The Rise Up Morning Show

Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 548 with a first-time guest: Matt Lopez, better known on TikTok as BlackXXOR. Matt's DeFi origin story starts with the GameStop fiasco — a hard turn away from TradFi and a full dive into decentralized finance. "No instrument has existed in our time on earth that has leveled the playing field more than DeFi." A friend told him he had to start teaching it. When he did, he found he was actually the one learning.The bulk of this episode is a real DeFi masterclass. Will drives the liquidity-pool 101 explainer live on screen: concentrated liquidity, the yellow-band range, why setting a tight range looks like a 5,000% opportunity and usually isn't ("in about three minutes, price drifts out of the band and you stop earning fees"). Steckler asks a real LP question and gets a real answer. Then Evan takes it up a level with the Turtle Club + liquid-fund walkthrough — how these funds go to protocols BEFORE token launch, negotiate better-than-market yields via a SAFE, and how retail can DIY a version with 3-5 friends + a multi-sig + more capital than any of them has alone. Katana (built on Polygon) is the worked example.Alex's Clarity Act update: "Nothing effectively has changed about the status of this bill." The 60-vote count isn't there. Senate doesn't publish the whip count. The headline circulating that "Clarity Act delayed" is technically true but doesn't mean anything — it's in the exact same place it was yesterday. Thune is prioritizing two other things ahead of it before the August 8 recess. Trump technically CAN cancel a recess or reconvene Congress — most likely trigger would be if the SAVE Act doesn't move either (his own party's opposition). Alex's mission: equip you to recognize when someone yapping about the Clarity Act has clearly not read it. "Your weapon is literacy."Also this episode: multi-sig security 101 (Drift ran 2-of-5, some have 3/5 or 5/9), Matt's teaching philosophy ("the student not understanding something is never the student's fault, it's the teacher's fault"), premium-membership rate going up end of August + a week-off production break coming with a Greatest Hits show, new [email protected] email inbox (courtesy of Torii B), and a new sign-off in the works: "Keep nuance alive."Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Market Watch 049 with Will hosting solo. Doug's on vacation at the Jersey Shore, so it's Will in a Pokemon shirt walking the whole book of charts and opening a live pack on Collector Crypt mid-show. The macro read heading into Wednesday's FOMC: bearish. Will opened a 25x BTC short on the 15-minute during the show — and immediately admitted "I wish I'd done that with less leverage just to not get stomped out."The line to remember on Bitcoin: **$63,686**. That's the 55-month exponential moving average. If BTC's monthly candle closes above it, Will says the bear market has turned. If not, expect a lower low before this is over. Ethereum target: $900 (about a 22% drop from where we are). Hyperliquid target: $45 — the 12-month EMA — with the near-term short setup from $71 down to $64. Gold is a short too. The S&P and NASDAQ look particularly ugly heading into the FOMC — NASDAQ already broke both the 12- and 21-week EMAs and has another 6.6% down to reconnect with the 55-week.The big education segment: Aavenomics. Roberto asked about Aave's new buyback policy — Will pulled up the announcement and the chart. Aavenomics ISN'T new. Same $50M/year buyback that's been running since October 2025, now hardened into an immutable protocol-level mechanism. Aave is still down 66% since that policy went live. Roberto later shared sources showing the cap increases to $117M annually with ~$134M in protocol + GHO revenue backing it (per Kulkachov). Will's rule of thumb: buyback programs under $100M/year don't move price. Under $50M really doesn't get the market excited.Also this episode: Ondo chart walk-through (bearish divergence on RSI, support at $0.288 or lower), HBAR adoption question (Will knows the Hedera team, calls them great people, but adoption's falling off on DeFi Llama), Cardano called "a dead project" and just removed from the Bitwise altcoin ETF, the Coinbase stock case ("the Clarity Act's importance is overblown but it'll certainly help Coinbase"), and Will shouting out Doug's trading Twitter — @ZeroXTrendDrift — "crazy good trader, posts his charts totally for free." Plus the live Pokemon pack open on Collector Crypt (Charizard common, sold back).Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 547 with the sharpest, most on-record Rise Up take on the Clarity Act to date. Evan says the part he's been avoiding saying: "I have avoided promoting the Clarity Act because I have so many problems with it. I am not opposed to regulatory clarity — I am opposed to enshrining power, locking crypto into a legal path that gives corporations undue power over people like you and me." Hard reset on the show's editorial position going into an August recess where the bill probably doesn't move anyway.Also this hour: Storj files for Chapter 11 (another crypto company under this year), FOMC meeting Wednesday framing from Will, Circle just closed a big patent acquisition making them America's leading holder of a specific patent class, and the DeFi-Llama-as-favorite-research-tool + DexScreener + Etherscan/Solscan trio Alex uses for on-chain research + trending-narrative discovery. Trending list call-outs from the chat: RWAs, stablecoins, oracles (Pyth in particular).The Coin Depot warning is the actionable segment. Brad Bingham asks — Alex has never heard of it. Coin Depot advertises 29-30% yields on staking, but the fine print gives them the right to "pledge, sell, lend, transfer, or invest your assets without maintaining an equivalent amount in their custody." That's fractional-reserve lending in crypto clothing. Compare to Coinbase (where your BTC just sits) or a DeFi smart contract you can actually audit. Alex on why he'd rather use the smart contract every time.Plus: OpenCover / Nexus Mutual — insurance against smart-contract hacks and stablecoin depegs. Coinbase One members get 10% off + first cover free at opencover.com. The OpenAI-hugging-face model-release story. Anthropic / Claude referenced as day-to-day AI use case. And the reveal that Bit Lovin is joining the show later this week for the BIP-110 governance walkthrough that got rescheduled off Thursday RUMS 546.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 546 with Constance and Jose from Pacifica — the Solana-native perpetuals trading platform Alex has been using backstage for the last week or two. The Rise Up crew walked through Hyperliquid, Drift, and the rest of the perps landscape before settling on Pacifica. This one is the deep-dive.Product philosophy from Jose: minimize clicks, minimize eyeball movements on the UI. Adopt better practices from Hyperliquid / LiDAR / NATO whenever they exist. "Why should we tell people to stop using Hyperliquid and use Pacifica? Actually I never tell people to stop using Hyperliquid. They should use Hyperliquid as much as they want." Non-zero-sum framing. Trigger-reverse orders and swarm orders as the sharpest product features that Rise Up hosts have been playing with.Another Moment: Constance's FTX past. She helped build FTX from absolutely scratch — no product, no name, no anything when Sam first called her. Greg is publishing an article tonight covering her FTX story. Alex's frame back to her: Pacifica is the FTX story with the parallels starting the same way (great product built for a bull market) but with the ending they'll actively work to have diverge. On Solana, which currently has more active wallets than Ethereum.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.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...

Good now revolutionaries— After Dark 089 with Kenny — creator of POIDH (Pix Or It Didn't Happen). Self-proclaimed Bitcoin maxi, lover of the censorship-resistance stuff that makes crypto cool, and the guy behind the fully-on-chain bounty protocol Alex teased Wednesday morning as the natural POAP successor. This is the deep-dive.The POIDH framing that lands: it's a human-coordination protocol dressed as a bounty platform. Put money on-chain for anything you want to see happen — hug a tree, log a dog, seven-footers-only DAO, create a Rums island, get 200 people to answer "what is Ethereum?" on video. All bounties minted on Base. Kenny's onboarding thesis for crypto: "You can earn some money doing something fun" beats "buy a meme coin and lose everything" as an intro to crypto for real people. His "In Defense of Bounties" blog explains why Pump Fun and Dare Market's terrible bounties (drink your piss on video) are thinking way too small about what bounties actually do for human coordination.Second-hour TA marathon with Will: Google's gap-down setup ($304, longs anywhere below $319), Bitcoin's stochastic-RSI double-top pattern to oversold, Solana margin-trade liquidation zones on the 1-hour, and a Lorenzian classifier walkthrough showing why Bitcoin only turned green at $61K (from $77K) — Super Trend + Lorenzian long setups working across the recent recovery. And Alex's macro "crypto 8-ball" frame: 20 things in the bag, 16 negative — more tariffs, war escalation, government rug pulls, Clarity Act stalling, BIP-110 chaos.Also this episode: bit.lovin coming on Thursday morning show to explain BIP-110 / knots vs core governance drama, Pacifica team coming tomorrow with live trades, Evan going live with Anthony Galima (business anthropologist), and Kenny's clip-it clip-it clip-it moment at the top that will inevitably become the clip.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 545. Alex spends the first hour taking apart the XRP/Ripple argument in the sharpest, most-specific detail this show's ever committed to tape. Community question from Eleanor Tourette on XRP + Clarity Act triggers it. Real data: an 11M-token wallet that accumulated at $2.39 (once worth $25M) is now worth about $12M. That's the "most XRP holders are in profit" claim on chain, in one screenshot. Ripple has competing incentives — software company selling to institutions AND token company selling to retail. Two customer bases, one wallet.Clarity Act reality check: the "one yard line" talking point Scott Besson used A MONTH AND A HALF AGO is being recycled by influencers as if he said it yesterday. Alex: we're at the 50 now, not the one yard line. Trump ethics provision still the sticking point. The Republican-only agreement two nights ago wasn't a bipartisan agreement — it was two Republicans already on board. Alex isn't confident this session passes. Different Clarity-esque bills are being surfaced elsewhere too.JTX IS OPEN. Public. Alex is taking down the "early access" link from the show — anyone can hit jtx.trade now. Kevin Beardsley (Jito & JTX CPO) coming through the RUMS lens this week. Also on the sponsor push: RUMS x Arculus Purple Wallet pre-order — the more sign-ups Torii collects, the sooner we ship (12-week production window once we hit quantity). Alex snap-back hat, stickers, leggings — more community merch behind the scenes with Torii and Matthew.Also this episode: POAP is DEAD. Alex genuinely mad — suggests toasting POAP tonight. Kenny from "Pix Or It Didn't Happen" replaces it with on-chain photo bounties (log a dog, hug a tree, find a sponsor for GM Farcaster). Polygon feedback question — real friend-of-the-show lament ("everyone in the Polygon-Runs group chat no longer works at Polygon"). Superteam onboarding as Alex's real final thought — Nikki + Amy giving the crypto-industry masterclass on how business should be done (direct budget conversation in under 30 minutes). And, no spoilers, Alex loved the Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation).Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Trust Issues 025 with Alex + Lindsay back after a three-week Michigan-drive gap. Perfectly timed: a fresh bout of Clarity Act bull-posting kicked off Monday night, and the two of them spend the whole hour going through what's actually in the bill vs what's being tweeted about it. Lindsay's angle is academic — one hand, other hand, sit on the fence like it's her job — and it's exactly what the topic needs.The section that lit up the room: the Uniswap-Circle-USDC scenario. If Lindsay swaps USDC through Uniswap and Circle catches wind of something problematic, Circle (as the MTL holder) is the one issuing the freeze. Circle KYC's Uniswap. Not you. That's a lot of power in the hands of one issuer — and worth remembering that Circle didn't stop the Drift hack. Front-end vs back-end debate explored via Hayden's argument: the front-end can be rebuilt by anyone, anytime — so front-end protocol-liability language is the murky part of the bill.Also this episode: the 80/20 counterfactual — "If Word Liberty didn't exist, Clarity would have passed last year." Comparison to the Genius Act, which went from initial draft to president's desk in less than six months. Judicial-branch concern: strict-constitutionalists like Neil Gorsuch interpreting technology through frozen-truck-driver-ruling logic. And the SEC/CFTC handoff — corporate crypto protection framing on ICO/TGE disclosure reductions. Plus Alex's evergreen media literacy rant: Dunning-Kruger, Occam's Razor, and "if the answer makes you uncomfortable, it's probably closer to objective."Historical detour: AOC's origin-of-victory over Joe Crowley wasn't just left-vs-establishment — it was that Crowley had moved his family to DMV, kids in DMV schools, no ties to the district he was supposed to represent. Constituent-service theme worth remembering for anyone doing crypto policy work.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson and Alex are joined by Jillian Hishaw for a wide-ranging Tuesday. Jillian's a bankruptcy attorney whose social platform quietly turned into one of the country's sharpest expose feeds on private equity's encroachment against small business. A congresswoman is now hitting her up to talk about protecting local businesses. Great segue into where crypto tokenization is either part of the answer or part of the same problem.The bankruptcy walkthrough is worth the whole show. Chapter 7, 13, 11 (corporations like Walmart), 12 (farmers and fishermen), 15 (foreign like Alibaba) — clean explanations, real cases, current data. Filings up 46% in a year, which is NOT typical. Plus the case that should scare anyone paid in crypto for consulting or contract work: hashtag technologies (California bankruptcy court). The trustee used the clawback provision to reclaim Bitcoin paid to a marketing vendor six months before the company went under. Called it a fraudulent transaction. Actionable warning for anyone taking BTC as compensation from a struggling client.Macro read: Coinbase premium purchases are WAY DOWN. Demand is weakening but price is staying flat — the setup for a leg-down if support finally gives. On policy: Clarity Act passed but has NO kickoff date. Same story as the Genius Act — one year mark crossed, still nothing enforced. Enforcement agencies have to write the policy before any of it matters. Polymarket odds tracking the timing.Base / Coinbase saga continues: Jesse Pollock has STEPPED BACK from the Base app. Kobe has been appointed. Community sentiment: "Don't squander our trust." Brian Armstrong's post added fuel. Kraken still sitting quietly as the credible-exchange play. Also this episode: Jillian's food-program cost pressures (prices up, fewer people fed, donation link live), and Alex reminders about the free trial of RUMS premium at community.rumshq.com — free office hours today at 3pm EST.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Market Watch 048 with Alex + Doug and Will Watson in the background. This is the chart-heavy week check-in you tune into MW for. The headline number: BTC needs to end above $63,736 by month-end to reclaim monthly-stochastic-RSI support. If it does, that's a buy signal. If not, the next leg down starts hunting a new bottom. DCA ranges already hit if that's your posture.Chart-by-chart tonight: NASDAQ setup (Alex has a nice short here — election cycle heat coming), Solana monthly hammer candle just printed on a lower low (looks like it wants to round over — but warning: bear markets fake this signal all the time), Ethereum lackluster, Circle at DCA-attractive levels (Alex looking to buy), $SYRUP with a 13-20¢ bullish trigger, Hyperliquid ($HYPE) as Alex's biggest non-BTC/ETH conviction long-term (add-below-$25 setup if it breaks $30), Uniswap as a limit-orders-and-walk-away trade, XRP whether the Marines have another cycle in them, Gold's downtrend since February, Stellar (XLM) getting a fair read.Big news to close: Doug + Alex have JTX EARLY ACCESS (Jito's trading platform) along with The White Whale. They're going to play with it and bring honest feedback back to the audience over the coming weeks. Also touched: Clarity Act sticking point (Trump ethics clause), whether XRP has one more cycle in it, and quick reads on NVIDIA + the AI-mag-7 setup relative to crypto.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson is BACK. Nine days into his engagement, first show since he proposed to Violet at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The engagement-story retelling includes the elaborate Lego-moving lie, Audrey's fake museum ticket text, and the atrium proposal itself. "I got her good." On-air congratulations across the board. Also: Spain won the World Cup — "Churros for everyone." (No, Argentina.)Will walks us through Bitcoin's technical setup for the first time in a week. Radha teed it up: consolidation range at $51-45K as strong support, $55K as a potential lower target if we slide. Will's macro read: "75 to 80% of things in the bag you could pull out right now are bad." Three bad events in a row — Clarity Act Senate vote, BIP-110 outcome, Saylor selling more Bitcoin — and we slide. The August ETF policy window is going to matter.Alex spends the second hour on Base crapping the bed. Jesse Pollock launched a "creator coin" via the Base app — same thing as a meme coin, called it something else. Got sniped, bots extracted fees, Pollock collected the liquidity fees and used them to buy other creator coins on Zora — individually pumping meme grifters. Brian Armstrong posting other creator tokens too. "Weird if only there was another instance or ten of this happening we could have looked at and learned from — but we don't do that." Alex says Kraken has a massive opportunity to be the credible alternative right now. He's already texting Kraken contacts about it.Also this episode: how to actually read policy documents ("you don't get to post an opinion about a thing on the internet if you haven't read some of it") — Alex's practical framework for using AI as an audit tool on legislation with accessibility options; NFTs with real nuance (POAPs and Pokemon cards on Collector Crypt as the two clean use-case examples); the Arculus mug moment (Crypto Machinery in comments: "mugs are so overdone as crypto merch"); and this week's guest lineup — Kevin Beardsley of Jito/JTX for the platform walkthrough.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Call it JTX July: today we unveil JTX by Jito LIVE on the show for the first time, walking through the product with Kevin Beardsley (Head of Product at Jito and JTX). Kevin joined Jito ~3 months ago after 3 years at Kraken, dialing in from Montreal where the Jito team is on an off-site. Small, flat, remote team that hires slowly and retains hard — culture that's 'very sticky' by design.THE JTX PRODUCT WALKTHROUGH. Live at jtx.trade. The pitch: 'You don't have to be a pro trader, but you'd like to trade professionally.' What that looks like in practice: TWAP order type demoed live — 150 orders split across 2 minutes (~one every 0.8 seconds), $1 minimum trade size for execution quality. Randomized TWAP option to break tracking patterns if you're doing a large trade. Limit orders fill EXACTLY at the price you set because they're written into the blockchain. Direct-mint routing to JitoSOL from within JTX. Platform fee on that route: FREE. Referral program — 20% of referred user fees IN PERPETUITY plus early access to new asset trade sizes. Kevin's philosophy quote: 'Lucas wanted it in people's hands, evolving based on user feedback' — velocity over completeness. The 'democratizing access' broader thesis: even in TradFi, if you're in Europe you can't cleanly buy Apple stock — you end up with a weird European derivative. JTX's role includes bringing frictionless access to normal-people-want-this products AS WELL as pure-crypto products.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Rise Up After Dark 088. Evan's holding it down with Matthew the Intern subbing (Alex is at a Super Team USA event down in Florida, Will's still off after last weekend's engagement) and Adriano — better known as Technically Web3 — back on the show for a masterclass on where practical, hands-on Web3 is actually working. Adriano's a coder, open-source dev, and one of the clearest teachers in this space. This one runs long because it earns it.Big product tour tonight: Adriano walks us through Ballet's tamper-evident scratch-off physical Bitcoin wallets (a legitimate physical-in-the-world crypto transaction), Collector Crypt's Pokémon-cards-on-chain marketplace with its brand-new gem-based trading system, and — the storyline that keeps compounding — Morpho. Coinbase now offers 7.5% USDC lending powered by Morpho. Robinhood's Katana chain is on Morpho. Katana just crossed $75M TVL in about five days. Alex called Morpho a beast on the show; the tape agrees.Also in the mix: AI-assisted coding stack (Claude Code + Cursor as complements, not replacements), a defense of vibe coders when they actually try to learn what they're building, blockchain social platforms and why the niched-down winner is a bird-watching app called Birda, a proper L1 narrative debate (Base's institutional face vs Solana fighting the meme-chain rep), and Matthew's new TikTok series Intern Insights where he digs deeper on show topics. Homework from Evan: read Delphi Digital's new stablecoin report (newer than Messari's, newer than Artemis's).Tomorrow (Thu Jul 16) — RUMS 542 with Kevin, Chief Product Officer at Jito & JTX. Back-to-back CPOs on the morning show this week. Alex is already inside JTX and running the walkthrough.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good now revolutionaries— First-time guest we've been building up to: Tomer Weller, Chief Product Officer at the Stellar Development Foundation. Stellar since 2017. MIT Media Lab background (digital fabrication + decentralized media). Rise Up first met him at the block's Emergence conference in Prague — the RWA-heavy tradfi-crosses-crypto gathering that unfortunately hasn't returned since (though this year's Consensus effectively BECAME Emergence).The RWA reality-check segment: Evan opens up 'this idea that everything's going to be tokenized so all that value must accrue to people who hold this L1 token' — Tomer walks through what an RWA actually IS and why the DTCC number everyone quotes DOES NOT mean everything is going on-chain (or on-Stellar). Reasonable multi-chain strategy from the legacy institutions. Real estate is the cleanest RWA example to wrap your head around. Then the legal-recognition question — is there progress toward the actual legal-recognition-of-tokenized-assets nobody sees from the outside?Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Thursday morning, riding our dogs and ponies into the after-show. Rundown of a week's worth of Alex's content experiments: three videos this week explaining crypto through pop-culture frames — Fortnite terms for Jordan (kid-adjacent), and now Love Island for the reality-TV-and-hard-fork crowd. Christina's suggestion; Alex is running with it. 