Let The Ripple + XRP TAKEOVER BEGIN!

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 very, very crucial market update. You guys know exactly where the market still is. We're still clutching on, um, to the $1 trillion level. Take a look at this, uh, chart. This is the 12-hour total market cap chart. We're heading straight into things today, folks, um, with this market cap chart. As you can see, the last time that we popped onto this channel, we were peaking out, uh, trying to get to 1.1. And where did that effort land us? It landed us with multiple red candles coming right back down, uh, to try and clutch on to 1 trillion. So that's where we're starting out, uh, this video. Make sure you drop a like and comment. We've got a lot of big stuff to cover. Uh, if you're watching until the end, you're gonna see talk about XRP, uh, HBAR, Quant, two other smaller market cap gems that I personally hold big bags of, uh, for the next bull market. We're going to talk about that, um, and some other news including getting in to the Ripple pre-IPO stock and becoming an owner of Ripple. Like an owner in the actual Ripple company, which is very cool. Um, but let's start out with the whole market. Uh, CoinMarketCap, what are y'all doing? You added these weirdo like trending biggest loser things here. I don't really like that they have these now, uh, but I guess that's what they're doing. We can see Bitcoin has slipped all the way down. Um, you know, on that date where we were peaking out on the market cap, we were also peaking out on Bitcoin, uh, can't get to that $29,000. It's just struggling ever since, uh, mid-August. You can see $28,600 right there. You know, we need to break above $32,000, and that's when you'll see real action start happening. We have the whole SBF, Caroline Ellison, FTX situation going on. We're not going to talk about that at all in this video, but that is going on. Make sure you're paying attention to that. Um, the reason I don't want to talk about it is because that's a big stain on the industry. It's very important how that case plays out, but it is a complete just stain. It's so bad, and it's just one of those things that has to happen for other exchanges to get their stuff together. Um, you know, greed always has to ruin it, folks. Greed always has to ruin it. Now let's go back here and check the biggest gainer. We have Loom Network. No idea what Loom Network is. It's coming out of nowhere with some crazy price action, uh, almost 500% in 30 days. What the heck is going on? FraxShare, uh, we got Gala, Cronos. Uh, lots of people ask me, am I still bullish on CRO? You know, I'm very neutral on it now. I don't hold any of it now. I'm very neutral. I think Crypto.com might have spent way too much money on marketing during the 2021, um, little bull run we had. I think they overextended. They had to make some horrible changes to the, the Crypto.com credit card. Uh, so, you know, I'm not— I'm neutral on it. I'll be watching it closely though. Gala as well. Um, Meg BZK posted a great video, uh, so go check out her channel on Gala. And if she is selling her Gala. And I'm also in that video talking about my thoughts on the Gala situation. Go check that out on her channel. But before we get into the XRP news of the day, and then we'll get into HBAR and some other stuff, we need to talk about Patience, folks. So Patience is the trading indicator company that both me and Megan are building. Um, the website is basically up. Some of the pages on the website are gated off right now until we launch, but you guys can go check it out. Make sure you get on the early list by clicking Get Notified, and then basically you enter your email. Now, what does the early list get you? By getting your name on the early list— by the way, it closes October 14th— but by getting your name on here, you will receive a 10% off special code uh, for when we launch. You will also get first access to the Patience Discord server, uh, and then you will also get a chance at the OG 1000 role, which will only be given to the first 1,000, uh, members of the Patience Discord. So Patience is where we are building the number one trading hub, okay? It's an indicator suite, but it's also a membership, a trading membership and you'll get a ton of other benefits on top of access, uh, to the trading indicators right here. Uh, so make sure you go check that out, Patience.io. Use the link in the description. Let's keep it moving. Let's talk about the Ripple IPO, folks. Crypto Geek right here says, breaking: Ripple is expected to announce its IPO soon. So this is one of those pieces of news that, like, isn't news, he just wants to tweet this. Um, this is old news. Brad Garlinghouse has stated multiple times that they will do an IPO, an initial public offering, uh, where you'll be able to, you know, Ripple will have a stock on the stock market and you'll be able to see it go up and down just like, uh, Coinbase's stock. So Ripple will be doing an IPO. Uh, there's no source on this info that they're doing it soon, uh, but 2024 I personally believe an IPO could happen for Ripple, probably timed during the bull market. But let's talk for a second. Okay, no, here's