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Bitcoin Just Had Its Biggest Month Since the Election Rally + Why TradFi Isn't Rushing Into DeFi | Ep 565

Good now revolutionaries— Evan flies solo Wednesday morning while Alex and Will are off, running through Bitcoin's biggest monthly gain since November 2024 (up 28% in August, back above $81K), the July PCE inflation print (headline 0.2% MoM / 3.7% YoY — slightly worse than expected; core 0.2% / 3.3% in-line), and the Treasury doubling its long-end bond buybacks to $4B+ — a dollar-weakening move that Standard Chartered's Jeff Kendrick says reactivates the debasement trade. Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in a net $1.92B last week, their best week in ten months. Evan walks a live Pacifica setup looking to short SOL on rejection near $95, riffs on why the TradFi-to-DeFi migration is slower than crypto Twitter thinks ($200B AUM at 10% doesn't leave to run a $2B fund), and warns that buying the top 100 is a diversification mistake most people can't manage. Tori drops the scoop that Farcaster is being sold — three bidders in play. The back half is a tokenized real estate deep dive prompted by Crypto Boat: how CougarDAO in Memphis built a real working model using a Wyoming LLC, KALI.gg smart contracts, and Sablier for streaming rent escrow; the critical distinction on RWA.xyz between represented assets (Canton, Provenance — blockchain as record-keeping only) and distributed assets (tradable on-chain, mostly Ethereum-based); and why Red Swan on Stellar is a stepping stone, not the endgame. Scam warnings on OB coin (Mr. Yazdani on TikTok) and old Stacks CityCoins. Programming note: last live show tomorrow before a rest week — Greatest Hits Parts 1 and 2 drop Monday and Friday. Premium price goes from $30 to $100 per month September 1 — lock in now. RUMS Purple Wallet Want 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 Payment 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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Will's Top Three Cryptos For The Next Bull Cycle + The Aerodrome/Morpho Swap | Ep 053📈🤑

Good now revolutionaries— Will's solo Market Watch tonight (no Doug), opening with the audience's top-three-cryptos-for-the-next-bull-cycle question. Will's answer: Bitcoin, Solana, Hyperliquid — with a variant that swaps Solana for Aerodrome + Morpho if you want more asymmetric upside. Frame for the moment: you've survived the bear, we're at the tail end of consolidation, the bull market starts once Bitcoin flips $83K to support. Blue-chip build-the-foundation phase — get your BTC, ETH (if inclined), SOL, HYPE now at cheap prices, not the meme coin lottery. Why Robinhood is eating Base right now: 28.4M active Robinhood users vs 8-9M monthly transacting Coinbase users (out of 115-120M registered). Twice the active audience → more traction, more money, more product velocity. Will's read on the AI-datacenter picks-and-shovels thesis: Vertiv Holdings (VRT) up 588% since March but the monthly chart wants another 40% down first — buy in the $150 zone. American Fusion (AMFN) is in a good space but the chart is sketchy — 5% portfolio position and see. Robinhood (HOOD) monthly stochastic RSI oversold + finding support on key EMAs = long-term monster. Chart pass on request: Doge weekly still has legs after an aggressive doji reversal (target 11.8¢). SWE just gross, no one cares right now (will come back eventually). XLM waiting for XRP to pump first. Then the Big Man Blastoise callback on Morpho's weekly candle — 'proof to you that Morpho's going to be a hell of a runner' even though the token doesn't capture protocol value well (deep Coinbase relationship helps). Bitcoin's summertime rally is the sign the consolidation market is on its last legs — the bulls finally punched the bears in the nose. Will's closing sermon: write your exit strategy DOWN, sell in tranches as your average price hits target multiples (5% at +20%, 15% at +50%, 10% at 3x), take profits into stablecoins along the way, don't buy tops in a bull market with the profits you made because the 40-70% drawbacks WILL come. And 'if you feel like you need to buy right now — don't. Turn that emotion into research.' Breakpoint London Nov 14 — Solana buy-the-rumor-sell-the-news window flagged. Alex + Evan back on tomorrow morning's RUMS. 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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Morpho Is Now On 42 Chains With $10 Billion TVL: Up 30% In 30 Days + BTC Bottom Update | Ep 564

Good now revolutionaries— Evan + Will (Alex out on his spelunking + reunion trip) open with the Pengu IPO rumor. If Pudgy Penguins (parent = Igloo) IPOs, the Pengu meme coin is functionally dead — 'who's going to buy the meme coin when you can buy the stock?' Expect a rally in the entire Pudgy ecosystem into the IPO announcement. The airdrop-history debate settles: Pengu distributed ~1.45B, Hyperliquid ~2B. Hyperliquid is the record-holder — although Pengu's went to Pudgy Penguin NFT holders (and Lil Pudgy holders) specifically, not to airdrop farmers. Bitcoin still in consolidation until it flips $83K to support. Will's rounded-bottom scenario: BTC rips into the $83K liquidation zone (a lot of short positions get flushed), then walks back down to retest the 200-week EMA around $65-68K, which completes a beautiful macro rounded bottom and signals the absolute end of the bear cycle. Not required — but 'statistically significant.' The DCA-into-blue-chips window is still open for another one to two months. Circle chart to $200 target by October 1 per Will (rides Clarity Act passage in September + $500M USDC mints). Chainlink 2.0 tokenomics explainer — the three big changes trying to breathe life into a token that doesn't capture LINK's protocol value: (1) Build Rewards program winding down, (2) new fee-capture mechanism, (3) revenue routing back to LINK holders. Can LINK hit $100 from $11? Not unreasonable but a stretch — Will's advice: 'if you're waiting for $100 before selling any of that, you are out of your quackin' mind.' Sell tranches at $40, $60, $70, $80, $90. The $14B Deribit options-expiration Friday explainer: those positions are already open; Friday is when holders have to decide keep-or-flip. Expect volatility. Morpho is now on 42 chains with ~$10B TVL (up 30% in 30 days) — Ethereum first, Base second (~$4B), Robinhood Chain climbing. Preferred DeFi lending integration for the Coinbase/Base/Aerodrome trifecta. Spend (SPD.shop) — Solana-based browser extension that lets you buy anything with USDC. Superteam USA-accelerated startup. Also anchored: Will's SatRush yield check — a $100 seed became $69 in BTC + $30 in yield in ~2 weeks (~279% APY). And the traditional close-of-show scam warning: neither Evan nor Will nor Alex will DM you first. If someone matching one of us DMs you, it's a scammer leveraging the trust we've built. Premium $30 → $100 lock hits September 7. Will's Friday office hours still on; Alex's off (traveling); Evan's off Friday (wedding travel). 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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Bitcoin Just Printed Its Biggest Weekly Candle Ever + Trump Meme Coin 2.0 Rumor Explained | Ep 563

