STELLAR XLM + VISA, HBAR NEWS, RIPPLE XRP, DOGECOIN - CRYPTO NEWS LIVE
In this livestream, Mason Versluis delivers a rapid-fire roundup of the day’s crypto market movements and news. He opens with community shout‑outs and channel growth metrics before diving into price snapshots: Bitcoin up 6.23%, Ethereum climbing, Dogecoin soaring over 1,000%, XRP rebounding above $1.50, and various altcoins showing strong gains. The core news items include: (1) Visa’s partnership with fintech Tala that leverages Stellar (XLM) and Circle’s USDC to serve the under‑banked; (2) Ripple’s board addition of former U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios amid ongoing litigation; (3) a proposed New York bill to pause crypto mining for three years; (4) PayPal’s rumored stablecoin development; (5) Hedera Hashgraph’s first publicly purchasable NFTs featuring the Beastie Boys keyboardist; (6) Dazzle Crypto Bridge’s solution for ERC‑20/721 token interoperability with the Corda network, highlighting XDC as a store‑of‑value on Corda. Mason also shares personal portfolio actions—stacking ETH regardless of price, holding a diversified set of assets, and noting that his portfolio is likely at an all‑time high. He engages the live chat, promotes his Discord community, mentions upcoming TikTok livestreams, and fields viewer questions about various coins. The tone is informal, enthusiastic, and community‑centric, with occasional skeptical commentary on regulatory proposals and market hype.
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What is up, folks? Did I miss anything? No, we just started. What is up everyone? Welcome. We've got a ton of stuff to cover, folks. Important stuff every day. Look at this. Look at this chat. I like how that looks. Um, what is up everyone? Welcome to the fastest growing YouTube channel on the face of Mars right here. Uh, we're growing like crazy. Uh, what's up Daniel? All the members. Shout out to all the channel members. This has turned into a daily thing for me. It's a daily thing for you to watch my livestream. I love that. I saw a tweet. I saw a tweet in the morning. I retweeted it. If you tweet at me saying you're watching my videos, I'll probably retweet it. Look at this. Amanda, shout out Amanda, says patiently waiting for Mason to stream. Damn time zones. Facts. The time zones are crazy. But here we go. We're gonna do the normal standard, um, uh, layout of, of the show. Yeah, you guys see the new member badges? Look at that. If you're a new member, you've got a bronze badge. If you've been a member for a month, I think it's a silver. 2 months is a gold, and then it goes to rainbow and all these crazy colors. So standard, we're going to look over the prices and what's going on. I'm going to give you my thoughts, and then we cover, um, we cover a bunch of stuff. We've got Stellar XLM partnered with Visa, basically, basically Visa, basically Visa. Um, and we've got some Ripple news, we've got some Dogecoin we're gonna cover, PayPal. What else? HBAR, HBAR news is in here. So if you're asking me about HBAR, some HBAR news is in here. We've got Grayscale, XDC I'm even going to cover in here. But let's go. Bitcoin is up 6.23%. Um, look at Ethereum, 3,333. Um, Ethereum's at 3,333. I have actually just yesterday I purchased a big bag of Ethereum, and this is because I'm starting up my Ethereum savings account again, um, where I just— any extra money is gonna get put in there. I do not care what price I buy at. I'm stacking ETH, Ether. I'm gonna stack Ether. So that, that has been started. If you're in my Udemy course, you will see the portfolio update this week. I've added— there has been some stuff added. But here we go, Doge. Oh my goodness, 1,008%! Do you guys see that right there? 1,008%! 1,008! Insanity! XRP is back above $1.50. Let's go, let's go! Look at this, this is such a good day. Green day. Bitcoin Cash, $1.2K. $1.2K. Um, we love that. I'm a big fan of Bitcoin Cash. Stellar, we've got Stellar news in this video, um, is up 15%. What else is, is, uh, Hashgraph doing well? CRO's only up 5%. Okay, um, what else is killing it down here? Hashgraph is up above 30 cents. We like that. Looks like it's a green day. Everybody's making— everybody's making gains today. Everybody's making gains today. Um, biggest gainer is Telcoin. Look at that, 206%. Is anybody in Telcoin? You've been making a bunch of gains. Verge. This is an interesting coin. I used to hold this in like 2017. Um, I used to hold that in 2017. Not anymore. ETH Classic, I don't know. I don't know what I think about ETH Classic. But look at that, XRP's in the gainers. Do you notice XRP, VET, and HBAR all stall at the same time? Yeah, they do. They do. Yeah, Telcoin. Telcoin holders are having a good day. But let's take a look at Bitcoin dominance, 46.88% right here. Um, steady decline, we like to see it. And let's check out the Doge chart. I wanted to throw this in here because do you guys see this? This is unsustainable. This is unsustainable gains. Like, look at that, just peaks and peaks, and now it's taking a dip on the 4-hour. Um, but look at this, look at these charts right