Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 25, 2021
With crypto markets rebounding after a weekend breather and a look at centralization in the NFT market, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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Today’s Stories:
European stocks steady as investors prepare for week of tech earnings
Stock Futures Creep Up Ahead of Tech Earnings
Time for Fed to taper bond purchases but not to raise rates, Powell says
U.S. business activity accelerates in October, shortages hamper factories - IHS Markit survey
Global equity funds see biggest inflows in seven weeks - Lipper
Shippers Find New Supply-Chain Hurdles at Alternate Ports
US Home Sales Jumped 7% in September - WSJ
Alibaba Has Lost $344 Billion in World’s Biggest Wipeout
Nigeria to Launch Its ENaira Digital Currency on Monday
Saudi Central Bank Mulls Blockchain for Finance, Rejects Phasing Out Cash
Bitcoin at Your Bank: NYDIG Names First 2 Firms to Roll Out BTC Buys
FTX Crypto Exchange Finalizes LedgerX Acquisition
AMEX CEO Says Crypto Is Unlikely a Threat to Traditional Credit Cards
Over 3 Million CoinMarketCap Email Addresses Leaked to Dark Web: Report
Reddit Readying an NFT Platform
Featured Story: The NFT Market Is Already Centralized
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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