Israel Just Tokenized the World's Best Performing Currency. Why Wall Street Is Paying Attention

About this episode

Israel has approved BILS, the first regulated shekel stablecoin, which is attracting attention from Wall Street.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/israel-just-tokenized-the-worlds-best-performing-currency-why-wall-street-is-paying-attention . Israel approves BILS, the first regulated shekel stablecoin, breaking ground in a $320B market that is 96.5% dollar. The endgame for fiat on-chain. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories . You can also check exclusive content about and more. This story was written by: @ishanpandey . Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com .

Topics covered

• stablecoin
• currency
• finance
• blockchain
• Israel
• Wall Street
• regulation

Keywords

• Israel
• BILS
• stablecoin
• Wall Street
• currency
• finance
• blockchain
• regulation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Israel

Products: BILS

Places: Wall Street

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