INSANE XRP + XLM CONNECTION WITH ELON MUSK! HBAR, QNT, XYO, COREUM & MORE!

In this YouTube episode, Crypto Mason (Mason Versluis) delivers a multi‑segment market update for the cryptocurrency community. He opens with a personal anecdote about attending the Karate Combat (KC40) event in Miami, highlighting Hedera’s (HBAR) sponsorship of the fight. He then analyses Bitcoin’s price action around the $30,000 level, using his Patience Indicator Suite to argue that BTC will dip back toward $29,000, and shares his recent short positions and copy‑trading results on Phemex and Fairdesk. Mason reports MicroStrategy’s recent purchase of 12,333 BTC at an average price of $28,136, interpreting it as a potential bottom support. He announces KuCoin’s upcoming mandatory KYC enforcement, promotes Fairdesk’s $2,000 trading contest (explaining the volume‑based ranking system), and notes Coinbase’s upcoming listing of VeChain and VeThor. The video then shifts to project‑specific news: a deep dive into Corium (CORE) staking rewards and APR calculations; Hedera’s new tutorial for building ChatGPT plugins; Quant’s public launch of the Overledger platform; and a discussion of Quant’s price chart and short‑term outlook. A central narrative thread connects Elon Musk’s recent interview about his vision for X.com to the potential utility of low‑energy, high‑throughput blockchains such as XRP, HBAR, and Stellar. Mason plays a 1:43 clip of Musk describing X.com as a future “global financial system” and argues that Musk’s goals align with the value propositions of these assets. He also references Jed McCaleb’s involvement with Stellar and a planned private space station launch by Vast, linking Stellar’s momentum to Musk’s space ambitions. The episode concludes with two sponsorship segments: (1) XYO, described as a “self‑sovereign data oracle” that bridges blockchain data to the physical world, with details on its token, partnerships, and roadmap; and (2) Z Casino, a decentralized on‑chain casino on Polygon/Arbitrum/Fantom, which Mason demos by playing Plinko, slots, and a coin‑flip, while disclosing his advisory role. Throughout, Mason encourages likes, comments, and Discord participation, promising a 100 XRP giveaway if the video reaches 1,000 likes.
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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 today we are back with another market update. We were gone for a little bit there in Miami for KC40. Uh, which if you don't know is the Karate Combat, uh, event that happened in Miami. Uh, one of the most insane, uh, events I've ever been to in my life, uh, and one of the most insane fights I've ever watched in my life. So you guys can go watch this back. We were there, uh, we had Megan interviewing Boss Rutan. We had, uh, you know, we were training with the fighters a little bit, doing— letting them teach us kicks and stuff. We saw Wendy and Megan square up on top of that HBAR logo inside the Karate Combat pit. You guys know, like, Karate Combat is basically built on the HBAR network, right? Their token is built on HBAR, and Hedera is one of the main sponsors of the whole thing. So if you look at the Karate Combat pit, you will see the HBAR logo sitting right inside there. And these two— big shout out to Joshua Quayhagen, and Rafael Agaev for that final, uh, fight. And shout out to all of the fighters, but that final fight was absolutely insane. Make sure you guys go watch that back. Uh, we, we gave away a ton of Karate as well in our Discord. But let's get into the market update. Make sure you drop a like and a comment on the video. If we hit 1,000 likes, I will be giving away 100 XRP in the Gold Squad Discord. BTC is at $30,000. We are back at that $30,000 above it, and we've been chilling above it for the past couple days, really, really toying with the $29,000 slip right there. So right here I have our smoothed candles on from the Patience Indicator Suite. These candles are more smooth, like you can see the trend more smoothly. They're not exactly like Heiken Ashi candles, they're a bit different. But you guys can see Bitcoin is looking like it's gonna come down, right? So I've been, I've been hitting some nice shorts, right? You guys can see my, my shorts that I've been hitting on the copy trading. $1,500 in one, $400 in the other, $150, uh, and then on Phemex we also cashed in a little 4%, 2 4% shorts on Bitcoin. So I am confident that Bitcoin is going to come down at least break back into the $29,000s, uh, over the next few days here. Okay, so as for our top gainers though, we have BitDAO— don't know much about them— Unisat Leo, and then Stellar. Now the one that stands out to me is Stellar. They've had a very good 30 days and a good 7 days here. Uh, by the