{"id":19814,"date":"2024-12-23T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegrams-reserves-surpass-500-million-excluding-cryptocurrencies\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:29:05","slug":"telegrams-reserves-surpass-500-million-excluding-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegrams-reserves-surpass-500-million-excluding-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram&#8217;s Reserves Surpass $500 Million Excluding Cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of 2024, Telegram&#8217;s total revenue exceeded $1 billion, marking its first profit since the start of monetization, according to the messenger&#8217;s founder, Pavel Durov.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"durov\/386\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He noted that over the year, the number of Telegram Premium subscribers tripled, surpassing 12 million. Advertising revenues also showed growth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We are closing the year with more than $500 million in cash reserves, excluding crypto assets,&#8221; Durov wrote. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also mentioned that over the past four years, Telegram raised about $2 billion through debt financing. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We repaid a significant portion of it this autumn, taking advantage of favorable bond prices,&#8221; the businessman added. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The messenger plans to develop innovative monetization methods to achieve financial sustainability while maintaining independence and respecting user rights.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the FT reported that deals with Toncoin created a financial buffer for Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the messenger introduced a major update for mini-applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of 2024, Telegram&#8217;s total revenue exceeded $1 billion, marking its first profit since the start of monetization, according to the messenger&#8217;s founder, Pavel Durov. He noted that over the year, the number of Telegram Premium subscribers tripled, surpassing 12 million. Advertising revenues also showed growth. &#8220;We are closing the year with more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1431,1423,723],"class_list":["post-19814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bonds","tag-pavel-durov","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}