TON Developers Worldwide Unite Against SEC’s Telegram Case

Moreover, the TON Community Foundation, undeterred by the United States SEC’s lawsuit against messaging firm Telegram, submitted the court brief on 14th February. The association claimed that TON Blockchain was ready for launch as the only thing stopping it is SEC’s lawsuit against Telegram. The lawsuit which was filed back in October by the SEC and it halted Telegram’s from launching its own blockchain.

Nevertheless, in the filing, the association claimed that it was created to represent the active members of the TON Blockchain development community. According to the filing, the group’s main interest is to make sure; that TON Blockchain main-net is launched as soon as possible.

The foundation consists of twenty different teams in the TON worldwide community. In addition, it is pronounced as “independent specialists with extensive blockchain experience who are involved in the actual work on the TON blockchain and who write its code, protocol, smart contracts, tools, and applications.”

Indeed, the twenty teams speak on behalf of more than 2,000 engineers, computer scientists, entrepreneurs and programmers. The participants are based in China, Russia, France, Spain among other countries in the world. The court brief has emphasized on some particular arguments that were put forward by Prof. Maurice Herlihy of Brown University; during his review of TON for the SEC.

Is the SEC Suffocating Innovation?

In conclusion, the SEC launched an investigation back in 2019 following a successful $1.7 billion TON ICO run in 2018. The commission claimed that Telegram had not registered with it for the ICO and TON’s native Gram tokens. In the filing by the foundation, the argument is that the court should decline SEC’s urge; to fit the industry under the authority of an “innovation-suffocating regime.”