The popular instant messaging platform, telegram, will no longer be paying its investors in Gram tokens.
The messaging platform told financial specialists in its TON blockchain venture Monday that it would not be taking care of speculators in tokens, and it was hoping to purchase American speculators out right away.
Telegram, which has twice deferred the dispatch of its new system, is legally committed to repay speculators 72% of their ventures following missing an April 30 dispatch cutoff time, yet has offered to pay financial specialists 110% of their venture on the off chance that they trust that the system will go live as it thinks about the U.S. Protections and Exchange Commission (SEC) about whether its token deal abused government protections law.
The organization right now would like to dispatch in April 2021, pending the result of this case.
Simply a week ago, Telegram left the entryway open to financial specialists being reimbursed in grams, composing if speculators consented to hold up that year and leave their cash with Telegram as an advance, they could get reimbursed in TON’s local tokens, named grams, “or another digital currency,” as per the past correspondence by Telegram. In any case, the crypto alternative has now been considered infeasible.
“Unfortunately, based on more recent discussions with relevant authorities and our counsel, we have made the difficult decision not to pursue an option involving grams or another cryptocurrency due to its uncertain reception from the relevant regulators,” Telegram said.
Telegram is just making the proposal to its non-U.S. clients. American clients will be required to acknowledge the 72% payouts, the letter said.
“This offer is only being made available to offerees outside the United States who are not U.S. persons within the meaning of Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933,” Telegram wrote.
“We intend to ask you to return signed documents in relation to this new transaction by Monday, May 11, 2020, so we need your initial response to this email as soon as possible,” the letter ends.
