The second round of ICO Telegram attracted $ 850 million

On the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), appeared the information that during the second round of the ICO, the blockchain platform Telegram Open Network (TON) of Pavel and Nikolai Durov raised $ 850 million. 94 investors took part in the ICO, which started on March 14. The issuer of tokens are two companies - TON Issuer Inc. and Telegram Group Inc., as the type of securities placed - an agreement on the purchase of cryptocurrency.

The first round of attracting investments took place from January 29 to mid-February. On February 13, Durov reported on his results. As part of the ICO, they managed to attract $ 850 million from 81 investors. According to the SEC, proceeds from the placement of tokens will go to the development of Telegram's messenger and TON's blockchain-platform. Among investors in the first round of the ICO, Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, who invested $ 300 million, founder and general director of QIWI Sergey Solonin, the second largest investor among Russian investors, and co-founder of Wimm-Bill-Dann, David Yakobashvili, who invested $ 10 million in Telegram and TON.