'Kenzie's clam slams = hard fork' is the taxonomy that shouldn't work but does.★ Trader-psychology anchor segment: The White Whale's post from yesterday — trading got markedly better AFTER he stopped listening to other people. Will + Alex agree — context is what you need, conviction is what you use. Framework Will walks: start on the monthly chart, then weekly, then get to the 15-minute chart. If you're coming up to a super-stiff macro line of resistance on the 15-min, you have your answer already — the macro was set two zoom levels ago.★ ChatGPT vs Claude for chart TA — Alex's report: ChatGPT was late to the level and gave a response that wasn't in relation to the pattern given. Claude has picked up better structure since. Not a hot take, just an observation from someone running the same TA prompts through both. Also Alex's short trade — went 80% profit, didn't close, watched it reverse, knee-jerked out for way less. Standard trader-psych failure mode + the fix. Tether / Europe MICA regulation take: Tether could lose the entire EU customer base and it wouldn't move the needle. Most of USDT's volume is Asia on Tron — if Tether lost Asia access, that's the story. Europe is a rounding error. Congress-and-stocks meta: Ro Khanna trades with 'incredible volume.' You can count on one hand the number of Congress people who DON'T trade individual stocks. Go look it up. Then deal with being grumpy about it.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday After Dark, Doug is back on the show and cooking. Cold open news beat: US launched more strikes on Iran, explosions along the southern coast, oil up as much as 13% since July 2. Ceasefire is 'the pause between each missile strike.' Standard Rise Up After Dark macro-with-a-side-of-black-humor open.★★ Doug returns with the concept he's been cooking for four-plus years — his AI-industry-map style thesis project. Alex races Will to see who can spot the framework fastest. Follows on nicely from the Fed rate hike setup, oil spike, and this week's macro complex. Doug's got 12 more ideas like this ready to ship. This is the segment to watch. Chart technical-analysis deep dive: super-trend rejection setups, KC/kernel indicator + Lux Algo overlay, bar-color indicator (green = long, red = short — turn off backtest stream / buy-sell arrows to declutter). Elliott wave usage caveat — ABC correction is hard to time, wave B and wave C can each be elongated OR truncated, so it's not a good tell for entry.Also this episode: ASI/Fetch/Ocean/Singularity merger 'infinite money glitch' — 'like finding an abandoned Kmart, putting money in the cash register every day hoping someone restocks the shelves.' Nikki Scanella (SuperTeam USA lead) declares 'taste' is her current favorite buzzword — full analysis of what the word actually means for founders. Jack Kimball satire account gets a Rise Up recommendation. Wallet-watching masterclass — how to use Arkham and blockchain explorers to see which token issuers (like Ripple) are quietly selling their bag. Afro Man's meme coin is trying to be a concert ticket. Gotcha machine warning — Alex says DON'T pull the $25 gotcha right now (five in a row landed a $16 sealed pack). Standard Dings + Guamps close-out; soundboard was broken so there was only one dinger of dings tonight.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning brings a first-time guest by way of The White Whale + Owl: Shift Boss, founder of Zinc.cash — a Solana-based on-chain mining game that emulates proof-of-work statistics inside a smart contract. Shift Boss walks the crew through the origin story (ETH was too slow and too expensive; Solana + Rust was ready; Jordan Prince and other core Solana engineers pulled him in), the mechanics (statistical mining odds, tile choice, mint distribution), and the roadmap (Coingecko mintable warning is temporary — full immutability doesn't happen at week six of a project, it happens once the mechanics stop needing tuning). Full-transparency founder answering every hard question.Community + founder-availability masterclass: Shift Boss is in the Zinc Telegram 24/7, has 20-30 people in his DMs every day, personally answers every question. This is how Rise Up found him. Founder access is the underrated moat in early-stage crypto — nothing accelerates trust faster than a founder who ships and shows up. He and Evan agree the community is where the actual product feedback loop lives, not the tweet section.Also this episode: BONK TREASURY DAO GOVERNANCE HEIST — full coverage. Someone proposed a vote to drain the treasury, vote passed, funds moved. 'Perfect heist, embarrassing for them.' Solar Mass exploit continues the same governance-design story. Carol's portfolio-consolidation story — going from ~20 coins down to 4, then down to Hyperliquid + a couple others (if you can keep your portfolio to 3 assets, keep it to 3). Aerodrome breakdown watch continues (Alex's Arrow-love take). Robinhood Network memecoin guessing game — cash cat, hood rat, GME, or 'one dollar is all you need' — which one is fake? Reposa Coffee at the X Games this weekend facing massive demand. Cross-border coffee shipping delay explainer.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Tuesday post-4th, Alex is on the road visiting family — 'while the parents are away, the kids will play.' Evan and Will run the show two-hander with six cans of string cheese and a little coffee. Immediate housekeeping: USA lost to Belgium 4-1 in the World Cup (Belgium kicked our ass). Evan admits it took a Michelle-at-Octant live stream for him to feel self-conscious about NOT knowing the tournament — the international-crypto conference circuit is a soccer draft day.Big-picture trading segment: Solana TA on the weekly chart looks like the beginning of a bottom formation — key EMAs converging with current price. Bitcoin's chart looks a little worse structurally, but SOL is showing early rounding signals. Not printed yet — watching. Twitter/X trending list overnight: Ansem Black Bull, Monad, The Grove, Bonk, Lighter (a Hyperliquid competitor on Solana), Octra, Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum. 'Monad? Who is searching Monad?' Cards token deep dive — aggressive burn mechanic, high adoption, could be another Hyperliquid IF the buyback actually turns on (Alex thinks it isn't yet, Evan needs to double-check).XRP DEEP DIVE. Evan walks through the full Ripple/XRP thesis history: 'bridge currency for banks' idea from ~2013 was elegant back then; the pitch was that XRP could become the whole world's on-ramp. Then the hard data: Tether has ~5 million active users (chart up-and-to-the-right); Ripple is hovering at ~120K active users and has been stagnating for years. Adoption ≠ price appreciation ≠ token value capture. XRP token isn't necessarily designed to capture the value the network might create. Same lens applied to Chainlink (LINK) — Pyth Oracle services are being gated behind holding/paying with LINK, which is step one of value capture. Same lens on Ansem token. Different token, different design.Also this episode: Evan joining SuperTeam Solana as an advisor for narrative strategy at their Mountain Dow (Utah) + Malaysia + Thailand residencies in August. Governance-exploit-as-student-council metaphor (Compound-style attack where someone just proposed a vote to take $14–$16M and it passed — 'not a hack, they asked and you gave it to them'). Full Arculus sponsor read at closeout — 'we pursued Arculus because their product was superior, team was the best, customer service was the most responsive. Made in USA, three-factor auth, same tech as Visa/MasterCard. CompoSecure parent, publicly traded.' Deepest Arculus read of the year.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Will flies solo tonight (no Doug, USA-vs-Belgium bumped MW an hour earlier). Bitcoin got whipped around between $63K and $61K by two competing catalysts today: Michael Saylor announced he sold $250M of BTC over the past week and a half (price tanked), then President Trump's press conference bumped it back up ('I'm big on crypto. It's really powerful. The United States is far ahead of China'). Same beats, same bounce.BTC target zone continues to be $69K–$71K — that's where the 12-month EMA (3-month chart) and the 200-week SMA (weekly) converge. BTC has been chopping between $58K–$69K since February 2026 — the whole 5-month range remains intact. Will's DCA zone: $57K–$67K, and the current price is deep inside that range. Coinbase (CB) has an eight-touch bottom at $144 but the weekly stochastic RSI is not yet oversold — support is getting weaker. The bullish flip would be turning the $200 200-week EMA into support. Ethereum has to hold the $1,822 55-day EMA short-term or a target zone at $800 opens up (58% fall — Will finds that unlikely but never says never).Solana lovefest: Will's favorite coin to trade, most-used chain (perps + Pokemon cards via Collector Crypt). But he's not building a position because that capital goes into Hyperliquid instead. Hyperliquid TA doesn't matter — the fundamentals are so bullish that any correction is a buy. MicroStrategy analysis: 'MSTR will give you higher percentage gains than Bitcoin IF Bitcoin's at a bottom — if you're wrong, it'll rip your shirt off, throw it at your mom, and punch your dad in the throat.' Sway (SWE) $60 support = long-term buy; $42 = better long-term buy. Robinhood chain — dismissed. XRP DCA question — Will's answer is no.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Post-4th-of-July Monday, and one of your morning hosts is coming back with fewer digits than he left with. Will lost a finger to a firework accident on July 4 at Lake Winnipesaukee. His verdict: 'It was worth the freedom.' Welcome to the era of Three-Finger Watson. Evan runs the setup, Alex runs damage control, Will runs the trading segment holding a coffee mug slightly differently. Nine fingers, full send.Market pass on the morning of the truncated holiday week: Bitcoin chart on the daily + 4-hour, TradingView-monopoly-of-crypto sidebar (their charting engine is embedded in Jupiter, Pacifica, and every perp DEX on the internet — someone please tell us their revenue). Hyperliquid is the strongest-looking chart in crypto and the crew's Buy Zone: $60–$64 accumulation with a dream re-entry at $50. HYPE lost ground on the CASINO-to-serious-exchange narrative last cycle; per (perpetual protocol) is down 30% while HYPE is flat, so a 75/25 HYPE-to-per split as a volatility hedge is on the table. Aerodrome breakdown: if $0.28 breaks, next stop is $0.135. Cards token (Arthur Hayes + Ansem pumped it) has a bullish chart — with the Arthur context caveat.Also this episode: Log a Dog XYZ hot dog contest is LIVE through Labor Day — bounties paying out $50/frank for logged eats. USA World Cup team collapsed in an embarrassing manner (Alex furious). Will's swing-trading philosophy: 5x–10x positions on ETH + SOL are the maximum his headspace allows given he's not full-time trading — swing over scalp forever. Solana's swing-trade thesis maturing to match his ETH thesis (volatile but predictable). Stablecoin network-dominance question closes the show: which chain wins the stablecoin liquidity race — Polygon, BSC, or something else?Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Pre-4th-of-July Thursday, RUMS goes short so the crew can lift off for the long weekend (afterparty is on the couch in the community — join us). Will drops the macro chart pass while Bitcoin dances underneath the 12-month EMA at $63,691 and the 200-week SMA — the same two levels the whole crypto complex is watching for the monthly close. Short-term target: BTC leans toward a $63.5K → $66K bounce, then re-test. Doji candle education for the newcomers ('doji is not pretentious for doge, promise').Circle stock update: Cathie Wood/Ark bought another $15–$17M of CRCL yesterday. Will got some too. Post-OpenUSD-launch chop-then-recovery narrative continues. Solana bounce/cool-down analysis with the 15-min chart pulling toward $81. Will's 150x SOL trade update ('if I get liquidated at $15 I get liquidated at $15, only means I should revenge trade 250x next'). Alex's stablecoin ecosystem-stack visualization walks through Tether / USDC / USAT / PYUSD / RLUSD, the reserves-and-custody layer, chain distribution, and end-user layer — the whole stablecoin picture in one slide.Also this episode: Alex's ethical-investing riff on Tractor Supply / Petco / PetSmart animal welfare (has been flagged for it before, doesn't care). Will's Pokemon rabbit-hole confessional — he pulled a PSA-7 Blastoise from a graded pack (turns out Blastoise is his birthday Pokemon). Constructive feedback for Collector Crypt / Griff on how to make graded slabs actually cool on-chain (NFC chip pointing to blockchain history, airdrops, free pack wins, lower fees, higher buyback percentages). Community Premium walkthrough — $30 for the recorded course when you use the sign-up promo code.Get ready for Jito's new JTX beta — signup is live at rumshq.com, first button on the homepage.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— The BYOB DYOR show closes out a huge crypto news week with a first-time guest we've been chasing all year: Ryan Rasmussen, Head of Research at Bitwise Asset Management (70+ crypto products, ETFs, staking vaults, private funds — one of the world's largest crypto asset managers, decade in the trenches). Ryan walks Evan, Alex, and Will through how a Bitwise product actually gets built — start with every asset in crypto, filter by which have US custody, filter by liquidity thresholds, filter by rules-based index eligibility, and see what survives. That's the whole ETF-issuer game explained in ten minutes.Ryan's takes on the OpenUSD launch (with proper Bitwise institutional lens), the Clarity Act's non-passage before midterms, and the actual client-facing use case for stablecoins (restaurant industry: 3% payment processing fee → sub-1%) are the substance highlights. Plus: Bitwise's weekly Matt Hogan CIO memo, how they hire crypto-plus-TradFi researchers, and Ryan's take on Solana's launch-anywhere ecosystem momentum. Serious institutional research, in plain English.Also this episode: Will opens Jupiter live on-air during Ryan's segment to catch a 5-minute BTC candle close at $59,853 (the man cannot be stopped). Alex fires a full PSA about Drift Protocol relaunching as Velocity DEX and immediately losing their old Twitter handle to airdrop scammers — do not engage. Evan pitches next season of the on-chain hot dog eating contest (Mashiste's vibe-coded app got him hired at Coinbase). The Ethereum Denver Robinhood story where Robinhood reps bragged about freezing user funds 'for their own good.' Alex's dolphin-noise career pivot briefly discussed. NYC mayor thermostat sidebar. USA World Cup rooting instructions.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning brings the biggest crypto news of the week and one of our most-returning guests. DJ William Quigley — co-founder of Tether, co-founder of Wax, aspiring DJ, aspiring muffin recipient — joins Evan, Alex, and Will to react in real time to the launch of OpenUSD (OUSD), a new consortium stablecoin backed by 140 of the largest companies in tech and finance: Coinbase, BlackRock, Solana, Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, plus 130+ others. Revenue-sharing model like USDG/Paxos, no minting cap, no minting or redemption fees, and Stripe has already declared it their go-to stablecoin. Circle stock dropped 14% on the news. Paulo Ardoino tweeted 'Welcome OUSD, player 2 has entered the game.'William's take reframes the whole story: the real value isn't the revenue share, it's that the member institutions will finally be free from being BULLIED by centralized issuers. He walks through the ACH parallel — 10,000 institutions operating a nonprofit co-op that moves money for 7/10 of a cent per transaction — and explains why crypto's version of that infrastructure (open, neutral, cooperative) matters more than which stablecoin makes the most yield. Tether's own co-founder essentially saying 'the industry is going to like this' is the kind of quote that only happens once.Also this episode: Will confesses his cross-margin gotcha on Pacifica (deposited funds got vacuumed into his existing Bitcoin short — cross vs isolated margin explained in plain English), Alex talks through his SOL short that went right for the wrong reasons and cost him profit, an XRP-as-educational-tool riff, JTX beta workshop details after yesterday's Hayden episode, and Alex fires up the ICP debate — hard rebuttal on the 'Swiss government adopted ICP' meme (it didn't; DFINITY partnered on research, that's it). Closing with Sam Kavanagh's vocabulary word of the day: exsanguinate.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Trust Issues is back after a break, and Alex is joined by both Emily and Lindsay for a full-on Ben McKenzie takedown to open the show. Alex's thesis holds: he's barking up the right tree but he's the wrong dog to be doing the barking. Fresh from his latest interview clip, we walk through every misfired point — crypto crashing being unique to crypto (news: stocks crash too), no revenue stream (currency itself has seigniorage; Bitcoin has miner revenue), NFTs are 'just right-click save' (thanks for spotting exactly the problem NFTs solve). The irony of a man selling a book called Everyone Is Lying to You for Money by lying to you for money is not lost on anybody except him.Emily unveils her homemade AI-industry map (built in Claude): a spaghetti graph where OpenAI is buying from and being invested in by literally every hyperscaler simultaneously, TSMC is selling to everybody, Amazon is investing in both OpenAI AND Anthropic while suing Anthropic through the government. The graph looks like a schizophrenic Christmas tree. Everyone can hold it in their head, right? Right?? Silicon Valley wage-bubble correction is real — the cycle of layoffs is not really about AI, it's about tech companies correcting the COVID-era hyperinflated salaries they overpaid to hoard talent.Trump personal financial disclosure dropped today (as it does every June/July via standard federal procedure, no matter what the conspiracy TikToks say). $1.4B in crypto-related personal earnings since January 2026 — World Liberty Financial, USD1, NFT royalties, plus Melania's $80M. Also: the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act just passed, banning a US CBDC for four years. Emily's take: the surveillance boogeyman is a boogeyman. Your money is ALREADY digital. The Fed tracks every serial-numbered bill batch. Every transaction runs through Visa/Mastercard/Fedwire. A CBDC would actually create UNPRECEDENTED transparency into GOVERNMENT spending — which is why the real risk is to national security, not to individuals.Closing beats: Trump 2.0 admin at least understands crypto well enough to use it for personal enrichment (World Liberty grifts). Next admin's reaction will probably be equally ignorant but hostile — 'don't let World Liberty happen again' becomes the campaign, and the industry gets swept up as another partisan political football. Emily's Cheeto merch dream + Alex's cross-industry economics degree critique + Lindsay's height-maxing 'Phantom Method' TikTok satire close the episode. Movie recs at the end: Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die (Sam Rockwell), Barry Lyndon, Idiocracy, Harvey.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good now revolutionaries— Hayden Tsutsumi from Jito Foundation joins to break down BAM (Block Assembly Marketplace), Jito's execution engine for Solana. The Call-of-Duty quickscope analogy lands hard: BAM determines how transactions get sequenced on Solana so that the rules of the game are KNOWN, deterministic, transparent, and verifiable. It's what unlocks DeFi for institutional market makers, ETF issuers, and pro traders — and ultimately saves retail users money by enabling tighter quotes from the makers.The first BAM plugin to ship is MPP (Maker Priority Plugin) — it prioritizes market-maker quote updates ahead of everything else, so makers can quote tighter without fear of being picked off in milliseconds of confusion. Already seeing strong adoption, and Hayden's team is iterating on more plugin primitives. Plus the Hyperliquid race: Hayden argues Hyperliquid isn't actually a DEX (more centralized than they let on), but BAM unlocks the same trading-experience parity for true DeFi on Solana.Solana flexes hard on tokenized equities: 96% of ALL on-chain stock trading volume last week happened on Solana ($1.36B for the week). Sunrise, xStocks, Backpack (just shipped tokenized stocks 1:1 backed by real shares, redeemable for the actual stock) all building on Solana. Plus Jurassic Finance is tokenizing museum-grade dinosaur fossils on Solana (ticker: RAWR). The future is bizarre and Solana is the chain.Will's macro: Bitcoin breaking the diagonal $59K support line for the FIRST TIME today (tested 5 times in 6 days, now snapping). Today is also the 3-month candle close — if BTC ends below $59.2K, the technical break is confirmed. Next targets: $51K-$45K, then $37K-$32K. Worst-case wildcard: the unfilled $21K bearish gap from March 2023 if Saylor follows through on his proposed $1.2B Bitcoin sale. Bitwise's Ryan Rasmussen on RUAD tomorrow. Alex's Clarity Act PSA: READ THE BILL. Stop trusting the breathless takes. Rebecca Rettig (Jito Labs CLO) is the source you should be reading instead.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.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...

Good now revolutionaries— Will + Doug on Market Watch in a weird four-day trading week (Canada off Wednesday, US off Friday, end-of-month + start-of-quarter overlap). The market read: Solana looking the cleanest of any major crypto by far, Bitcoin barely hanging on a diagonal $59K support that's been tested 5+ times, and gold weakening fast. Doug's macro thesis: gold has been a leading indicator before crypto + stock moves for the past several weeks. If gold cracks below $3,970, expect everything else to follow.Solana sets up cleanest of the bunch: bullish wedge breakout above $73.70, target zone $80–$87 if the market stays green. Watch the $71.50–$72.50 EMA cluster for support; below that, the long invalidates and Solana joins the broader rollover. Will closed a 21% short on Solana mid-show after sweeping the morning's highs. The rebound is real but constrained.Circle (CRCL) thesis still alive — two bullish daily candles, weekly Stoch RSI oversold, wedge breakout target ~$202–$212 by late Q3 if the Clarity Act passes. Will's plan: scale in tomorrow at market, ladder bids down to $62–$65, expects another sweep of the IPO-gap lows at $63. Hyperliquid printed a clean bullish daily — long invalidation $60, dream entry on retest $40–$50. Pengu showed first signs of life with a daily close above 6+ weeks of trendline resistance. Velvet manipulated; stay away. Casper/Silo/Arb/ICP all dead. Layer-2 thesis broadly bearish — Ethereum getting cheaper and faster eats into the L2 reason-to-exist.Doug's robotics deep-dive: he's tracking 100 robotics stocks broken out by component (eyes/perception, brain/edge compute, muscle/motion, body/embodied, autonomy). ETFs leading the way — Robo ETF, China Large Cap, 3D Printing, Biotech, GLP-1 (OZEM). Airline corner: Southwest (LUV) is the most attractive chart, JetBlue setting up as a lagger, Delta + American both broken. McKesson is the boomer TIE-fighter pattern of the day. Plus Pacifica vs Jupiter for perps (Will switched after a White Whale tutorial — Pacifica plays against a real order book and supports 100 laddered scale-in orders) and JTX beta launching soon.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.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...

