NEW YORK: US authorities said on Friday they have halted a US$1.7 billion unregistered digital token offering by the messaging service Telegram and its TON Issuer subsidiary.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said it had received a temporary restraining order against the two offshore entities, which the regulator said had failed to register to sell 2.9 billion digital tokens called"Grams" to initial investors globally, including 1 billion to US buyers. The move marks the latest effort by the agency to crack down on the fledgling cryptocurrency industry.
"Our emergency action today is intended to prevent Telegram from flooding the U.S. markets with digital tokens that we allege were unlawfully sold,” Stephanie Avakian, co-director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, said in a statement. Telegram promised to give the coins to buyers when it launched its blockchain by Oct 31, when the purchasers and the company would be able to sell them into US markets, the SEC said.
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