Check out the latest episode of Crypto Chats, where we dive into Fanton — one of the most ambitious Web3 projects building a real business on TON.
Eldar Khayretdinov, CEO & Founder of Fanton, joins the episode to discuss how they’re bringing Fantasy Football to life within a Telegram web app bot and creating new ways for fans to engage.
Fanton By the Numbers:
▪️3M+ Total Registered Users ▪️500K+ Monthly Active Users (depending on the football season) ▪️30-50K Daily Active Users ▪️300K+ Wallets Connected
Check out the latest episode of Crypto Chats, where we dive into Fanton — one of the most ambitious Web3 projects building a real business on TON.
Eldar Khayretdinov, CEO & Founder of Fanton, joins the episode to discuss how they’re bringing Fantasy Football to life within a Telegram web app bot and creating new ways for fans to engage.
Fanton By the Numbers:
▪️3M+ Total Registered Users ▪️500K+ Monthly Active Users (depending on the football season) ▪️30-50K Daily Active Users ▪️300K+ Wallets Connected
Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. "Like the bombing of the maternity ward in Mariupol," he said, "Even before it hits the news, you see the videos on the Telegram channels." A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred."
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