Good now revolutionaries— Kid Paddle from Diversify joins from the French countryside (during a 100°F heatwave that hit 99% of the planet for hottest country) to walk through their portfolio automation thesis. Diversify is the BONK-incubated rebalancing engine bringing TradFi portfolio strategies on-chain — but using crypto's volatility as the alpha generator instead of a problem to dampen. Pre-made vaults launching now: Big Four (BTC/ETH/BNB/SOL), Boomer (cbBTC + ORO tokenized gold + Syrup USDC), Stable Yield. Plus tonight at 8pm Europe time: the self-build vault launches where you can deploy any tokenized asset (including xStocks once SPL-22 support ships) and capture rebalancing volatility yourself.Will's macro setup: Bitcoin sitting on a diagonal support line at $59K that has now been tested FIVE times in six days. Glass-pane-and-spider-web analogy — every tap weakens it. Spot Stochastic RSI is oversold on the daily, but the FUTURES chart Stochastic RSI is NOT — and that mismatch tells him there's more selling to go before a meaningful rebound. If the diagonal breaks, $51K–$48K is the next target. Tonight's full moon is the next moon-cycle buy signal (2/3 hit rate so far). Circle (CRCL) news: BNY adds USDC to digital asset platform; Nomura (~$150B FX market) will use USDC for fiat-to-fiat swaps starting 2027.The Ansem meme coin saga: Pump.fun's airdrop is overdue, Ansem (the biggest KOL on crypto Twitter, the guy who fought BitBoy) launches a token called ANSEM on Pump.fun over the weekend, it explodes to ~$95–100M market cap in hours. Speculation thread on the show: this was a coordinated Pump.fun psyop to revive their daily revenue (Collector Crypt passed them recently). Whatever the truth — every influencer-led meme coin in history has gone to zero. None excepted. If you play, assume the entire stake is gone.Plus: the Collector Crypt CARDS tokenomics deep-dive (supply triples by August 2027, but the 85–87% revenue burn could offset if platform usage holds). Alex's gotcha-machine fatigue diagnosis — 100+ pulls in, the average return is negative; the smart play is buying specific chase cards directly on the secondary market. Will's 'don't open Pokemon packs from Walmart, go to your local game store' guide. The Legendary Birds promo card story: $28 → $280 in months. And the CME vs CFTC perpetual futures lawsuit — Chicago Mercantile suing its own regulator over Kalshi perps.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good now revolutionaries— Josh Cliffords joins the show. He's the founder of Free Water — the world's first negatively-priced beverage company. Advertisers pay for the can; the water inside is free, and every bottle donates a minimum of 10¢ to fight the global water crisis. His viral TikTok exchange with a skeptical bystander pulled 300M+ impressions in 10 hours. The book is called How to Make a Free Product Company. A second edition and an engineering follow-up land in the next 1–2 months — both digital versions free on freewater.io.The economics: ~60¢ to manufacture, 10¢ minimum to charity, ~5–10¢ to sales, sells to advertisers for $1–$1.20+. Same model scales to soda, beer, legal marijuana, fruits, vegetables, cereal — anywhere ad space on packaging can fund the supply chain. The longer thesis: free is just the on-ramp. Negative pricing (where the product PAYS you to use it via solar + robotics + open-source supply chains) is the actual destination — Ecosia is already running a roughly 180% negative model by donating 100% of search revenue to planting trees.Will breaks down the PCE inflation print that dropped 8:30am EST: headline +4.1% (met expectations), core PCE +3.4% (flat, met expectations). Maybe a top signal. Oil falling should pull headline lower next print. Josh adds the supplier-side reality — US manufacturing costs have DOUBLED over the last two years from tariffs while non-US costs barely moved. The 'cheap to manufacture stateside' window is officially closed.Closing beats: Alex's anthropology crusade — pre-money humans didn't barter, they SHARED. Barter happens between strangers without trust; sharing is what relational communities do. Will's incentive-design tangent on Aerodrome vs Uniswap as why aligned tokenomics outcompete dump-on-holders models. Pokemon cards as the next free product? Watch ads, accumulate value, pay at the card shop. Plus Jeff Bezos's instantly-iconic 'humans are drinking too much water and taking it from the data centers' quote. Liquid Death tagged as the most likely beverage incumbent to adopt the free model first.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good now revolutionaries— a BYOB (Bring Your Own Bread) After Dark with Dan Rodman, co-founder and CEO of Co-Unity. Dan's an actual mechanical engineer who treats community building as a discipline, not a buzzword. He walks through the three pillars of a real community (identity + experiences + structure), the 1,000 True Fans framework, and his GTC thesis — Go-to-Community strategy as the moat that Go-to-Market can't build. Real example: Cursor scaled to $100M ARR with zero marketing spend because the product was 10x better and word of mouth carried.Will breaks down Bitcoin's macro setup: dipping into the 'golden pocket' (3-month 21 EMA at ~$59.5K and 1-month 55 EMA at ~$63.8K). The 3-month candle closes in 6 days. If it breaks, $51K–$45K opens up. Historically, bear-market bottoms have stayed below the pocket for 19 weeks (2018), 39 weeks (2022). Dollar-cost-averaging strategy starts now, but spread it across many months — be prepared for another 30–50% downside. PCE inflation + Q1 GDP final revision drop Thursday 8:30am EST.Will's Circle (CRCL) thesis: nearly every TA + narrative buy signal lining up at once. Stochastic RSI heading oversold on daily, weekly, and 8-hour timeframes. Price falling into the bottom of the IPO gap at $64. Wedge breakout could target $210 by mid-late August. Pair with the Clarity Act narrative — passage in mid-to-late August is the prediction-market base case. Alex's Clarity Act fact-check: still in committee merge, July recess from 7/4–7/13, Senate floor vote unlikely before end of July.Altcoin picks: Alex on Aerodrome (still doing more DEX volume on Base than Uniswap, real revenue, business model) + a small Hype position. Bonus tokenized-stock corner: Alex owns Circle and — wait for it — Atlantic Waste Management (yes, the trash company). Dan's been playing tokenized stocks via xStocks on Solana, scooped the SpaceX IPO that way. Plus the Crush Insights dashboard ($10/month at rumshq.com): Nancy Pelosi +258% over 5 years, Mark Wayne Mullin +393%, Druckenmiller +230%. Warren Buffett +119%. Cathie Wood +103%. Politicians are smoking professional fund managers, and Shaq is beating Mr. Wonderful by one percentage point.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good now revolutionaries— two Ethereum OGs join the show: Nico Gallardo from Octant (the Golem Foundation's public-goods funding platform) and Colin a.k.a. Crypto Tarzan from Book of Ethereum. Octant has been distributing yield from 100,000 staked ETH for three years — Rise Up was a grant recipient in Epoch 9 and just hosted Demo Day for Epoch 12. The major news: Octant now accepts direct ETH donations (no more 90-day GLM lockup), and Epoch 12 is the first to use proper quadratic funding.On the Ethereum Foundation news: the EF is spinning out ETH Labs (a new R&D nonprofit focused on Ethereum the asset + ecosystem adoption) and simultaneously laying off ~54 people, about 20% of staff. Colin's Book of Ethereum article unpacks why this is bullish — the EF spent five years scaling Ethereum without losing decentralization, privacy, or permissionlessness (the CROPS values). With that infrastructure now in place, the talent flowing into ETH Labs and projects like ETH Realize gets to focus on adoption.The conversation gets sharp on accessibility. Alex pushes back on the industry's 'obfuscate every wire, just let everyone swipe a credit card' approach: it defeats the purpose, doesn't teach anyone anything, and produces uninformed investors. Better framing — start with the real-world pain point (charity micro-donors don't feel their dollar matters; the SP mowing guy on TikTok proves they do) and let the tech be the answer. Plus the Octant.app live walkthrough: log in, set a budget, allocate to 25 projects, see your $3.50 matched 13.9–165× depending on alpha. 'Rewards the projects with the most supporters, not the richest ones.'Closing beats: Will breaks down the consumer-products Trojan horse for onboarding (Collector Crypt, Courtyard, Pudgy Penguins, Clanosaurs just dropped a Solana-based short series). PCE inflation + Q1 GDP final revision drop Thursday 8:30am EST — expect volatility. Bitcoin below $61K and looking weak short-term. Colin walks through agentic security as the next wallet-protection layer (MetaMask's agentic wallet service with two-FA for parents/grandparents). RUMS Twitter is mid-recovery from a phishing-driven meme-coin takeover.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/stakingSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Evan and Alex hold down the show solo (Will is on the train back to Boston) and the timeline is melting. A vibe-coded tool called shillsol.com pops up to gamify Solana staking — 9,700+ members enrolled, complete with a step-by-step Replit-built tutorial. Mert posted just the word 'solana' with the paid-promotion tag for the meme. Then the SpaceX IPO drops below its initial price and the cast breaks it down as 'a meme coin launch on the NASDAQ' — extremely low float (~4.25%), insiders absorb most of the supply, and retail comes in as exit liquidity.Alex walks through zinc.cash — private proof-of-work mining on Solana powered by Arcium's confidential compute. Deposit SOL, pick mining tiles in 30-second rounds, compete for newly issued ZINC tokens. The bonanza-style jackpot mechanic is essentially privacy-preserving on-chain roulette. The white whale has been actively mining all 30 tiles and stakes his ZINC for the 'really nice' rewards, calling it still-early with outsized rewards and a persistent buyback-and-burn engine.Pokemon platform power rankings via David Onchain's deep-dive post: Collector Crypt 8.5/10 (best ecosystem-wide UX, eating everyone's lunch — $66M market cap, $100M annualized revenue), Monster 9/10 (highest rated, on MegaEth with Solana wallet bridge, withdrawal-to-MegaEth-only the main con), Fidgetles, Beezy, and Tilt Rips also covered. The bigger thesis: tokenized Pokemon is the most retail-relatable demonstration of RWA tech we have right now. Hot Wheels, Beanie Babies, sports memorabilia and comic books all next.Evan and Alex stack hits on the classic 'why Bitcoin, not [X]' questions: USDC vs Bitcoin (different tools — dollars are a transport, Bitcoin is a store), Litecoin and Dogecoin as Bitcoin forks that proved faster + cheaper hurts price, and the trust question (it's the opposite of blind — tens of thousands of nodes, every transaction publicly verifiable, no single owner). River.com data: ~300M people own Bitcoin (~4% of the world) as of May 2026. Final segment: a sharp critique of Ben McKenzie's 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' tour and Jake Claver — 'right tree, wrong dog.' Plus the Raposa Coffee TikTok Shop push (code RISEUP, free shipping on TikTok), upcoming guests Colin from The Book of Ethereum (Wed) and Josh from Free Water (Thu), and Dan Rodman of Co-Unity on RUAD.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good now revolutionaries— Will runs Market Watch solo from his parents' place in Maine. Bitcoin already rolling over as the show opens — sub $64K, broken below the 12/21/55 EMAs on the 4-hour chart with plenty of room to the downside. Daily chart: short signal triggered going into the full moon. Weekly: rounding-over pattern, $62.4K is the line in the sand (200-week SMA) — break that and $51K–$45K opens up. Three-month chart is the one he's watching — stochastic RSI still not in oversold territory, which is what historically marks the end of every bear market. Probably one more candle to go (~3 more months) before that flips. Bull market base case: end of summer / early fall.Stock picks: Circle (CRCL) at $80, target $65 to fill the IPO-day gap from February — Will is bullish into that buy zone. Bullish on Coinbase too. Both should outperform Bitcoin on percentage gain when sentiment turns. Saylor selling 1,000+ Bitcoin instead of his recent 32 would be the panic catalyst that flushes BTC to $30K or even a $22K wick — Will would buy as much as he could in that scenario. Power law chart eyeballs as a better long-term DCA model than the rainbow chart.Hyperliquid is his highest-conviction bet — would make it his biggest position. Buyback math: ~$2–2.8M/day in bear-market conditions = ~30–50k tokens/day = ~11M–18M tokens/year = ~4% of total supply absorbed annually. Half the supply is already in circulation. He's hoping for HYPE to drop to $40–50 range to load up. Pudgy Penguins / Pengu thesis: if Igloo IPOs, the stock outperforms the meme coin. Aerodrome strong because of the Coinbase-to-Base flywheel.TA roundup on viewer requests: Solana = bear flag, 9th red monthly candle in a row, target $46 (DCA range $46→$25); SUI = no real adoption growth, ugly chart; Polkadot = too late to the interoperability game, well-funded but no users; Aster = OK adoption but ugly chart; Tron = double top, $0.317 critical; Cardano = sad chart, near weekly oversold; WorldCoin = take profits (caller up 79% from $0.34, short signal flashing 8h); Cypher + TerraWolf = profit-taking range, bearish divergence on TW; Wormhole = great solution, terrible coin. Plus a one-week-out preview: macro corner with PCE inflation + Q1 GDP final revision Thursday.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— opening the week with the funniest Saylor admission yet: a CoinDesk clip surfaces of Michael Saylor saying he literally designed STRC by going back and forth with ChatGPT for a few hours. 'I couldn't have done it myself.' Meanwhile STRC has bled from its $100 par down to $85, MicroStrategy has stopped issuing new STRC, and they had to sell a tiny slice of Bitcoin last week to cover the dividend payment. Will walks through the variable-rate mechanic — as STRC drops, the yield ratchets up to attract new buyers, which means fewer holders eventually each owed more, but the unwind risk grows.Big news for Drift Protocol users: the DFX Recovery Token and Insurance Fund claim checker is live. If you were affected by the ~$300M Drift exploit, each DFX token represents $1 of verified loss. Watch for scam tokens and scam accounts targeting affected users — Drift's official account is @DriftProtocol. PSA also: keep your distance from anything claiming to be the official launch.Alex spends the back half of the show in the Pokemon / Collector Crypt rabbit hole. After two weeks deep in the platform, she's calling out a major structural problem: the on-platform insured-value pricing has almost no correlation with real eBay sales data. A Gengar she wanted to buy was insured at $200+ above the highest recent eBay sale in the last year — meaning sellers won't accept offers below the inflated insured price. The fix she's proposing: pull real-time market sales feeds into the platform and price accordingly. Plus debates with Will on whether the gotcha machines should go seasonal vs always-on (Will's idea), and what utility could actually link the CARDS token to the platform.Macro corner: Will pulls up the Bitcoin monthly chart — $59.8K (3-month 21 EMA) and $63.8K (1-month 55 EMA) are the levels to watch. Monthly candle closes in eight days. If we end below $63.8K, $51K–$45K targets open up. Dollar continues testing resistance. Thursday is PCE inflation data + Q1 GDP final revision — expect heavy volatility second half of the week. Plus: Alex breaks down the SBI / XRP-in-Japan story (SBI's CEO clarified they don't actually own XRP — only ~9% private equity stake in Ripple Labs, ~$4.5B paper value, which is why he's the loudest XRP cheerleader on Twitter), and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a 0.2% tax on every crypto transaction including wallet-to-wallet transfers and DeFi interactions. Clarity Act before July 4? Per Eleanor Terrett: logistically impossible. Prediction markets give August passage ~22%.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.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...

