Telegram adds self-custodial crypto wallet worldwide, excluding the US

Telegram and the TON Foundation jointly announced TON Space, a self-custodial crypto wallet, at Singapore's Token2049 conference, and it will be available to Telegram's global users starting in November without wallet registration, excluding certain jurisdictions such as the U.S. The wallet was built by The Open Platform (TOP), whose CEO Andrew Rogozov says it lets developers create NFT-based access keys and removes the need to create a wallet first. Telegram has 800 million monthly active users, and its existing custodial wallet has three million registered users. Halil Mirakhmed, COO of Wallet, says TON Space and Signal's MobileCoin-based payments attract different users.