end of the video, if you watch until the end of the video, we will be talking about the connection between Stellar and Elon Musk. Also, we will be covering the connection between Elon Musk and XRP because Elon Musk is about to start competing with Ripple and with XRP and with this entire market. Okay, we're going to cover that at the end of the video. So here is, uh, here is one of, uh, the chart. This is the chart for Bitcoin. You know, as I said, I think we're going to come down. Now let's keep it moving. MicroStrategy has actually acquired 12,333 Bitcoins, uh, for $347 million at an average price of $28,136. So MicroStrategy, you know, if we put a line where they are at, uh, what are they at? $28,136. So they are in down here, okay? They are in down here. Uh, so that is— that's where they have a huge purchase at, right? So that makes you feel a little bit more comfortable, uh, that this is absolutely going to rock it up, or that that's kind of going to be the bottom right there, the local bottom when we come down. That looks more feasible in my opinion. So let's keep it moving. One of the big announcements that happened— this is so horrible, this is so horrible. KuCoin, uh, is enhancing their KYC requirement. As of July 15th, newly registered users must complete their KYC in order to use KuCoin. Existing users, uh, who have not completed their KYC will have limited access to our servers or our services. So if you're not KYC'd on KuCoin you're gonna, you're gonna have to if you want to do anything on their, on their, their platform. Uh, and if you're a new user, you're gonna have to KYC. So there it is. We knew that's gonna— we knew that was gonna happen. Uh, and that's why I'm using Fairdesk, okay? I'm using Fairdesk and Phemex. Uh, I trade futures on Phemex and Fairdesk. So make sure you guys go sign up, uh, for those. We're doing a $2,000 trading contest right now. on Fairdesk. So the top guy gets $700, uh, the second guy gets $400, third place gets $200, and then number 4 through 10 each are gonna get $100. So, you know, the, the lowest volume is only $14,000. So let me explain and break this down to you. So if we type in calculator, right? So let's say you deposit $1,000 into Fairdesk and you do one trade on 15x leverage. So that would mean you're like— the $1,000 you're trading with actually is times 15. So it's like you're trading with $15,000. Now when you open that trade, you have created $15,000 worth of volume. And when you close that trade, you have created $15,000 of volume. So even just making one leverage trade with 15 15x leverage with $1,000, that puts you all the way up in 9th place, right? So that is the breakdown of this volume number. Uh, the trading contest is based on volume. So we are still copy trading on Phemex and Fairdesk. There's no slowdown there. Um, after that big loss we had, I did take a step back and we got to recuperate, right? We gotta, we gotta run those gains up again. So Let's keep it moving here. Uh, by the way, Fairdesk and Phemex are both paid partners of the channel, both great exchanges. I use Fairdesk every single day basically. Now Coinbase is going to be listing VeChain. So we know that Coinbase has had a big fight with the SEC, uh, and basically on, on the SEC calling the assets listed on Coinbase securities. Um, Coinbase has argued back that they have a rigorous process that they put these crypto assets through to determine whether they're not a security. So Coinbase, uh, has announced that they're adding VeChain and VeThor, and I guess they have passed the non-security test or whatever test that, that, uh, Coinbase introduced, uh, on, on VeChain. Okay, so this is the key, folks. You guys need to follow on Twitter Coinbase Assets and you need to turn notifications on. This is the account that they have to, uh, they have to announce their coins on. So if a new coin is being added to Coinbase, they're going to announce it on here, and it only has 100,000 followers, right? So make sure you guys are following that if you want to know, uh, which assets are going to be listed first. Let's talk about Corium. Uh, Corium is a partner of the channel as well. Our node has been going great. We have 64 people staking right now. I wanted to give you a little example about, you know, the staking rewards, because they do have a staking calculator, uh, that you can use. Uh, I forget where it is here. Let's type it in so we can actually bring that up. Corium staking calculator. Uh, and we will see it right here, I believe. Yes, there we go. So let's say that you stake uh, let's say you stake 100,000 Corium, right, uh, which we have in this example right here, 100,000 Corium, uh, and you lock it, or you, you stake it for 365 days. This will give you 25,000 