 Welcome to Digital Asset News. Take a top story in cryptocurrency and digital assets and bring them out of bite-sized pieces. So today, I've got some pretty interesting stuff. First up, we're going to just do a quick review about the 2021 price predictions update that me and my friend Paul Abaron over there, Paul Bear Network talked about as far as what's happening with potentially price increases. So we'll take a look at that quickly. But the more important thing is the update to the Voyager token swap timeline. And how I actually just totally misheard what Steve said. And I'm going to play back some proof that I got it wrong. And then finally, we'll take a look at some important news about the Theta mainnet 3.0 and about staking your Theta on top of your T-fuel and the new requirements and all those good things. So we'll take a look at all that stuff. I also want to just show you how it all works as far as like with your Theta wallet. So first of all, let's take a look at what's going on in the market. So today it is June 30th. It is about 1 p.m. Texas time. Somewhere around there. And market cap slipped a little bit. So let me blow this up so we can see it. What's going on? We've got a market cap of around $1.4 trillion. And looking at that, we could just almost touch 1.5. So there's always going to be people who just want to take a little bit of profits. And here we go as far as what happened. And now we're slipping out. Oh, hey, it just went up to 1.43. Pretty good. So if we take a look at what might be doing pretty well. Well, Bitcoin is doing okay, 34,000. Ethereum is making that big bump above 2,000. Almost, it's gonna pump for a while till mid-July. The EIP 1559 goes into effect mid-July, which should reduce the gas fees. So we'll see how that works out. But I'm hopeful. And hopefully it works out pretty well. So do we have anything in like kind of big winners in 24 hours? Not really, just a little bit of red. People taking profits. And I mean, really, there's nothing too dramatic. It's all pretty much good news. So let's just jump into today's top story, shall we? All right, so the first thing I want to talk about is price predictions. And this came up because I had promised everybody that I do an updated price prediction video. And we did that today, and we went over a bunch of different things. And one of the things I really was excited about, because we've taken quite a hit. We've gotten kicked in the teeth for a couple months now, cryptocurrency and digital asset holders. But there's some good news on the horizon. Like this article just came out, 6 billion NCR opens Bitcoin purchases to 650 banks. NCR is a technology platform used for payments for the banks and they partnered up with NY Dig and they bought 6 billion worth of Bitcoin to give those to the banks so they can give those to their customers. And this, the last two sentences just kind of squares it all up. The financial institutions that opt to make the service available rely on NY Dig's custody service. And this is the latest by NCR to capitalize on demand. It's seeing from banks and credit unions tired of seeing crypto purchases made from their accounts to outside exchanges. And of course, that to me just means that the banks are just like going, look, we don't really get it that well. We don't understand, but that's what people want. So we're gonna give them what they want. And that's what every good business does. It isn't, it's not their job to decide what really is like, you know, what people want. People tell them what they want and they give it to them and people want crypto. So they're gonna buy crypto and allow them to purchase and hold and all that good stuff. So that's a positive news. And on top of that, we just talked about how the FUD, you know, the stupid thing about China, you know, banning Bitcoin, it happened in 2017. It happened all these years, it happened this year. It's gonna happen next year. And just so you know, those FUD stories will come along and it's not a big deal. And then we talked to real quickly about how internet's just a passing fad. This was an article back in the 90s and look where the internet is today. You're watching me right now. And then we talked about just some big dips that came along. And I just said, hey, look, it's been a pretty tough couple of months, but just remember that if you invested $1,000 10 years ago, that would be worth 6,000 for Google, nine for Facebook, blah, blah, blah, blah. And for Bitcoin, it'd be 237 million. So on this channel, we're not big sensationalists. We don't, a bunch of cheerleaders, we don't think things are going to the moon tomorrow. It's dumb. We're just here to buy and hold. You know, we're here for the long haul as far as investors. So to that end, we gave a quick price prediction and I will link the video at the very end. And here they are right here, right? And me and Paul went over exactly why we both agree or disagree as to why these are gonna happen. And then we took a quick look at some other one of my holdings like Bat, StormX, T Fuel, Avalanche, Silo, blah, blah, blah, blah, digibike, meld. And I just talked about those as well. So I will link that video at the very end, but just so you know, it's been a tough couple of months. We can agree on that. But again, it's not about where you start, it's where you finish. And speaking of which, some of my, one of my predictions was Voyager. And I said that it was going to $30 and people thought it was crazy. And I talked about it's all about this loyalty program. And we got some news today. So this just came out right now, probably about an hour ago or so. And I had always was under the assumption that the loyalty program would happen after the swap. And the swap was going to happen June 30th. I totally misheard Steve what he said. Steve didn't say it was happening June 30th. He said they're gonna finalize everything. They're gonna make sure all their eyes are dotted and teased across, everything's good. And then they will give the exact date. But the loyalty program, which is what it's all about, was