Good now revolutionaries— Will opens with the magic-show weekend that reminded him and Violet exactly how badly the iPad-baby generation has forgotten how to talk to strangers (the 50-and-up crowd runs conversational laps around them, effortlessly). Then straight into the on-chain sleuthing: LookOnChain caught a World Liberty Financial wallet adding single-sided-Trump-token liquidity to Uniswap pools and quietly draining the USDC side as the trades filled — Alex's diagnosis: baby's first rug pull, paper-bag-over-the-head-with-your-name-on-the-shirt tier obfuscation. Alex + DeFi Dojo back-and-forth over the weekend on Sergey Nazarov / Chainlink and whether the WLFI purchase pipeline exists — no direct receipt from Arkham but a very clear correlation: nobody needs $4.7M of LINK to use Chainlink. Bitcoin printed its single biggest weekly candle ever this weekend — Will christens it the Big Man Blastoise candle (now official in the Beacon). Consolidation market's still technically on until Bitcoin flips $83K into support, but bullish momentum is the loudest canary the coal mine has produced in months. Realistic downside if the 55-week EMA holds as resistance: another trip to $70K-$72K. Cigarettes-vs-Bitcoin callback for Will — the math from years ago still holds: what Evan spent on cigarettes over a lifetime, invested in BTC instead, would be worth more than a Bitcoin today. Alex's DCA philosophy: no automated buys, weekly manual decisions, double-digit-red = buy / double-digit-green = sell, running Bitcoin avg $59,793.15. Hyperliquid weekend volume: $984M in 24 hours (Visa numbers). Perps are the fastest-growing area of crypto trading — and the fastest-growing market on planet Earth. Picks-and-shovels of the gold rush = Circle, Coinbase, Kraken (whenever it IPOs), Robinhood, maybe Kalshi eventually, plus mining companies riding the AI datacenter tailwind. Ansem's post on Kraken as a Hyperliquid US-onshore partner (CFTC licenses via Ninja Trader + Bitnomiel acquisitions) walked through. Will opens a rare hedged long+short on Bitcoin with equal dollar-value, funded so the short's liquidation is at $90K — first time he's ever tried this. Whiteboard video incoming. The two-part market-maker education segment: Coin Bureau's misleading Winter Mute-is-heavily-short tweet got called out by an actual Winter Mute employee in the comments, and Alex + Evan walked through why market makers CARRY sells when the market is running (they're facilitating the sell orders, not betting against you). Same crew, same lesson, applied to the WLFI liquidity trick at the top of the show. Then the Trump-meme-coin-2.0 rumor: CryptoRover + WhaleScan started it, Eric Trump denied it on record, and the actual danger is the copycat scam-token launchers who ride the FUD. Alex's line: content creators shilling for corruption 'because technically it's not illegal' need to grow a spine. And Evan's closing thesis on why he doesn't chase slop campaigns like Commons' — building social capital + working in the most volatile industry on earth for real, sustained wealth is the target the crowd can't see. Premium goes $30 → $100/month at the end of summer; team's off-air next week for greatest hits + platform upgrades. 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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CRCL Update + Hylo Deep Dive: xSOL, xBTC, xHYPE Explained + Volatility Decay Walkthrough | Ep 562

Good now revolutionaries— The full crew's back for the Thursday close-out. Bitcoin is still in consolidation and Will's frame is straightforward: below $72K we're in the same 6-month range, don't be shocked to see a trip back to $62K where Binance's liquidations are magnet-strong. If you're feeling FOMO, that's the signal to DCA over two months on a schedule — not to blow the load. Alex's After Dark short position closed the way it should have (following his rules, not the inverse-Alex signal), and the position would have been wiped out overnight if he'd broken the rule. Circle stock check-in. Will's average is $65.68; Alex's average is $64.40 — from blindly following Will's advice, which Will took very personally on-air. Circle minted $500M USDC on Solana yesterday (extremely bullish signal for demand + reserves). Will's chart read: short-term cool-off possible down to $69-76 support, then the direct target is $95 (the 200-day EMA and the bullish gap). Longer wedge breakout points at ~$104. Ark blockchain public mainnet targeted September 16 with BlackRock + Vanguard as validators. Coinbase / Circle 50% revenue share means Ark is a hedge bet for Coinbase either way. Hyperliquid pumped hard off Trump's White House meeting. Alex's Michael Selig (CFTC chair) smirk-meme identification of the 'guy with the full-port 50x long on hype' was a highlight. Deep dive into Hilo (hilo.so) — xSOL, xBTC, and the newly-fee-free xHYPE — leverage-wrapped tokens you hold like spot. xSOL up ~35% on Solana's 12% day; xHYPE up ~51% on yesterday's HYPE run. Will explained volatility decay with a clean $100 → $80 → back-to-$100 example that lands xSOL at $90. Ten-ten wick stress-tested both Hilo and Turbo (DeFi Carrot) with zero liquidations. Then a proper wrapped-token risk explainer using Matt's football-jersey analogy. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want 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 Payment 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

