Telegram, a privacy-focused messaging service, announced in 2018 that it was building a decentralized blockchain network technology known as The Open Network (TON)

However, after a long litigation war that lasted up to May 2020 between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and its concern about it $1.75 billion Initial Coin OfferingTelegram (ICO) Sever its ties to the projectMany people believe that TON is what it was meant to be.