still in September. So just take a listen, tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm, well, I already got it wrong for X, I totally misheard him. So take a listen to this. All right, so let's go. Lots on pocket, but there's four, right? So we are extremely close on getting formalized with our biggest exchange on getting this contract because it's huge, right? I mean, it's a lot of tokens moving, a lot of tokens that will get state needs of formal contract as I said a month ago. We're on target, I said June 30th, we're on target. We're in June 24th, I was with my marketing team and I'm a tail who runs this for us just yesterday. And we're on target for the end of the month. So we're on target to have that contract finalized which will set the date for when we start the swap because we... I must have misheard him because he said it pretty much exactly. June 30th or the end of June is when they're gonna finalize everything and then set the date for the swap. I heard him as saying it's June 30th is the swap, but yeah, I get it wrong. And that's the great thing about the YouTube. I can just come in here and go, this is what it is, this is the facts and this is why it's so important. And one of the reasons, before we go on, one of the reasons why I feel a desire to make sure that everything is correct, not just because I wanna make sure everything's right. That's just part of it. But there was this video that I watched and it was from Vice. And it was about El Salvador, El Salvadorians and how they were accepting Bitcoin. And it's later right here, she runs a small little shop and she was just saying how, cause they asked her, they go, well, how's it been? Because they've been trialing this whole thing with Strike and Lightning Network and Payments. She goes, well, it works pretty great. I'll take cash and Bitcoin. And then the guy asked the reporter says, well, have you seen the value of Bitcoin go down and has it affected you? She's like, yeah, it's went down like 50%. And it really affected me. So like all of these different fudsters and car salesmen and everybody else who spreads out the false information and really drops the price. It's not just like it affects a couple of things. It affects, it's a ripple effect that goes out. So you gotta make sure that you get everything right as best you can. We're all gonna screw up, we're all gonna make mistakes, but just get it right. And if you make a mistake, just go, hey, just like in the army, when you make a mistake, you'll, I made a mistake and now I gotta fix it. It's very simple. So anyhow, going back to this part here, let's finish up. This is only like 10 more seconds. We have to get that contract and the swap will be shortly thereafter. And I don't remember if it's gonna give people 30 or 45 days. I just don't remember what the swap timing is on that. But we wanna get it done quick because once the swap is done, then we'll kick the loyalty program off after that, which probably means a loyalty program timeframe of around September 1st, giving people the time to swap. Okay, I remember those dates. September 1st, loyalty program announced, or swap announcement in 3rd. So here's what just came out. And I'll go over this very quickly. So Voyager token swap will officially take place the week of August 9th. So we've got all July, they did everything. He said it was gonna be announced, got announced. It's gonna happen August 9th. Gonna be as we get close to the timeframe, we'll provide the exact date and window for when the swap will start. So they know it's gonna take place on August, on the week of August 9th. They don't know it's gonna be the 10th, the 11th, the 12th, but it isn't within that week. Got it. If you hold VGX in the Voyager app, your tokens will be swapped automatically. That's me. And you will not need to take any additional action to swap your tokens. While the official token swap for Voyager takes place in the Voyager app, trading of VGX will be temporarily paused. And people were freaking out about this part, like, so what, for like 30 days we can't trade it? No, in-app token swap may take a matter of hours and trading of the new VGX token will resume once the swap is complete. So not a big timeframe. And lastly, two weeks before the swap, Voyager will open our swap web portal for international VGX token holders and LGO token holders, because that's what it used to be called. VGX was called LGO. This will give token holders the ability to swap VGX and LGO tokens to VGX 2.0. Don't worry, it'll still be called VGX. And stake the tokens on chain at 7% APY, which is pretty nice. The web swap portal will be available 14 days before the swap and will remain accessible for 30 days in total to allow all token holders to swap the tokens, which is pretty great, especially if you're in another country outside the US. The initial rollout of the Voyager loyalty program will happen post-swap at the beginning of September. So just like what Steve was talking about here with me and Alex and Atlantic Castle, the NASCAR driver, he said that's what's gonna happen and that's what happened. So great. So let me know what you think of the comments section. I think this is a pretty good catalyst and I'll stick by my assessment of $30 VGX token in a year. And that's it. All right, next up, Theta mainnet 3.0. So Theta mainnet is a big thing. And I didn't realize how big it was until I read this article. So the mainnet 3.0 will be released today, June 30th. And here's what's happening as far as key fuel staking. If you haven't paid attention, T-Fuel was like nothing. It was like fractions of a penny. And now it's like almost 50 cents. So if you would have heard about this before, but a pretty good, pretty big upkeep. So real quick, Theta is the governance token. It secures the network. And T-Fuel is like the cash that she used to spend and what they actually pay creators on their network, which I am one of those creators. I actually have a channel over there on Theta. Anyhow, Theta blockchain will perform a hard fork at block height of 10 million