🇺🇸 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed that his administration will request identification to access discounted food programs.
🇺🇸 FBI agent arrested and charged with stealing $1,000,000 in cryptocurrency from the accounts of a suspect.
A supervising counterintelligence agent with the FBI has been arrested and charged with stealing approximately $1 million in cryptocurrency from digital accounts connected to a foreign suspect involved in a U.S. criminal investigation, according to court documents.
Patrick Yaroch appeared and confessed to a Department of Justice employee in the latter part of last week. Court documents indicate that he told the employee the situation was «eating him up inside» and that he wanted to «get it off his chest».
⚽️ | Donald Trump will do everything in his power to keep Gianni Infantino as president of FIFA.
Trump likes that a lot, because he believes he made the World Cup the best of them all, Tele Football reports.
🇺🇸 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Trump and determined that children of undocumented migrants born in the country are U.S. citizens.
🇻🇪The government plans to incorporate 4,800 megawatts of thermoelectric generation before the end of the year
The interim president explained that the increase in electricity generation capacity is supported by agreements signed with international companies to strengthen national infrastructure.
Official release: 🇻🇪The government reports that the death toll from the earthquakes rises to 6,125
🤝⚠️The BCV continues to close the FX gap slowly, progressively, and steadily over time.
Some people are still in denial; they don’t accept reality, even though it’s obvious.
They call someone a chavista, without analyzing.
Something like this cannot be hidden and must be addressed with the truth.
The chart doesn’t lie.
💱If tomorrow the gap rises to 50%, it will be stated and analyzed.
But what is evident—something that cannot be hidden—is the decrease in the FX gap in a slow, progressive, and sustained manner over time.
💱Here we don’t declare the end of the gap, or anything like that. We only analyze the moment and the circumstances.
Here we would have to say that the gap is INCREASING to get likes and stay in line with the majority.
We don’t settle into any speech or any position.
Something is evident and cannot be hidden: DECREASE IN THE FX GAP IN A SLOW, PROGRESSIVE, AND SUSTAINED MANNER OVER TIME.
🇺🇸The United States welcomes with satisfaction the statements made on August 1 by the National Assembly of Venezuela in 2015, headed by Dinorah Figuera, and by the interim government.
We support the start of efforts led by Venezuelans themselves to address the urgent needs of the people affected by the earthquakes of June 24, strengthen democratic institutions, expand political freedoms, and promote a more stable and prosperous future for the Venezuelan people.
This process contributes significantly to the three-phase plan that the United States supports to achieve stabilization, economic recovery, and political reconciliation, as well as a transition to democratic elections. We are confident that this work can generate tangible results for Venezuelans. #venezuela #EEUU #EstadosUnidos #caracasvenezuela #Caracas $BTC $ETH $XRP
More than 36,500 deaths in Iran’s bloodiest massacre, according to documents revealed
Passed 30,000. Two informed sources from the Supreme National Security Council also told Iran International that, in two recent reports from the Intelligence Organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, dated January 22 and January 24, the number of deaths stood at more than 33,000 and more than 36,500, respectively. According to reports from the Ministry of the Interior, security forces clashed with protesters in more than 400 cities and towns, and more than 4,000 sites of clashes have been recorded across the country.
DEXs capture a record 24% of crypto spot trading volume as CEXs decline
Decentralized exchanges reached a record of 24% of crypto spot trading volume, according to The Block, while activity on centralized exchanges retreats. Decentralized exchanges reached a milestone in their dispute with traditional platforms: DEXs captured a record 24% of cryptocurrency spot trading volume, according to data collected by The Block. The advance coincides with a drop in activity on centralized exchanges (CEXs), reflecting a shift in how and where users operate.
Groundhog Researchers Turn to OnlyFans and Memecoins Emerge on Solana
Groundhog researchers opened an OnlyFans account to fund their work after funding cuts, and without their endorsement memecoins emerged on Solana inspired by the project. Science ran into internet culture in the most unexpected place. A group of researchers who have been studying groundhogs for decades began using OnlyFans to fund their work after suffering funding cuts, and almost immediately memecoins appeared on Solana inspired by the project, none of them endorsed by the scientists.
FBI Ex-Agent Accused of Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Crypto From Investigated Wallets
An FBI ex-agent faces charges for allegedly stealing nearly 1 million dollars in cryptocurrencies from wallets linked to federal investigations. An FBI ex-agent faces charges for crypto theft after being accused of stealing nearly one million dollars in digital assets linked to wallets that were under federal investigation. The case, which exposes cracks in the handling of seized funds, puts the spotlight back on the internal controls of agencies that custody confiscated cryptocurrencies.
RLUSD on Ethereum: XRP holders can now take out loans without selling their crypto
FXRP was approved as collateral in an RLUSD loan vault on Ethereum worth $280 million, allowing XRP holders to access liquidity without selling. XRP holders now have a new way to get liquidity without giving up their coins: the wrapped version of XRP was approved as collateral in an RLUSD loan vault on Ethereum valued at $280 million. The integration connects Ripple’s native token with decentralized credit markets on the network of Vitalik Buterin.
