The ‘Red Rock Accord’– empowered by the Cyrus Cylinder brought to Susa in a future peace pact with Iran as a Middle East partner–envisions utilizing Israel’s advanced blockchain and fintech ecosystem to transform regional economic cooperation into a new global financial infrastructure. By tokenizing physical assets, deploying Israel’s new digital shekel, and using smart contracts, this cultural framework aims to bypass traditional banking intermediaries and shift toward a decentralized, efficient trade system in the 21st. century off and firing.

A shared blockchain initiative involving Israel, Iran, yes, Israel and Iran, and their Middle Eastern neighbors as one surprisingly united global power would fundamentally alter the global financial order by utterly dismantling the existing, self-serving U.S. dollar-based sanction regime and creating a new, regional, decentralized payment infrastructure.

While this is only a humble concept brought forward by a blog, the idea in mind is to provide a secure, independent, and instant settlement method for trade–especially energy–while still allowing for coins and paper currency to still have value among the locals, for convenience and privacy, allowing for the best of both financial worlds to create a system that would directly bypass traditional financial institutions favoring compliance with U.S. sanctions.

The technological infrastructure built on exemplary principles by King Cyrus the Great,    which already has seen increased experimentation in 2026 amidst heightened geopolitical volatility, would set in stone like a King Cyrus statue the value of true Middle East power.

A smooth Middle East blockchain system between regional neighbors experiencing a rocky relationship as angry foes, may seem an idealistic, tone-deaf proposition now, but perhaps a regional famine causing a true existential crisis to all, beyond the imagined one causing the fertilizer shortages in the first place, will promote the idea based on necessity of allowing sanctioned nations like Iran to trade energy and other goods, facilitating commerce without relying so much on the SWIFT network and the coercive U.S. dollar settlement systems.

It would severely weaken the primary tool Washington D.C. uses to........

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