the, here's the thing we need to distinguish. So you might be like, well, I thought XRP gives me ownership in Ripple. If you think that, you're very mistaken. XRP is a decentralized cryptocurrency. There's no XRP company. It doesn't exist. There's no CEO of XRP, there's no marketing team for XRP, there's no accountants for XRP, there's nothing. However, there are marketing teams for Ripple, there's a CEO of Ripple, and that's because Ripple is a centralized company. So right here, Ripple does not equal XRP. They are kind of conjoined, like they're, they're connected in a certain way because they've been so closely put in the same sentence. So, you know, people psychologically, people will always determine how successful Ripple is by the price of XRP. And you're not supposed to be doing that, right? That would make XRP a security, but XRP is not a security. Ripple will have its own stock coming when they IPO. Now let's talk about this. This is KD from our Gold Squad Discord. Make sure you join the Gold Squad Discord. It is free to join. Um, but this is one of our regular members right here, KD. Um, he says, today was a good day, great day to become a Ripple stock owner. Um, and then he says pre-IPO right at the bottom there. So how did he get in on pre-IPO, before the IPO? Well, LinkTo, uh, is one of the platforms that we are directly partnered with. Um, and, uh, and LinkTo has Ripple shares now available. So this is the second time that Ripple shares have become available, um, on the, the Linqto platform. And the best part about it is this is for all investors, folks. They are unlocking private equity opportunities for all investors. Okay, I believe it's currently only in the USA. I'm waiting for them to come to Canada with this. Um, but by using the link in our description, our partnered link, you can get $500 free towards your purchase, um, of Ripple pre-IPO stock right here, which is very, very cool. Uh, the minimum is $2.5K, so $2,500 USD. However, with that $500 link, uh, in the description, it will only be $2,000, right? So very, very cool stuff right there. And, you know, for private equity, $2,000 is not that much, bro. It might— I mean, to people, it is a lot. Like, $2,000 is a lot of money. But in terms of private equity investments, usually it's like crazy minimums, right? And that's one of the benefits of Linqto, right? The other competitors are at $100,000 minimum. Right? They, they're bringing it down to $2,500, which is super cool. Big shout out to LinkTo. Let's keep it moving. This was one of the other big pieces of news that came out of Ripple. Their CFO has departed. She is gone. Um, Campbell announced her departure to join a healthcare company amidst the SEC battles. So she joined in April 2021, just after the SEC initiated initiated legal proceedings. Um, her exit coincides with several executive departures from Binance US, uh, amid its ongoing legal dispute with the SEC. So she chose to leave the company, um, and she's joined a healthcare company. So whatever you want to think about that, I don't think it's— I don't think it's anything weird with her leaving and stuff. I don't think it's anything weird. I think she just decided to move on to the next big thing for her. Um, but that's the biggest Ripple news coming out, uh, today. So I wanted to show you this clip, um, of Leemon Baird, the creator and founder, inventor of Hashgraph. Uh, he's speaking at Harvard in this clip. Take a look at what he says in this clip, folks. Here we go.

Typically, the history of any kind of market is that you have this enormous springing up of thousands and thousands of companies, and then you have crash, and then you get down to 3 or 4 whatever big companies that continue on there. And that's the way every revolution tends to happen. I'm sure we'll see the same pattern here.

So he's admitting what no crypto founder wants to admit, and that is that all of these random fake use case companies in crypto will crumble and fall apart and go to zero, and only a few will emerge from the ashes, right? Uh, and this is the same concept that happened with the dot-com bubble, right? The same thing is gonna happen, and he's aware of that. So with him creating Hedera Hashgraph, do you think he created it to be one of the ones that falls down to and crumbles with the rest of stuff? No, they built HBAR and Hedera to be a 100-plus year company. And rise from the ashes of this big crypto bubble. If we take a look at how many cryptos there are— is that real? There's 1.8 million crypto tokens. Is that real? How is that— how is it at 1.8 million? I guess they're, they're, they're, um, counting every single little token that's ever been generated. But take a look at that, right? Only a little bit portion of those will survive, okay? Um, and you know, everything else is inevitably going to crumble, and this is when HBAR will succeed. Now let's take a look at another clip, um, of Leemon Baird explaining, uh, his thought process on Web3 becoming easy for users, for regular users. And this— these two clips show you that the HBAR founder, the Hedera founder, is not scared to address the harsh truths of crypto. Take a look at this.

