet to be officially announced world’s biggest ICO.

As Verge reports citing “exclusive” reports from four anonymous sources, Pavel Durov’s platform is attempting to get accredited investors on board to double the $850 mln it already received in the ‘first’ presale.

In total, Telegram stands to raise around $1.6 bln before its TON token sale becomes publicly available.

The figures mean this ICO easily beats any other token offering in terms of USD value, with Block.One's $700 mln result from 2017 coming a lonely second.

Telegram’s path to capital has already seen difficulties due to its increasingly prominent public profile. Fake ‘versions’ of the ICO which appeared on social media following the original announcement in January managed to illicitly accrue funds for TON tokens that did not yet exist.

Controversy centered even on documentation, with a white paper for TON attracting mixed reviews regarding its authenticity when it leaked online.

Durov himself had also publicly come out warning of individual scams linked to the ICO.

Meanwhile, number-three spot Tezos also hinted last week that the nine-month stalemate over its tokens and platform would soon end, co-founder Kathleen Breitman stating a prospective launch could occur within weeks at a UCLA conference Feb. 17-18.

[Holla123]

Encrypted messenger service Telegram is reportedly raising a further $850 mln in a “secret second presale” of its TON token before launching the yet to be officially announced world’s biggest ICO.

As Verge reports citing “exclusive” reports from four anonymous sources, Pavel Durov’s platform is attempting to get accredited investors on board to double the $850 mln it already received in the ‘first’ presale.

In total, Telegram stands to raise around $1.6 bln before its TON token sale becomes publicly available.

The figures mean this ICO easily beats any other token offering in terms of USD value, with Block.One's $700 mln result from 2017 coming a lonely second.

Telegram’s path to capital has already seen difficulties due to its increasingly prominent public profile. Fake ‘versions’ of the ICO which appeared on social media following the original announcement in January managed to illicitly accrue funds for TON tokens that did not yet exist.

Controversy centered even on documentation, with a white paper for TON attracting mixed reviews regarding its authenticity when it leaked online.

Durov himself had also publicly come out warning of individual scams linked to the ICO.

Meanwhile, number-three spot Tezos also hinted last week that the nine-month stalemate over its tokens and platform would soon end, co-founder Kathleen Breitman stating a prospective launch could occur within weeks at a UCLA conference Feb. 17-18.

I use Telegram a lot and even think that it is a high profile project. The money they are trying to raise is just crazy. A total of 1.6 bln. Honestly for what kind of project would you need that kind of money from the start? The same kind of greed that KIN has shown and the ICO investors over there got burnt.

[Astrilian]

Encrypted messenger service Telegram is reportedly raising a further $850 mln in a “secret second presale” of its TON token before launching the yet to be officially announced world’s biggest ICO.

As Verge reports citing “exclusive” reports from four anonymous sources, Pavel Durov’s platform is attempting to get accredited investors on board to double the $850 mln it already received in the ‘first’ presale.

In total, Telegram stands to raise around $1.6 bln before its TON token sale becomes publicly available.

The figures mean this ICO easily beats any other token offering in terms of USD value, with Block.One's $700 mln result from 2017 coming a lonely second.

Telegram’s path to capital has already seen difficulties due to its increasingly prominent public profile. Fake ‘versions’ of the ICO which appeared on social media following the original announcement in January managed to illicitly accrue funds for TON tokens that did not yet exist.

Controversy centered even on documentation, with a white paper for TON attracting mixed reviews regarding its authenticity when it leaked online.

Durov himself had also publicly come out warning of individual scams linked to the ICO.

Meanwhile, number-three spot Tezos also hinted last week that the nine-month stalemate over its tokens and platform would soon end, co-founder Kathleen Breitman stating a prospective launch could occur within weeks at a UCLA conference Feb. 17-18.

I use Telegram a lot and even think that it is a high profile project. The money they are trying to raise is just crazy. A total of 1.6 bln. Honestly for what kind of project would you need that kind of money from the start? The same kind of greed that KIN has shown and the ICO investors over there got burnt.

I would be a bit sceptical if businesses that are already in operation all of a sudden plan an ICO. Look at the ICO of Etherdelta that failed completely. If they have a really good reason to tokenise their business, otherwise I would skip it, despite the big name.

