How dark market vendors are using Telegram bots to decentralize

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Quick Take

  • Dark market vendors have found a new, more decentralized way to evade law enforcement.
  • Despite the tradeoffs, Chainalysis expects the trend to continue.
To evade law enforcement, dark market vendors have turned to Televend, which provides Telegram-based bots to interact with their customers.
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