The Venezuelan government has blocked access to Binance, social media platform X and other online services amid unrest over disputed presidential election results. On August 9, VE sin Filtro, a local anti-censorship group, posted that "the DNS of cryptocurrency exchange Binance was detected to be blocked, which affected the normal operation of its website and mobile app". Binance said: "Like the websites of several companies in different sectors in Venezuela, including social networks, Binance's...
Market news: U.S. and European lawmakers have jointly condemned the Venezuelan government's handling of the disputed election.