Trump Said Hyperliquid then HYPE Ripped 15% + Michael Selig's 50x Smirk | Ep 93🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries— Rise Up After Dark 093 opens with first-timer Anisha Kapoor — AI technologist, former financial analyst, and Network School / SheFi alum — walking through her year-long pivot from a laid-off higher-ed financial analyst into backpacking Asia, Balaji's Network School (now permanently based in Kazakhstan), and building small-business AI implementation in the Florida + Chicago ecosystems. Along the way she's onboarding the older generation onto AI + crypto through Base44 hackathons and SheFi. Application priority link for Network School: ns.com/anisha. Alex's Euphoria tap-battle recap — this time against Dougie from Euphoria (not Beacon Doug). ETH ripped ±$40 in one 30-minute battle, no strategy possible, spray-and-pray only. Alex nearly doubled off a bad start but got squirrelier as he went and closed at $105 while Dougie played safe and coasted to the win. Plus Alex's Base wallet debugging saga — the deposit went to a phantom holding wallet, transferred through two more wallets, and eventually landed correctly. Casey Craig's team is talking to Privy about it. Evan's own base-wallet horror story: a Solana refund to a vendor's Coinbase intermediary got auto-rerouted by the smart contract to a wallet no one holds the keys to. Only got recovered via a friend at Base. Rise Up bingo idea — sparked by Alex's short jokes. "Tori let's clip it" — the running-bingo-card format ships for next week's show, participants can assign handicaps + power-ups. Will's Japan Converse deep-cut fun fact: Japan refused Converse's material downgrade, negotiated licensing rights, and now Japan-made Converse are the only ones still built the old way using 1930s-era machines — and they're 40% cheaper than US-made pairs. Plus Alex's alligator-in-the-Roosevelt-Room recap of Trump's crypto meeting: 99% platitudes, one new line about "working to bring Hyperliquid to the US" (HYPE ripped 15%), Michael Selig behind the podium looking like he full-ported 50x long right before the speech, and Trump's tell that he doesn't actually know what crypto prices are doing. Will's Bitcoin chart read: cool-off likely, $67.5K back on the table, maybe even $62K where Binance's biggest liquidation cluster on Bitcoin's entire chart lives. Solana is overextended from all key EMAs — short opportunity into the $83-82 range with 75% close, keep 25% open for the potential $62K flush. Tether dominance sliced through the 21-week EMA + the 200-day EMA today — bullish for the space. Then Nick Cryptography Pro's on-chain-market-maker-alpha thesis gets a proper walkthrough: SAFTs sit off-chain in LLC layers for a reason, plausible deniability is the point, and if the alpha were actionable on-chain everyone at the show would be selling their houses to run it. Plus the perfect Anisha sign-off: just do good wherever you can, with whatever you have. 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

Kenneth Suna Joins The Show: Ken's Corner + The SEC's 402-Page Rules Proposal Explained | Ep 561

Good now revolutionaries— Evan's fiber install came with an immediate cable cut, so Alex and Will opened solo. Alex ran the RUMS-audience version of TI 028's SEC 402-page rules-proposal breakdown: what Reg D, Reg CF and Reg A tiers do, the $5M / 4-year no-accredited-gate startup exemption, and — importantly — what's NOT in it. The broker-dealer definition question that scared crypto companies in 2016-2017 got skirted entirely. Unrestricted-security concept is a Clarity carry-in (XRP-delisting-style separation between issuer and secondary marketplace). Alex still has to figure out blue sky preemption. Rules currently a proposal with no comment-period start date published yet. Alex's Vent Finance blast from the past: a full walkthrough of the 2021 KOL ICO grift mechanic. VCs get first crack at one price, KOLs get pitched at a second (capped at $2,500 by Reg CF), then everyone piles in through the influencer's audience. On paper you're up 30x, then the vesting schedule kicks in and you watch it bleed to zero while the VCs sell on top. The proposal removes the $2,500 cap. Will's read: another flood of garbage tokens incoming, just later. Will's Cards (Collector Crypt) concern: they've told the community they'd do a Hyperliquid-style aggressive revenue buyback of the token — but he can't verify it's actually turned on. Manual buybacks were happening a while back per Dakota on the show, but nothing recent posted. Token inflation kicks up in October when team + investor unlocks hit. If it's not real, that's a problem. Alex's Sat Rush explainer: don't confuse it with DCAing Bitcoin. It's a gambling game where you buy Bitcoin at markup + tickets + APR yield on any Bitcoin you leave in the vault. Morpho: strong bear-market performer, upwards channel makes Will nervous. Stellar XLM: chart is gross — need to reclaim 18¢ to matter. And confirmed: RUMS is short beef, long corn, long sugar, long fart coin. Then Ken's Corner — first installment with Kenneth Suna (Trade Invest Simplify on TikTok, KennethSuna on YouTube). Fully self-taught trader, would-be pro wrestler before he broke his back on a rope-throw drill. Started with copied gym-buddy stock trades that wiped him out. Now runs a ~30-position individual-stocks portfolio built the boring way — waste management, WWE, Apple, McDonald's, Chipotle, Johnson & Johnson — with ~10% speculative (SoundHound, D-Wave, Rigetti, Joby, Archer). His entry advice for new investors: two boring ETFs first, then individual names two years in. His research go-tos: Seeking Alpha for fundamentals and dividend safety grades, MarketWatch for cash-flow and debt drill-downs. Peloton and Beyond Meat get the same official diagnosis — looks bad. Chipotle CEO Brian Nichols went to Starbucks and the cult followed him. And on the NASDAQ record-short panic wave: everyone chill out, those are 2-4 week short-term trades reacting to earnings, not five-year America-going-to-zero calls. 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