here. That's so crazy, so crazy. Um, you bought 100K TEL for $100? Damn, perfect. So let's go start into the news here. We've got hundreds of US banks are asking for Bitcoin. So the banks are panicking, the banks are panicking. And basically this is because, um, this is because, uh, they're seeing your transactions and you, um putting money into Coinbase instead of— putting money into Coinbase instead of holding it in your bank account. Um, has anybody had their account stopped, or like their transactions stopped from their bank? Like the bank trying to stop you from buying crypto? Has anybody had that? I've heard of that happen a bunch of times. So this is not just the banks thinking that their clients want Bitcoin. They're saying we need to do this because we see the data. They're seeing deposits go to the Coinbase. You see that? Crazy. Banks are stopping your payments, um, so they're panicking. Maybe they need a solution, um, who knows. Novogratz. This is Mike Novogratz. Wow, I really thought he was— he looked like Dana White right there. Novogratz calls Doge middle finger to the system. Says how BitGo acquisition will help Digital Galaxy. So he's promoting, promoting some kind of company there. But, um, Doge is a middle finger to the system. I guess it is, I guess it is. But like, can we, can we stop organizing everyone to buy Dogecoin and then can we organize them to not pay taxes on a specific year? Can we do that? Like, they've got the whole world standing 6 feet apart, but we can't organize ourselves to, to organize a non— like, just don't pay your taxes next year. And what would happen if the whole world did that? If the whole world didn't pay their taxes, what the hell would happen? We can't organize that, but we can organize standing 6 feet away from each other? Like, damn. Um. Yeah, so Mike Novogratz is saying Doge is a middle finger to the system. This chart does look like a middle finger to a lot of things. Um, Charles Hoskinson believes— the Cardano founder believes that, um, the, the, um, Doge is a middle finger to his work, actually. His work. Rommel D, happy birthday to Rommel D! Spam up happy birthdays for Rommel D in the chat. In the chat. Um, hold up. Money Minx, I shouted you out. Amanda, hold on. Right here, look at Amanda patiently waiting for the stream and now she's here. Amazing. Um, let's move on. Ripple Client Dlocal. Look at those birthdays. Brian, what are you saying, bro? Um, look at this. Ripple Client Dlocal files for IPO in the US. Uh, so this is a RippleNet member is reported to be preparing to go public in the USA after hiring a former Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan top executive. I'm not sure what DLocal is, like what they actually do. Is it a bank? DLocal 360 payments platform for emerging markets. Is this— can this please be a PayPal alternative and that I can use it with RippleNet? Hmm. Dogecoin's dropping. Yes, it is. What do you think about ecomi? I always get asked that. It looks good, looks good. I'm not a fan of the supply, really. Don't be fooled by a bunch of 0.00001 coins. Don't get fooled. Don't get fooled. I'm gonna tweet that out right now. That's a good tweet right there. Hold on, we're having a tweet break. Ready? Don't be fooled by the 0.001 coins. Boom. It's a good tweet right there. Um, it's crazy how Doge pumps like that. Yeah, SNL, we've got SNL on May 8th. And if you guys remember, if you guys remember, um, on Doge Day, which was April 20th, Doge actually pumped the day before or the days before, and then it actually crashed on what was supposed to be Doge Day, right? So now we've got another date planned, which is May 8th, right? It goes up, it's gonna go up, um, which it is right now. And whoa, look at that! Look at that. Um, yeah, so hopefully we don't see a crash on May 8th, but I think we will because people just sell right before. Um, okay, Visa partners with fintech. Here's the Visa partnership. Hold up, is this a Visa partnership? Yeah, move this over here, move this right here. So I was on LinkedIn I was on LinkedIn, I saw this: Visa and Tala partnership will leverage Stellar and Circle to connect the underbanked to the digital currency ecosystem. So basically Visa has partnered with Tala, um, and they're using Stellar and XLM, which— this is basically a Stellar plus Visa connection right here, um. Where's the real article? Right here. So Tala is a leading digital financial services provider, and they just announced the partnership with Visa. And where's, where's the part that I wanted to read? Through Tala's integration with Circle and Stellar, Tala customers will have access to USDC in Tala's digital wallet. Um, so this is really dope right here. Really dope right there. Any thoughts on XRP closed-door meeting? That's not what it is. It's not a meeting about Ripple directly, um, so I don't think it'll have any effect, but who knows, who knows. So look at that, Stellar XLM and Visa. By the way, at the end of this we're going to cover HBAR, XDC. We've still got some stuff coming up, um, I'm only Wow, hell yeah. Um, Peter Brandt says he's wrong about XRP. Hello from Malta. Damn, you're