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Telegram ICO Review
Published January 9, 2018
Jared McKinney

Idea

Company

Telegram

Ticker

TON

Industry

Blockchain Service

Description

Decentralized mechanical turk powered by Ethereum.

Overview Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM03fKFTMYk

Founding Team & Partners

Founding Team

  • Pavel Durov (CEO, Co-founder)
  • Nikolai Durov (Co-founder, CTO)
  • Mikhail Ushokov (Developer)

Advisors

N/A

Corporate Partners & Sponsors

None announced yet.

Product & Roadmap

Product Stage

Prototype: Supposedly launching mid-2018

Roadmap

Details of the Telegram ICO are still forthcoming, but the tentative roadmap looks something like this:

  • Q1 2018 - External Secure ID
  • Q2-Q3 2018 - MVP of TON Network
  • Q4 2018 - Telegram Wallet
  • Q1 2019 - TON-based Economy
  • Q2-4 2019 - Rest of the TON Services
    • TON Services - Third-party services, Dapp Store, Smart Contracts etc.
    • TON DNS - Service for assigning human readable names to accounts
    • TON Payments - Secure payments and micropayments
    • TON Blockchain - Super blockchain capable of 1 million transactions per second

ICO

Total Supply = 5B Grams (Although the ticker is TON, the new tokens will be called Grams)

4% - 200M Grams - reserved for the development team

44% - 2.2B -  sold in the public and private presale

Date

As early as March 2018, according to TechCrunch

Investment

Rumored to require fiat currency investment

Bonus

TBA

Caps

TBA

KYC

TBA

Whitelist

TBA

Community

Size

ALL TELEGRAM USERS! (180M)