The decentralized blockchain Telegram Open Network (TON) announced this week that it will add a bot that will allow more than 550 million users to send cryptocurrency to other users via chat. The initial launch of the “wallet” bot will enable the sending and receiving of Toncoins, In the process, Telegram handed over control of TON and Toncoin which is now the 205th largest cryptocurrency according to CoinMarketCap.com with a value of US$2.83 billion to The Open Network, an open source community dedicated to developing Toncoin and related blockchains.
This is One good thing for crypto users specially those telegram users , but the problem is? telegram since then being mentioned as a place where scammers uses because the whole conversation can be deleted and no one can recovered the conversation, though I don't see any problem from this (and also Facebook messenger has this option now Unsending the Message)
But let's see how this can help the crypto users as TON seems to be a legit currency and can be used as this transaction ,
Telegram's renowned features are encrypted chat and messages. This leads to a lot of scammers thinking they can get away with their crimes if they use Telegram to communicate with victims. The encrypted chat feature only turns on if people agree beforehand, their chat and messages will be encrypted and Telegram will not able to access or know that kind of content in there. Other than that, Telegram is just a normal chat app like any similar chat app out there. Telegram Open Network (TON) as the name state, was backed by Telegram before but Telegram withdrew from the project. I think if they are now reunited as the news implied, strong chance Telegram can access TON users' information from the app easily. This allows them to take care of any scammers targeting TON users or abusing the app with TON 'wallet' bot.