⚠️ THIS IS CRAZY FOR XRP! I AM SO BULLISH! CRYPTO NEWS TODAY UPDATE.

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 a jam-packed market update and a bonus part at the end of this video where we're going to discuss the top 3 ways to get rich in the next bull market because it is coming. So in this video, we've got some amazing XRP news. We're going to discuss what it means. Uh, Ripple is involved. We've got some HBAR stuff. We've got Quant. We're going to go over charts and everything in a simple, amazing fashion that we always do. So make sure you're watching until the end, but let's get into it. Now, before we do, let's do an XRP giveaway, folks. We hit 941 likes on the last video, uh, and that earned us a 100 XRP giveaway. So make sure you go over to the Gold Squad Discord, go to the free crypto channel, and you will see a little giveaway thing by the time this video is out. Make sure you just click and, you know, you'll be entered for 100 XRP. So let's keep it moving here. Let's get into the market, folks. Uh, Trust Wallet is up. CRO, we've got WEMIX, Rune. Uh, shout out to the people who have been in ThorChain for a while. I know they actually do have a crazy community. Uh, we are at $1.3 trillion, and you guys know I love my— I love that total market cap number as a metric to track. And we're going to look at the chart in a second here. $1.3 trillion. Volume is, is above $50 billion. We're sitting at $60 billion. So there's some good volume going through the market right now. Uh, ThorChain is running the market. We've got Trust Wallet, Oasis— this was a coin in, uh, the 2022 kind of section there that was kind of exploding. Uh, as for our biggest losers, we've got PancakeSwap, Flow, Render continues to kind of bounce downwards, uh, and I see XDC as well in there. So BTC, what's our Bitcoin price, uh, sitting at, folks? $34,445. Now you can see, like, this is the 12-hour chart, uh, and you can see, you know, this was a good break. This, like, what we just did going to $35K was very nice. And we— the whole, the whole key is, are we going to retain above $30,000, right? Or above $34,000? And so far, like, we've done pretty good. We slipped into the $33,000s a little bit, uh, but we've done good. And this, it makes me pretty happy that crypto is able, uh, to actually stay above, uh, $30,000. It's a very good sign. Now let's look at our favorite, uh, chart right here. My favorite chart is the crypto total market cap. Now you can see these are my circles from a few days ago. And you can see we actually blasted past, uh, well past where we should have stopped, uh, historically where we should have stopped is, you know, $1.25 trillion slash $1.2 trillion. But we actually blasted through it, and now the real test is if we can hold, uh, hold these market cap levels. Now I absolutely love this chart. Just look at how this $1 trillion level plays a nice support right there. All across here, right? Resistance— it played resistance right here, and we battled it a little bit, and then we turned it into support, which is actually pretty good sign, right? Pretty good sign. Back in November, basically on the day today, we were fighting the $1 trillion level as resistance, and now we Where are we today? Well, we're battling 1.3, which is very nice. Now let's get into some of the biggest news today. Obviously, Sam Bankman-Fried has been convicted of his multibillion-dollar FTX fraud. He has been found guilty on all accounts, I believe. And the 12-member jury, they decided within 4 hours. So after just, just over 4 hours, um, they, they, uh, made him guilty, right? They deemed him guilty. So that's the big news. I don't want to talk about scam, Bankman-Fraud anymore. Bye-bye, farewell, uh, FTX. You know, anything that's fake and just like shaky that is built will crumble. Now I wanted to show you this from Bread and Butter. This is a great little chart of all of the upcoming events for November. Now, right after this video, I'm going to drop this in our Discord. Uh, we have our graphs and diagrams, uh, channel where, you know, you'll see all these amazing different, uh, cheat sheets and charts and, uh, you know, infographics. I'm gonna drop it in here so you guys can look at that, but I highly recommend because there are some very interesting dates on there for November 2023. We also have the Karate Combat event happening, um, tonight, I believe. And, you know, here's some of my picks. You guys can copy my picks if you want, uh, but I suggest, you know, using your Karate tokens how you want to use them. But this is who I've put mine— I, I bet over 2.1 million Karate tokens, uh, on the fights. Now, to keep it going, uh, with HBAR-related stuff, I wanted to show you that for October, the developer activity, HBAR came in third place. 