{"id":68423,"date":"2026-01-20T07:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=68423"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:46:57","slug":"exclusive-trump-wants-exxon-in-venezuela-but-this-oil-vet-says-only-tokenization-of-barrels-will-make-it-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=68423","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Trump Wants Exxon In Venezuela, But This Oil Vet Says Only &#8216;Tokenization&#8217; Of Barrels Will Make It Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/politics\/26\/01\/49681852\/trump-says-us-oil-giants-will-pump-billions-into-venezuelas-energy-sector-post-regime-change\">urging U.S. oil majors<\/a> to rebuild Venezuela&#8217;s shattered energy sector, but one veteran trading strategist warns that political promises alone cannot protect assets from future expropriation. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Baron Lamarre<\/strong>, former head of trading at <strong>Petronas<\/strong>, argues that unless the industry adopts a \u201ctrustless\u201d digital infrastructure to track ownership, relying on \u201cinformal assurances\u201d leaves the country fundamentally uninvestable for giants like <strong>Exxon Mobil Corp. <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XOM\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XOM\">XOM<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Digital \u2018Trust Layer\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>While the White House brokers $500 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/commodities\/26\/01\/49842056\/global-traders-edge-out-us-giants-in-race-for-venezuelan-oil-deals-report\">initial sales<\/a>, as per a Reuters report, Lamarre\u2014now co-founder of the International Digital Exchange (Index)\u2014contends that traditional contracts are insufficient in a jurisdiction &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49994681\/exclusive-trump-wants-exxon-in-venezuela-but-this-oil-vet-says-only-tokenization-of-barrels?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Exclusive:\" trump wants exxon in venezuela but this oil vet says only of barrels will make it safe>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is urging U.S. oil majors to rebuild Venezuela&#8217;s shattered energy sector, but one veteran trading strategist warns that political promises alone cannot protect assets from future expropriation. Baron Lamarre, former head of trading at Petronas, argues that unless the industry adopts a \u201ctrustless\u201d digital infrastructure to track ownership, relying on \u201cinformal assurances\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-68423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}