Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 29, 2021
With ether hitting an all-time high and a look at how blockchain can increase productivity in factories, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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Today’s Stories:
Ether Reaches Record High of Over $4.4K as Shiba Inu Becomes a Leading ETH Burner
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Heads to $61K Ahead of Options Expiry
Stock Futures Fall After Apple, Amazon Earnings
European equities and US futures fall as Big Tech sales figures disappoint
Yellen expects inflationary pressures to ease by second half of 2022
Wheat Prices Are Rising and Importers Are Worried
A Simple Piece of Steel and Wheels are Holding Up the Global Supply Chain
Thailand Department Store Chain Is Testing Its Own Cryptocurrency
India Likely to Regulate Crypto, Not Ban It, in Upcoming Budget
Australia’s Securities Regulator Issues Criteria for Crypto-Asset ETPs
Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ Act Would Close Crypto Tax Loophole
FATF Crypto Guidance Looks to Bring Industry in Line With Banks
DOJ to Hire Director for Its Crypto Enforcement Unit
US Regulators Weigh Avenues for Banks to Hold Crypto: Report
SEC Will Not Approve Leveraged Bitcoin ETF
Crypto Miners Are ‘Stockpiling’ Bitcoin Amid Recent Rally, Kraken Says
Facebook’s Metaverse Will Support NFTs
NFT Ticketing Gets Boost With Mobile App From YellowHeart
Featured Story: How to Expand Blockchain Beyond Fintech and Into Factories
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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