Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is now free to travel after French authorities fully lifted the ban on his travel, although the investigation into the platform remains open. French authorities have reportedly lifted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s travel ban amid an ongoing investigation into the messaging platform. Durov had been ordered to remain in France following his arrest in Paris in August last year, facing multiple charges related to his operation of Telegram. Durov was previously granted temporary exemptions, and French authorities have now fully lifted restrictions on his travel, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Read more
Distributed cloud projects aim to reduce blockchain’s heavy dependence on centralized providers like AWS. Periodic service disruptions and capacity strain on centralized cloud infrastructure have created an opening for companies building distributed networks. Supporters of the distributed approach argue that spreading workloads across several smaller nodes reduces concentration risk. They say the model could be especially valuable in sectors with high computing demand and low tolerance for downtime, such as AI, gaming and finance. “Over time, as decentralized infrastructure matches or exceeds the performance of centralized clouds, reliance on single providers will naturally decline,” Carlos Lei, CEO and co-founder of DePIN-based connectivity marketplace Uplink, told Cointelegraph. Read more
Romania’s financial market watchdog ASF has approved the document related to the public offering for the binding takeover of Transilvania Broker de Asigurare, initiated by Czech company Partners Financial Services a.s.