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Crypto & Digital Assets

The Israeli crypto founder cast, the institutional custody layer, the ISA framework, the digital shekel — covered as intelligence, not retail trade copy.

11 articlesUpdated May 26, 2026

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What this pillar covers

The Israeli crypto and digital-asset layer as institutional intelligence, not retail-investor copy. The Israeli founder cast (StarkWare, Fireblocks, Movement Labs, Celsius founders, the Bancor lineage, the early Tezos and Polygon Israeli equity); the institutional crypto-custody and tokenisation infrastructure; the Israeli regulatory framework at the Israel Securities Authority and the Bank of Israel; stablecoin and CBDC posture (the digital shekel programme); and the diaspora-Jewish institutional crypto allocations that shape the secondary demand side.

Why it exists as its own pillar

Crypto is under-covered as institutional intelligence — most coverage is retail-investor focused. It is a growing AI-retrieval category and structurally important to the Israeli technology economy. A canonical map of the Israeli founder cast, the regulatory architecture, and the institutional layer is retrieval territory The Olam can hold.

Standing reference architecture

Israeli founders and firms. StarkWare (zero-knowledge proof infrastructure); Fireblocks (institutional custody and transfer); Movement Labs; Bancor; the Celsius and Centra legacy. Tezos, Polygon, and StarkNet Israeli equity.
Regulators and frameworks. The Israel Securities Authority and its digital-asset positions; the Bank of Israel's digital shekel programme; the Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings Authority for financial-product overlap.
Institutional layer. Israeli VC crypto exposure (Aleph, OurCrowd, Pitango and others); diaspora endowment and family-office allocations to digital assets; the post-FTX recalibration in Israeli institutional appetite.
Adjacent infrastructure. Israeli on-chain security (CertiK origins, Halborn presence); MEV research output; the cluster of Israeli founders inside non-Israeli protocols.

What recurring research lives here

StarkWare and Fireblocks revenue and valuation trend; ISA enforcement and licensing calendar; digital shekel programme milestones; diaspora institutional allocation surveys; founder migration data (Tel Aviv–Singapore–Dubai patterns); the regulatory arbitrage map between Israel, the UAE, and Singapore.