380 developer activities in 30 days, uh, just under Cardano and Polkadot. But the key thing here is who are they above? They are above Chainlink, above Cosmos, Avalanche, Radix, right? So Hedera those active developers is a key metric. Notice Algorand is nowhere to be found on this list, uh, and other projects are nowhere to be found. This is the most— one of the most important net, uh, important metrics for ecosystem expansion is how many devs are actually building on it. Now let's get into the XRP and Ripple section of this video. Uh, the Q3 XRP market report has came out officially, okay? And Ripple has revealed that they have sold $892 million, uh, 892 million XRPs, uh, for Q3 2023, okay? 41.3 billion XRP is still locked in the escrow, uh, and people get all controversial about this saying that Ripple owns XRP and Ripple owns the network. Dude, Ripple is a centralized company investing in a decentralized cryptocurrency, okay? They want the XRP price to go up. They want it to go up because they're personally invested into it, right? And every single month, 1 billion tokens from the escrow gets unlocked, right? And they can sell some of those but usually a lot of those go back into the escrow. Okay, so this gives a nice breakdown of what's happening, but the markets report was out, um, and they basically explain XRP currently— or Ripple's holdings fall into two categories: XRP that it currently has available in its wallets and XRP that is subject to on-ledger escrow lockups. That will be released each month over the next 42 months. For this latter category, Ripple does not have access to that XRP until the escrow releases it to Ripple on a monthly basis. So a lot of people think Ripple can just dump any of this 40 billion XRP whenever they want. No, it has to be released on this monthly schedule. And they say the vast majority of XRP that is released is put back into the escrow. Now moving forward, I wanted to, uh, here's a message to the whole XRP community. I do not support building meme coins on top of the XRP Ledger. Please just build real things, not cash grab things, okay? One of the projects that— or there's many projects that are building real things on top of XRP and using the XRP Ledger. But recently I was approached by someone from the XRP community who was going to launch a meme coin. I unfollowed this person as soon as they tried to get me on. Like, they approached me like it was a regular, uh, like cool new project on XRP. And then I opened the document they sent me and it's a straight up meme coin cash grab. So please stay away from these things. I am an objective, unemotional thinker, uh, in, in my investing philosophy. So I can realize too and admit that meme coins do and can increase adoption, but they do it in the wrong way. Meme coins do not match up with what XRP stands for. XRP stands for being the biggest use case of crypto, the most useful solving the biggest real-world problem of cross-border payments. So I, I would hope that the stuff we build on top of XRP matches that philosophy. Save the meme coins for Binance, bro. If you want to build a scam or a rug pull or some bullcrap NFT— or sorry, bullcrap, uh, meme coin or NFT— go build it on Binance. Go to Binance Smart Chain and build that crap, right? Just pollute their network. Don't pollute the XRP Ledger. But I get it, it can increase volume, it can increase all of that, but people are going to be left wrecked. Like, you're— if you get into these XRP meme coins, please sell when you're in profit. Sell, sell, sell, dude, because you will get stuck holding that thing until its death, uh, You know, and you know, someone asked me right here, what do I think about xSpectre? Um, I think that xSpectre is one of the projects that's building on XRP, uh, that is doing some of the realest stuff. Some of the realest stuff. They have gigantic ecosystem goals, and I can't wait to see if they, uh, they pull it off. Uh, and most people, you know, are really, uh, agreeing with what I'm saying here. Um, on this take. Okay, uh, and by the way, xSpectre is not a sponsor of today's video. However, we've done some sponsored content for them in the past. Great, awesome project. Uh, we do— for our Gold Squad, uh, community, we also hold a Jade land plot. It's the second biggest xSpectre land plot, which is very cool. Now let's keep it moving. Our last— or no, not even close to our last XRP-related discussion because Dude, there's a lot every single day, uh, or every single video. Uh, so Uphold, let's talk about Uphold because Uphold directly partnered with Ripple. Okay, directly Ripple and Uphold. Um, and this is an exchange. Uphold is a dope exchange. They are not a sponsor of our channel. Uh, however, they are doing a 50,000 XRP giveaway. Holy cow, 50,000 XRP. Uh, so how this works is if you click the link in the description, you use our link to sign up, every single $20 that you trade on Uphold, you get +1 entries. Okay, so for example, if you trade, uh, you know, $200 worth, you, you will get 10 entries into the sweepstakes to get, uh, 50,000 XRP right there. So obviously the link in the description is a referral link. They are not, uh, paying us, um, in anything but referral money to, uh, promote this. But you know, who cares? It's a, it's an XRP 50,000 giveaway. Awesome opportunity. And dude, the amount of free money opportunities in crypto is just baffling. Now I wanted to mention this again for like the fourth or fifth time. Uh, Linqto has restocked, uh, the Ripple shares on there. Okay, so Ripple, uh, has pre-IPO available on there. It's available to all investors if you're in the USA. It's not in Canada