The 402-Page SEC Guidance Nobody's Reading Yet | Ep 28⚖️

Alex and Emily break down the 402-page SEC rules-proposal guidance document that Paul Atkins' SEC dropped today — a direct response to the fundraising side of what should've been in the Clarity Act but got carved out. The headline: a new startup exemption of $5M raised over 4 years with no accredited/non-accredited distinction, and broad expansions to Reg D, Reg CF, and Reg A. Currently in a 60-day comment period post-Federal Register publication. What's IN the proposal: new $5M/4-year exemption removing the accredited investor gatekeeping wall; expanded Reg A tiers; unrestricted security concept that transcends issuer-to-exchange (a Clarity carry-in that means an exchange doesn't get in trouble for listing a security later found to be improperly issued); broad state blue-sky preemption for both primary sales and resales as long as issuer stays current on disclosure. What's NOT in it: broker-dealer definition and the Hester Peirce exchange relief. That absence is notable. The political throughline: this is guidance the agency dropped instead of waiting on Congress — the model Alex wants replicated across other stalled-out federal agencies. SEC commissioner bench discussion: Peirce leaving in November, which leaves Atkins + Uyeda holding down the crypto-friendly seats. Long tangent on single-issue bills (Gates/AOC co-sponsored one, died on the floor) and why 600-page omnibus bills exist — you can hide anything in them, no one reads them, and it's how lobbying money gets made. The Moonpay/Keith Grossman tweet that broke Emily's brain: "crypto shouldn't be politicized." Emily and Alex both come apart at the philosophical seams — money has never in history been non-political, currency outside state borders is inherently adversarial to the state that regulates it, and manufactured consent is the mechanism, not the thing itself. The FOMO trenches report gets a callback: <100 wallets of ~200K+ surveyed made more than $100. "That's revitalizing crypto?" Book of the month transitions from The Unbanking of America to The Meme Machine, next book club Sept 1. 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

Memecoin Study: Only 25 Wallets Out Of 292K Made Money + Tether's First Real Audit | Ep 560

Good now revolutionaries— Radha's Rule 611 question opened the show hot. Hyperliquid Policy Center + Duro Labs (Pyth) jointly petitioned the SEC to repeal Rule 611 — the trade-through rule that forces execution venues to route your order to the best displayed quote. Alex's clean framing: this is a pro-institution, anti-retail change. Jake Chervinsky (CEO of Hyperliquid PC) argues the rule fragmented liquidity in practice. Alex counters that the answer is fixing bad rules with amendments, not scrapping them — this administration only wants to delete. The endgame HL is protecting: tokenized stocks on-chain. Two big Washington meetings this week: Trump + Paul Atkins + crypto/prediction-market execs (Coinbase, Ripple, Polymarket) Wednesday 2:30pm ET. Then the CFTC's new Innovation Advisory Committee convenes Thursday with all 35 members — including Polymarket's Shane Copeland, Kalshi's Tarek Mansour, and Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse. Clarity Act still stalled ahead of a September 15 cloture vote. Will's read: buy the rumor, sell the news — and expect indecisive Bitcoin chop for the next 36 hours. Meme-coin reality check: only 6% of 300K FOMO Solana traders in the last 90 days are green. Of those 18K, 88% made less than $100. Only 25 wallets out of 292,000 made more than $10K — one-ten-thousandth of a percent. Alex's read on FOMO the platform: it's engineered so perceived-KOL grifters can incentivize copy-trading and pick winners/losers. Tether's first full independent KPMG audit dropped: clean/unqualified opinion, reserves exceed liabilities by $6.814B as of Dec 31 2025, and Tether is now the fifth-largest gold buyer in the world last quarter — behind only the central banks of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, and Poland. Tron chart discussion led to Alex's next Cesto basket idea — "Hypomentals" (ICP, Cardano, XRP, HBAR, Tron, BNB). Scam chains are doing great. The Beacon celebrations: Radio Dan crushed a Pacifica long (custom scorecard). Ryan Lucero — 7 weeks unbeaten, Elliott Wave specialist, former #1 Binance Trade Desk trader three years running — got his own analyst section as "the shark analyst." Coinbase One's 6.5% USDC promo vs Kraken's ongoing 3.7-5.7% no-minimum. Julian's take-profits-from-cold-storage question got the full multi-strategy answer (Alex's holding-wallet layering, Will's straight-to-Coinbase, the case for Arculus in-app trading). Only limit orders, never market — Alex's Solana spread demo showed 80¢ per SOL of overpay. Plus the Beacon merch rainbow propeller hat pitch. And Alex's Big Beef sponsor idea that would never happen (again). 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

