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Markets Flip Red, but $CRCL is Still Fundamentally Strong: 119% EPS Beat and the $213 Gap | Ep 601

Good now revolutionaries— Evan and Will close the week with Bitcoin ripping into the high-$79Ks after a Democratic sweep flipped the macro script. Oil fell off a cliff, the S&P held under resistance, and crypto rode along for the ride — but the monthly Bitcoin candle still has to close above $78.6K before Will will say 'up only.' Will unpacks Polygon's open money stack picking up Solana and Tron (Paul is the toll road), why Hyperliquid, Zcash, and Circle are eating the altcoin attention away from SOL and ETH, and gives Circle stock a proper read: 119% EPS surprise, descending wedge, bullish gap sitting at $213. On the AI side, Anthropic's $1.5T valuation set the tone while BitTensor TAO got a death-cross-shaped yawn — because a 'marketplace for AI models on a blockchain' doesn't need to exist when open source already does. Fetch has fallen off the list; VVV, down 37% off its top, is still up 2,000% since October 2025. Practical stuff: leverage swing trades sound great until you remember the taxable event you just triggered to get there. If you've been holding a bag that just keeps going down, consider harvesting the capital loss and freeing up the attention. CPI inflation data drops Tuesday — watch that over the weekend close as much as oil. Rapid-fire at the end: Near as a cross-chain intent router, Pyth over Redstone on client count, and why Zcash is starting to behave like a privacy store-of-value. The after-show is in the free community at community.rumshq.com — start the Premium 10-day trial and use code DOLPHIN at checkout for a free month. 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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Jito Just Dropped JTX Equities + Aave vs Morpho: The SEC Letters That Could Reshape DeFi | Ep 103🍻🌗

It's the night after election day, Will's off the grid, and Evan + Alex grab the couch to DYOR/BYOB through a week that already feels seismic for crypto. House and Senate flipped Democrat, the GENIUS Act keeps Circle insulated no matter who holds the pen, and Clarity is about to come back to the table with sharper ethics teeth. The guys also break down why Bitcoin outright still beats the ETF in almost every scenario — unless your IBIT/FBTC lives in a Roth where capital gains never come due. Jito's JTX Equities goes live tomorrow — tokenized stock trading through the same JTX wallet workflow — and we walk through the Lucas beta demo. On Canton vs Hyperliquid, Alex lays out why high protocol revenue means nothing if the token has no value-capture mechanism, and why fee-burn only matters when it's paired with buybacks and outpaces issuance. SatRush gets a deep dive (1.08% to holders, 71% burn, 29% CBBTC for stakers), Aave vs Morpho's dueling SEC letters get unpacked, and the Artisan.cash beta (25% back up to $250 on your first bill) gets an on-air clip from Evan. The second half turns into a perp trading school: Alex walks his SOL trade entry on Breakpoint's heat map, the leverage safety talk gets real, and both guys hammer on paper-trading before you touch margin. If leverage is a tool, treat it like a gun. Charles Hoskinson's election postmortem gets the Alex Popovic rant treatment. And yes, Kraken's crypto card lives in Alex's pocket under the nickname "crack." DOLPHIN gets you a full free month of RUMSHQ Premium — four weeks of office hours, every class, every e-book, cancel anytime. Honor of the missing Mr. Will Watson. 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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Dems Flip Congress: Is This Actually a Win for DeFi, or is Decentralization Still At Risk? | Ep 600

Good now revolutionaries—a historic election night flipped both chambers of Congress blue, and Alex Popovich (Trust Issues) joins us in the cold open to argue this is the best thing that could have happened to DeFi: no more Genius Act fast-tracking, no more corporate capture of 'clarity,' and a shot at actually codifying self-custody and developer protections. We also cover why he thinks the Sherrod Brown committee-leadership rumor is wrong. Then Matthew Wiley co-hosts Episode 600. We do a live Web3 101 (Bitcoin, altcoins, meme coins, token vs coin, DeFi), unpack Circle's Q3 crush (GAAP EPS $0.84, revenue $865M, $13.7T on-chain), and ask the uncomfortable question about Circle and Tether freezing hundreds of millions of the $6.3B Binance hack while refusing to move on the Drift exploit. SatRush Rush token is up ~2x in a month on a mint-vs-burn flywheel. Katana's CAT token is cratering. Octant and the Golem Foundation drop a new ETH staking report with Kairos. And Evan tells the story of The Faceless Many — where 'rise up' actually came from. Chapters, links, and sponsor info below. Rise up. 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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Justin Sun Just Sued World Liberty: Here's What Comes Out If He Wins + Election Night Stakes | Ep 34⚖️

Good now revolutionaries— Trust Issues #034 goes down on election night, and the whole show is one long autopsy of World Liberty Financial. Lindsay is back in the guest chair with Alex and Emily to unpack Justin Sun's November-3 filing asking a federal court to sanction WLFI for stalling UAE disclosure, the MGX $500M-for-49% stake, the Tanoun-linked 40% grab of WLFI's bank-charter company, the Dolomite USD-One lending loop, the Meteora DLMM pattern behind Trump/Melania/Libra, and the WLFI balance history rinsing ten-figure sums in and out. The LLC map (Delaware non-stock → Holdco → Eric Trump) gets its own segment. So does the question nobody wants to answer: with DOJ, SEC, CFTC, and Treasury all captured, who's actually going to act on any of this? 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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Chainlink vs. Pyth vs. Redstone: The Honest Oracle Rank + RUMS Trading Contest Results | Ep 599

