In this informal daily vlog, Crypto Mason (Mason Versluis) delivers a multi‑topic crypto update for his "Gold Squad" audience. He begins with a quick market snapshot, noting Bitcoin hovering around $48k, his personal Ethereum position (8 ETH), Cardano gains, XRP at $1.13, and a profitable Solana holding. He reviews a handful of altcoins—Vector Space (VXV), Perpetual Protocol, Harmony, etc.—and shares recent price movements and his own wallet screenshots. Mason then critiques a CNBC crypto survey, dismissing its relevance. The core investigative segment uncovers a connection between Standard Chartered and Ripple: the bank’s 2020 half‑year report lists an equity investment in Ripple’s Series B preferred shares, which Mason interprets as a strategic link to the bank’s new blockchain‑powered trade finance platform. He follows with a series of bullish price predictions from community members for XRP, Quant, AllianceBlock, XDC, HBAR, and others, adding his own speculative calculations (e.g., HBAR matching Cardano’s market cap). Mason explains the On‑Demand Liquidity (ODL) flow for XRP with a graphic, highlighting the reduction to a single fiat conversion. He then shifts to NFTs, echoing Alex Becker’s view that profile‑picture NFTs are overhyped and that game‑related NFTs hold massive upside. Finally, he showcases the Chedi Andermatt luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, noting its acceptance of Bitcoin and Ether and joking about paying with XRP, while giving a virtual tour of the hotel’s amenities. Throughout, he urges viewers to like, follow, and engage on social media, and ends with a light‑hearted sign‑off.
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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've got an amazing video. You're definitely going to want to stay till the end. I'm going to show you where we're gonna vacation when this is all over and it's all said and done. Also, we're going to talk about, um, some— a little Ripple connection that I've made. I haven't seen it anywhere else, so we've got some exclusive little research right here. Um, we're gonna talk HBAR, vector space, all of the normal stuff. But if you want to support the channel in a free way, it's complete— completely free, just click the like button. It's free. Like, literally, you do not have to pay me nothing, dude. I do these every day for free. Now let's get straight into it. Make sure you hit the like button once again, highly appreciated. We've got Bitcoin. I feel like every day I'm coming on here and just saying $48,000. It's, it's, it's just stagnant at $48,000 right here. Ethereum— I really want Ethereum to go up. I am sitting on 8 Ethereum. That's $32,000 Canadian. I'm sitting on that, and I'm gonna— I think I might actually wait until Ethereum maybe goes to like $3,500 or $3,600, and then I'll convert it to stablecoin or something and, uh, do what I want with it. We've got Cardano holding the gains, of course. XRP, $1.13. Look at Solana, up over $100, up over $100. Luckily I am in Solana because if we log in to my, uh, Phantom wallet right here, you see that I'm holding some of the profits. Why is it so slow? I'm holding some of the profits. Uh, okay, it looks like it's not going to show you, but I'm holding some of the profits from my Degenerate Apes. I'm still holding the Solana. I think it's only like 12 Solana. But that is still a lot, um, because it's went up. It's doing good, it's doing great. Look at Vector Space, almost back at $5. Sorry, almost back at $5. Um, this thing is still a good buy at $5 in my opinion. Like, if you guys do your research on Vector Space, we've been on this for a long time, long time. I've been in it for a long time. I, I purchased it on video one time. We take a look at the bubbles. We have a mixed day of red and green again. We got Phantom up 64%, uh, Cello up 99%. Dude, this bubble's way too big, man. Look at him. Put him by himself again. Put him by himself. I love how you can do this. It's very childish and fun. These bubbles. Solana, Waves, EGLD, uh, Harmony. Okay, PERP, Perpetual Protocol. I think I did look into that one time, but this is interesting. I don't hold any of these coins except Solana right there. Um, but yeah, that's how it's looking. We are also, um, still above 2 trillion, under 100 mil— under 100, uh, $1.2 billion in 24-hour volume. Bitcoin dominance ticked down a little bit. We've got a CNBC survey right here. 1 in 10 people currently invest in crypto, many for the ease of trading. So once again, these are these dumbass surveys. They surveyed 5,500 US people, which— that's pretty, that's a pretty big sample size, but come on. That's still very small. Like, the government knows this. On your taxes, I think you have to click yes or no, did you buy crypto assets? Or at least I did. So they know how exactly how much have purchased, right? So 11% invest in crypto. Cool. Meaningless. CNBC— never look to CNBC for your crypto news. But you still must pay attention to what the mainstream pushes. You still must pay attention. Now here is the, the little deeper connection that I've found. Standard Chartered— this is from 6 hours ago. 6 hours ago, uh, they launched a blockchain trade platform with Chinese fintech. It's a joint venture operating the new blockchain-powered platform with be headquartered in Singapore. Of course, we know that Singapore, San Francisco, and, uh, Singapore and San Francisco and are very important in crypto, like super important. Like, I think, I think new Silicon Valley type shit is happening. I don't know, it's a lot of stuff in Singapore and a lot of stuff in San Francisco. If you go on Crunchbase, look at all the big venture capitals. All they do is buy San Francisco startups. That's all they're doing. Every company I looked at almost was San Francisco-based. Now obviously there's a reason for this, but I'm not aware of it yet, why they're all in San Francisco. It's like a new hub for this blockchain innovation, I guess, because they're all blockchain companies, they're all related to crypto, and they're buying the hell out of these San Francisco startups. And of course we know Ripple's also from San Francisco, right? The Golden Gate Bridge. XRP is the golden bridge currency. When, when the SEC tried to remove Ripple or try to ask Ripple to get the hell out of the United States, they said, no, we're not leaving our headquarters in San Francisco. Yeah, because you're where you have to be. The Golden Gate Bridge. It's the golden bridge. Is that what it's called? Yes, the Golden Gate Bridge, right? XRP is the golden bridge currency, so they must stay there. Um, okay, so Standard Chartered Bank, right? They launched a blockchain-powered trade finance platform. They're aiming to meet the needs of institutional investors. Headquartered Singapore. We know this all. So watch this though. I dug up this right here. Standard Chartered PLC Half-Year Report 2020, right? Because I was looking for a connection between Standard Chartered Bank and Ripple. Okay, let's just do the, the classic Ctrl+F on the document, search for Ripple. We can even search for XRP. XRP. Oh, there's another mention I didn't even know. Oh yeah, there's two, there's two right here. Let's zoom it in. Look what it says. The group has an invest— has an equity investment in the Series B preferred shares of Ripple Labs Inc., which owns a digital currency, XRP, and is being carried at fair— at a fair value. Now I'm like, okay, fair value. I went to here. To learn what, what, what they mean by being carried at a fair value. And basically it just means that, uh, the amount— like, two parties have to agree on what it's— on the price of it. The fair value of an asset is the amount paid in a transaction between participants if it's sold in the open market, right? So it's— that makes sense. It just makes sense. It's being carried at a fair value. So they mention XRP and they mention that they are invested— they're invested in Ripple Labs. So they're starting a blockchain trade platform and they're invested in Ripple Labs. Interesting connection right there. Let's move on to the Twitter. Fat ALBT— sorry, that name is funny— Fat ALBT says, just a friendly reminder that XRP is going to be $7 in the coming months. Absolutely, I agree, it could do that. $100. That's so easy. That will be super easy. Quant is going to $1,000 plus. Alliance Block is going to $20. XDC is going to $1, and HBAR is going to $3. So this is an example of somebody who's super duper bullish right here, right? Super bull right here. Uh, I mean, I agree with all of these though. Very smart price predictions, like doable price predictions, you know. Remember that one guy who made the $2,000 XRP prediction? Now we talk about this all the time, but I need to put this in here again. If HBAR had the same market cap as ADA, come on dude, $9.26. And the only reason I put it in there again is because Cardano has went so crazy, right? The new market cap, if HBAR got there, it would be $9.26. Holy shit, that would— I would— well, I would go from 3 cents to $9.26. Holy cow, man, I would love that. That would be amazing. Arie right here, Arie says, in case you're new to XRP, this is a good graphic to understand how ODL works. Watch this, this is amazing right here. Let's move me over here. Sender, right? Sender, you've got a sender XRP wallet, uh, number 1, the fund sender XRP wallet right here. Boom, XRP drawn down by the sender, XRP converted to fiat by the receiver, and receiver pays out to local beneficiaries. But over here, we got to pay attention to these comments. Only one fiat conversion now in an ODL transaction, as opposed to two in the past. This is also why most ODL transactions were not detected by XRP Utility Scan in the end, right? So this is how it works. This is how it works, except there's only one fiat transaction now. So it's even better, it's even better. Um, but I like that graphic. Now let's get into small NFT talk right here, and then I'm gonna show you where I'm gonna vacation. Alex Becker: just because I feel it's at current top for NFTs doesn't mean any— anyone with a logical mind should be considering not being here for the long haul. This is literally just the start, and I think the top for overpriced insane FOMO NFTs. The real shit ain't even here yet. I literally exclusively deal in new projects and mints. I have no— I have zero interest in buying a million dollar profile picture. Games plus NFTs will take over the world. So many that are not discovered yet. Lands skin or land, skins, weapons, and so much more is still and will be at 1,000x potential. Absolutely. That's why I sold out of Pudgy Penguins. That is why I think it's the top of, of profile pictures. There's a certain breed of NFTs that they're calling profile picture NFTs. That's why he says I have zero interest in buying a million dollar profile picture, right? CryptoPunks are just profile pictures. That's it as of right now. Uh, yeah, look at this. Now for some fun shit right here. Drop the serious stuff. Look at this. The Chedi Andermatt started accepting payments in crypto. For starters, the luxurious 5-star hotel located in the Swiss Alps added the two largest virtual assets, Bitcoin and Ether, By the time I'm going here, they better have XRP to pay with so I can just give them 1 XRP and pay for the whole trip, right? Because $50,000, right? I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Keeping in mind that a double room for a single night costs $600— $600 doesn't actually seem that crazy. Why does that not seem that crazy? Because look at this, look at this shit. Oh my goodness, look at this. Where's the— where's the other one I saw? Where's the other picture I saw? Look at these. Look at that. Look at that, dude. We're going here. Spa and Health Club. That's what I need right now. Shit, I'm sick. I need some spa. Look at this. This is where I'm going. Chetty Andermatt. Chetty Andermatt. Look at this. Damn, I like their menu on here. They got the picture menu. Let's look at the pool. Wait, virtual tour? Hold on, hold on, you could click off the video now. I'm just having fun spending my profits right here. Hold on, where's the virtual tour? I'm going on virtual tour, man. Let's check it out. Virtual tour. Whoa, what the hell? How do I work this? Damn, this is fire. You can really walk around. Look at this, I don't even need to go to the spa, right? I'll just put my VR on. I'm kidding, that's— that is a disgusting sentence. Let's go down here. Can I get out of the spa? How do I go to, um, view the dollhouse? I want to go to that freaking crazy pool. Oh yeah, oh yeah, right here. Oh yeah, damn, why is it all— can I go on Street View? Where's my street view? Is that a pool? That is a pool. Damn, I'm going here, man. We're gonna go there, man. We're gonna go there. But that is all we've got. Um, I could mess around for a million years on here. Make sure you follow on Instagram, Twitter, all of that shit. I hope you enjoyed. 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