Telegram Hosting World’s Largest Darknet Market

Reporting indicates that Telegram now hosts large Chinese-language darknet marketplaces (notably Tudou Guarantee and Xinbi Guarantee) that enable roughly $2 billion per month in money-laundering and provide scam tools, stolen data, fake investment sites, and services supporting large-scale "pig butchering" crypto romance/investment frauds—operations that reportedly extract around $10 billion annually from U.S. victims—while also linking to broader criminal services and human-trafficking concerns; the article highlights scale and societal impact but provides no technical IOCs or vulnerability/malware analysis.