in Malta. It's blockchain island right there. Um, here we go, we've got Ripple board. So here's the big, big news from Ripple XRP. Um, even if you don't like Ripple, this is— you need to pay attention to these things. Um, so Rosie Rios is a former US Treasurer, and she joined the board of directors or the board of advisors on Ripple. So right during a lawsuit, during all this stuff, Rosie Rios has joined the board, um, and she had something to do with the $100 bill. Um, yeah, so that's, that's some bullish news right there. That's some bullish news right there. Um, let's move on. We've got— this is actually kind of weird and scary. New York bill proposes to ban crypto mining for 3 years over carbon concerns. A bill seeking to pause crypto mining for 3 years in New York. So a single cryptocurrency transaction uses the same amount of energy that an average American household uses in one month. What? No, that's BS. That has to be— it has to be BS. Um, but looks like they're trying to ban it with a New York bill. New York is absolutely horrendous for crypto. I get questions every day from people in New York like, where can I buy this, right? Um, all the mining is happening in China anyways. Yeah. Yeah, this doesn't matter who mines crypto in New York. Doesn't really matter. It looks like this is kind of like a Wall Street FUD type thing. Wall Street FUD type thing. I'm still going to make a TikTok about it. Are you a Freemason? Robot account? No, my name is just Mason. Um, but I am free. I have freed myself and my name is Mason. So make what you will of that. Can you do a detailed video on Ledger wallets? I mean, there's so many on YouTube already, I don't think it's really needed. Here we have PayPal is reportedly discussing its own stablecoin. Um, so they're discussing their own stablecoin. So I think like it's gonna be so weird having all these different stablecoins if they all stick around, like just interesting. Did you talk on Zcash? Yeah, Zcash is, is something I'm looking at still as a great investment. I'm just confused on why it started at $5K. Like, look at this graph, started at $5K and literally has been dead ever since. Local all-time high is $687, or previous local. Um, but yeah, that thing's up now. I could have— I had a choice yesterday. I bought a bunch of Ethereum instead of buying Zcash. And Zcash is actually on the main Coinbase. It's on the main Coinbase, so noobs could buy it. I could pump this. I could make a TikTok about it and noobs could buy it on, on, uh, Coinbase. Okay, let's keep going, keep going. Let's get into the Hashgraph news. Here's the Hedera Hashgraph news. So basically, the first publicly purchasable Um, NFTs on the Hedera Hashgraph mainnet are out right now. Wait, what? Keyboardist of the Beastie Boys? Keyboardist of the Beastie Boys launched these NFTs right here. So what could we do? Do you have to buy a product and then you get an NFT? Let me see. This is the first NFTs on Hedera. Is this the NFTs or what? Like, imagine buying an NFT and not having to pay extreme fees. Okay, yeah, let's check out the NFT. Does anybody know this guy? That's the keyboardist of the Beastie Boys. So Hedera is making some NFT moves. I cannot wait until I can make some NFTs and buy some NFTs on HBAR. That's like super good. Are you still liking XYO? Absolutely, hell yeah. Why is ADA not pumping? Who knows, who knows. Um, okay, let's keep moving. So that's cool. Anyone want to buy his NFT? It's right here. Uh, it's pretty interesting. You think that's Michael Jackson, bro? He could, he could double as one of the Jackson brothers. How about Elon Gate? You're not gonna find no info about Elon Gate here, I'm sorry. So here we've got some INX news. Alan Silbert has been appointed the CEO of INX. What? So where's Shai Datika? Is Shai— isn't Shai Datika Um, oh, he's the president and co-founder. Um, I thought he was the CEO, but that's new news for INX right there. Um, what do you think of XLM? I think it's great, and I think they're making big moves right here with the TALA and Visa. TALA and Visa. TALA has an interesting logo right there. Um, Stellar also has an interesting logo. Um, okay, so that's the INX news. And we've got Grayscale. I posted a TikTok about this. Grayscale signs a sponsorship with NFL New York Giants. So New York Giants have announced a partnership with crypto asset management firm Grayscale. Grayscale holds like— Grayscale holds $46 billion in assets. Um, Yeah, so we're seeing the sports— we're seeing the sports merge with, uh, crypto hardcore. That's what we're seeing. John Profane, appreciate the membership upgrade to Master. Hell yeah, message me in the Discord and I'll, I'll make your name blue because you're now Master. Um, when do you think a good entry price for Doge? Now there is none. There is no good entry point right now. Um, like Meek Mill— if anybody saw my TikTok, got half a million views yesterday in a day, and it was about Meek Mill buying Dogecoin at 50 cents. Um, Dogecoin, that's not really a good entry point. But here we've got something on XDC right here. If anybody holding that, we're gonna watch this video.
