ICO is not for everyone. Telegram can do without public placement

$ 3 billion Messenger Pavel Durov will work on one closed sale of tokens to large investors

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Telegram may abandon the public stage of its ICO, follows from the materials of the placement that RBC studied . The company expects to collect up to $ 3 billion following the results of two closed rounds of placement and this will be enough for the development of the Ton blockchain project, the sources of the publication say. American investors criticized the placement of Telegram for lack of information and the absence of project details, but this does not interfere with the successful sale of tokens.

• Initially, it was assumed that the public placement of Telegram will be held in March. In January, the company conducted a closed pre -sale and attracted $ 850 million from 81 large investor .
• At the end of February, it became known that the company decided to hold a second closed round. At first, its volume was estimated at $ 850 million, then it grew to $ 1.7 billion.
• The price of one GRAM token in the first round was $ 0.38, in the second - from $ 1.1 to $ 1.45.
• The possibility of abandoning public ICO is stipulated in two recent presentations for potential investors. One of the sources of RBC explains this by the fact that the company will be able to gain the entire amount in closed rounds. In the last Whitepaper (Avenue) of the project, the total amount of funds that the company plans to attract is estimated at $ 3 billion.
• One of the arguments RBC sources call that closed placement allows Telegram to refuse unsuitable investors - with a public ICO this will not work. In the first round, Telegram chose investors on the principle of proximity to the command of the messenger and fame, and refused Russian institutional investors.
• In the first round , such large investors of Silicon Valley as Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark and Sequoia Capital - despite the criticism of the ICO, which experts call one of the most closed: there are almost no technical details and information on how the future project will work.

What am I to me?

If there is no public placement, the only chance to participate in the ICO Telegram is to raise money to participate in the second closed round. The minimum application threshold is still unknown. However, before making this decision, it is worth reading at least this article criticizing ICO.

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