The Nikkei Macro-Volatility Signal + Circle DCA | Ep 52📈🤑

Good evening revolutionaries— Will's back from his brother's Montreal bachelor party running on 9-12 shots of tequila, three pregame bars, a strip club, and a hard stop at 4am Sunday. So it's a short show. Cold-open callback to the VP quote that started Will's career: "The people who are most successful in this field are the ones who can still show up hammered and hungover." Then straight into the setups: bond rates ripping (macro bearish), Bitcoin ripping into Wednesday's Trump/Paul-Atkins/crypto-execs meeting, and Thursday's CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee. Will's short-term BTC read: rally into the $65-66.5K liquidation box, then buy-the-rumor-sell-the-news cool-off. Longer view: still consolidation, $57K-$72K range holding. Solana disagreement moment. Doug set a fresh long at ~$75 with a $73 hard stop, targeting $79. Will's read: a wedge breakout that happens at the very end of the triangle is a weak signal — Doug's chart shows the bullish break came late and price has been sliding down to retest the bottom line of the wedge ever since. Will won't long SOL until it reclaims $79. Then the Nikkei detour (a signal for macro volatility incoming), Doug's ETH short from July 27 ($1975 stop, currently up 50%, half sold), and Will leaning bullish on ETH short-term because the $1840-$1850 EMAs are holding. Requests-round from chat: Circle stock, Chainlink, MicroStrategy (now just "Strategy"), and Syrup. Circle DCA verdict: anywhere below the current $72 is fine — bottom was $58.48, weekly stoch RSI has plenty of room, target $72.50 for the ideal entry and expect a gap-fill up to $78.64. Chainlink ("stinky") is boring below $12 — wait for the $6 range-low or a break above $12-$13. MicroStrategy has been dead ever since it renamed itself Strategy (Will's actual opinion). Syrup: descending wedge just broke out to the upside — ideal long at $14.50 on retest, ideal short at $20 on rip. And a Uniswap-liquidity mini-lecture for anyone still asking why Uniswap matters when you're swapping real money. 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

13,900 Trezor Users Just Had Their Home Addresses Leaked + The Google Sponsored-Link Trap | Ep 559

Good now revolutionaries— Evan and Alex opened with the big Rise Up news: the purple Arculus wallet is officially going to print. Fariba confirmed with Compose Secure, targeting November delivery — in time for Thanksgiving "how's that crypto thing going" family conversations. Pre-orders still open. Jito's got a brand-new bag too: revamped jito.network with a dedicated BAM section ("the new framework for how Solana processes economic activity — verifiable ordering, pre-execution privacy, programmable block space"), a JTX section, and staking neatly tucked under Jito SOL. The JTX intern wrote a two-panel bottom-is-in / bottom-is-out newsletter that immediately spawned the show's next pitch idea: intern death-match, celebrity-death-match energy with substantive crypto-education combat. News segment #1 — the Trezor customer-data leak. Wallets untouched, seed phrases untouched, but a third-party data-storage provider got breached and 13,900 users' full names, emails, phone numbers, and shipping addresses are now in the wild. This has happened to Trezor before — Alex has personally received TWO physical-mail phishing letters (one with a fake tamper-proof sticker). If a letter arrives from your hardware wallet manufacturer, throw it away. Related PSA: a very prominent Trezor phishing site paid its way to the top of Google's sponsored search results last week. Never click the sponsored link. News segment #2 — Trump's World Liberty Financial received a conditional provisional bank charter from the OCC for a national trust bank called World Liberty Trust Company. What it means (and doesn't): USD1 stablecoin issuer + custodian consolidated into one federally-chartered institution the president's family owns. Ripple, Circle, Paxos are in the same charter class. Alex's Kohl's-cash analogy for the corporate-stablecoin future is razor-sharp. Then the extended riff on why the abuse-of-power framing is a live issue (military GMT covers this exact concept), why "what about Nancy Pelosi" is a Snickers-bar-vs-Bernie-Madoff comparison, and Evan's Alan-in-the-comments clarifier: don't create false divides — the divide isn't left vs right, it's people vs power. News segment #3 — Laura Shin's undercover North Korean hacker interview ("Say something negative about Kim Jong-un" → connection immediately drops). Roman Storm's Tornado Cash defense argument via Google Gemini being used for phishing document forgery: "prosecute the criminal, not the toolmaker." Plus Ken Suna (@tradeinvestsimplify) formally joining the show for a recurring Ken's Corner segment covering traditional finance, PyroFest Tybee Island October 8-10 as an in-person meetup, Alex's Airstream + yurt tiny-house journey, the pearl-farming environmental ethics tangent, and one more reminder that THE BEACON — the premium-only trading Discord — has its permanent home under the premium tab at rumshq.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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

The Clarity Act Really Isn't Passing: Alex's Reality Check + BIP Hard Fork Coming | Ep 558

Good now revolutionaries— Alex Popovic drove the show solo for the first 50 minutes and turned it into a live-audience Q&A masterclass on why the Clarity Act really isn't passing (the president is the biggest reason, the ethics clause is garbage, and if it doesn't pass this session it starts over in the 120th Congress). The FOMO Hyperliquid question got a real answer: Alex's own average cost is $34, he's waiting for it back in the $40s, and the three actually-good tokens in crypto have all three of the same things — real usage, real revenue-per-employee (HYPE briefly passed Tether as the most profitable-per-employee company on the planet), and a real value-capture mechanism. Then the ranty middle: Alex's on-air conviction check on why the entire "institutions are coming" narrative is one of the greatest cons in crypto. "It's the greatest con in crypto to believe that gigantic multi-billion-dollar companies are going to enter the space and buy your bags from you at crazy prices." Pair that with Alex's line-by-line explainer on why aggressive deregulation is not neutral — the 2018 Volcker Rule exemption directly enabled SVB, and stripped airline consumer-protection rules just exclusively hurt consumers. The double-taxation crypto-pay nightmare gets a full breakdown: income tax on the day you receive a token, capital gains tax when you sell it — even if the token crashed and you sold for a loss. Evan joined around 50 minutes in and Alex punted the BIP-BIP-BIP question straight to him. Full explainer: it's a debate about block-space litter (ordinals vs Bitcoin purists) AND a decentralization vote about whether the Knots developers can rebalance power away from Core. The proposal failed. In the wake, some Knots operators broke off and created a hard fork — the new chain got only 2 blocks in 8 hours because it inherited Bitcoin's full mining difficulty but almost none of the hash power. Luke Dashjr is the figurehead of the split. New coin's coming — could airdrop to self-custody wallet holders. Plus: SoFi vs Coinbase/Kraken advice, Andrew from Raposa threw the first pitch at a Marlins game last night, and Alex's ask for photos of any damaged Raposa boxes so the team can chase down the shipping issue. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want 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 Payment 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

