The US should not sanction software developers who write code for cryptocurrency platforms

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Avigdor Liberman, leader of Israel Beytenu, accused Benjamin Netanyahu of preparing a sanctions-bypassing economy instead of preventing diplomatic isolation and promised to eliminate sanction threats if elected

Tether froze $131 million in crypto wallets tied to Iran's central bank and armed forces following United States sanctions in July 2026

Venezuela used Bitcoin, Tether, and the Petro token to maintain its oil industry and bypass the SWIFT global banking network

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in a Channel 10 interview broadcast Friday, October 23, 2026, that he requested a plan using blockchain technology and alternative currencies to counter potential international banking sanctions

Russia's ruble-pegged A7A5 token moved approximately $102 billion in its first year before international sanctions and exchange disruptions reduced its daily transaction volume by 96 percent

Benjamin Netanyahu provided no specific details regarding who is drafting the blockchain plan he had requested, which specific networks or currencies it would use, or its implementation timeline

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid criticized Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to use blockchain to evade potential banking sanctions, stating that evading sanctions belongs to nations like Iran, Russia, and Venezuela whose banks are isolated globally

On July 1, 2026, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued sanctions orders on 37 crypto wallets holding over 24 million shekels linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah

Nir Hirschman, CEO of Israel's Crypto Companies Forum, stated that while crypto can connect Israel to global markets, it is not a haven or shelter for money transfers

Fireblocks provides custody infrastructure and key management for Monfi USD (MUSD), while Chainalysis provides on-chain monitoring and sanctions screening.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury proposed using customer information, geographic restrictions, device-location checks, and transaction monitoring to support the reasonably believes counterparty location assessment in its Section 3 GENIUS Act proposal

The shared evidence infrastructure built by LogosFi, Inc. covers four core asset areas: reserves, redemption rights, custody status, and sanctions compliance

Mastercard designed Stablecoin Security for financial institutions to assess fraud, scam, and sanctions risks by evaluating fund origins, transaction context, restricted party exposure, and scam indicators before funds move on-chain

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the A7 Network on October 1, 2026, alleging its payment infrastructure facilitated transactions for sanctioned Russian and Iranian entities.

U.S. FinCEN reported that entities operating as A7 Sub-Agents processed over $17 billion in transactions between January 2025 and June 2026.

Financial Privacy Inc. holds OffMarket's master viewing key in a secure enclave under a multisignature arrangement with StarkWare, screening deposits against sanctions and reviewing legal requests for transaction data.

Open-source software allows continuous peer review to harden code against automated artificial intelligence exploitation

U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control rules prohibit U.S. virtual currency exchanges and wallet hosts from facilitating cryptocurrency transactions involving blocked Russian entities like Sberbank

Federal authorities and stablecoin issuer Tether froze over $344 million in USDT from two Iranian-linked cryptocurrency wallet addresses in April 2026

The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Iranian cryptocurrency exchange BitBank in September 2026 over allegations that it transferred hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps