Estonian authorities have issued a notice of restraint of disposition to crypto lending platform CoinLoan’s Estonian branch. This notice limits CoinLoan’s ability to dispose of assets. A court-assigned liquidator must approve requests for customer withdrawals.

According to sources close to the matter, that includes assets of Vauld, another collapsed crypto platform. Basically, this means that CoinLoan will cease “all operations,” effective April 25. 

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El Salvador’s proposed ‘Bitcoin City,’ the crypto-funded, volcano-powered, Bitcoin mining tax haven that was, according to the country’s president Nayib Bukele, “coming along beautifully” has apparently been canceled. Or never actually existed.

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A hacking group with access to AT&T’s internal network has stolen up to $20 million in crypto from customers’ wallets, according to an anonymous source.

Cybercriminals infiltrated AT&T's employee portal which in turn allowed them to generate their own mail keys -- the details that anybody with an AT&T email address can use to log into their accounts without using a password.

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Crypto investor and former chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp, has resigned from the British media corporation following an inquiry into the potential conflicts of interest that could arise from his role in securing Boris Johnson an £800,000 personal loan.

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Crypto traders are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help them turn a profit. Projects are rapidly building AI tools that can execute trades with a particular focus on permissionless, ostensibly decentralized exchanges.

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A report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has outlined the role of cryptocurrency in the failures of banks Silvergate, Silicon Valley, and Signature, stating that while the banks’ exposure to crypto was minimal, the perception of risk “may have driven non-crypto firms/individuals to make significant withdrawals.”

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Crypto companies looking to offer services in the United Arab Emirates can now apply for a license with the country’s securities regulator, according to an announcement released on Monday.

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Over 5,000 ether has been stolen from the MetaMask wallets of cryptocurrency veterans across multiple chains since December 2022, according to a MetaMask developer known as Tay.

At the time of writing, the amount of ether stolen is worth $10.5 million. The ongoing hack deliberately targets “OGs who are reasonably secure,” the dev noted on Twitter, but it remains unclear how the sophisticated hacker is pulling it off.

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Last week Luno, the Digital Currency Group-owned crypto exchange, has announced that it’s set to cease operations in Singapore and will pull its plans to apply for a license in the country.

Luno claims that the move comes as part of a “regular evaluation” of its global strategy and has advised that all Singaporean users should withdraw their tokens and funds by June 19.

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Following the news that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging crypto protocol Algorand’s creators and issuers for selling unregistered securities, crypto enthusiasts are sharing an old clip of SEC head Gary Gensler praising Algorand when he was a professor at MIT back in 2019. But what does Gensler really say in this lecture?

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