U.S. SEC halts Telegram's $1.7 billion digital token offering

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said on Friday they have halted a $1.7 billion (1.34 billion pounds) unregistered digital token offering by the messaging service Telegram Group Inc and its TON Issuer subsidiary.The Securities and Exchange Commission said it had received a temporary restraining order against the two offshore entities, which the regulator said had failed to register to sell 2.9 billion digital tokens called "Grams" to initial investors globally, including 1 billion to U.S...