In this daily YouTube market update, Crypto Mason opens with a passionate vision of a Web3 future where DAOs replace corporations, crypto is the universal currency, and gaming is paid work. He then provides a rapid snapshot of major crypto prices (BTC around $55k, ETH $4k, XRP below $1, etc.) and highlights a few under‑performing and over‑performing assets. Mason announces a new personal investment in Ethereum Name Service (ENS), explains his “hold‑until‑it‑doubles” strategy, and walks through a classic cup‑and‑handle chart pattern as technical justification for a target of $100‑$120. He comments on Bitcoin’s upcoming new‑moon, warns against using lunar cycles as a primary indicator, and cites Benjamin Cowen’s theory that Bitcoin cycles are lengthening and yielding lower returns. Social‑media momentum is examined via Lunar Crush, noting Bitcoin, Ether and Shiba Inu dominance. Mason then shifts to a speculative narrative that the U.S. cross‑border payment market may favor Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) over Ripple (XRP), suggesting a possible “head‑fake” and urging viewers to stay open‑minded. He reviews top‑performing YTD cryptos (Axie Infinity, Helium, Avalanche, etc.), promotes audience engagement, and shares institutional signals: Bank of America’s bullish stance on the metaverse, FTX’s regulatory principles, and Gary Gensler’s claim that Ethereum passed the Howey test. He also provides a guide to the Sologenic (SOLO) airdrop, recounts a Ripple settlement prediction, and shares remarks from the HBAR Foundation CEO about marketing as a pillar of success. The video concludes with calls to follow his social channels, join his Telegram, like, and subscribe.
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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 another daily market update, Hedera Hashgraph news. Ripple news, a lot of stuff. I'm gonna talk about a new coin that I just put thousands of dollars into, and I think it is a great play for Web3. I have said that Web3 is the next wave, and I do think that they're gonna pump Web3 to the masses just like how they pumped, uh, metaverse, right? And what you guys got to understand is All of this stuff works in conjunction together. It's the most beautiful thing ever. DAOs, those are recreating, uh, corporations and companies. That is our, our, like, our new world. In our new world, the companies are DAOs. In our new world, the, the currency is crypto, right? In our new world, we get paid to play our video games. In our new world, we have full-on digital worlds, right? Everything is being recreated here. In our new world, we value whatever we want to value. It doesn't just have to be paper rectangles, uh, with dead presidents on them. It doesn't have to be that. We value whatever we want, right? So just a little rant to start off the video. Let's go. Okay, let's get into it. $2.58 trillion. Bitcoin not doing, uh, so hot right here. $55,000. Um, as you can see, Ethereum still holding up at that $4,000 level. Uh, this is like— I mean, that's pretty awesome that Ethereum— that's signaling like a good, a good altcoin season, right? Um, if we scroll down, we see, uh, XRP is below a dollar. We've got Cardano, $1.58, not doing too well there either for Cardano. Uh, CRO has retraced all the way down to 65 cents. Everything looks pretty standard. We do see that ATOM is pumping. You guys know I'm a big fan of Cosmos still. I do think that this is still undervalued, Cosmos. Uh, we've also got CRV down. Wow, so CRV is down. It's still green on the month, but it's down right now. Uh, GALA has also retraced to 50 cents right here. Just an interesting, uh, interesting day today. Half green, half red, basically. This is the coin that I got into, into though, and I guess it is down from when I bought it, so, um, but I don't care. So I bought this at $60, okay? Ethereum Name Service. We've talked about this one before. Basically, this is like the GoDaddy of Web3. Like, this is like Web3 domains, right?.com, this is.eth, but they're used as like usernames and they're not used as like domains, right? So I will be holding this until my money doubles. Yes, you heard me. I will be holding this until my money doubles. Uh, there is a legitimate strategy in crypto that is hold until it goes up. If you have strong— a coin with strong fundamentals there's a legit strategy of just put money in and wait till it goes up. Every strong coin will have its time to pump. So I believe that this can get to like $120. Uh, I will not be selling any until $100 plus on this coin. That is the coin I got into. Also, if we look on their chart, on the ENS chart, this is the ENS chart on Binance. Daily chart, each candle is one day. For the beginners, we can see this is a, a very bullish, uh, pattern right here. This is a cup and handle, right? Classic cup and handle, uh, right here. If we were to draw that out again for you, we see this is the top of the cup, come down to the bottom, boom, and the handle. And usually what does this do? Boom. That's what it usually does. And how do we know that? Because cup and handle is a real, uh, famous formation or a pattern, right? They say it's usually considered a bullish signal, right? And we can see this is a classic cup and handle right here. So boom, got the top, the top of the cup, bottom of the cup goes back to this— I think they call the neckline, right? Then