According to Foresight News, DL News reported that in response to the recent incident involving Telegram founder Pavel Durov, CoinFund partner Alex Felix said, "I don't regret investing in TON, and the fundamentals of TON have not changed." Joven Wu, head of business development at Ryze Labs, said, "This controversy has greatly increased TON's visibility and is likely to attract more users and developers to join the ecosystem." Shauli Rejwan, managing partner of Masterkey VC, said, "Despite the news of Pavel Durov's arrest, TON may one day more thoroughly break away from its relationship with Telegram."