Kenya brings 30 million academic degrees to the Avalanche blockchain
Kenya migrated 30 million educational credentials to the Avalanche blockchain to combat degree forgery and enable instant verification by employers and universities. Kenya makes a concrete move in the use of distributed ledger technology: the country migrated 30 million academic credentials to the Avalanche blockchain through a new digital verification platform. The goal is to curb the falsification of degrees and enable employers and universities to authenticate academic records directly on-chain.
Japan and South Korea’s authorities intervened in a synchronized manner in the foreign exchange market to support their national currencies. The rapid depreciation of the yen and the won sharply increases the cost of imports of energy, food, and raw materials, fueling domestic inflation and affecting household consumption in both countries.
Although the large-scale sale of foreign exchange reserves to buy yen and won provides immediate short-term relief, derivatives market operators tend to test the determination and the intervention limits of central banks if underlying structural conditions do not change.
RippleX's head of product, Jazzi Cooper, stated that the next XRPLD version 3.3.0 will bring privacy powered by ZK to XRPL tokenized assets, atomic batch liquidation, and role-based access controls for institutional users. This version allows an institution or user to delegate specific operational permissions to other users or services without giving up private keys or full control of the account.
It also enables companies or platforms to cover transaction costs and XRP account setup for their users, making it easier to roll out to customers without them having to buy XRP beforehand. The release of version 3.3.0 makes the code available to nodes, but each amendment requires 80% approval from the network validators over two consecutive weeks in order to activate on the mainnet.
"The moment is now": investors prepare to enter Venezuela despite enormous risks
London CNN — In a dazzling ballroom in central London, around 200 people from the energy industry gathered to discuss a proposal that just eight months earlier seemed unthinkable: investing in Venezuelan oil. “The moment is now,” said Greig Gilbert, chief executive of Apertura Energy, an investment firm, to the crowd on Thursday night at the The Langham hotel. Gilbert’s firm expects to make major investments in Venezuela’s run-down oil sector. Apertura Energy changed its name and refreshed its strategy only a few months after the United States captured then-president Nicolás Maduro in January, laying the groundwork for foreign investors to enter an industry long dominated by a state-run oil company.
The debate over the control and management of the income derived from the sale of Venezuelan oil after the intervention has generated intense political and international controversy.
While critical and opposition sectors accuse that the priority has been focused on the extraction of resources and on retaining funds under external financial leverage schemes without transparent oversight, the U.S. administration defends the trade agreements, arguing that they seek to stabilize and reactivate the country’s economy.
money in his pocket for it and Venezuela that the 🐀 eats it, that’s Trump’s philosophy
that’s how he liked the little Venezuelan, the disgust wanted this
🇻🇪🚨 | The U.S. State Department issued a statement in which it reiterated its support for the dialogue process between the National Assembly elected in 2015 and the government of Delcy Rodríguez.
Washington said the process will contribute to recovery after the earthquakes, strengthening democratic institutions, and the transition to free elections.
🧑💼 Delcy Rodríguez hands over 87 new homes to families affected by the double earthquake in Venezuela
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 | The Iranian regime assured that it does not maintain and does not plan to hold meetings with the Donald Trump administration, publicly and formally ruling out the negotiation path at the moment when Washington had paused its military actions.
👨💼 Trump calls Iran’s leadership “incredibly duplicitous,” saying that Tehran begs for talks and then publicly denies that discussions are taking place.
🇺🇸 President Trump says the Strait of Hormuz is “completely controlled” by the United States.
💥President Donald Trump: "We are talking with them in negotiations. They start tomorrow afternoon," the president said, adding that the process "would save many lives." The global butcher eager to keep killing people...☠
👨💼 Trump on Iran:
It was requested by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Iran itself to suspend the attacks.
It would have been a massive attack.
When the allies asked to cancel it, you have to say: «Well, let’s see».
The allies think there is an agreement. There is an agreement on Hormuz, and there will be an agreement on the nuclear deal.
Reporter: On Iran, what happens now? 👨💼Trump: We are talking with them. It starts tomorrow afternoon. It would save many lives.
👨💼 Trump on bombing Iran: There is a group of people who would love for him to do it —just do it— and there is another group of people that does not want him to do it.
Reporter: Does Iran have a deadline to reach a deal?
👨💼Trump: We’ll see. I’m not looking to kill people.
👨💼 Trump on Iran: I asked the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia: "What would you prefer we did?"
He said: "We would prefer an agreement instead of an attack."
Reporter: There’s a report saying you’re pulling U.S. troops out of Kuwait and Bahrain.
👨💼Trump: I don’t want to comment on that. 👨💼 Trump on Iran: It was going to be a massive attack. We were asked not to do it. They said: «Please don’t do it».
Their neighbors also said that. We’ll just see if we can reach an agreement or not.
👨💼 Trump on Iran: We had an attack that would have been the biggest attack since World War II.
It would have been disastrous for them, and they didn’t want us to do it.
Frankly, Saudi Arabia didn’t want it either. They thought an agreement was imminent.
👨💼 Trump on Iran: I’d rather reach an agreement. I’m not looking to kill people.