PANews reported on August 29 that the crypto media DLNews interviewed several VC representatives about the arrest of Telegram founder Durov: Among them, CoinFund partner Alex Felix said he did not regret his venture capital company's investment in TON, and TON's fundamentals had not changed. Joven Wu, head of business development at Ryze Labs, said: "This controversy has greatly increased TON's visibility and has the potential to attract more users and developers to join the ecosystem." Shauli Rejwan, managing partner of Masterkey VC and an early investor in Toncoin, believes that TON may one day more thoroughly break away from its relationship with Telegram.