the handle. And look what always happens after. Big, big pump right here. Usually about double of this. So like this one went from, uh, the top of the cup being 41, right, to 46 there. Very nice right there. This one is pretty like— it's pretty distinguished in my opinion. Like it's pretty distinguished. If we go to the 6-hour, we could probably see it a little bit better. Look at that. Oh my, I'm drawing lines. Look at that. I like that, I like that. So I didn't buy it because I'm betting on that, I just bought it because I'm pretty bullish on it. Now let's talk about Bitcoin. We do have a new moon coming up here, uh, as everybody probably should know by now, new moons are usually local tops. But it seems like we're not doing too well approaching this new moon. That's very interesting, very interesting. We're not even pumping that hard approaching this one. It's more like we we came down right here for the full moon. Maybe we head back up, but we'll see. Don't use the moon as an indicator, just use it as like a cross-reference. We also see that bull market support band, we're really, uh, nowhere near it on the 3-day right there. This actually does look kind of sketchy, like the weekly. Like, we might actually still come down and touch that. That would be very interesting to because considering we already pumped up, uh, or we already pumped back up, you know. Now look at this. Benjamin Cowen: LOL at the influencers subtly shifting their Bitcoin peak prediction dates into 2022 after criticizing lengthening cycles for the last 2 to 3 years. I can say proudly that I've never criticized lengthening cycles. As soon as I saw this man's first video, Benjamin Cowen, when I saw his first video on lengthening cycles, I said, oh my goodness, yes, this guy is, uh, completely correct. Go back through the videos, you can see it. This guy is completely correct. As this market matures, especially for Bitcoin, these cycles are going to get way longer and less returns. Way longer and less returns. That's just something people have to accept. We're not going parabolic and going insane, like a million every run, right? We're not doing that. Every— all these cycles are going to get longer and, uh, and less returns, less ROI. So I wanted to show this as well. Lunar Crush, they have revamped their entire website. Very crazy right here. If we look at the social volume from today, we see it's Bitcoin, Ether, Shiba Inu is still topping that. That is so crazy to me. PancakeSwap, Dogecoin, Floki. We got like a decent— like Polygon's doing well too because it's pumping. As you can see, Polygon is up, uh, 13% with that social volume at 24,000. Very cool, uh, website to just check different things and different, uh, social metrics. Okay, now let's listen to this from Cryptotainment right here. We see Jerome Powell— look what he says. We've covered this, but to hear him say it in words is a different beast. Watch this.
The partnership will support our analysis of digital currencies, including central bank digital currencies, help to improve our current payment system with a particular focus on making cross-border payments faster and less expensive, and it will provide new tools to aid our supervision of the financial system.
So literally referencing cross-border payments. He knows it's a problem. He knows it's a problem. Now let me talk about something real quick. What if there's a fake out going on? Okay, you please just exit your echo chamber on XRP. Hedera Hashgraph has legitimate— Hedera Hashgraph have legitimate connections to the Federal Reserve. We've shown them before. Okay, Jerome Powell's from the Federal Reserve. We've shown these connections before. And in— if you've been following along with the videos, this is why it's important to watch every video, because we are on a golden timeline here. Uh, if you watched my previous video, you saw that Mance Harmon sounded exactly like the Ripple boys. I call them the Ripple boys. That means Brad, That means David Schwartz, that means Chris Larsen, that means all of them, right? He sounded exactly like it, talking about cross-border payments and how they settle in less than 3 seconds. You know, go watch the video, look at this. What if, what if everyone's expecting Ripple and XRP to run the, the cross-border payment scene for the US? What if they're headfaking you and they're actually going to go with Hedera Hashgraph in the US specifically. That doesn't mean Ripple can take over the rest of the world, but it seems like they don't like, uh, Ripple in the States. Like, they're suing it and trying to kill it, right? Or they're trying to like turn it into a security and all this stuff. But I do think Ripple can be the savior of the USA, to be honest. Ripple could be the savior of the US. But what if there's a small little head fake going on and they're actually going to use Hedera Consensus Service and Hedera Token Service for that. Just a theory. Break out of your XRP echo chamber. I'm always going to be an advocate of open mind. If you open your mind, you can always win in crypto because you have no emotional attachment to any of these things, and you just always win. TradingView, um, puts out Axie Infinity. These are the top 10 best performing cryptos year to date. We got Axie Infinity, $25,000, right? Helium, Avalanche, Dogecoin. So pretty, pretty solid projects, except for I would say Dogecoin is, is below average. But