Corium, um, by the end of the year. So you'll have an extra 25,000 Corium tokens by the end of the year. Uh, let's see if this is loaded yet. Yes, it has. Now if you bring that up to some more baller level stuff like $250K, right, you could end up getting almost $500,000 Corium, right? If we bring that even more up, you'll see the numbers go up, uh, and then, you know, it depends on, on your locking period as well. Keep in mind your APR is going to fluctuate and the price of the Corium token, uh, is also going to fluctuate. So let's go check on the Corium token right here. Corium is currently at 9 cents. Okay, 9 cents. We did recently have that run up, uh, to 68 cents— or sorry, is this, is this the wrong one? Hold on, we got to make sure we're using the right ticker. Uh, I believe it still is. Okay, yeah, this is the right one. Okay, so 7-day chart, you know, 10-day chart, people probably liquidating some of their staking rewards, but that's okay. I am bullish on Corium. For the long term here. They don't even have a Binance listing, no Coinbase listing yet, but those are the exchanges you can get it on. Big shout out to Corium. My portfolio, my crypto, my personal crypto portfolio is full of enterprise-grade blockchains, okay? Corium is equipped to help enterprises step into blockchain, right? They are fast, secure, and interoperable, and ISO 20022 compliant. So make sure you guys go look into Corium. Maybe we will have a deep dive coming soon, uh, like an actual dedicated video deep dive on Corium. Now moving forward, some HBAR news today. They have released a tutorial. Hedera has released a tutorial on how to create ChatGPT plugins. So that interact with the Hedera network. So the possibilities are absolutely endless. If we click onto this blog article here and wait for this to load, this basically shows you how you can make a ChatGPT plugin that directly integrates and interacts with Hedera. Obviously, this is for like people who know coding and stuff. You're going to have to use a lot of code and different tools. Uh, but I found it very cool that they tweeted that out. Now let's talk about Quant as well. Quant has launched the Overledger platform to the public. So this has, has previously only been available to select, uh, institutions, uh, but this is now available to the public. Okay, this made the same enterprise-grade technology that has underpinned our projects with institutional and central bank customers to date accessible to large enterprises, SMEs, and developers for the first time. Now, the Overledger platform is the, is the main thing that Quant has to offer, and this was the infrastructure actually used in Project Rosalind there. You guys can watch this 5-minute video explaining what it actually does, but it does use the Quant token. Let's do an update on the Quant chart right here. Uh, let's see where we're sitting. 104 still. Let's turn off our smooth candles and turn on our long-term indicator right here. Actually, sorry, let's, let's go and grab our, um, let's go and grab our Altcoin Master Key right here and turn on the quant mode. Okay, we're going to turn directly on the quant mode for this, uh, and we will be able to see, uh, what is going on. So— oh shoot, we put two of them on. Let's go to the settings here and we're going to select Quant, uh, daily. Okay, let's select Quant daily. So here we go. This is, this is what we're looking like, uh, on our Quant indicator right here. Uh, trend is a strong short, but only, only 7% on our trend table up here. Uh, we can also see, you know, we haven't touched our reversion lines yet. So we did touch them back in November of last year. You would have hit, you know, an amazing, uh, entry point right there. Uh, we did also, you know, have a huge squeeze up here. There's my TikTok video telling you to take profit, uh, when we went above $200. Uh, by the way, if we do go above $200 again, I will be telling you to take more profit. Uh, but that's where we're sitting at, at Quant. We've very much chilled chilled down. Uh, we only hit $95. My theory that we were gonna go back and, you know, go back to about $90 or $85, uh, hasn't been proven yet, but it may be. It may be. But big news didn't pump the price too much at all. Uh, but Quant over Ledger platform. Now let's talk about— this is the connection between XRP and Elon Musk right here, and then we'll also connect it to stellar. So Zooby Music, shout out to Zooby on Twitter. He got an interview with Elon Musk. We're gonna play a 1 minute and 43 second clip. Now Elon can be pretty monotone and boring in some of the stuff he says, uh, but what he's actually saying at all times is very important. So listen up to this clip, turn your volume up, uh, if it's low, and here we go.