You start with Web 2 and you have a Web 3 that's in the background and invisible behind the Web 2. And then there are many things where it can't be invisible. You actually know that you have a token. You make it easy then for users to create tokens. And so you have some program that helps them create something. And then there's just a button that says, hey, would you like to make a token out of it? Now that's pure Web 3, but it's so easy, such a no-brainer. You just push the button and you're done. And we have to have key recovery being automatic and a no-brainer. All these things have to be easy. This is the future we have to get to where for developers and for startups and for enterprises and for end users, it is incredibly smooth and easy and safe. We also have to make sure they can avoid the frauds and the scams and all those things in our industry. And this is part of what it means for our industry to mature.

So right there addressing like basically that Web3 is impossible. For like senior citizens to, to learn and stuff, or, or people who are not well-versed in technology. And I know some of you watching, um, are from the older generations, and I love that you guys are watching every single day, especially if you're 13 minutes into a Crypto Mason video. You are here to learn, right? You are absolutely here to learn. And whether you throw my videos on in the car on your drive to work or wherever you're watching from The fact is, you're— you are here to learn. You're 10 minutes deep, 13 minutes deep into an educational crypto video updating you on the news that's coming out every day. Okay, but his point still stands that it is not easy enough yet. I know it firsthand. I have to help my dad trade. I have to help him move tokens everywhere, set up wallets. It's just not easy yet. And Lehman right here, Lehman Baird knows what's up, okay? And he's not scared to address that stuff. Now let's move on to some other HBAR stuff. Um, this is the top rankings, um, for development activity, okay? So one of the main things I look at when I look at a new crypto project is I look at the developers and who's developing on the network. Are there people actually building on it? And we can see Cardano is number 1 in the past 30 days. Polkadot, Kusama, and then Hedera is number 4 over Ethereum, over ICP, over Chainlink. Hedera has more development activity on their GitHub than all these, okay, except 3, uh, which is Polkadot, Kusama, and Cardano. So that was a nice piece of news I saw. Another big thing from Hedera, the biggest— apparently the biggest African fintech startup or company, Flutterwave, um, has just, uh, partnered with Hedera, okay? And they are going to— or they announced the launch of their USDC merchant settlement solution built on Hedera. The news comes as Flutterwave celebrates its valuation of $3 billion. A $3 billion, uh, valuated company building on Hedera. Okay, choosing Hedera. And this marks a significant milestone in the African fintech ecosystem. Very, very cool. So one of the things you might not know is USDC is available on the Hedera Hashgraph, right? So you can send USDC over the Hashgraph network, which is very cool. And this removes all those stupid Ethereum fees, right? On Ethereum, you still have to pay like a $5 fee to send money. Now that's nothing compared to a wire transfer, but with Hedera or even Polygon or even Avalanche or any of them, any of the other ones, uh, you can send it basically for pennies. Pennies. All right, let's move on to the two crypto gems that I'm watching for 2024. This is AllianceBlock, Nexera, and Spool, and they have just announced a partnership between Spool and Nexera, and they're partnering to provide institutions with simple and compliant DeFi yields. Uh, I am not sponsored by Nexera or Spool. I'm personally invested with my own funds. Now we have Spool sitting at 25 cents right here, then we have AllianceBlock sitting at 4 or 5 cents basically. Uh, so those are ones to watch in my opinion. Keep your eye out on those. And they just partnered up, which is very, very cool. Now, final thing before we get into our partnered slash sponsored section of the video: Quant is a finalist in some banking tech awards from Fintech Future, uh, their work with the Bank of England. So just let that sink in—Quant is working with the Bank of England. Directly on Project Rosalind, okay? Uh, and their work with the Bank of England shaped the way that banks and financial services industry tested retail CBDCs in a real-world setting with the Overledger platform. So they're a finalist, uh, they didn't win yet, uh, but they're a finalist, okay? Uh, and one thing, you know, that I'm— I haven't been liking, uh, about Quant is Gilbert has disabled his comments, so you cannot reply to Gilbert unless he follows you. Um, and then Quant, the actual page, has disabled comments. That's always a bad sign. That's always a bad sign. But I, I— maybe they've disabled it because the price has been so horrible. Uh, we can do a little check-in on the Quant, uh, price right here. Continues to dump. Looks like we found great support 3 separate times here at the $85 range. Uh, can we go lower? Absolutely. Do I care if we go lower? No. Do I want us to go lower? Yes, so we can get in at the low prices, right? We got into Quant at $28, $28 to $48, um, and this thing ripped all the way up, you know, monstrous rip up to $431. So watch Quant closely. I'm not placing any longs yet, although, you