all of these are pretty good. I, I support all of these. Those are amazing. So big performance right there. How many of these coins are you guys in? I want you to comment that out of these 10. Look at them on my screen and see how much are you How much are you, um, in? By the way, mid-video shout out, make sure that you follow my Twitter right here and my Instagram, okay? You definitely want to follow my Twitter and Instagram. Any future giveaways will be on there. There's my username right there, and there's my username right there. Moving on, Bank of America sees a massive opportunity in metaverse for the entire crypto ecosystem. So breezing past this, all they're saying is that, uh, Merrill— there's a team at the Bank of America saying, I definitely believe this is a massive, massive opportunity. You need the right platforms. That is definitely going to be a big opportunity for this entire ecosystem. So Bank of America, who is connected to Ripple, is very bullish on the metaverse. Uh, that is very insane right there. Now look at this— FTX issuing key principles for market regulation of crypto trading platforms. So what do we remember with Ripple? Do you guys remember when Ripple put out their key principles for regulation? Yes, all of the chosen ones— FTX, Coinbase, Ripple, Ethereum— these are the chosen ones, right? All of those chosen ones who have already sold their soul in terms of like they've sold out to the new system, the new matrix, right? They are all putting out their key principles. So this means that they're directly working with regulators, which is good and bad. XRP CRO puts out this amazing guide on the Sologenic airdrop. So if you have not got the Sologenic airdrop, you still have time, right? You can go visit these guides. The link will be in the description for this guide. Also, this link will be in the description where I show you how to set up and claim the new XRP and SOLO airdrop. Uh, I show you how to claim it on your phone. And we've been on SOLO for a while. Like, if you just bought SOLO on this video on, on the 13th of November, right, on 13th of November, if you saw me post that video and you bought SOLO, you would be you would be in at, uh, $2.24, and now it is $6. So you 3x your money. Uh, unfortunately I did not buy into SOLO, but I am trying to get this airdrop. By the way, this will dump extremely hard. This will dump extremely hard, uh, in my opinion. Maybe it doesn't, who knows. Johnny has a new freaking settlement prediction, okay? He says Ripple settlement by Monday. Ripple settlement by Monday, uh, and this got 1,000 likes, of course. Uh, Coinbase immediately relists XRP and airdrops our SGB. Oh my goodness, bro, this is not gonna happen. I would love to be proven wrong. Future Mason, future Mason, if they did settle on Monday, man, you were wrong. But we don't care because that would be an amazing event. But this prediction, not confident it's gonna happen, bro. Gary Gensler, we need to remind ourselves of this clip. He basically says that Ethereum is a security in this clip, right? Right here he says, I believe that, uh, Ethereum passed the Howey test.
We test— by the way, you want to fail the Howey test, you are a venture capitalist, you don't want to be regulated, you want to fail this test. But to pass the Howey test, Ethereum in 2014 exchanged Bitcoin for ETH. Um, it was an investment in a common enterprise at that point in time, a 20 or 21-year-old Vitalik Buterin running this Ethereum Foundation out of Switzerland. But it was one group, um, an expectation of profits.
So does it— doesn't it seem like every coin meets that though? Every coin meets that though, right? Very interesting right there. Kevin Cage, research on the hard days when markets are down. This is exactly what I do. I love this tweet right here. When people are in despair so that you profit when markets are up, when people are euphoric. So simple, uh, so simple right there. I love that. We've also got Shane Hagedorn, who is the executive director and CEO of the HBAR Foundation. He's giving this North Star thing and he's saying that marketing, like all of this is great, right? But I care about this. Marketing will be a foundational pillar to our success and key to achieving our goal of awareness. Their goals are grow awareness of, accelerate access to, increase commerce in. So this is very corporate talk. I love that. I actually don't love it, but I love it. I can't do this type of talk like, oh, circle back, uh, circle— they always say circle back, um, I'll intro you to this person. Let's shut up, we're talking people here, uh, but this is great, this is super good right here. Also, shout out to Shane for following me, he actually follows me right there, uh, probably gonna see some great stuff come from the HBAR Foundation. I love it. I definitely love it. So that is a daily market update today. We covered a lot of stuff right there. BTC just holds strong. I'm pretty sure basically none of you— like, a pretty small percentage of my audience is probably actually holding Bitcoin, right? Because we've been on like Quant as our store of value. But that is the, the daily market update we're doing. I mean, the market's doing pretty, pretty good right here. We're gonna see what December brings. Make sure you follow on Twitter, Instagram, join the Telegram group. Also, uh, drop a like and subscribe on the video, and goodbye.
