GRAM Falls to $1.29 Three-Month Low as Apple Pulls Telegram for 4 Hours

Gram, the token tied to Telegram, fell roughly 6.4% from $1.41 to $1.32 on August 4 and briefly touched $1.29 — its lowest level since late April — after Apple pulled Telegram from the App Store. The messaging app was unavailable across all 175 tested App Store storefronts for about four hours, according to independent monitoring cited by outlets covering the incident, before Apple restored the listing. Gram has since clawed back most of the drop, trading around $1.38 to $1.40.

Apple said the app was removed after its review turned up content that violated its policies on child sexual abuse material, specifically nonconsensual media involving minors. Telegram removed the offending content and banned the account that posted it, and Apple reinstated the app shortly after.

What the price swing shows

The sequence is a textbook example of headline-driven volatility in a thinly traded, sentiment-linked token. Gram’s intraday range — from roughly $1.41 down to $1.29 and back up to the $1.38-$1.40 area — played out entirely within the four-hour window the app was unreachable on Apple’s storefronts, even though existing installations on users’ phones kept working throughout.

That detail matters for traders: the sell-off was driven by fear of a distribution blackout rather than any actual loss of service for the roughly billion users who already had Telegram installed. Once Apple confirmed restoration, the token recovered most, though not all, of its losses, still sitting modestly below its pre-news level on the day.

Telegram’s response and the wider legal backdrop

Telegram addressed the outage on X with a one-line jab — “Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated” — paired with an apple emoji, signaling the company treated the removal as a resolved, short-lived issue rather than an existential threat.

The App Store scare lands as Telegram already faces separate legal pressure in two jurisdictions. Russia is pursuing a terrorism-related charge against founder Pavel Durov over the platform’s handling of alleged extremist content, while Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has opened court proceedings against Telegram over alleged failures to remove terrorism-related material. Neither of those cases is connected to the App Store removal, but together they underline that content-moderation enforcement remains an active risk factor for Telegram’s ecosystem, including any token whose price is sensitive to platform headlines.

Why it matters for holders

For Gram holders, the episode is a reminder that the token’s price can move sharply on distribution-channel news even when the underlying app and network are functioning normally. With Telegram’s legal exposure spread across at least three separate regulatory fronts — Apple’s content policy, Russia’s terrorism case, and Australia’s eSafety action — investors should expect further bouts of headline-driven volatility rather than assume this incident closes the book on platform risk.

Sources

• cointelegraph.com
• ambcrypto.com