something, approximately 12 p.m. Wednesday, June 30th. So it happens today to enable the mainnet 3.0. This will incentivize edge nodes, making the edge network more useful to video platforms and other partners increasing adoption of Theta network overall. And I'll tell you the difference between the edge network and the validators and all those things in a second. So edge nodes enable additional new work types, such as decentralized storage of NFTs. Interesting. Processing for applications operating on edge networks and much more. There is no token swap as part of mainnet 3.0. I need to make this very clear. There's no token swap. Your Theta and T-Fuel are safe in their existing wallet addresses. Do not fall for any scams about requiring a token swap. Just leave your tokens exactly where they're at. You don't have to do squat. That's it. And then to finish up, two major proposal innovations. The edge nodes will enable uptime mining, the tokenization of internet bandwidth and availability. Users will be able to stake T-Fuel to an edge node to upgrade it to become an elite edge node. Elite edge nodes can earn additional T-Fuel through their stake T-Fuel, I'll show you in a second. A new T-Fuel burning mechanism. I think this is interesting. We'll add a cost for using Theta Edge Network, namely a network fee as a balancing force against new T-Fuel supply. With mainnet 3.0, a minimum of 25% of each T-Fuel payments to the edge network will be burned. In addition, 100% of all gas fees for running smart contracts and transactions are burned. So that's great. So if you wanna just find all the information on this, you can go to theta-token.org and then when you scroll down here, it'll have, you can download the Theta Edge node if you wanna do that, a Theta Guardian node if you wanna stake your Theta and earn T-Fuel or Theta Edge node, you can earn T-Fuel by caching popular streams, you can download that. Or here's a pretty great thing, you can just stake your Theta or your T-Fuel in the wallet. So let me show you what it is. And then real quick, these enterprise nodes, this is if you have like a million Theta or so, if you're like Google, Sony, Samsung, Binance, Blockchain or Gumi, that's what you got. So that is what it is. And then to get to, see right here up here, it's got network, news, team, partners, docs, wallet. If you click on wallet, it'll take you here. And this is your Theta wallet. And real quick, I'm gonna open mine up, I'm gonna hide this so no one sees it because that's not great. I'm gonna show you how easy it is to stake. Okay, so in the wallet, and you've got the wallet right here, that'll have your accounts of Theta and T-Fuel if you have it. You send, receive, stakes, contract and settings. And just real quick to make sure, I think I glanced over this a little bit too fast. But if you're for stakes, first of all, if you wanted to do a Guardian node, that's to earn T-Fuel by staking Theta. You have to download it first onto your computer or the Theta Edge node, you have to download it to your computer first. And then you have to get this little piece of information and put it into the wallet itself when you stake it. And what I'm talking about here is, you're gonna click on deposit stake. And let's just go with the Edge node first. So the Edge node is all about earning T-Fuel by caching streams. So we're gonna click on Edge node, continue. And then the token T-Fuel, 12,000, I got loaded. And then of course right here, this is Edge node holder, the summary. This is where you put the information for your Edge node that you already downloaded to your computer. And that's what has to be up, running all the time. So you can cache all these things so it can be used by the network so it can reduce the bandwidth cost. And then the amount, whatever you wanna do. And then there's a transaction you deposit stake. So that is that part. There's also the validator node, which if you have a million Theta, good for you. But validator nodes are more for people like, let me see, where are we? Validator nodes, like Google, Sony, like we just talked about, so that's not me. And then Guardian nodes, that's where you stake your Theta to secure the network. And you do the same type of thing. You just gotta download it and then stake it this way. And this was a new one, I haven't seen this before. Delegated Guardian nodes. So this is, these are the community. Delegated Staking Guardian nodes are nodes run by Theta community volunteers. Uptime of these nodes is not guaranteed and you may not receive full T fuel rewards if the node you delegate has significant downtime. So, and there's like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. It's like 15 different ones that you can just do that. So if you don't have the ability to have uptime, you can delegate this way and then they get a share of your Theta or their T fuel, whatever else that you're staking. So that is essentially it for Theta. And all these different upgrades, I think are gonna be pretty big and I'm excited to see what happens. I'm moving forward. That's why I have my price prediction for what it is right there. And that is it. So look, for the final thoughts of the day, it all just really comes down to this. This has been quite a roller coaster ride here and there. And we've had a lot of ups and downs, but I think hopefully we've turned a little bit of a corner. I do not think July is gonna be big. I think it's gonna be everything's gonna move sideways. Nothing's really gonna happen until August, maybe even September, and just expect that. So if you're a dollar cost advertiser, hey, congratulations, you got a lot of time to accumulate. Other than that, I just see the one that could probably be going up is Ethereum, just because the EIP 1539. All right, so that's it. So look, if you made all this way, thanks for watching, I really appreciate it. If you liked the video, give it a like, get a consider subscribing, all the things we talk about are time sensitive on this channel. And that's it for today. So thanks so much, appreciate it. See you on the next one.