yet, so I'm waiting for them to come to Canada. They better come to Canada soon so that we can become investors in Ripple. They also got a bunch of other awesome companies on there. Um, but private investment with a minimum— there is a minimum investment of $2,500. Dude, if you can get into a private investment with a minimum of $2.5K, that's, that's absurd. Usually private investing needs $100,000 plus. So that's the benefits of LinkTo right there. Now let's get into the two massive pieces of, uh, of Ripple news that have came out in the last, uh, few days here. The National Bank of Georgia has selected Ripple as a key partner for the Digital Larry pilot project. So this is a CBDC project by the National Bank of Georgia. Now I believe— I'm just going to do this for one second— Elon Musk ex-Georgia payment license. Now I just want to confirm. Yes, Elon Musk uh, with the X platform obtained a payment license in Georgia recently. Okay, so I mean, the stars are lining up in my opinion for some kind of Ripple integration here. Obviously it's, it's super far out, like it's, it's a very small chance that, um, that, uh, Elon teams up with Ripple to run all the payments through X.com. Okay, but it's It's potentially there. Uh, so Georgia was one of the states that he got a license in, and now we have the National Bank of Georgia selecting Ripple as its main partner. Now what does this mean? Well, essentially Ripple has an award-winning CBDC solution, uh, which is their CBDC platform, and essentially this is using the XRP Ledger. This CBDC platform is directly using the XRP Ledger. So the Georgia National Bank of Georgia has selected them to run their, their digital Larry pilot project. Now the other piece of big news is the DIFC, the Dubai International Financial Center, is— excuse me— just approved XRP under its virtual assets regime. I've told you many times, I think one of our recent videos um, was titled something to do with XRP and India. Uh, where is it? Uh, hold on. Uh, okay, I actually— where? Oh, right here. XRP plus India is the secret key. Okay, and you know, in that video I also mentioned Dubai, Dubai being a hub for crypto innovation, and they absolutely are. So very interesting. On the Georgia piece of news, and then the DIFC also doing that for them in Dubai. Now let's go over the 3 strategies to become rich in the next crypto bull run. So I made a TikTok of this, which is a great watch as well. It's 4 minutes long, but I'm going to reiterate these right here. Okay, there's 3 strategies because the bull run is coming. It's coming. The bull run is coming. Uh, and the, the first one is to catch the next explosive narrative. The next explosive narrative. This is going to be your number one way of making 20, 50x. Okay, uh, catch the next explosive narrative. A couple examples here. If you caught the whole like meme coin Dogecoin era where Dogecoin shot up to like 60 cents, there were millionaires made, right? There were millionaires made. Uh, the gaming bull run of 2021 too, there's so many gaming coins exploded, uh, and made millionaires. Then we had the metaverse coins explode, millionaires were made. The AI coin explosion recently, millionaires were made. And you know to find the next narrative, you have to look at what you think is currently underrated. So in my opinion, real utility coins, um, real-world asset coins, uh, AI coins, anything to do with that, and, and gaming, I think will have another huge, huge bull run. Okay, so catching the next explosive narrative is going to be how you're going to make lots of money. Now diversifying— the second point is diversifying into narratives with strong cash flow. So this is a two-part, uh, thing right here, okay? You have to have strong cash flow. So I urge everyone here to build some kind of extra cash flow. Get another job or start an online business or start making videos, something that's going to give you extra cash flow. Because you need to be heavy. You need to have a lot of cash coming in so that you can diversify into narratives. I'm not telling you to pick one narrative and go all in on it, right? People do that and it can work out, but sometimes it doesn't. So I'm telling you to actually get into all of the narratives that you believe in. Okay, now the third strategy here is the best one. And I, I'm going to make a video that just details this, uh, name that I have for this type of portfolio. It's called the 3-tier portfolio, and I believe this is the key to crypto. It's a 3-tier portfolio. The first tier, at the foundational level— you guys have heard me explain this, but please listen up again because this should be your focus. In building your crypto bags. The first foundational level of your portfolio should be your long-term holds. These are coins that you occasionally stack your bags up. You don't care where the price goes. You're not looking to exit quickly or make profit quickly. You're just stacking those because you believe in your mind that within 4 years or a year or 5 years or 10 years, the token price will go up. That's all you're doing. The second tier of your portfolio should be more of an active pursuit of fundamentally strong projects, uh, and with some dedicated