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Telegram users can now send each other Tether (CRYPTO: USDT), the world's largest stablecoin by market cap, within chats in the messaging app. What Happened: This service has been added to @wallet bot on Telegram, which expanded the app's capacity for buying and selling crypto, according to...

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) has rolled out a new broadcast chat feature for Instagram channels, which dramatically resembles Telegram broadcast groups.  What Happened: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new feature on Instagram that brings one-way messaging to the app — just like how...

Spanish authorities, in collaboration with several other countries, arrested the CEO, sales executive and marketing director of cryptocurrency platform Bitzlato for their alleged involvement in money laundering. What Happened: A total of six people were apprehended, all of whom were...

WhatsApp "has now been a surveillance tool for 13 years," according to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who said in October 2022 — he deleted the Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META) app from his devices "years ago." What Happened: “Hackers could have full access to...

Toncoin (CRYPTO:TON) is rallying over 11% in the past 24 hours, outshining apex crypto Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH). What Happened: At the time of writing, TON was trading at $2.42. BTC at $17,777, up 3.49% and ETH at $1,318, up 4.67% in the past 24 hours. $TON Weekly Digest...

Messaging program Telegram now lets users create accounts anonymously via the blockchain rather than cell phone numbers. Private phone numbers are already hidden from non-added users of Telegram, which is touted as a rival to Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META)-owned WhatsApp. Users will now have the...

Pavel Durov, the Telegram messaging platform’s founder and CEO on Wednesday said that the platform would soon be introducing “non-custodial wallets” and “decentralized exchanges” that would allow millions of users to safely trade cryptocurrency. What Happened: In a...

Pavel Durov, the CEO of messaging platform Telegram, is exploring adding “a little bit of Web 3.0” to the app in the coming weeks.  What Happened: In a post to his 651,000 subscribers on Monday, Durov proposed auctioning reserved Telegram usernames, groups, and...

Cloud-based messaging platform Telegram has introduced a feature where users can send cryptocurrency through its platform. What Happened: Earlier this week, decentralized blockchain The Open Network (TON) announced that it would be integrating a bot to enable its 550 million users to make...

Jack Sweeney, the enterprising teenager who created a Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) bot to track down Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's movements, has a backup plan “just in case” his account on the microblogging account is shut down after the billionaire entrepreneur...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy often uses Telegram to reach out to the public amid Russia's invasion of his country. As concerns grow around the safety of the application, its Russia-born co-founder Pavel Durov chipped in with a message about user...

Signal, a privately-held instant messaging app backed by Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, has denied rumors that its messaging platform was “hacked and compromised.” What Happened: Signal said on Twitter it saw an uptick in usage in Eastern Europe and added that rumors...

Pavel Durov, who created major messaging application Telegram and Russian social network V, claims the technology derived from his Telegram Open Network cryptocurrency project is "still years ahead of everything else in the blockchain realm." What Happened: In a...

Instant messaging platform Telegram, a rival to Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)-owned WhatsApp, said on Tuesday it added over 70 million new users on Monday. What Happened: Telegram founder Pavel Durov said the company’s daily growth rate exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude as social...

Co-founder and co-owner of privacy-focused application Telegram, Pavel Durov, criticized Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) for bowing to the Chinese government and its obsolete hardware through his official channel on the messaging platform Wednesday. What Happened: Durov shared a New York Times article...