Crypto Update | Can Banks Issue Stablecoins?
With bitcoin regaining lost ground to trade over $23K again, plus a look to the future of bank-issued stablecoins, CoinDesk’s “Markets Daily” is back with the latest news roundup.
ABOUT
Today's Stories:
First Mover Americas: Aptos’ Token Surges to Record High
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Tops $23.7K in Wednesday Comeback
BRN00 | Brent Crude Oil Continuous Contract Overview | MarketWatch
BlockFi Mistakenly Reveals Its $1.2B FTX Exposure
Polygon Q4 Transaction Volatility Fueled by FTX Collapse, ZK Rollup Testing, Nansen Says
Coinbase Fined $3.6M by Dutch Regulator for Failure to Register
Web3 Infrastructure Startup Spatial Labs Raises $10M
Featured Story: Can Banks Issue Stablecoins?
This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust, with original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.
HOSTS
Associate Producer for CoinDesk, Adrian 'Doc' Blust, is an experienced Composer, Musician/DJ, fintech nerd, and Educator, with practice both in the field and in the studio. He currently is dedicated to the editing & production of the Markets Daily Crypto News Roundups with Adam B. Levine, focused on quick news feeds to help people get up to speed with the fast pace of crypto every morning. He also offers support in the production of other shows on CoinDesk’s diverse Podcast Network.
He holds BTC, ETH, and ADA above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

Adam B. Levine joined CoinDesk in 2019 as the editor of its new audio and podcasts division. Previously, Adam founded the long-running Let's Talk Bitcoin! talk show with co-hosts Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos.
Finding early success with the show, Adam transformed the podcast's homepage into a full newsdesk and publishing platform, founding the LTB Network in January of 2014 to help broaden the conversation with new and different perspectives. In the Spring of that year, he would go on to launch the first and largest tokenized rewards program for creators and their audience. In what many have called an early influential version of "Steemit"; LTBCOIN, which was awarded to both content creators and members of the audience for participation was distributed until the LTBN was acquired by BTC, Inc. in January of 2017.
With the network launched and growing, in late 2014 Adam turned his attention to the practical challenges of administering the tokenized program and founded Tokenly, Inc. There, he led the development of early tokenized vending machines with Swapbot, tokenized identity solution Tokenpass, e-commerce with TokenMarkets.com and media with Token.fm. Adam owns some BTC, ETH and small positions in a number of other tokens.

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