In this episode of the Crypto Mason YouTube channel, host Mason Versluis (Crypto Mason) delivers a live market commentary aimed at his "Gold Squad" audience. He begins with a brief intro and a shout‑out, then walks through the current price landscape: Bitcoin hovering around $48k, Ethereum slightly down, Cardano at $2.86, XRP at $1.13, and a range of altcoins including SafeMoon, Tezos, Arweave, Revain, Flow, HBAR, and QNT. Mason critiques the hype around utility‑coins like SafeMoon, questioning their real use cases. He highlights his personal NFT activity, noting a recent profitable exit from Pudgy Penguin NFTs (C$41k profit on a C$9k investment). Mason then shifts to a macro‑level discussion about whether the crypto market is entering a "fifth leg" of a bull run. He contrasts his personal feeling of no euphoria with the 2017 parabolic rally, expressing uncertainty about the current cycle and urging viewers to trust their own judgment over influencers. The video includes a brief clip of former SEC Chair Jay Clayton delivering a standard disclaimer, which Mason uses to mock the SEC’s perceived lack of substantive action. He references Ripple’s request for disclosure of SEC employees’ XRP trades, framing it as a potential expose. A substantial portion of the episode is devoted to comparing XinFin’s XDC token with Ripple’s XRP. Mason cites an article that positions XDC as a smart‑contract‑enabled, dApp‑friendly platform versus XRP’s payment‑only focus, and shares his own entry points (1‑2 cents) and long‑term upside. He recommends Quant (QNT) as a gateway to invest in permissioned blockchains (Hyperledger, Corda, etc.) that are otherwise inaccessible to retail investors. Throughout, Mason stresses the importance of patience, research, and a “snakes” metaphor for market price movements—buy low, sell high. He warns against the “overnight switch” mentality, emphasizing that wealth is built through consistent effort and waiting. The episode concludes with a recap of his NFT profits, a thank‑you to viewers, and a reminder to follow him on social platforms.
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What is up? I am Crypto Mason and welcome back to the Crypto Mason YouTube channel. Shout out to the Gold Squad. We look for gold in every single aspect of our lives and we always find it. Now we have an amazing video We are going to go over the entire market today, um, as well as I have some news. I sold my pudgy penguin, maybe some of you know already. We're going to cover that, we're going to cover XDC, XRP, all of the stuff that actually matters, man. All of the stuff that actually matters every single day here, um. And yeah, thank you guys for tuning in every single day. Make sure you hit the like button. I can't— I've been browsing YouTube, I've seen some videos about like SafeMoon and Dogecoin with thousands of likes. Like, where's the support for the utility coins? I don't get it. I, I really don't get it. Um, maybe I have to sell the dream more. Should I, should I come over here? We'll start off, uh, we'll start off this, today's video looking at SafeMoon actually. Yeah, so I think this can get to $1, right? If you invest in it, I think it could get to $1. Do I get likes now? I'm kidding. Let's get into the real shit. Okay, Bitcoin, same price as yesterday, doing absolutely nothing. $48,000. Ethereum dipped a little bit. Now I sold my pudgy penguin, so I'm sitting on a crazy amount of Ethereum right now. So that has actually ticked down a little bit. So I'm going to wait with that Ethereum and until it goes up, cuz what if Ethereum makes a run to $4K that, that, um, Ethereum that I have will be worth a lot more. Cardano, $2.86. Oh my goodness, crazy. XRP, $1.13. Okay, if we check the top gainers, look at that, an interesting one— Tezos. Now most of you might know that I have an NFT collection on the Tezos blockchain, so I have Tezos NFTs, Solana NFTs, and Ether NFTs. Arweave still absolutely killing it. Revain still killing it. Uh, the venture capital coin Flow is doing pretty well. And, uh, if we look at the bubbles, I like seeing this big red bubble right here with SafeMoon down. And now this is like, I, I don't hate on SafeMoon, it's just like, come on, what are you trying to do, dude? What are you trying to do? Look at this, let's make it a loner on here. There we go, it's a loner now. XTC is there, so it's, it's a mixed day. We've got a couple big outliers in, in green here. Um, the market cap is still above $2 trillion, so like, what's going on? Like, we're really, we're really retaining this, this $2 trillion level right here. Bitcoin dominance 43.7%. I want to show you guys, um I want to show you guys this. This thing is still at $190, okay? It's still at $190. Let's look at the last 7 days. Look at this, look at this. Last 7 days, boom, spike all the way to $212. Oh my goodness, I didn't even know we did that. Well, I did, but I didn't know it was like $212. Wow. But we have really