Telegram Launches Passport Service for ICO Verification

Messaging service Telegram launched a new #crypto-oriented feature on Thursday. Telegram Passport is a “unified authorization method for services that require personal identification”. KYC for ICOs in other words, which the Russian chat platform names as one of its intended use cases for Passport. Documents will be secured by end-to-end encryption, and #Telegram has promised that the service will eventually move to “a decentralized cloud”.