Odaily Planet Daily News: During the riots caused by the dispute over the results of the presidential election, the Venezuelan government blocked access to Binance, social media platform X and other online services. On August 9, the local anti-censorship organization VE sin Filtro posted that "it was detected that the DNS of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance was blocked, which affected the normal operation of its website and mobile application." Binance said that "like the websites of many companies in different fields in Venezuela (including social networks), Binance's pages also face access restrictions." Binance assured that users' funds are safe, adding that it is "closely monitoring the situation to solve the problem in the best and fastest way." (Cointelegraph)