just retained this. If you look at the 1 month I mean, we had— we started off the 1 month at $1.30, but we have just like steadily, just steadily increased. It's so crazy. Look how far we've came. That's the point. I'm showing you this because look how far we came. Look how far we came with XinFin. Some of you have been here since I was talking about this at 1 cent. Some of you have been here since $28 here. Some of you have been here since 3 cents. On HBAR. I got in at 3 cents. Some of y'all, like, look how much we're up still. If you didn't sell, you're still up huge. Still up huge. So are we in the fifth leg of the bull run, or is that coming? Like, we're just now starting the fifth leg of the bull run, or the last and final leg of the bull run? I don't know, man. It's— see, I— it hasn't happened yet. For me. I could tell you that. Like, what I mean by that is, like, let me show you what I mean by that, because this is important. I'm gonna title this thing Fifth Leg of the Bull Run or something like this. So in 2017, I was there for this huge parabolic run, right? This huge parabolic run. This felt like, like euphoria. This felt like euphoria to the moon. I haven't felt that at all this bull run. Even here when we went up to $2.4 trillion total market cap, I didn't feel no euphoria. It hasn't hit yet. Like, is that really what's going on? Or are we playing out the lengthening cycles and diminishing returns narrative to where like this, this bull run, okay, for Bitcoin, just pathetic bull run to $64K and that's it. And then the next one, maybe $80K. Or are we literally— it just hasn't hit yet, we haven't went actually parabolic. Because this— I remember the feeling. There has been no feeling like this in this bull run at all. There's been none. I have not felt it. I've not felt like we started yet. That's just off pure intuition. Do not trust me, of course. Trust your damn self. If you meet any creator on here that's I'm not pointing you back to yourself, run away, dude. Run away. I will always point you back at yourself. Oh, Mason, you made me so much money on Quant. No, you did. You clicked the damn buttons. You made the money. I didn't make shit. I just told you about it. Don't be saying I'm making you money out here. You made yourself money. So if anybody's not pointing you back to them to yourselves, you've got to run away, dude. Come on. Like, what are they trying to do to you? They're trying to do something else than just pure intentions. But this is insanity, dude. I, I haven't felt it. That's all I wanted to say about that. I have not felt the parabolic yet. I really haven't felt it. So are we in for it? I don't know. Or are we playing out this lengthening cycles diminishing returns? We will see. I'm a big believer in the lengthening cycles diminishing returns. For Bitcoin. For something else, I don't know. Like for XRP, I don't know. Let's move into the Twitter. We didn't have any notable news today. It's kind of just they're repeating the same dumb stuff like on mainstream crypto news. LED says HBAR will school you in patience. All you have to do is wait while the good people at Hedera are working tirelessly Just wait. That's it. HBAR has already schooled so many of you. I've seen it in my comments. Oh, I'm dumping HBAR. It was so slow. Oh my goodness, so slow. It doesn't do anything. Yeah, you're getting schooled on patience, okay? Patience pays. We already know this. Um, so yeah, this last part, I like this. It really is just a waiting game. You just put your money in, wait, it goes up, sell. It's so simple. It's the easiest thing ever, man. We make money through snakes. This is all snakes. This is all snakes going up and down, up and down. It's just snakes. We just make money through the snakes. Snakes is the market. Just watch these little green and red snakes go up and down. When the snake goes up, you sell. It's very— it's a little kindergartner could figure it out, man. If they, if they had to. Now, the SEC— what does— this is from Jeff— what does the SEC do besides give their own personal opinions? Now we're going to watch a little bit of this. Watch these idiots. Watch Jay Clayton. They put a couple clips in here. Watch this.
Before my fellow commissioners and I each provide our opening statements, I'd like to give our usual disclaimer, which is that each of us will be providing our own views and remarks which do not represent those of the SEC or our fellow commissioners. Something not so newsworthy, I'm going to remind you that my remarks are mine alone, not necessarily those of the commission, the commissioners, or the staff. Before I go any further, I should say that the comments I'll make today are my own, not those of the commissioner, any commissioner, any other staff members.
Before I begin, I'd like to note that my views are my own and not speaking on behalf of the fellow commissioners or staff.
That's the standard language that you've probably heard in the past.
