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Telegram shuts ‘largest darknet marketplace to have ever existed’

By: the crypto news wire|2025/05/15 08:15:06

Haowang Guarantee, formerly Huione Guarantee, has announced that it will cease operations following a massive Telegram purge of merchant accounts. A major Chinese darknet marketplace suspected of facilitating crypto scams and cybercrime has been shut down by the Telegram messaging service, upon which it operated. The internet’s largest illicit marketplace, Haowang Guarantee, formerly Huione Guarantee , said it will shut down following Telegram’s ban of thousands of associated accounts on May 13. “Since all our NFTs, channels and groups were blocked by Telegram on May 13, 2025, Haowang Guarantee will cease operations from now on,” read the notice on the marketplace website. Read more

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