ChainCatcher News, Telegram founder Pavel Durov stated in a post on his personal TG channel: "2024 will be a very good year for Telegram. For the first time in its 3-year monetization history, Telegram has achieved profitability. The number of Telegram Premium subscribers has tripled, exceeding 12 million. Advertising revenue has also increased several times. Telegram's total revenue for 2024 has surpassed 1 billion dollars, and its cash reserves exceed 500 million dollars (excluding cryptocurrency assets).

Over the past four years, Telegram has issued approximately 2 billion dollars in debt, and this fall it repaid part of the debt using favorable bond prices."