Morning Edition · Monday, October 26, 2026Published at 1:45 AM EDT · New York
The central bank said cryptocurrencies cannot serve as a way around sanctions, and 109 Israeli economists and business leaders warned that the plan would not prevent financial isolation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed that Israel prepare an alternative financial system built on blockchain and cryptocurrencies in case it faces international banking sanctions, French-language crypto channel Goku Crypto…
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States Turn Crypto Rails Into Sanctions Instruments
Governments increasingly track, freeze, and seize on-chain assets to enforce sanctions, turning traceable ledgers and centrally controlled stablecoins into extensions of financial statecraft rather than escapes from it.
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