Crypto News Roundup for July 15, 2022
With bitcoin holding the $20,500 level while DeFi tokens continue to surge, plus a look at how some companies want you to pawn your NFTs, CoinDesk’s “Markets Daily” is back with the latest news roundup.
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Today's Stories:
DeFi Coins Outperform Bitcoin, Ether as Traders Pare Bets on Jumbo Fed Rate Hike
Stock Futures Edge Up as Bank Results Roll In
Dollar poised for third week of sharp gains as recession fears grip markets
Uniswap Token Rallies After Being Added to Robinhood’s Crypto Trading Menu
Hot inflation fuels bets on supersized Fed rate hike | Reuters
US Retail Sales Top Forecast, Keeping Big Fed Rate Hike in Focus
Brazil's Largest Private Bank Itaú to Launch Tokenization Platform
India's Crypto Industry Advocacy Body Disbanded
Ethereum's Shadow Fork 9 Goes Live in Lead-Up to the Merge
Coinbase's Market Share Tumbles to Less Than 3%: Mizuho
DeFiance Capital Has Been 'Materially Affected' by Three Arrows Liquidation
OpenSea Lays Off Roughly 20% of Its Staff
Arpeggi: The Next Generation of Music Creation
Featured Story: NFTs Are Now Collateral for Secured Loans. Are You Legally Protected?
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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