Tell me, tell me, yeah, tell me, tell me the story about X. X.com? Well, I mean, way back in the day, the idea was for X or X.com to be an all-encompassing financial services company, or I thought kind of in like an infinite information theory way, to be a— to be the most efficient database for the information that is money. The way that money currently works is, from a practical standpoint, it's still mostly run on mainframes. That's still a thing for banks. It's mostly written in COBOL. It's still mostly batch processing. So actually the financial system is very slow. It's not secure. You've got all these heterogeneous, complex databases. So if you have a real-time modulus database that is just like fundamentally more, more efficient and doesn't have all the expenses of bank buildings all over the place and bank branches and ATMs, which are increasingly kind of redundant. It can operate way more efficiently. And so, um, essentially, if, if done right, the X would be would serve people's financial needs to such a degree that over time it would become, I don't know, maybe half of the global financial system.
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Or some big number. I'm not sure what the number is, but pretty big. Um, so it would be by far the biggest sort of financial institution.
So right here, put your emotions aside, right? I've been connecting XRP and Elon Musk and HBAR and Elon Musk so much. And I know it's slightly clickbait, right? Because there isn't anything really tangible. There's just kind of this speculation, uh, and this common sense, you know, that Elon wants to support something that is more energy efficient than Bitcoin. And when Tesla dumped some of its Bitcoin, they said, we are looking at uh, blockchain projects that use a million times less energy than Bitcoin, right? So put your emotions to the side. Right here we have a direct clip of Elon Musk saying that he wants to make X.com 50% of the world's financial system. Okay, he's, he's agreeing with everything that an XRP holder would say. The financial system is slow. Money is inevitably going digital, you know. There, there's no need for like ATMs and stupid bank branches and all of the expenses that comes with that. This is just the best, most straightforward clip I've seen showing you how Elon knows what's about to happen, right? But he seemed— he, he's seemingly going to compete unless he uses Dogecoin, which just wouldn't make sense. Right? It's not as scalable. It's just not as good as HBAR or XRP or Stellar. I don't give a shit what he uses, to be honest, right? I have my own, my own like vote that I would love him to use, uh, HBAR or XRP for this. Um, super crazy though, super crazy clip. 50% of the global financial system is what he is aiming for. That is insane. Uh, now there is an actual tangible connection between— it's an indirect connection between Stellar and, uh, Elon Musk. Okay, so Jed McCaleb, we've covered this in a, in a video before. I just wanted to remind you why Stellar might be pumping right now as well. Uh, SpaceX has partnered with a company called Vast, uh, and Vast is, uh Jed McCaleb's new space company, and he also founded Stellar and he co-founded Ripple. Okay, but by August 2025, uh, they are launching, uh, the first— what is— what do they call it? The world's first private space station. Isn't that insane? Like, isn't that insane? Okay, absolutely crazy. Look at this absolute idiot. You're so paid by them, I can't believe it. But on the other hand, like, oh my goodness, you are a delusional moron if you think I'm paid by XRP or HBAR. It is actually illegal for me to be promoting something and not tell you it's, it's sponsored, right? So we do have some sponsored content coming up at the end of this video, but I'm gonna tell you it's sponsored. And yes, I'm being paid to show it off in my video, right? And I only take sponsorships with great projects, and you will see uh, that, you know, there's some great projects coming up. But this is the Elon Musk and Stellar connection. Wanted to show you guys that clip. This clip went kind of ham right here, 132K views, has 100K on TikTok. People are, are waking up to the fact that Elon is right there with us on this. All right, next, our first sponsor. We got two sponsors for today's video. XYO, they have reached out. They reached out to me and they wanted to do a sponsored segment in one of the videos. You guys know we have talked about XYO a ton on this channel, so it's kind of full circle, right, to come back and do some sponsored content for them. To be full disclosure, right, none of the content that I've ever done in my life has been sponsored by XYO. But this specific portion of this video that we're about to get into is sponsored. So big shout out to XYO. I am a personal holder of the XYO token. I love the XYO token, I love the XYO network, and XYO the token is the fuel for the network. So what XYO is, let's go in a little bit in depth here. XYO is a self-sovereign ecosystem for a cryptographic future. So they are a technology protocol designed to improve the validity, certainty, and value of data. We are building a data marketplace that gives users a gold standard for any apps, websites, and blockchain technologies that rely