Jim From Caleb & Brown On The Show + The Coinbase Address-Swap Horror Story | Ep 92🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries— Jim Bazzani from Caleb & Brown joins for the first time on Rise Up After Dark. Jim's Melbourne-based, Fort Lauderdale-adjacent (moving to the States later this year), and gave the cleanest concierge-crypto-brokerage pitch we've had on the show: every client gets a dedicated broker, $500 minimum trade, no minimums to transfer in, buy/sell/swap/custody like an exchange but with a phone number. Their KYC is deliberately thorough — Jim's honest that they've turned into a money-mule filter as much as they are a brokerage — but that's a feature, not a bug. Strong XRP-community relationship (they've hosted XRP Vegas multiple years), and yes, the office has Friday-evening pack-opening ritual. Rise Up affiliate link now live on rumshq.com tools & deals. Then the announcement: the Rise Up Trading Discord officially has a name — The Beacon. Doug is doing the branding. Roles clarified — Circle stays as the education-first / general-support home, The Beacon is trading-only (crypto, stocks, commodities, meme coins, journal day, custom analyst reports). Ryan Lucero — 7 weeks unbeaten — is joining as a Beacon analyst. Only premium members get in. Non-members caught via email cross-check get kicked out. $30/mo grandfather rate locks before Sept 1 → $100/mo. And the sleeper moment of the ep: Evan tells a genuinely terrifying Base App / Coinbase story. He was sending a vendor refund in USDC on Solana, copied the from-address, pasted it, confirmed — and the address changed after confirmation. Funds routed to a Coinbase-owned smart contract wallet nobody has keys to. Coinbase support couldn't help. He got the refund back through personal outreach to Mike (LogaDog founder / Coinbase engineer). Two moral-of-the-story takeaways: (1) always send a test transaction, (2) always text/DM the recipient for wallet-address confirmation before a significant send. Plus Alex's 53% Euphoria tap-battle win over Evan's 2%, Will's red-light-therapy-mask jump scare, and Alex's Rocky-shorts Toronto border story. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want 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 Payment 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

CPI Met Expectations = Bad News In Disguise + Trading Discord LIVE & The XRP Bridge Hack | Ep 557

Good now revolutionaries— CPI dropped at 3.4% — headline AND core met expectations. Will's read: "meh" is bad news in disguise. The market didn't get the excitement it needed to force a run at the higher liquidation levels, so the ~$60-62K Binance liquidation target below stays in play. Meanwhile the Rise Up Trading Discord is LIVE for premium members — Will walked through the layout, the crypto/stocks/commodities channels, and shared that Doug just took 112% on a SOL long and 61% on a BTC long this morning. Doug's math on the value: office hours at today's $30 price cost $1.24/hour of coaching; even at the $100 tier it's $4.16/hour — and that's before the free trading courses, crypto reports, and Discord access. Big TA moment — Will pulled up the previous bear-market cycle and showed the same descending-wedge fake-breakout / slam-down / higher-low / breakout sequence playing out again on this cycle's macro chart. The inverse head-and-shoulders on the daily needs one more shoulder around the $60-62K longs zone before it confirms bottom. Free tool combo — Lux Algo (Smart Money Concepts) + HTF Liquidity Tool on TradingView + Coin Glass heat map — line those three up and where they overlap becomes a magnet for price. News that hit while everyone was arguing about AI: an attacker drained ~200K XRP from the Quorum cross-chain bridge in 97 minutes on Aug 9. XRP ledger itself is fine — bridge logic wasn't validating junk deposits before releasing funds. Alex's hot take: it's actually good for XRP because "no one respects any ecosystem that's never been attacked." Also today — the BIP-BIP-BIP minority faction that stalled after last weekend's Bitcoin fork is now hard-forking again on Sept 1, switching to a new consensus mechanism that ordinary CPUs and GPUs can mine. Main Bitcoin unaffected. Alex + Evan did a Pacifica vs Jupiter perps deep-dive — cross vs isolated margin (the "margin of the page" analogy is the light-bulb moment), account equity vs idle balance, the White Whale's range-DCA strategy on Pacifica that has him running a 98% win rate, and why Pacifica's player-vs-player market avoids the Robinhood-style incentive problem of a market-vs-market perps DEX. Plus the tap-battle at noon EST (Alex takes on a mystery guest in Euphoria), Peyton coming in later today for a level-two AI content workflow session, Caleb & Brown coming tonight, and Nev booked for Monday. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want 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 Payment 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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The Unbanking Of America: The Book Every Crypto Person Should Read After The Bitcoin White Paper | Ep 27⚖️