[Samuel Erasmus]

The scale of this ICO really is incredible. The whole blockchain and cryptocurrency movement is moving at an incredible pace.

[alimann]

Does anybody have a link to take part?
People are talking everywhere about that Telegram ICO, but I cant find any concrete informations about that, or is that only for the wale investorts again?

[favelle75]

any links please? i really want to join telegram ico.
this will be the best ico ever made and i want to join

[mangkanor]

If you are really doing your research ICOs needs to be public that is why it is called initial coin offering so that people have a chance to have some of the coins from any project,this is an OLD FUD which has no validity,TON wont be existing because telegram isnt conducting secret ICO,this is just a speculations from few people,who wants to spread FUDs so they can solicit money from these noob investors.

SECRET PRESALE sounds stupid.

[BlockchainGod]

If it's true, it'll be great. I will definitely buy a lot of coins on the public sale if it will.

[Leona Lewis]

Encrypted messenger service Telegram is reportedly raising a further $850 mln in a “secret second presale” of its TON token before launching the yet to be officially announced world’s biggest ICO.

As Verge reports citing “exclusive” reports from four anonymous sources, Pavel Durov’s platform is attempting to get accredited investors on board to double the $850 mln it already received in the ‘first’ presale.

In total, Telegram stands to raise around $1.6 bln before its TON token sale becomes publicly available.

The figures mean this ICO easily beats any other token offering in terms of USD value, with Block.One's $700 mln result from 2017 coming a lonely second.

Telegram’s path to capital has already seen difficulties due to its increasingly prominent public profile. Fake ‘versions’ of the ICO which appeared on social media following the original announcement in January managed to illicitly accrue funds for TON tokens that did not yet exist.

Controversy centered even on documentation, with a white paper for TON attracting mixed reviews regarding its authenticity when it leaked online.

Durov himself had also publicly come out warning of individual scams linked to the ICO.

Meanwhile, number-three spot Tezos also hinted last week that the nine-month stalemate over its tokens and platform would soon end, co-founder Kathleen Breitman stating a prospective launch could occur within weeks at a UCLA conference Feb. 17-18.

I use Telegram a lot and even think that it is a high profile project. The money they are trying to raise is just crazy. A total of 1.6 bln. Honestly for what kind of project would you need that kind of money from the start? The same kind of greed that KIN has shown and the ICO investors over there got burnt.

I would be a bit sceptical if businesses that are already in operation all of a sudden plan an ICO. Look at the ICO of Etherdelta that failed completely. If they have a really good reason to tokenise their business, otherwise I would skip it, despite the big name.

I guess they are going to create something like china's wechat(with payments and a lot of other usefull things that aren't implemented in telegram yet)

[makuhpal]

If you are really doing your research ICOs needs to be public that is why it is called initial coin offering so that people have a chance to have some of the coins from any project,this is an OLD FUD which has no validity,TON wont be existing because telegram isnt conducting secret ICO,this is just a speculations from few people,who wants to spread FUDs so they can solicit money from these noob investors.

SECRET PRESALE sounds stupid.

Yeah you are right,morelikely a FUD,theres no such thing as SECRET ICO i heard this news late december 2017 and it looks like these people are just re inventing these crap speculations over and over,this will be just a FUD until telegram has officially announced that they are going to have an ICO,well im sure they wont because if they have planned it people will know in the first place.

[Melfoy72]

Does anybody have a link to take part?
People are talking everywhere about that Telegram ICO, but I cant find any concrete informations about that, or is that only for the wale investorts again?

Take it easy. It's Private ICO just for billionaires. They decided invest some money on this ventures. But I think they get one's money's worth

[MaiQwaN]

I just do not understand what can be done with such huge money. They have not even released White Paper yet so that community can learn about the project's goals.

[Zentor]

I am not surprised. At the first presale they were groping optimal price, wanting to receive more money. Now they`ve raised the price a bit for selling all tokens but receiving more profit from sale.

[clonely]

Woowwww. how can we buy this token I cant understand. I never see any link, advertisement or anything.

I want to buy it with all my money. I think it chance to top10 in market cap!

[paxmao]

There are three reasons why I would not invest on such ICO. First, secrecy. I want transparent deals. Second, no room for growth, Telegram is already big, so it won´t go x100. Thrid, there are projects that have more potential on the same space.