Crypto News Roundup for March 11, 2022
With ether-bitcoin implied volatility spreads suggesting investors are focused on macro factors, plus a look at what Steve Jobs can teach us about Web 3, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with its latest news roundup.
ABOUT
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Arculus and PathDAO.
Today's Stories:
Bitcoin Jumps to $40K as Putin Sees Positive Shift in Ukraine Talks
10M Ether Now Locked on Eth 2.0 Staking Contract
European Stocks on Track for Weekly Gain After Days of Choppy Trading | Financial Times
Oil Prices Rebound, Stock Futures Waver as Russia Escalates Attacks on Ukraine - WSJ
Fed Seen Being Cautious in Rate Path Amid Ukraine Uncertainty - Bloomberg
Analysis: Oil Shock Is Coming, but US May Have Already Paid for It | Reuters
UK FCA Orders Operators to Shut Down Crypto ATMs
Bank of Israel Publishes Draft Guidelines for Crypto Deposits
USDF Stablecoin Consortium Adds 3 More Banks
China's Digital Yuan Targeted in New Bill From Nine GOP Senators
US Department of Labor Urges 'Extreme Care' Before Adding Crypto to 401(k) Plans
Popular Denim Brand Diesel to Drop First NFTs on Rarible
Vitalik Buterin Asks Court for Leniency in Upcoming Sentencing of Virgil Griffith
Featured Story: What Web 3 Can Learn From Steve Jobs
This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust.
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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