Field notes on energy, the Fragment economy, cross-border commerce, regulated fintech and digital IP.
There is a predictable playbook that corporate legal teams reach for when they discover an @Name they want is held by someone else. Legal threats, platform takedowns, informal payments, social pressure. Every approach in this playbook fails — and each failure leaves the acquirer in a worse position than before.
A $41,000 Telegram @Name purchase vanished without a trace or a telegram username ban refund. User @nine bid 14,000 Toncoin for the @solana handle on Fragment, Telegram’s decentralized auction platform. The transaction…
On 4 May 2026, security researchers at Dataconomy reported that a malware campaign — “FEMITBOT” — had been running through Telegram Mini Apps for at least three weeks. The campaign impersonated Apple,…
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