Telegrams – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com Latest Crypto News Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:53:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.8 https://i0.wp.com/earlybirdsinvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-New-Project-2024-12-17T235703.455.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Telegrams – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com 32 32 240146708 TAC Raises $11.5M to Bring DeFi to Telegram’s Billion-User Ecosystem https://earlybirdsinvest.com/tac-raises-11-5m-to-bring-defi-to-telegrams-billion-user-ecosystem/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/tac-raises-11-5m-to-bring-defi-to-telegrams-billion-user-ecosystem/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:53:40 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/tac-raises-11-5m-to-bring-defi-to-telegrams-billion-user-ecosystem/

June 18th, 2025 – New York, USA

TAC, a purpose-built blockchain for EVM dApps to access TON and Telegram ecosystem, has raised a total of $11.5 million across its seed and strategic rounds.

The newly closed $5 million strategic round, led by Hack VC, reinforces institutional belief in TAC’s mission to enhance blockchain functionality inside Telegram, the most user-rich environment in crypto.

“At Hack VC, we invest in teams building the future of the internet,” said Ed Roman, Managing Partner at Hack VC. “TAC is an exceptional team with a deep understanding of infrastructure and growth backed by years of experience building in the space. Leading this strategic round reflects our conviction in TAC’s ability to shape how Ethereum dApps reach global users through Telegram and TON.”

TAC is nearing its mainnet launch, now underway in a phased rollout. In the current DevMainnet phase, blue-chip DeFi protocols like Curve, Morpho, and Euler are already deploying, with over 20 leading applications preparing for Mainnet integration. This early traction ensures that once TAC goes live publicly, the ecosystem will launch with deep liquidity, proven DeFi primitives, and immediate user utility inside Telegram.

“TAC is committed to giving EVM developers the tools and reach to deploy their applications into Telegram’s billion-user ecosystem,” said Pavel Altukhov, Co-Founder and CEO of TAC. “This strategic round accelerates our mission to bring Ethereum applications to everyday users and lays the groundwork for the next wave of TON-native consumer apps.”

TAC’s pre-mainnet liquidity bootstrapping campaign, The Summoning, has drawn significant interest from leading funds, liquidity providers, and infrastructure players across the industry. With over $700M in total value locked (TVL) secured ahead of public Mainnet launch, this institutional-grade backing reflects deep confidence in TAC’s role as a DeFi layer for TON. Crucially, this liquidity will power core DeFi applications from day one, enabling real yield and market functionality at launch

“Going live on Telegram and TON via TAC can allow Curve to reach the new audience who aren’t yet on DeFi,” said Michael Egorov, Founder of Curve. “TAC chose a great approach of bringing battle-tested EVM applications there. We are happy to be one of the first to deploy and bring Curve to these new users”

Curve, Morpho, and Euler have already built dedicated Telegram Mini Apps (TMAs), making their products natively accessible in Telegram. In parallel, popular consumer TMAs are beginning to integrate DeFi functionality on the backend, distributing yield and financial tools to non-crypto users. TAC sees this convergence within the superapp Telegram as the path to mass adoption.

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]]> https://earlybirdsinvest.com/tac-raises-11-5m-to-bring-defi-to-telegrams-billion-user-ecosystem/feed/ 0 42757 Telegram’s TON Takes On Real World Assets With Libre’s $500M Tokenized Bond Fund https://earlybirdsinvest.com/telegrams-ton-takes-on-real-world-assets-with-libres-500m-tokenized-bond-fund/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/telegrams-ton-takes-on-real-world-assets-with-libres-500m-tokenized-bond-fund/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:29:44 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/telegrams-ton-takes-on-real-world-assets-with-libres-500m-tokenized-bond-fund/

Libre, a tokenization firm that works closely with the likes of hedge fund Brevan Howard, investment management firm Hamilton Lane and Nomura’s digital assets unit Laser Digital, plans to tokenize $500 million worth of Telegram debt as the blockchain-based Telegram Bond Fund (TBF) on the TON network that’s linked to the messaging platform.

TBF will offer accredited investors exposure to some of the around $2.35 billion of outstanding bonds issued by Telegram, providing institutional-grade yield products that will also be available as collateral for on-chain borrowing and product development on TON, Libre said.

“What we’ve created is like a fixed income fund that acquires the bonds and then we tokenize the fund,” Libre CEO Avtar Sehra in an interview. “When you purchase units in the fund these are on the TON chain, giving you access to the returns of the underlying bonds themselves. This opens up opportunities to use the bonds for collateral, ease of transfers, etc, to ultimately create utility with these financial instruments.”

The past year or two has seen a rush to create blockchain-based representations of real world assets (RWAs), bringing the traditional finance world rapidly within the ambit of crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi).

Sehra said many of his customers want either tokenized money market products because they’re looking for quick access to cash, or something that’s associated with an ecosystem they are involved in or work within.

The TON network was originally developed by Telegram before continuing as an independent operation. Over the last year or so, TON has been focused on bringing a large swathe of Telegram’s 950 million-plus users on-chain.

Libre has already tokenized over $200 million in assets across funds from leading institutions including BlackRock, Brevan Howard, Hamilton Lane, and Laser Digital.

“Our objective isn’t just to tokenize things for the sake of tokenizing them,” Sehra said. “I think the real value in tokenizing traditional financial instruments is unlocking the utility of those assets.”

UPDATE (April. 30, 06:32 UTC): Changes the outstanding Telegram bonds figure to $2.35 billion

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