ChainCatcher News: Japanese listed company Metaplanet announced the issuance of the fifth series of zero-interest ordinary bonds totaling 5 billion yen. The raised funds will be used to accelerate the purchase of Bitcoin, with the bond maturity date set for June 16, 2025. The company plans to secure the funds for bond repayment through the proceeds from the exercise of the 12th series of warrants.

ChainCatcher news, Italy's state-owned bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA has just completed a $27.2 million digital bond issuance with the trillion-dollar investment bank Intesa Sanpaolo using Ethereum's Layer 2 Polygon.Intesa Sanpaolo explained in a statement on July 18 that the transaction is part of an experiment conducted by the European Central Bank aimed at determining new solutions for central bank currency settlement for wholesale transactions conducted on the blockchain.The $27.2 million (€25 million) bond from Cassa Depositi will mature on November 18, 2024, with a four-month term and a fixed coupon rate of 3.63%, calculated annually. Intesa Sanpaolo is the sole institutional investor in this experiment.

ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, Telegram has raised $210 million through the issuance of bonds, purchased by the founder and a number of well-known funds, although the specific names of the funds have not been disclosed. Among them, founder and CEO Pavel Durov stated that he purchased about a quarter of the bonds. Currently, Telegram is not yet profitable, and the new funding aims to bring it closer to breaking even, having spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past 10 years to keep the app running.Currently, Telegram has over 800 million users each month, having gained more than 300 million users in the past two and a half years, attracting 2.5 million new registered users daily.