What do they do? They're just out here giving their own opinions every day. That's what they do. Where's our opinions? I thought that was just a funny clip. It keeps going on with more, but we're not going to watch the rest because they're just repeating— they're empty vessels pretending to be in a power position, just Not pretending, like they actually do have a power position, but I mean, they got the suits on, they talk all corporate. I hate it, dude. I could never. Just, that's just me personally. No offense to like corporate stuff and official positions and government positions. No offense, I just could never do it, dude. I can't, I can't do it. I can't do it. Um, Hassan Allah Alan Nazi. Damn, Alan Nazi. Okay, interesting last name, but I mean, that's cool. Now he says Ripple will expose the SEC by requesting the disclosure of all SEC employees who bought or sold XRP prior or during the lawsuit. That is insane. That's an insane thought. What if they did this? What if they did this? Do you guys think that some of these SEC employees have held XRP? What do you guys think? What do you guys think? Oh, that would be crazy. That would be crazy. It seems like they're— Ripple's getting ready to swing or something. That's what I— the general sentiment in my mind is. Crypto, uh, KJ2, you can buy XDC for less than 20 cents right now. Okay, he links this, he links this article. This is from July 28, 2021. It says the competition emerges, and what this is doing is it's putting XinFin up against XRP, uh, as competition. Now it says XinFin— hold on, yeah— it runs a live mainnet called the XDC network, supporting over 100 institutions and over 10,000 wallets holding a balance of XDC. Unlike the XRP Ledger, which simply settles payments, XinFin currently runs over a dozen decentralized apps on its regulatory-compliant smart contract platform. These include TradeFinex, right, a network for trade finance originators to distribute deals to the growing mass or the growing base of alternative asset investors. And then they list off a couple more of the dApps. So this is something that XRP currently doesn't have, I believe, is dApps. They don't have a smart contract. They have the Hooks thing. I've heard all about the Hooks thing. I've heard, um, I mean, Flare can give them trustless smart contracts, right? But this is interesting that they've put it up against XRP in this article, right? Just get both. You need both. You need both. You need both. 13 cents, still an insane deal. Still an insane deal for XDC. I got— I personally got in about— okay, past that. Let me see, down, uh, down here in February is when I got in, I believe, at 1 cent. My first purchase was at 1 cent, second purchase at 2 cents. It was a FOMO purchase because I thought it was about to go crazy. So that's cool right there. Crypto Chart Slayer, do you want to invest into Hyperledger, Corda, JPM blockchain, any permissioned blockchain, buy Quant. Buy Quant if you want to invest in these, because they don't let you, right? Look at this. This is the use— the usage of, uh, the usage of permissioned blockchain, right? Corda, 369. Hyperledger, Ethereum, Quorum, they're all way more than Ripple right here, right? They won't let you invest in most of these. Hyperledger, Corda, you can't. If you want to though, the next best thing would be Quant because it's going to work with all of them. So get you some Quant if you don't have any. I mean, it's just right there, it's simple. Robert Dobbs right here says, just a reminder that the switch will be activated overnight. So this is another little dude with a verified badge just spitting out random shit. Uh, yeah. It's not one switch. That's not what this is. It's switches. Like 100. 100 switches. Not just one switch that turns everything on. That's not how it is. Uh, yeah. But don't count on waking up a bajillionaire, dude. That's the most toxic mindset I've ever seen in my life. Because you're not going to do shit in your real life. You're just going to wait till you wake up and a switch is flipped. That's the, that's the most lazy shit I've ever seen in my life. Start doing research so you understand all of this and you can be ahead of the masses. Head of the masses. And that will come with wealth because you need to put the work in. Wealth comes. Last thing, the intelligent investor doesn't have to do anything. They just need to be patient and wait until the money is lying on the floor waiting for you to simply pick it up. So here's a lazy thing, right? This is lazy. You just wait and get the money. But that's how it really is. That's how it really is. But that doesn't happen overnight, right? There's going to be like 1,000 days before it does happen overnight. If it does, it'd be 1,000 days of waiting. So is that overnight? No, kind of. I mean, it It could happen overnight, but the strategy is simple. Enter the market, money go up, sell money. Simple, simple stuff. Last thing I want to mention, the Pudgy Penguin is no more. Pudgy Penguin is no more. I'm officially out. I made $32,000 Canadian on the Pudgy Penguin. And, uh, in total with Pudgy Penguins, I made $50,000, and then profit was $41,000. I spent $9,000 on 3 penguins. I made $41,000 on JPEGs, dude. And my first 3 NFT purchases ever. So crazy. But that is all we've got for today. Thank you so much for watching. I love you all. Make sure you follow on Instagram, Twitter, and goodbye.