Good now revolutionaries— closing out the week with the biggest single-episode Reposa Coffee feature yet (Will and Violet do a live tasting of the cold brew, caramel latte, and the coffee-tonic-water hybrid Will couldn't get behind — Violet rates the caramel latte 8.5/10). Will mentions RUMS is meeting with Reposa today to formalize a partnership and explore a Boston food-channel cross-pollination.The meatiest segment is Will's plain-English breakdown of MicroStrategy's STRC instrument after Bearded asked if it's a dangerous Ponzi. Will frames STRC as a corporate bond with an 11.5% dividend, senior to common equity, and walks through the unwind risk if Bitcoin has consecutive bad years. Companion PSA: Satori Finance is closing — 30-day clock to withdraw.Alex levels the most direct rant of the season on the "buying Cardano here could be the move" creator content making the rounds. Cardano's TVL is now BELOW Katana's (~$92M). Cardano's daily chain revenue is $276 — Alex makes more daily revenue from Pokemon cards than Cardano makes as an entire blockchain. The Solana-at-$8 comparison is dishonest and disqualifying — Solana cratered because of FTX/SBF leverage, not a fundamental network failure; nothing fundamental changed, the builders stayed. Cardano's situation is the opposite. "Comparing the two is manipulative, maybe just stupid."Macro corner: Will pulls up CME FedWatch — odds of rate hikes (not cuts) by the December 9 Fed meeting sit at ~87%; ~75% by October; ~66% by September. Dollar testing key resistance, looking to flip it to support. Both bad for crypto. Plus a SuperTeam Ireland castle residency for Solana builders (Alex angling hard for a RUMS hosting gig), the Dialogue/Peter Thiel "secret society" attendee list leak (Joseph Gordon-Levitt + Ezra Klein + Tim Ferriss + Ted Cruz + Sam Harris + Scott Bessent + Reid Hoffman, plus panels titled "How to Build Your Own Cult" and "Money Can Buy You Happiness"), and Jito's upcoming JTX heist workshop with The White Whale and select content creators.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good now revolutionaries— Viv Ford joins Rise Up After Dark live from the floor of Newark Airport, mid-layover, on her way to Paris to do comedy shows. Viv is the creator of Crypto Castle (the show and the actual house) — she moved into a literal SF crypto bro house in 2015 when Bitcoin was $250, lived there four years through the 20K peak and crash, then turned the whole experience into an hour-long comedy show that toured the world for a year and is now becoming a TV show with Roman Coppola's Decentralized Pictures.Alex re-demos the interactive AI/chip-company web she built with Claude — investment lines, competition, lawsuits, supply chain, government contracts — now colloquially known as The Tangle. She'll publish it as a live artifact at tangledweb.rumshq.com (or in Circle, depending on where it lands). The walkthrough doubles as a Claude/vibe-coding tutorial: one-sentence prompt to start, iterative fixes ("this part looks broken," Claude fixes it), and the realization that you can build legitimately useful software now if you can speak a language and have a vague idea.Mid-show Viv goes live on a POAP scavenger hunt at EWR — the airport POAP exists, but it's POAP-gated and she doesn't have the prerequisite POAP, so it's a $1 fallback. Patricio Worthalter (Mr. POAP) sighting at the consensus VIP speakers dinner. The team also recaps Octant Demo Day Epoch 12, which Evan and Alex co-hosted earlier today (Griff Green of DAO-hack-and-hack-back fame on stage, Roscoe from revoke.cache, Maggie Love showed up with food poisoning AND the DeFi toddler, full quadratic funding explainer). Plus: Will's continuing butter-futures campaign — long beef, short butter into the full moon. Will's Collector Crypt CARDS token burn-rate PDF for premium members is up 19.5% in the hour since the show started.Capped by the Purple Arculus Wallet prototype reveal again, with the full economics confessed on air (Alex personally backs the entire sprint run if pre-orders don't sell — RUMS doesn't make a dollar on the wallets, just recoups). Plus the Tangem-vs-Arculus question handled with grace after viewer Drew shared a $5M loss story, and a Ripple x Matt Damon $25M-to-clean-water aside. Viv's parting wish, said from the floor: "What a joy that crypto still brings such fun wild creatures together for a solid two-hour hang."RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good evening— Alex and Emily are back from a one-week break with one of the densest Trust Issues episodes to date. The centerpiece: Alex had Claude build him an interactive diagram mapping every relationship between the major AI and chip companies — Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, TSMC, SoftBank, and the US government. Investment lines, competition lines, feud lines, lawsuit lines, supply chain lines. The picture that emerges is a closed-loop money-laundering ouroboros where the same dollars cycle between the same five companies as investments, payments, and equity, while each one's paper valuation climbs.Highlight news beats: SpaceX bought Cursor today (Cursor valued at $60B against ~$4B annualized revenue, fresh off SpaceX's $2T-on-paper IPO). Anthropic's Fable 5 model was banned by the US government within 72 hours of release after Amazon engineers reportedly jailbroke it — and Pete Hegseth called Anthropic "woke" because they wouldn't sign off on autonomous kill bots. The DoD contract went to OpenAI instead. David Sachs is overseeing all this as the White House AI/crypto czar despite still having undisclosed VC exposure across most of these companies. Emily walks through the historical context for the Fort Knox gold audit chatter, why re-pricing the reserves would amount to Bank-of-China-style currency manipulation, and what that does to a country running 112% debt to GDP.The Bitcoin debate flares up again: Emily argues the 21M hard cap is functionally broken via ETFs, wrapped versions, MicroStrategy treasury manipulation, and PolyMarket-style synthetic exposure — the decentralization narrative is marketing fluff at this point. Alex pushes back, eventually conceding the hard cap is being structurally diluted even if not technically changed. Both end up agreeing that Ethereum is structurally more important than Bitcoin going forward — it's the universal backer for stablecoins, the substrate for tokenized everything, and the only EVM environment compatible with serious AI-agent activity.Plus: Saylor's manufactured dead-cat bounce, TSMC + ASML's chip-manufacturing chokepoint (silicon photonics + EUV lithography), why tariffs are just an extra consumer tax, the difference between "security by obscurity" and "security through transparency," Solana DEX meme-coin volume actually being only ~5% (not the majority everyone claims), Ethereum gas fees crashing to under 25 cents for even the most expensive transaction type, and Alex's final wish: to be first in line to sit on Lincoln Memorial Santa's lap. Book club next week: The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good evening— Alex and Emily are back from a one-week break with one of the densest Trust Issues episodes to date. The centerpiece: Alex had Claude build him an interactive diagram mapping every relationship between the major AI and chip companies — Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, TSMC, SoftBank, and the US government. Investment lines, competition lines, feud lines, lawsuit lines, supply chain lines. The picture that emerges is a closed-loop money-laundering ouroboros where the same dollars cycle between the same five companies as investments, payments, and equity, while each one's paper valuation climbs.Highlight news beats: SpaceX bought Cursor today (Cursor valued at $60B against ~$4B annualized revenue, fresh off SpaceX's $2T-on-paper IPO). Anthropic's Fable 5 model was banned by the US government within 72 hours of release after Amazon engineers reportedly jailbroke it — and Pete Hegseth called Anthropic "woke" because they wouldn't sign off on autonomous kill bots. The DoD contract went to OpenAI instead. David Sachs is overseeing all this as the White House AI/crypto czar despite still having undisclosed VC exposure across most of these companies. Emily walks through the historical context for the Fort Knox gold audit chatter, why re-pricing the reserves would amount to Bank-of-China-style currency manipulation, and what that does to a country running 112% debt to GDP.The Bitcoin debate flares up again: Emily argues the 21M hard cap is functionally broken via ETFs, wrapped versions, MicroStrategy treasury manipulation, and PolyMarket-style synthetic exposure — the decentralization narrative is marketing fluff at this point. Alex pushes back, eventually conceding the hard cap is being structurally diluted even if not technically changed. Both end up agreeing that Ethereum is structurally more important than Bitcoin going forward — it's the universal backer for stablecoins, the substrate for tokenized everything, and the only EVM environment compatible with serious AI-agent activity.Plus: Saylor's manufactured dead-cat bounce, TSMC + ASML's chip-manufacturing chokepoint (silicon photonics + EUV lithography), why tariffs are just an extra consumer tax, the difference between "security by obscurity" and "security through transparency," Solana DEX meme-coin volume actually being only ~5% (not the majority everyone claims), Ethereum gas fees crashing to under 25 cents for even the most expensive transaction type, and Alex's final wish: to be first in line to sit on Lincoln Memorial Santa's lap. Book club next week: The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good now revolutionaries—Tuesday morning kicks off with Will's recap of his Doug-led grading session from last night's RUAD: Hyperliquid + Morpho + Zcash + BTC in the A-minus range, Syrup/Maple + Sky Protocol + BNB + Canton + Aerodrome in B-plus, XRP at C, Hedera at C-minus, Kaspa as the only D. Two meme coins (Pepe + Pengu) explicitly refused a grade — "putting a grade on a meme coin is not appropriate." Then the morning dives straight into a week of crypto-and-AI drama nobody asked for.The big AI story: Amazon claims to have jailbroken Anthropic's Fable V and reported it to the White House, contributing to the recent export-control suspension. Anthropic counters that the jailbreak is narrow-in-scope and works on GPT too — further evidence that the government is propping up OpenAI. Pete Hegseth posting anti-Anthropic victory laps on Twitter despite other administration members being invested. David Sachs heavily exposed via his venture fund. The whole industry is just companies trading the same money back and forth while government officials insider-trade around it.Crypto drama: MetaDAO vs Zinc — public DM-spats, alleged lawsuit threats, White Whale chimes in to contribute to Zinc's legal defense and challenge MetaDAO to even up the playing field. Alex's frame: bear market boredom drives people to find C-tier drama because they've already watched everything good on Netflix.Then the longest segment of the show — Brian Armstrong's pitch to scrap accredited investor laws. Will + Alex agree philosophically (the rules are gatekeeping, not protection) but split in practice (the sports-gambling-legalization analogy). The fix isn't deregulation alone — it's mandatory financial literacy in high school first. Bearded's "it's my money, let me lose it how I want" comment becomes the foil for a really clean education-system rant.Plus: Octant Demo Day tomorrow at 10am EST + the proper Quadratic Funding launch in Epoch 12 (Vitalik's original vision), Super Team USA's Miami-is-too-easy comedy skit, Aerodrome up 26% yesterday + 9% today, X Stocks self-custody clarification (you're holding a tokenized receipt, not the share), and Will's hype $75 reload-or-sell question.EXCLUSIVE: Use code RISEUP20 for 20% off your entire order at riposacoffee.com.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/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...