Alex and Emily's book-club edition of Trust Issues on The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon — the book Alex thinks every crypto person should read immediately after the Bitcoin white paper. Servon spent time actually working at a check cashing spot and a payday-loan storefront to document what banking looks like from the outside of banking. Her core reframe: payday loans and check cashing aren't the same product — check cashing is a predictable flat fee that beats overdraft-fee-riddled traditional banking for the growing class of people banks have priced out. The history walk: pre-1970s regulatory posture, banks fighting regulation since the '70s, culminating in the 2008 collapse. Elizabeth Warren's toaster analogy — you'd never buy an appliance with a 20% chance of exploding, but people were signing mortgages with 1-in-5 chances of imploding. 2010 Dodd-Frank creates the CFPB and the Volcker Rule. 2018 Trump rollback exempts specific banks from the Volcker Rule — SVB collapse directly follows. And 2025 CFPB regutting is happening in real time, aggressively. The Caleb Hammer callback — Alex extended his RUMS 556 takedown into a full segment: a podcast host who bullies people who are visibly in financial trouble while picking weird fights with veterans on disability and idolizing the exact hustle-culture rich people who abuse actual systems. Jillian Hyshaw (attorney friend of the show) provides the counter-lens: her bankruptcy clients are stuck in loans at 900–1500% interest and often didn't realize what they were signing because the alternative was homelessness or hunger. And the crypto tie-in that makes this a Trust Issues episode: crypto's original mission was to protect people from exactly this machine — but Twitter is now predominantly people cheering the entrance of TradFi that's here to buy Bitcoin ETFs and World of Women NFTs while re-gutting the CFPB and letting the banking predation loop start again. Alex's reaffirmed conviction in cypherpunk-era crypto is the closing arc. 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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Cesto Is Making Mutual Funds Fun: Invest In The Pelosi Tracker Or Inverse Kramer On-Chain | Ep 556

Good now revolutionaries— Jason Rodriguez, founder of Cesto (cesto.co) and host of the new Humans of Solana podcast, joins for his first Rise Up appearance. His pitch: "one-size-fits-all finance is coming to an end." Cesto is Solana-native tokenized baskets — Dire Straits (oil + gas), Inverse Kramer, Anthropic Anti-Portfolio (which shorts every company Anthropic eats the lunch of), the Indian CEOs basket that beat the S&P 500 by 80%. No wallet needed — Privy handles social login, MPC self-custody under the hood. Backed by Colosseum. Referral links live at rumshq.com under Evan and Alex. Will then paints the rate-hike picture: CPI drops Wednesday 8:30am ET (forecast 3.4% vs 3.5% prior), PPI Thursday. Odds are neck-and-neck 50/50 for the September Fed meeting — down from ~70% just two-to-three weeks ago. With oil up 17% since end of June and 10-year yields up 5% (mortgage-rate proxy), Will's leaning worse-than-expected on headline CPI. Then Will departs for work and Alex + Evan roast Ben McKenzie's viral Clarity-Act video for a solid ten minutes — "Thank god the Clarity Act didn't pass because it would have enabled more corruption" — from a dude drinking a beer in a whiskey glass. Alex on why the grift works: gaslight, half-truth, latch onto FTX, refuse the real debate. Big premium announcements: the $30/mo → $100/mo price step (limited time before end of summer, all OG premiums grandfathered), the new Solana Q3 data report, top-ten-cryptos quarterly reports launching next month ($50 each or free with premium), and Will + Doug's perps-trading community formally coming next Wednesday with sponsored competitions — $100-to-$1K challenges paid out in Bitcoin. Plus: Labor Day week the show goes dark for a scheduled Greatest Hits episode (send in your favorite clip suggestions). 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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Solana Wedge, Circle Setup, Gold Ripping + Riot Earnings Take-Profit Alert | Ep 51📈🤑

Good evening revolutionaries— Will and Doug are running shorts on ETH, SOL, and BTC heading into the biggest macro week of the month: CPI Wednesday 8:30am ET, PPI Thursday 8:30am ET. Rate-hike odds are 51.2 / 48.8 — one bad CPI print and September flips fully hawkish. Solana bullish-wedge breakout has a validity problem — the wedge closes August 13, meaning any pullback that far in is technically a broken pattern, not a retest. $79 remains the blast-off line; $106 is the measured-move target if it holds. Circle chart pattern gets flagged as looking exactly like gold did before its ~$67 pump — down-then-sideways-then-tilt. Both Will and Doug like gold to keep ripping. Full chart request slate from the audience: Cardano (headed to 14-16¢ on the liquidity magnet), XRP (weekly bear setup, watch 93¢ then 65¢), Ondo (short below the 12/21 EMAs, target 24¢ then 30¢ bounce), Dash + Monero (dead / bullish but iffy respectively), Uniswap (needed the $4.20 weekly close and didn't get it — expect a retest of $2.80 / $2.28), Aerodrome (McDonald's-in-a-W pattern, target 27¢), Sui + HBAR (both need to bottom before anything). Quantum stocks — Will and Doug prefer QTM (Quantum Computing Inc, Trump-tweeted) and Inflection Point (INFQ, double-bottom setup) over Rigetti (RGTI) and D-Wave. Cards Solana was named the #4 top-earning dApp on all of Solana — added to the 2027-bull watchlist at a $68M market cap. Then the announcement: Will + Doug are formalizing a Rise Up Trade Floor / Trade Desk / Trade School (name TBD) — premium-gated, Discord-hosted trading community. Bitcoin-prize trading competitions coming: $100-to-$1K first-to-hit challenges, biggest-percentage-return-of-the-month with BTC payouts. Details drop first in premium chat. Premium goes $30/mo → $100/mo end of summer — grandfather rate locks in at $30 if you sign up before the change. 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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Clarity Act Stalls Again + The American vs Chinese LLM Debate | Ep 555

