Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 20, 2021

With bitcoin reaching a new all-time-high and a look at where crypto prices fit in the bigger picture, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.

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ABOUT

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Today’s Stories:

Market Wrap: ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF Rises in Trading Debut, Sending BTC Higher

Bitcoin Options Open Interest tops $14B as ProShares ETF Goes Live

Ether Awaits Price Breakout After Bitcoin’s Record Daily Close

Stock Futures Waver Ahead of Big Tech Earnings

Stocks Mixed, Bonds Hold as Traders Mull Recovery: Markets Wrap

Diapers to yogurt, global firms face higher costs amid supply-chain woes

Push to Operate L.A. Port 24/7 is Off to Slow Start

Storage containers are scarce, so toymakers are focused on small, squishy toys for the holidays

Green Investing Looks to Clean Up the Maritime Industry

Argentina freezes goods prices after talks break down

Purpose Investments Files to List 3 More Crypto ETFs

Chinese E-commerce Giant JD.com Reveals NFTs

Grayscale Files With SEC to Convert Its Bitcoin Trust Into an ETF

Facebook’s Novi Taps Paxos, Coinbase Ahead of Diem Rollout

US Lawmakers Push Back on Facebook’s Novi Wallet Launch

Sequoia Games Brings Augmented Reality to Board Games Using Algorand Blockchain

Featured Story: $2T and Counting: Some Friday Perspective

This episode was edited & produced by Adrian Blust.

HOSTS

Adrian Blust

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

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.