Good evening revolutionaries—Will and Doug pull up the charts for the deepest A-D crypto grading session the show has run. The macro changed dramatically over the weekend: US-Iran peace deal trending toward Friday signing, Strait of Hormuz potentially reopening in five weeks, oil rolling over, and the stock market melting up. Inside that backdrop, Will and Doug rank 21 cryptos based on chart strength in the bear market + brand power + adoption + tokenomic structure (revenue + buyback policy).The A-minus tier: Morpho, Hyperliquid, Bitcoin, and Zcash. Zcash earns the slot despite the recent dip — the team found and plugged the exploit themselves before any proof of abuse, and the privacy narrative is the trend of the moment. B-plus tier: Maple Finance / Syrup (TVL up-and-to-the-right despite weak chart), Sky Protocol (knocked down a tier because the 87% buyback dropped to 7.5%), BNB (bearish engulfing weekly candle to watch), and Canton (whose super-validator is the NASDAQ).B tier: VVV (Venice — hot chart, no real adoption but legit AI-narrative beta). B-minus: Stellar and Pendle. C-plus: Near Protocol, Chainlink (Will: "I want it to be good so bad — but its life is death"), Aave (buyback paused April 19), and Sui. C: XRP — "can't be more than that because brand still has potential." C-minus: Hedera. D: Kaspa — "stegosaur with Down syndrome" energy.Memes get explicitly excluded from the grading framework: "It's unfair to put meme coins in the same A-B-C-D tier as cryptos. They're designed to go to zero in bear markets and come surging back in bull markets — they're their own thing." Plus Bitcoin weekly TA showing bullish divergence but the monthly threatening another roll-over, Circle (CRCL) finally triggering a daily short signal as it approaches Will's $63-71 buy zone, and quantum stock updates on INFQ + Rigetti + D-Wave (QBTS).Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries—Evan, Will, and Alex are all back in the studio for the first time in nearly a month, and it's a heavy news weekend to unpack. The headline: a US-Iran peace deal is reportedly close to signing on Friday with a 60-day ceasefire extension, the Strait of Hormuz reopening, and a complete stop to military engagement. Will's frame: the oil chart called this two weeks ago — kept failing to hold resistance through the worst of the escalation headlines, telling you the conflict was winding down before the diplomats admitted it. "I have confidence in the war ending because I have confidence in the market."Plus: Blockworks acquired Masari for roughly $10M — Will's read is that founder Ryan Selkis torpedoed his own brand on the timeline and that's why the company sold. Anthropic gets hit with a US government export control on Mythos V + Fable V models (KYC required for foreign nationals) — Alex's take: the government is trying to prop up OpenAI because Anthropic keeps spanking them at every benchmark. Paradigm bought the unsolved Kryptos sculpture cipher from artist Jim Sanborn — even the NSA hasn't cracked it. Helios Foundation acquired Light Protocol — Solana is marching toward privacy.On the macro side: SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire on paper. The wealth-transfer mechanism (NASDAQ forced inclusion, gajillions of retirement accounts shoehorned in) lets early employees finally realize equity — but at the cost of forced retail exposure. Starlink is 60% of SpaceX revenue and the only profitable piece. SpaceX itself lost $4.9B last year on $18.7B in revenue. Saylor added another $100M in Bitcoin. Tom Lee raising another $300M for ETH.Will's Keeta (KTA) review walks through the textbook scam-warning signs: layer-1 compliance-ready talk track, KYC baked in, $9M earmarked for buying a bank (the purchase hasn't gone through), Abu Dhabi + Ask Financial Group backing connecting to Arab Coin + Islam Coin (companies that have done predatory faith-targeted projects before). Plus a Velvet Protocol / Aerodrome 92,000% APY pool teardown — the numbers don't make sense, it presents as ponzi-farm.EXCLUSIVE: Use code RISEUP20 for 20% off your entire order at riposacoffee.com.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries—Will and Alex close out the week from home with a compressed Thursday show before Will heads to a mountain cabin for his 12th anniversary. The whole hour is essentially a master-class on revenue buyback policies: Sky Protocol just temporarily dropped its buyback rate from 87% to 7.5% for three months to cushion the USDS stablecoin reserve, with a planned return to 25% (still aggressive at $46M/year on current revenue). Will's full leaderboard: Hyperliquid leads at ~$1.1B/year in buybacks, Uniswap will land at $100-300M when its policy fully rolls out, Pump.fun at ~$71M/year (though the token has tanked anyway), Jupiter and Raydium at ~$50M each (also haven't recovered).Aave correction worth noting: Aave HAS had a buyback policy (40-50% of protocol revenue, capped at $50M annual), but it was paused April 4 after the RS-ETH/KelpDAO exploit and remains paused pending full resolution. Watch for that to unpause any day now. Plus: Dr. Nick Almond confirmed JTX (Jito's trading engine, launching next month) will direct 80% of revenue to buying back JTO — token already pumped 100%+ on the announcement.The Pengu/Igloo IPO threat lands as Will's most provocative take of the morning: if Luca takes Igloo public, the meme coin gets cannibalized. "Why would you buy Pengu when you could get actual partial ownership in the parent company?" Unless utility or aggressive buyback gets bolted onto Pengu, the IPO is the death sentence. Same logic applied forward to Hyperliquid when 24/7 perps land on every centralized exchange.Plus: a quick XRP-vs-stablecoins teardown ("yes, stablecoins make XRP dead — next question"), the Genius Act framing and how Clarity is meant to shoehorn everyone into centralized options, an honest Stellar (XLM) take with the Lindsay Posse departure from SDF context, a worry-don't-celebrate read on the DTCC pump for STX, and Trump's six-hour Iran flip-flop between "deal close" and "we're bombing Karg Island."Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.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...

Good now revolutionaries—Will and Alex break down the post-NYC week from home, and the After Dark conversation lands on the question every active investor should be asking right now: where do you actually want to be when liquidity gets sucked out of everything by the SpaceX IPO? Alex's framework: stay focused on ecosystems where real businesses are still being launched (Solana + Ethereum), and use a tier system that rewards revenue + buyback policy over hype.Will's A-tier list with reasons: Hyperliquid (revenue + buyback + brand), Sky Protocol (the rebrand of MakerDAO — they made DAI), and BNB (the discount-at-the-exchange moat). B-tier: Maple Finance / Syrup (quarterly buyback, strong TVL), Solana, Ethereum. And then a 14-minute teardown of BitTensor / TAO: $3M-$15M in annual revenue against a ridiculous valuation, no buyback policy, plus Covenant AI's April 9 departure and scorched-earth criticism of the team. Will worked in AI/ML for the first six years of his career — the technical critique lands hard.The DeFi Llama AI comparison is the segment Matthew will want to bookmark: side-by-side Solana vs Ethereum revenue chart from 2022 through 2026. Solana's on-chain app revenue ($3.9B trailing 365) is now neck-and-neck with Ethereum's ($3.83B). Ethereum's chain fees down 54% on the 30-day post-Dencun; Solana's chain revenue trending up. But the punchline lands: Ethereum had the burn mechanic + revenue tailwind for years and its token still underperformed — Solana's lacking the burn AND a revenue buyback means brand has to do all the lifting.Plus: a defense of Aave the protocol vs Aave the governance token, an honest take on the KelpDAO exploit and what Aave could have done differently, the BASE-is-the-only-non-doomed-L2 take, Chainlink as "great at what they do but tokenomics flat," the CPI inflation report (4.2% — double the Fed target), and Will's BTC dead-cat-bounce read. Bitcoin moon-trading running on autopilot would have outperformed most active traders this year.EXCLUSIVE: Use code RISEUP20 for 20% off your entire order at riposacoffee.com — code applied once per customer.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries—Will and Alex are back from NYC and sit down with Sebastian (CEO) and Andrew/Sock (Founder) at Raposa Coffee for the partnership launch episode. Raposa is the rare NFT-era project that built a real, sustainable business: nitro cold brew cans made to European standards (8-13 month shelf life), official coffee sponsor of the Miami Heat AND the Miami Marlins, a 3-year X Games partnership through MoonPay, plus permanent custom-can collabs with Kraken, Jito, Solana, and just about every major Solana conference.Andrew's origin story: started Raposa November 2022 with an accounting/CPA background and 9 years running a food-and-beverage content agency in NYC. Got rugged as community manager at Balloonsville, helped de-rug it with Magic Eden, and brought Crayon (the original Balloonsville artist) over to design every Raposa can — which is why each one looks like a page from a storybook. Sebastian DJ'd, ran club events, did film commercials, then dove into NFTs full-time. They met through the Balloonsville derug — Seb listed his number-one balloon home on the marketplace literally minutes before Sock messaged him asking to come work on the project.Hard numbers: longest ambient-temperature shelf life in the canned cold-brew category. Two teas (peach + biscuits) are doing as well as the best-selling coffee flavor. Matcha launch next month from organic ceremonial grade Shizuoka, Japan beans. Riposa-branded loyalty app coming with USDC-backed treasury behind the scenes. First Marlins game July 7, first Heat preseason game in August. New Miami cafe + roastery launching next month at the Super Team USA office (the doc); permanent space target is early 2027.EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNT FOR THE COMMUNITY: use code RISEUP20 for 20% off your entire order at riposacoffee.com. Limit one per customer, no limit on the use of code. Starter pack is recommended: 8 cans, one of each flavor, the cheapest way to find your two favorites.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/stakingSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries—Day two from Solana Skyline NYC with Evan, Will, Alex, and Doug pulling himself out of the confessional cam to make a confession that absolutely earns it: minted 5 Solana Monkey Business + 8 DeGen Ape Academy NFTs in 2021, made $250K, lost it all. "At least I lost house money" and most of his current friends came from that era, so... net positive? Plus PubKey + Knicks game recap from the night before, Rain (the $3,000-a-year Bitcoin speakeasy), and Alex's "when you get there, tell Nick it's okay" entrance.Evan reveals he placed his first three perps trades ever on Jupiter — 10x and 20x leverage, made $36, retired with a 100% win rate. JTX countdown is officially on, and the goal is to do the JTX walkthrough from a place of "having actually done this before" so the comparison lands. Alex's perps PSA: the Hyperliquid 250x leverage threshold means "if a butterfly farts six states over, you're getting liquidated."The Humanity (H token) exploit gets a deep dive — dev laptop compromised, admin keys lifted, 200M+ tokens minted illegitimately and dumped for ~$30M, all on the heels of a 300% pump. Then the Cardano on-chain allegations: ~$925M in token sales between $1-3 ADA, plus $20M/month payments allegedly going to Gavin Wood. Charles Hoskinson is 38 years old. "His helicopter must be nice."Alex's other confession is one for the ages: took a $15K loan from Regions Bank to buy more Cake (PancakeSwap), made it back to almost-break-even, lost ~$1K. Then the Sundae Swap airdrop disaster — staked thousands in ADA for a year, opted out of base staking rewards to qualify, total airdrop value: $2.75. Plus Daedalus wallet horror stories, the Brittany Nicole "will XRP settle the national debt?" rebuttal in full, and the team's first-Solana-NFT mints (Karuma, Snakes, Star Atlas).Tomorrow on RUMS: Raposa Coffee with Seb and Andrew. Evan won't be there — Alex hosts.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