capital, dedicated money to go and find new opportunities, right? We're going to have some sponsors here at the end of this video, and these are examples of new coins that are coming out onto the market that could explode, right? That's what we see is new coins come onto the market, they do their launch pad, and they explode. And whoever's in early makes money usually if they sell. Uh, so that's your second, uh, tier of your portfolio is actively pursuing opportunities, right? Like, this would mean I go on to this market right here and I'm like, okay, let's go to the 24 hours, who's the biggest loser? Okay, Render. Do I think Render, uh, is going to be big in the future? Let me zoom out on their chart. Oh wow, they're only at $2.2 and, uh, it, it could go to $7. That's the last all-time high. And then you do your research on Render and you say, okay, I believe that in a couple months there's going to be another AI explosion and we'll go back up to whatever, right? And then you put your money in and you're actually looking for an exit. You're looking to double your money, you're looking to 5x your money. in the short term. That's the second tier, right? Then the top tier of your portfolio, um, is actively trading. So taking a portion of your money— and this is why you need strong cash flow— is because you're going to diversify your money into 3 different tiers. So this tier is actively trading. So I'm talking about signing up for Fairdesk with the link in this, in the description, or any exchange, right? And actually trading perpetual futures or trading on spot. Okay, I prefer, um, trading perpetual futures. I am in one right now. Look at that, down huge, uh, right now on a very degenerate, uh, ETH right there. I might actually get liquidated on that, but we'll see how, how that plays out. I, I am not fearful, um, of -20%. So we'll see how that goes. Uh, that is a 40x cross long, so extremely degenerate— or sorry, uh, short. That is not a long right there. But this is what I mean, actively taking a portion of your money and really trading with it and learning trading. Okay, and this, this is looking bad for me. And obviously I do not have a stop loss on, as you can see, only a take profit. Uh, but I'm going to look for that to tap, uh, just below $1,800 again, and then we'll be looking good. I'm going to get out of that one. Now let's get into, uh, our sponsors for today. Um, unigrid.org. Unigrid is a sharded internet project that is coming up. We did a dedicated, uh, review— excuse me, review video for them, uh, which was very nice, right here, uh, a couple weeks ago. If you want a deep dive into the project, go look at that. But they're doing their sale, um, on NFTPad— or sorry, NFpad— right here. Uh, the token sale is going to be hosted exclusively on NFpad, and it's commencing on November 4th, so tomorrow, which is very cool. Uh, and then, you know, this— just go watch the dedicated video. Essentially, they're building a new internet where you can contribute, um, uplink server load and storage, uh, to the network by running a grid node or a service node, uh, and you supply bandwidth, compute cycles, and storage space, uh, and then essentially this is a— this is disrupting the, um, the whole Amazon, uh, the Amazon Virtual— or sorry, the Amazon Web Services space, I believe, the VPN, everything. This This is a huge disruptor of the internet in general. So go check them out. The sale is going to be on NFpad right there. Now our next sponsor is Commonwealth. This isn't so much of a sponsor because me and Megan are both advisors for this project. And I absolutely love what they're doing. They just put out a very nice community update. Also this video right here. Make sure you go and watch that. But here's their community update on, uh, on Medium. So basically they have their public beta app test, their launch strategy, uh, and their ecosystem growth. And that's all for free, you can read through it. Uh, they're testing their MVP, they've got integration with zkSync and Chainlink, and apparently the token is coming. The token is coming. I think they've had to push it back a little bit, but what they're doing is basically, basically bringing retail investors the same private sale deals as crypto VCs. Okay, so instead of Wall Street, it becomes All Street. Very nice project right there. Now, ChainGPT is the final sponsor of today's video. This essentially is my favorite AI project. We just talked about narratives. ChainGPT is the main super AI app for crypto. I don't know any other ones that have as much built, um, as them, right? They have their launchpad, they have all of their, um, web app products here. They've got so many different things— an NFT generator, AI-generated news, uh, chatbots. They have everything. Right? So this is the, the AI super app that's going to help people onboard into crypto. So go check out ChainGPT, massive shout out to them. Let's check up on this trade. Okay, we're going— yeah, it's still pretty bad, down, uh, $450. Okay, I'll give you an update in the next video on how that one played out. Now that is all we've got. I love every single one of you. Drop a like and comment on the video, join the Gold Squad Discord, and goodbye.