We Made It To 500🎉. Happy 500, Revolutionaries. | Ep 500

Good now revolutionaries — five hundred. Will, Evan, and Alex on the milestone. Ninety-nine percent celebration, one percent macro data drop, zero percent crypto-Twitter doomposting.A custom POAP only fifty people can claim ("Happy 500" is the secret word — DM us in the community for the mint link). A montage from clippers Pix + Tig of the last hundred episodes. The Bunches (Bananagun) origin story — the show's very first sponsor — and the all-time sponsor list: Bananagun, Movement Labs, Aptos, Stand With Crypto, Polygon, Unlock Protocol, The White Whale, Jito, Arculus.The Rise Up Community Scholarship gets its first formal awards. Bearded (chief fact-check officer) and Radio Dan each receive scholarship funding from a $3K pool seeded by listeners — $500 total given today. Plus a behind-the-scenes look at the seventeen-cent POAP, the disenfranchising USAA interest payment that pushed Alex into DeFi years ago.Macro: Q1 GDP 2.0% (miss vs 2.2% expected, but a real improvement from the 0.5% prior). Core PCE 3.2%, Headline PCE 3.5% — both in line with forecasts. Brent crude over $120, WTI at $107. UAE leaving OPEC explained — economic rivalry with Saudi Arabia, control over their own export volumes. Kevin Warsh tipped as next Fed chair: historical policy hawk, Trump-family ties, and crypto holdings disclosed (then shady about the rest).PSA: a viewer asked about "connecting your Trezor to Web3" — that's a scam. Web3 is a category, not a destination. Plus: Tether's new Resilience Stack (Hole Punch + Keet + open-source wallet toolkits + Bitcoin Lightning faucet), Meta tapping Stripe to pay creators in stablecoins on Solana and Polygon, BlackRock's tokenized fund roadmap via Securitize, and a correction on the "Ethereum is built on Hyperledger Besu" misinformation cycle (it's the opposite). Plus the Purple Wallet pre-order is still live.Closing predictions for the next 500 episodes: a physical studio, Will full-time on Rise Up, and an industry that finally tells a better story. Bearded clocks ep 1000 for Thursday September 21, 2028 — see you there.Support the show— Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7: community.rumshq.com—☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a centralHelpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions.🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p centralDYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research.📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑LIVE Mondays @ 7p centralTechnical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market.⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p centralBreaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next.—WANT MORE?👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com👉Become a guest or sponsor: [email protected]👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.comFOLLOW OUR HOSTS:☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info🐬 Will Watson: https://c...