Good now revolutionaries— Congress hit August recess without a Clarity Act vote, exactly as predicted. The holdup: banking lobby vs stablecoin yield on the Republican side, ethics-clause language on the Democrat side. The kicker: the do-nothing Congress of 1948 passed 906 bills — the current 119th has passed 38. A Trezor phishing site is the top sponsored Google result and has vacuumed up millions from users; DeFi Llama's free Llama Search Chrome extension is the fix. Will previews a Rise Up perps-trading community he and Doug are cooking up with sponsored trading competitions. Then a full deep-dive on token economics using Pith Network as the punching bag: the viral "95% of RWA perp volume" claim doesn't survive scrutiny — Pith's actual DeFi Llama market share is 4.63% (fifth behind Chainlink at 59.2%). Uncle Tim's smart-consumer altcoin picks — VeChain, LINK, XRP — get the same treatment. Alex on how to tell a real value-accrual token from decorative hype. Then Sat Rush update: Will's earned 20%+ in Bitcoin at ~2,000% APR, and Alex delivers the cleanest one-liner yet: "It's a gambling platform where you buy a couple things for your trouble — if your goal is Bitcoin, just go buy Bitcoin." The main event is a 25-minute three-way debate on Alibaba's Rome AI that started mining crypto on its own, which snowballs into: whether choosing an American LLM over a Chinese one is real safety or just a warm-fuzzy security blanket, whether voting still meaningfully impacts policy in an ossified two-party system, and whether "buy American" keeps money in the US economy (Amazon 50–70%, Alibaba 5–15%, ChatGPT 70–80%). Plus the purple Arculus wallet officially going to print — ~100 units. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want 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 Payment 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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Don't Wait For 50K, Just DCA: Danielle's Cycle Playbook + Bitcoin & Market Takes | Ep 554

Good now revolutionaries— Danielle Lukens (Crush Insights, @cryptocrushshow) is back in the Rise Up chair for a full technical + macro session. Will officially called the $57.7K Bitcoin bottom on-air yesterday, and Danielle walked through the inverse head-and-shoulders live on the daily chart — $66,676 neckline, $57K head, invalidation and target explained step by step. Fed rate-hike odds have collapsed from ~73% to ~40% for the September 16 meeting; Polymarket has no-change at 51%. Danielle's cycle thesis: crypto stocks > altcoins. Her #1 pick is Circle — $15B market cap, $700M/quarter revenue, ARC blockchain going live in September with Vanguard and BlackRock as validators, and they just bought IBM's blockchain patent portfolio. Coinbase perps are about to ship. Plus the magnet-stock tickers you asked about (MP, USA Rare Earth, NEO on the TSX), a live Sat Rush walkthrough, and Solana sponsoring the World Series of Poker. Powered by Arculus Wallet — https://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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

The White Whale's First-Ever Interview: Sat Rush Deep-Dive + Insights From The Depths | Ep 91🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries— RUAD 091 is **the White Whale's first-ever in-person interview** — joined by his co-builder Quicks (aka The Fox) from White Whale Labs. Both are here to walk through Sat Rush, which just launched live earlier today. Will is back in the dolphin costume ("the blue banana"). Alex is joining from the porch in Gig Harbor, Washington. It's a special one. The White Whale's origin story: 20 years in web2 e-commerce, built a business "to give myself financial freedom, time freedom — all the aspirations people have when they launch a business. And I realized after almost twenty years that the exact opposite had happened. I had become a slave to my creation and I said enough. There's too much life to live." Full-time crypto ever since. Quicks (aka The Fox) — years building in Solana. Ex-Red Bull. "Left that secure lifestyle for the wild world of Web three." Speaks at Solana events, now joining White Whale Labs full-time. ★★ The Sat Rush deep-dive is the meat of the show. Full mechanics walkthrough directly from the creators: gamified Bitcoin mining protocol, Sat Strike randomization mechanics, Epoch Vault + 1BTC vault pool sourcing, fees redistribution. Q&A from the community. Live screen-share of Evan going all-in on hash rate points trying to win the whole Bitcoin. And a critical positioning statement from the White Whale: **Sat Rush is a Bitcoin onboarding mechanism.** "We're building an onboarding mechanism to people's first Bitcoin ownership. A lot of our messaging and marketing is going to pivot towards that." ★ Alex's DeFi Llama AI + Claude Design walkthrough — the standout tool moment of the show. Alex shows off a full Ethereum-as-investment deep-dive PDF he generated on DeFi Llama's paid AI tier, then fed into Claude Design to create a full-blown PowerPoint. "On a scale of one to free, DeFi Llama is free as shit" — Alex's frame. Premium members can DM Alex for a custom deep-dive report. Also this episode: The gambling-vs-speculation frame ("this is a Bitcoin accumulation machine, not a meme coin casino"); Quix's practice elevator pitch for Sat Rush to a meme-coin-trader crowd; the White Whale's ROI-filter trading philosophy; Solana-was-the-only-choice building thesis ("I'm a real estate developer — do I build the apartment complex in my hometown or somewhere I don't know the culture?"); Matthew Wiley's on-record JTX rec ("just traded on JTX earlier, it's really smooth"); Will's Twitter-troll final thought ("I love the negative comments, so much fun to reply to"); and the running joke that Alex physically cannot deliver a one-line Arculus ad read on cue. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/, trade at JTX.com. RUMS Purple Wallet Want 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 Payment 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 central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗 LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐 LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking 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: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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