Dazzle Crypto Bridge sells Two problems: there is currently no liquidity or token of value on the Corda network. Simultaneously, startups with an ERC-20 digital currency cannot interoperate with the business networks or financial institutions on Corda. The Corda network has established business networks and is the blockchain of choice for over 200 regulated financial institutions.
Corda is the blockchain chosen for over 200 financial institutions. Hold up, I gotta— this is from Save Our Planet 9, by the way.
Such as HSBC, ING, V—
Money Minx, Money Minx, that's a dope name. Appreciate the membership. Um, go to the community section on my channel and you can fill out the, um, invite form for the private Discord. Let's keep going.
And 6. Startups issue an ERC-20 currency to raise capital because there is liquidity on the network. Interoperability is a challenge. That's why Dazzle has built the Crypto Bridge feature. The Crypto Bridge allows entities to wrap ERC-20, ERC-721, and native tokens to the CORDA network with a hashed timelock contract. This cryptographic guarantee removes the need for trust in the bridge provider by ensuring the owner can recover their assets should an external error occur. This opens up the opportunity for traditional financial institutions to hold cryptocurrencies without having to be engaged on anonymous public networks. XDC by XinFin has become the first currency to be used as a store of value within the business networks on Corda by using the Dazzle crypto bridge. Because financial institutions are on Corda, startups want to be there too to work with them. Get in touch to find—
They called it a store of value. They called XDC a store of value right there, which we like that. Like, we like— Imagine calling a coin— what the heck, where's XDC? Imagine calling a coin that's 8 cents a store of value. Imagine calling a coin 8 cents. Imagine. Okay, okay, move on to the last piece of news right here. Okay, right here. Oh, we already covered that. Okay, so we covered all the news. That's everything important that's coming out, really. Um, as for some good buys, there's nothing really good to buy right now. We're in the green heavy on a bunch of stuff, so my portfolio is probably at an all-time high right now. Um, hell yeah, hell yeah. A lot of bullish news every day. Every day is bullish news. Every day. Are you gonna have a giveaway today? No, I'm taking a break from the giveaways. We've given away so much. Uh, but 100% in the future there's more coming. Um, but we're definitely gonna hop on TikTok livestream. TikTok livestream after this. I'm gonna make a TikTok about, um, where is it? I just made one about this. I need to, uh, make one about the Stellar thing. That's big. That's big. I'm gonna make one about the Stellar thing. Um, but I appreciate all the members. I appreciate everyone in here for watching every single day. Um, what do you think about Dent? I like Dent. I mean, the reason I sold a bunch of mine— not all of it— the reason I sold a bunch of mine is because I think an internet service provider that's already established could make their own type of thing like Dent, or they could get swallowed up by one. So, oh yeah, where's the form? Channel member form is right here. Money Minx, click on community and it's right here, this little link right there or right here. And once you fill that out, you'll get an email with your invite to the Discord server. Uh, Wanchain. Wanchain has been steady. I'm just holding my initial bag. I honestly, honestly, I think a lot of companies maybe are using XRP as like a promo. I don't know, I don't know. What's the name of the track in the beginning of this livestream? I love it too, Christine. Christine, it's called Dawn. It's called this. I, I actually love it too. This is just a free music thing. It's called this, Rhetoric Dawn. No, no, no, Rhetorical or something like this. Dawn Rhetorical or something like that. Um, yeah, that track, that's why I started with that one. It looks— but this is just like an automatic music thing, free music thing. Um, you're not seeing it either? Hmm, maybe try, uh, log out or log back in. I don't know, I don't know. It'll come up though. Oh, you see it now? Okay. When is Quant gonna move? Who knows. That thing has been consolidating under all-time high for a billion years. Just trading sideways, doing nothing. Look at this, 1-year. Look at this, up, down, up, down, up, down, same levels. Damn, I wish I, uh, stacked more on that dip right there, but that thing's ready to blast, I think. Thoughts on Eclipse? I don't have any. Um, all right, but we're gonna hop off here. I'll be on TikTok Live in like, um, 10 to 20 minutes. Um, yeah, yeah. Um, do you think INX trading site is as slick as Binance? No, no, I don't, but I think they'll improve. And it looks good on, on PC, looks good on PC. But peace out everyone, I love you all. Um, anyone who's tuning in every single day I appreciate you. Um, and we're gonna hop on, um, gonna hop on TikTok Live in 10 to 20 minutes. Um, and hell yeah, drop a like on the live stream if you want, or drop a dislike. Both the same thing, just backwards. Um, damn, some of these music is like Good, really good. Catch me on Twitter right here. Follow my Instagram. Hell yeah. Peace out everyone, I love you all. Goodbye.
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