{"id":58070,"date":"2025-11-12T12:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58070"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:16:30","slug":"anthony-scaramucci-says-ton-token-offers-indirect-bet-on-telegrams-ecosystem-could-hit-10-in-contrarian-play-challenging-visa-paypal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58070","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Scaramucci Says TON Token Offers Indirect Bet On Telegram&#8217;s Ecosystem, Could Hit $10 In Contrarian Play Challenging Visa, PayPal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, <strong>SkyBridge Capital <\/strong>founder <strong>Anthony Scaramucci <\/strong>said investing in <strong>TON <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">TON<\/a>) represents an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/equities\/25\/10\/48093176\/whats-behind-alphaton-capitals-123-after-hours-spike\">indirect bet<\/a> on <strong>Telegram<\/strong>, since the messaging platform isn&#8217;t publicly listed.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>TON Positioned As Utility Token For Payments<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Scaramucci, who serves as a strategic adviser to <strong>Alphaton Capital <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ATON\">ATON<\/a>), confirmed the view, saying TON functions as a utility token for a broad ecosystem similar to what<strong> Meta Platforms<\/strong> Inc.\u2019s (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/META\">META<\/a>) <strong>Libra <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/content\/45823569\/is-meta-plotting-a-stablecoin-comeback-years-after-libras-flop\">project<\/a> was meant to build.<\/p>\n<p>He added TON could facilitate instant cross-border transactions, potentially challenging<strong> Visa Inc. (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/V\">V<\/a>)<\/strong>, <strong>Western Union Co.<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/WU\">WU<\/a>) and <strong>PayPal Holdings Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/PYPL\">PYPL<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Scaramucci also outlined his selection criteria for tokens, which include having specialized development &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/11\/48798728\/anthony-scaramucci-says-ton-token-offers-indirect-bet-on-telegrams-ecosystem-could-hit-10-in-contrarian-pl?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Anthony\" scaramucci says ton token offers indirect bet on telegram ecosystem could hit in contrarian play challenging visa paypal>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci said investing in TON (CRYPTO: TON) represents an indirect bet on Telegram, since the messaging platform isn&#8217;t publicly listed. TON Positioned As Utility Token For Payments Scaramucci, who serves as a strategic adviser to Alphaton Capital (NASDAQ:ATON), confirmed the view, saying TON functions as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-58070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}