 Welcome to Digital Assets News. I get top stories in crypto, current digital assets, and bring them down to bite-sized pieces. This morning, I got a real quick article to talk about, and this is what I believe is going to happen. Band or band protocol is going to massively increase its position because of who it just partnered with. And I will get to all that in a second. But first, I want to say congratulations. We made it to the 12 days of Christmas. So we're going to be doing a quick giveaway, and just so you know, it's going to be for today the Shieldfolio or Stonebook. And real quick, if you're not familiar with it, this is why I like the Stonebook. It's because I've got a couple myself, and I don't like having pieces of paper and things just kind of laying around. Like everything in one book, especially one that is water resistant, smudge resistant, and you can put all your passcodes, your mnemonic phrase, and everything else. Also, it's got a nice little cool little James Bond pen you can write in and make it invisible. So it's just nice to have around. And everything is in one place. I actually have two. One is at the house, and then one is in my bank, my safety deposit box with all the different mnemonic phrases. So we're going to be giving away four Shieldfolios. We're going to give away two on this video, and we're doing a video later, which I will give away another two. So in the comment section, all you have to say is Shieldfolio. That's it. That's all you got to say. Shieldfolio. Don't I want Shieldfolio? Or give me a Shieldfolio. Just put Shieldfolio, S-H-I-E-L-D-F-O-L-I-O. All right. Let's get into this real quick story. So band protocol. If you're not familiar, it's kind of, it's an article, such as Chainlink. And I really didn't pay too much attention to it, because, you know, I was, I got my positions a lot of different things, and I kind of let overlook projects, because there's only like a thousand out there. But this article made me sit up and take notice. This is from Trade the Chain, my man, Alex Maschioli. And when he puts something out, I usually pay attention. And it states, short-term alley sentiment is on fire, in reaction to the below news. And I'm like, hmm, what's going on? So this was interesting, really quick snippet. Band protocol has become the first blockchain firm to join the OpenAPI initiative alongside big names such as Google, eBay, IBM, and Microsoft. Band protocol announced Monday, that's right now. Matter of fact, it was just announced about an hour ago. It will help to create a common API standing enabling blockchain applications to easily leverage APIs and data. The potential benefits of the work I said to include new revenue streams for tech firms who can sell their data and price feeds to smart contracts. And I have to tell you right now, there is one thing that big businesses really like to do, find out new revenue streams so they can push up their price of their stocks and make their stockholders extremely happy. And who would love to do that? Well, maybe Google, eBay, IBM, and Microsoft, just guessing. This is what it states. Our mission is to define a common API standard for blockchain applications by collaborating with prestigious partners, did a pretty good job here, to bridge the gap between centralized data, APIs and smart contracts on the blockchain, said Soravis Srenewakun. I think I said that right. CEO of band protocol, opening API, a nonprofit foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation, confirmed the coin desk that band protocol is indeed the first blockchain project to become a member. That's pretty big. And on top of that, I also had a nice little email this weekend, I didn't really think too much of it. It was from my favorite exchange Coinbase. They said, hey, come over here and earn band with Coinbase. And that's where you go to Coinbase and you watch some little videos. And they're very nice, very, very good, very simple. And it tells you exactly what band is. I didn't do it because I got busy this weekend, but I'm like, eh, just kind of put it away. And like the card on my mind, I'm like, who cares? And of course, that all makes sense now, because in this game, the big players know exactly what's going on before you do. So I was like, what's going on here? Now, just so you know, band is already on Coinbase Pro. So I wouldn't be surprised if it comes over to Coinbase regular, I guess you'd call it. So I'm like, hmm, so when you take a look over here at CoinGecko, it'll tell you all the different exchanges that band is on. So I'm like, oh, it sucks on Coinbase Pro. I don't want to deal with that or buy it. I can't have access. But you know where else it is? It's on Voyager. And for some reason it's not listed here. So if you have a Voyager account, why don't you just go over there and pick up some band? Because with these two pieces of information, I think it could be wrong that the price could go up. Now what is happening right now? Yeah, a little bit of an upswing, I would say. Now before we go off all crazy and go, you know what? I got to buy a ton of this stuff. That's not what I'm saying to do. Do not FOMO. That is the worst thing you can absolutely do. And this is not financial advice. This is just something that I see. I will tell you this, though. There is a couple of things you should do before you invest in anything, and that's called do your own research. There's five criteria that we like to talk about. And over at DanTeachersCrypta.com, 100% free website. In module four reviews, the very first one, I invited Ian Belinon, and he told me exactly the different criteria that he used when he found all those winners back in 2017. Now some people have a problem with Ian because of blah, blah, blah, whatever else. But I will tell you this, this was solid advice, and it went through the five basic things. The first thing is you take a look at the white paper. Make sure there's actually a use case. And with band, it definitely is. It is an oracle. There's not a single point of failure because blockchain are horrible at talking to other, and they need some type of API that will actually bring all that information from one to the other. So Chainlink already does this very well, and band has their own little spin on it. So sure. Then the second one is the team. If you take a look over at the website for band protocol, and you can find that on CoinGecko as well. If you just take a little CoinGecko, it'll say website bandprotocol.com. Go to band, scroll down, and just take a look at who the actual team is. Here's the three guys, and this is really all I found. And they're very smart. I mean, this guy, Stanford, Massachusetts, MIT. This guy, Paul, creator of crypto games with 800,000 users. Very smart gentleman, right? But you have to have a team behind you, marketing, auditing, financial, investors, all those things. And I don't really see it too much here, but I'm being very critical because that's just how I am. But again, when you team with somebody that, you know, with like Google, eBay, IBM, and Microsoft, maybe they're doing something right. It sounds to me. Also financial backing, I couldn't find any of that on the website, but I'm sure I just maybe I didn't look enough. And then activity, to take a look at the GitHub page to see if it's, first of all, it's open source. And second of all, if they actually have things going on, again, you can find that at CoinGecko. Just go down to source code, click on GitHub right here, and it'll open up. And yeah, they've got a lot of activity. Actually, this was updated three hours ago, updated three days ago, three days, three days ago. So they're very active in this community so far. And you can take a look at everything over on Reddit and their Telegram page and everything else. So they look very active. And the last thing is liquidity ratio, the daily trading volume divided by the market cap. So we use theta and the market cap was 750 million, roughly. The daily trading volume was about 98 million. And it was about 8%. So he was talking about just aim for around 10%. So we go over there and take a look at, man, it's actually very high. Their market cap is 154 million. And their trading volume is 86 million. That's crazy. So that also checks out. So if you want to do your own research, or you want to take a look, watch that video, go over to bandtagescrypto.com and take a look at that. But that's the five criteria, really, white paper team, financial backing, activity and liquidity ratio. Again, not financial advice, do what you want to do. And if you're looking for a voyager, just go to the exchange and wall fees. It's in the description of my videos, looks just like this. And it's the very first one, voyager wallet app. And then you can sign up. If you sign up using this link, you don't have to. But if you do, you get $25 for Bitcoin and Bitcoin and $25 to me. So use that as you will. All right. So that's it for today. Thanks for watching. Really appreciate it. And I'll see you on the next one later today. Thanks.