Although nothing has been officially announced, a 23-page document obtained by Mashable claims that Telegram is preparing to launch an initial coin offering (ICO).*
Although the document outlines a dynamic token crowdsale in which the token price would be adjusted according to interest, CoinDesk's sources claim Telegram plans to raise $600 million to $700 million. Since the same sources claim the company is also looking to collect $500 million to $600 million in a presale (a private sale of digital tokens, typically to larger investors), that puts the total raised at about .2 billion.* Read more...