**SKIP TO 5:30 DUE TO AUDIO ISSUES**Good now revolutionaries—Evan, Will, and Alex broadcast live from Solana Skyline on the 8th floor in NYC, with Matthew Wiley and chief sanity officer Tori in the room. Casey Craig opened her Euphoria launch party at Soho House the night before, and Orangy walked away with the tap-trading crown. Nine minutes in, the conversation pivots to record ETF outflows, Saylor selling 32 BTC at $77K only to buy back 1,000+ at $60K, and Arthur Hayes denying he re-entered Hyperliquid despite on-chain receipts.Will lays out the Bitcoin mining doomsday math: the 2028 halving puts cost-to-mine at $103K. Miners are already pivoting hard into AI compute (IREN, CleanSpark) — "the death-blow argument has been around for ten years and hasn't broken Bitcoin yet, but the gap is widening." Plus a Cardano takedown — $300/day in chain revenue against a $6.15B market cap, a 57-million-times annual-revenue-to-market-cap ratio, and an extended argument for why "volume isn't life" when the only people making money are the market makers fleecing retail.Two Silicon Valley quotes get cited in earnest: Russ Hanneman's "never make revenue" rule ("the second you make revenue, it puts a ceiling on your valuation") and Alex being Guilfoyle. SpaceX IPO at $2T valuation goes through the wash again — SpaceX itself lost $4.9B last year, Starlink is the only profitable piece, the NASDAQ is forcing inclusion while the S&P refused. Plus the Jelly Jelly Hyperliquid validator-vote story to explain why "decentralized" deserves scare quotes, the Brian Armstrong / Jamie Dimon Heated Rivalry edit, and Will's Circle CRCL setup at the $64 gap fill tied to the CLARITY Act vote.Critical PSA: the Rise Up Twitter was compromised Friday in a phishing attack. Alex got hit by a fake X copyright-violation email while boarding a plane, hackers posted a pump-fun shitter, Tori filed the takedown in under 15 minutes. The phishers tried again mid-show with an "Aeon XYZ" pump from the @riseup account — DO NOT BUY anything posted from Rise Up Twitter accounts. Rise Up is never launching a token like that.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries—Alex and Will close out the week solo (Evan's already wheels-up to NYC) with an abbreviated, no-after-show Thursday that still finds time to dismantle the trifecta CT can't stop talking about: Hype, Zcash, and Near. Will's TA on Bitcoin lands at $45K as the first real bottom — $44.6K to be precise — and reminds DCA-ers that bear markets last nine months at the shortest, so don't blow your load in three weeks.Arthur Hayes tweets "meow hype to 150" and then dumps his entire Hype and Near position four days later. Saylor and Tom Lee are sitting on unrealized losses bigger than the market caps of Hyperliquid and Zcash respectively. The PDT rule got scrapped, which unlocks a little liquidity and a lot of risk for retail. And RWA tokenization is about to eat real estate without any actual legal framework linking tokens to assets — Alex's warning that someone is about to start tokenizing things that don't belong to them is the most important PSA of the show.Alex also does an even-handed deep dive on AI data centers and water consumption — 300 to 3,000 ChatGPT prompts equals one hour of HD Netflix streaming in water use — and a heartfelt rant on why "do your research" is the most useless advice in crypto when retail's been engineered to fail. Plus Oklo at $40 as a nuclear energy entry, Circle's gap fill at $62-65 tied to the CLARITY Act timeline, and Will and Alex confirming why Arculus and Jito are sponsors they specifically chased down.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries—Evan, Will, and Alex pull up to After Dark with Dakota Pace (Base Buddha), Head of Marketing at Collector Crypt — the Solana-native platform that tokenizes graded Pokemon cards, sports cards, comics, and other real-world collectibles, then redeems them for physical delivery on demand. Two hours of pack ripping, full walkthrough of how to onboard from zero (custodial wallet, Privy, debit-card top-up via CoinFlow), and a side-by-side comparison with Courtyard.Dakota's first Bitcoin story is one of the all-time greats: bought BTC in 2013 to evade a $60 UFC pay-per-view, sold for $220 and paid for a semester of college (now worth ~$2.4M). The hard numbers from Collector Crypt: $30M+ in tokenized inventory (and climbing toward $50M), 50,000 cards redeemed and physically shipped in 18 months, $1B in lifetime volume, and a #17 spot on DeFiLlama's 24h revenue dashboard — ahead of Phantom, Uniswap, and Aave. The platform takes 2% on marketplace sales vs eBay's 14% and runs positive-EV gotcha machines.Will lays out the Bitcoin map: weekly slammed through the 200-week EMA, $59.7K is the short-term bounce zone (double-bottom potential), $45-51K is the realistic next bottom, $30K is the doomsday call. Hyperliquid is putting in a severe top signal. Plus a Polygon Katana rant about the 12-year lockup and $1,000 custom jackets, Kraken sponsoring a major MTG tournament, and a Solflare wallet walkthrough featuring their new NFC tap-to-sign card.Tomorrow's RUMS gets a Raposa Coffee Company drop — partnership announced live with a viewer discount on the way.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning, full crew, and the audio is 'ducked' from the jump (the new running joke). After fixing the gain on the fly, the show goes deep: Nikita Beer (now Chief Product Officer at X) was hired out of the crypto space — interesting tell about where the talent is heading. The SpaceX IPO setup, plus the rest of the IPO calendar, gets walked through as risk-asset competition for crypto liquidity.The Jito segment is the most substantial single-asset breakdown of the week. The team walks through JTX (Jito's perp DEX play) as the only Solana-side challenger that could meaningfully compete with Hyperliquid on the perps front. Then Alex does a full liquid-staking explainer using Jito as the example — how staking SOL through Jito gets you JitoSOL, how that token can be used in DeFi while staking, and why the validator-routing engineering moat is real. "Gito shirt" running joke continues — Will spotted one in person at Consensus.Sponsor block is the cleanest of the week: Arculus deep read (note: Arculus point-of-contact's last day is this week — Will gives them a public goodbye on tape), Tangent logo tattoo at the event (cold storage maximalism), and the new XRP co-branded Arculus card variant gets a mention. Crush Insights x Poof partnership announced — Cody (Crush dev) connects with Poof for 'healthy poofing.' Scam token segment (UTFs token question from Rachel) — Will walks through why fake token names are designed to confuse new users. Tomorrow night: Euphoria launch party with Casey Craig. Monday June 8: Pub Key NYC for Crypto Mondays — Alex, Will, Tori, Matthew, Kimberly, Jess Inskip (maybe), Eric Nomics, plus other friends-of-the-show.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries—Alex solo-hosts a Tuesday Trust Issues that gets cut surgical-short when his phone battery dies live on air at 15 minutes in. What he packs into those 15 minutes is sharp: a defense of NFTs as technology (forget the bored apes — non-fungible tokens themselves are an amazing tool for digital piracy, artist sovereignty, fraud, and counterfeiting), a takedown of the SpaceX IPO as the most expensive IPO in history built on a company that lost five billion last year, and a careful argument for why "crypto has no value" isn't a thing you can actually say.The most important segment is the meta-point on "do your research" — Alex's argument that the sniff-skill for bad information isn't common, that nascent crypto topics often don't have objectively correct information to look up, and that the public perception of crypto is bad for a reason. Pete from the backstage chat carries the skepticism, Alex carries the defense, and the show ends abruptly at 15:42 when the recording dies and Alex pivots the rest of the show to TikTok-only.Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentSupport 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...

Good now revolutionaries— Full crew back for Tuesday morning. The opener: Will called Bitcoin's $69.7K gap fill yesterday, tweeted it the moment BTC hit, and the team unpacks what comes next. The macro framing of the day: this cycle's alt season isn't going to look like prior ones — liquidity is staying inside ETF products (BlackRock, Fidelity, the bigger names) instead of flowing into a thousand alts. Most altcoins that ran once will go down forever. The conviction-buyer cohort is forming earlier than it used to.Solana segment goes deep: Will has been bearish on Solana for a while. SOL just lost $80 (first time in over a year), and his TA target is technically $8 — which Will himself calls impossible. The realistic next stop is $40 unless something fundamental shifts. Bitcoin's next support stack is $62-$63K, and the team discusses pausing DCAs into BTC as the floor gets weaker. Circle (CRCL) chart looks 'horrifically bearish' on the daily — Will is holding the long-term position but expects more pain near-term. Hyperliquid 'don't TA hype' running joke continues (it goes up despite the chart).The educational segment is one of the cleanest of the year: Alex walks through liquidity-pool mechanics on Uniswap — how depositing $1,000 into an ETH/USDC pool means the pool buys ETH as price falls, sells as it rises, and how the wide-range geometry can leave you with $600 instead of $1,000 even though you 'earned yield.' Pokemon-card metaphors throughout (white whale Super card, deep liquidity power), Crush Insights cross-promo with Danielle (link via rumshq.com), and the closing classic: 'the only thing missing is you.' Plus the Arculus 'purple wallet' cold-open mention and a Lone Protocol drive-by takedown ('not enough liquidity, network's not decentralized enough, the moat isn't real').RUMS Purple WalletWant the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today!Crypto Payment · Card PaymentPowered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10.Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/.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...

Good now revolutionaries— Doug is BACK on Market Watch. Will and Doug open the June 1 episode with a long book-recommendation riff — Will pitches a light fantasy series (Gloomhaven-tabletop-game energy) and tries to sell Doug on reading more. Then into the macro: Bitcoin read down today on stubborn US-Iran headlines, oil staying bearish (which is bullish for risk), and a watch level at $69K for any bounce attempt. Stochastic RSI still has plenty of room to the downside — Will isn't trusting the bounce yet.Stock segment: Doug walks the team through Dell up 299% YTD, HP catching the AI-cycle bid, Micron consolidation, and Eli Lilly miss confessional. Will pivots to the quantum-computing rotation he disclosed last week. Gold gets the same sell-the-rip read from MW 042 — overextended from key EMAs, expecting a pullback to support.DeFi: Avantis (Coinbase's hyperliquid answer) gets a Doug deep-dive — TVL dropped from $120M to $44M, so the launch momentum hasn't held. Will reframes Hyperliquid: if you're a user, that's a reason to BUY the token, not just trade on it. NYC trip preview: Crypto Mondays NYC + Ethereum Conference both next week. Closing: the RUMS Purple Wallet (now with Will + Evan + Alex's faces literally on the card) at community.rumshq.com, plain Arculus at getarculus.com with code ARCURUMS10, and Jito JTX as the Hyperliquid answer.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...