know, we have bounced off $85 3 times and we're back there right now. Up to you, man, up to you. Now let's move on to our first sponsor of today's video. This is UniGrid, uh, and they are the sharded internet, so true decentralized Anonymous Internet. They describe themselves as the next internet revolution, a decentralized global network. So basically, they are in the cloud computing, uh, space right here, trying to revolutionize it. Um, and essentially why it's a market disruptor, um, is because they allow anybody to contribute resources to the network by hosting what they're calling a grid node, a service node, uh, supplying bandwidth, bandwidth, compute cycles, and storage space. So essentially right here they have this calculator on how much you can make, you know. So if you provide them, let's say, 10 terabytes, uh, and you up this server load to 30% and you up your uplink, you'll be earning $127 per month, right, with— by supplying and operating a grid node. And you know, this can get all the way up to some crazy amounts right here. If we turn up the terabytes, you know, you can get some crazy amounts going. So make sure you guys go and check out Unigrid. The token is coming very soon. You can also download Janus, which is their custom application installer, and, you know, get started on operating a grid node if you would like. Here's their Twitter right here. The next evolution of the internet and cloud, cloud services, uh, done right. Awesome tokenomics on this one. I've looked over this, uh, in my spare time here. You can also check out the sale right here if you would like. Uh, no financial advice at all, that's only if you want. They have some strategic partners down here as well. Um, very, very dope project. Make sure you go and check out Uh, I believe they're launching on NFpad, uh, which is one of their partners right here. Um, NFpad, they will be launching, uh, the Unigrid token on there. So very cool. Next, uh, project that we have is TG Casino. I talked about this one in our last video. This is the world's number one Telegram casino, folks. So they have 25% cashback when you use the TGC token. And there's many different use cases of their TGC token. But the thing here is essentially all you have to do, uh, is click play now, right? Once you click play now, um, it's gonna open, uh, the Telegram casino bot. So everything is done through Telegram here. Now let me just show you, uh, what we showed in the other video right here. Uh, you know, you can, you could— well, yours won't look like this. Yours will look like this. You'll have to click the play button, um, and then right inside of your Telegram, uh, you can do sports betting. You can do any of these things, right? And obviously gamble with responsibility, folks. Don't use money you can't afford to lose. Uh, however, this is a very cool way for anonymous, uh, fully licensed, uh, 100% safe gambling. Very, very cool. Check out the tokenomics. Um, you know, there's— they've put some benefits if you get into the TGC presale. Uh, that is up to you. Um, and go check their white paper out. TG Casino, big shout out to them. The second last sponsor of today's video, this one I am an advisor for. Both me and Megan are advisors for USP. Uh, the USPX Republic.com official waiting list is still there. Make sure that you join the waiting list if you're interested in USP. So basically, USP allows you to purchase their security token and be a fractional owner of a big real estate portfolio worth around $15 million. I'm a, you know, I'm personally invested in USP. Um, and the USP Real Estate security token has been approved to list on republic.com. So basically retail investors will be allowed to, uh, participate, uh, in this one on republic.com. So $1,000 minimum self-custody, uh, and the max raise is $1.23 million. So big shout out to USP. The final project, which is my favorite AI project in crypto, uh, as of right now is ChainGPT. I wanted to focus in because we've talked about them a lot, right? I'm a CGPT holder, uh, their token. I believe these guys are like— these guys have a crazy team because they just ship, ship, ship. They're pushing out new AI products all the time. But one of the recent things they developed was their launchpad, okay? And you know, I've participated in two, or maybe one, uh, no, yes, one of their launches so far, which was DexCheck. I participated in that one, but they've got some other launches including GT Protocol coming up. And here's all the upcoming launches you can see. So essentially, you sign up for the launchpad, you KYC, you verify your wallet, then you have to stake some CGPT tokens. Um, and depending on where you— like, how— what staking you choose, you will get put into a tier which will allow you, um, certain, uh, minimums and certain investing. So right here, access your tier, unlock your multiplier, secure your allocations. So depending on what you stake you can get certain allocations, okay? And you can choose from these. So what I recommend you do, uh, if you want to get involved with ChainGPT Pad, is go and check out some of the projects and please just do your research on some of these, um, because they're picking up some awesome projects on ChainGPT Pad. But that is all we've got for today's video. I love every single one of you. Drop a like and comment, uh, join the Gold Squad Discord, check all the links in the description. There's some interesting stuff in there. And goodbye.