Durov’s statement that iCloud is ‘a surveillance tool’ came after Apple abandoned its long-running plan to fully encrypt iCloud backups because of FBI objection.
Telegram has yet to publicly or formally acknowledge the project, but investors in last year’s $1.7 billion token offering, widely publicized in the press, are selling their gram allocations via OTC desks, exchanges and special-purpose vehicles.
Telegram launched private testing of its Telegram Open Network. The new blockchain is available to several development teams at the moment.
As experts have estimated, the total capitalization of Gram could be worth $29.5 billion by the end of 2019.
The Xena Exchange platform is prepared to create a derivative on Telegram’s GRAM token. Investors would be able to trade the GRAM tokens before they are issued on the Telegram TON project. Xena’s derivative would be available as of Feb. 27.
The blockchain platform of popular messenger Telegram is 70% ready, while the test-version of TON is said to see the public in the upcoming months.