on trusted data. So one of the things they talk about with XYO is data permanence. So basically being able to have data exist forever and maintain its accuracy. This is what XYO is. It is a data coin. You could put it in that, and they are, uh, describing themselves as the first reality oracle. Okay, they are building the first— the world's first reality oracle, which is the bridge between secure blockchain data and our physical world. Okay, so they're kind of like a layer on top of the physical world, a blockchain layer, uh, that's kind of like pinning, pinning blockchain data to, to the real world. It's very crazy, awesome project here. Uh, and then the token that powers the XYO Network, uh, is the XYO token, right? And you guys can go and view that. It is on CoinMarketCap. Uh, it is currently 3.6 cents per token, uh, and it is on major exchanges. It's on Coinbase, it's on KuCoin, and a few others there. So XYO is the direct bridge on self-sovereignty and data sovereignty. Another very interesting thing with XYO is the collaboration between XYO and artificial intelligence. All artificial intelligence relies on data, and if the data is inaccurate, the artificial intelligence is just garbage, right? So XYO really work— is working to prove, uh, the validity and credibility and certainty of data. So if you click Get Started here on their website, uh, you'll be brought to here where you can check out their partnerships. They do have a lot of partnerships right here. They raised $20 million for their ecosystem fund. Uh, they're doing some stuff with Chainlink, uh, and also the Coin App, uh, which is a— which is a very cool, uh, thing. We can probably cover that in the future as well. Uh, you can go through their DApp library here. There's some XYO DApps that have been made. Uh, very awesome project. Um, and go check it out, read their white paper. Uh, go and check out the XYO token as well, which is the fuel for the entire network. And then they got their roadmap as well, uh, which they're going to be releasing some very interesting stuff, uh, in 20— in the rest of 2023. So big shout out to XYO, go check them out. Now the final sponsor we have is Z Casino, okay? This is a fully decentralized on-chain casino, absolutely insane. I love this project. We've actually, uh, me and Megan are both going to be advisors to this project as well. They do have a large Twitter following as well. We're going to connect our wallet and actually play here, but ZK or Z Casino is a decentralized betting platform. And basically, you guys have been seeing me on Stake, right? You, you've been seeing me play on Stake. I'm going to be moving to play on here a little bit. Let's connect our MetaMask and hop on. So all you do, connect your MetaMask, and then we're going to make sure we are on the Polygon network right here. Or you can use Arbitrum or Fantom. And the reason, the reason you want to use those networks and the reason they have those available is because they're faster, uh, and they're cheaper. So if we click games right here, you can see they've got slots, they've got rock-paper-scissors, mines, dice, Plinko, video poker, coin flip. Uh, so let's, let's click on some Plinko right here. Let's go high risk, uh, and let's wager, let's do 2. Okay, let's set up MetaPlay right there. So we're gonna have to do a confirmation in our wallet right here. Uh, put our spending thing. I, I don't know why MetaMask has that. Uh, and then we're gonna have to do another one right there. And let's see what we get. So once MetaPlay has been set up, uh, we can now— let's do 2 balls because I only have $4.89. Oh, can you, can you— oh, oh, this is different. We can switch to Polygon. So I have 100 Polygon loaded up. Uh, and let's, let's just click play, see what happens here. So there we go. Here we go. Oh, 2x! Boom, 2x! So we profited, uh, on our one Plinko ball. We profited, uh, some MATIC right there. So plus 2 MATIC, very nice. Let's try another game on here. And obviously they're gonna probably, uh, do some more games in the future. Let's go for this one. I love this. You got the Dogecoin symbols right here. Can we zoom in a little bit? There we go. You know, let's do 20 on this one. Oh, we can't. Oh, max bet is 14. Okay, we're doing 14. Here we go, we go. Did we get anything? No, we did not. No, we did not. So that is a -14.81 on that, 89 on that. To end it off, let's do a coin flip right here. Let's do a 50 MATIC coin flip, folks. Here we go, click play. We're gonna have to do wallet confirmation, of course. Uh, and in my opinion, you know, the wallet confirmation can slow you down a little bit, uh, but that's a positive for two reasons. Because first, if you're on some kind of like crazy gambling roll— I don't condone like, you know, going crazy on gambling at all, uh, however, for fun and with money you can't afford to lose, it's totally fine. Um, now it can slow you down, first of all, right? So you think about your actions a little bit more. And we're minus 50. We're minus 50, folks, down to 34 Matic. So maybe we, uh, will play that in the future again. But shout out to Z Casino for sponsoring the video. That is all we've got. Drop a like and comment on the video. I love every single one of you, and goodbye.