Good now revolutionaries— Election Day coverage, the Binance hack post-mortem that reads like Ocean's Eleven, and the trading contest that paid out $1,000 — including a $500 first-place win off a $17 starting bankroll. In this episode: Beacon trading contest winners (Emmett, Owen, Kenzo, Radio Dan). Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin $40M drain. Strategy and Bitmine keep buying. The Binance hack dissected: three days of rehearsals funded through Tornado Cash, EIP-7702 pre-authorization abused to batch 50 token withdrawals in a single contract call, 95% of the $6.3B stolen already replenished from Binance's own reserves. Fairshake Super PAC's $100M+ election spend and what a Dem sweep would mean for the Clarity Act. Why the Genius Act is the real consumer-side problem. Will's Bitcoin short — monthly/weekly/daily chart walkthrough and fair value gap explainer. Alex's altcoin frameworks: buyback-and-burn is not all equal, liquidity providing is not what it's cracked up to be, oracles ranked (Chainlink vs. Pyth vs. Redstone), and swing-trade examples on Metaplex and Argus. 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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$6.3B Binance Hack: How One Laptop Took Down the Biggest Exchange + Its Industry Impacts | Ep 598

Good now revolutionaries— The $6.3B Binance hack is officially the largest crypto heist on record. Evan, Alex, and Will unpack the attack vector (a single DevOps laptop with container access), the TRM Labs attribution to Trader-Trader inside the Lazarus group, Circle and Tether's record-fast $2B freeze, and the custody paradox that keeps biting the ETF era — all your options have an attack vector, so diversification is the only real hedge. Then: Polygon's partnership with Solana and Tron on the Open Money Stack ('Solanagon'), the sharpest B2B-business / dead-token divergence we've seen, Nate Silver's Flipper midterm tool, and a 20-minute ICP revenue debate about what ChainSpect's numbers actually mean when developers burn tokens to prepay for compute. 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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OKX + NYSE Want To Tokenize Your Stocks (And The SEC Just Opened The Door) | Ep 597

Good now revolutionaries— Today Evan, Alex, and Will dig into OKX and Intercontinental Exchange's new venture to tokenize US stocks for 24/7 trading with stablecoin settlement, the SEC exemption that opens the door, and the lawsuits that are absolutely coming. Alex frames the whole thing through "usufruct" — the right to enjoy a thing you don't legally own — using Robinhood tokenizing Apple as the example. The September PCE print arrives late and messy: 3.6% headline inflation (just below the 3.7% forecast but accelerating from August's 3.4%), core PCE around 3.1%, and Q3 GDP coming in hot at 3.4%. Will's read: expectations met, but when expectations are 'inflation sucks right now,' meeting them isn't good news. Big heads-up for aspiring creators: Jito is actively looking for UGC creators and the show is managing the pipeline. If you want paid video briefs, hop into Circle at rumshq.com. Plus Evan does a ~2.5-minute explainer on Liquidate.fun, the free heat map tool built by The White Whale that shows live liquidation 'landmines' across ~40 exchanges. And Alex unpacks the Anthropic S-1 — six to seven hundred billion in debt, a Musk payment plan, and SpaceX-IPO energy. Closing rant: Evan goes nuclear on an XRP maxi who tried to lecture a live stream about value capture while admitting he didn't know what Hyperliquid is. If someone is pontificating about value capture and doesn't know a company putting 90%+ of a billion-dollar-a-year revenue stream back into its token — unfollow immediately. 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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If You Can't Swing It, Don't Hold It: The Altcoin Recovery Math That'll Snap You Out Of It | Ep 102🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries— After Dark is back with Evan, Alex, and Will on a Wednesday that had the Fed, the Middle East, and Bitcoin all doing something at once. Kevin Warsh held rates and quietly teed up a December hike (CME FedWatch is pricing 78.4%), the K-shaped economy got a plain-English walkthrough, and Will took everyone through why the 10-year yield is the most honest canary in the coal mine right now. The headline take of the night came from Alex: if you can't swing-trade an altcoin, don't buy it. He ran the recovery math — down 90% needs a 10x back, down 95% needs a 20x, down 99% needs a 100x — and most of these tokens never make it. Will openly scalped Quant on-air because it's a hype vehicle with no structural value capture, and used it to walk through BTCC's "Uptober" bonuses for US users (up to 200% match on first deposit, plus deposit-match on referrals up to $300K). Mid-show, Bitcoin broke below $80,000 live and the liquidation heatmap lit up — the textbook short setup is a relief rally into resistance, then down into the next band, but PCE prints tomorrow and the market is clearly front-running it. On Solana, bearish divergence was telling you to take profits weeks ago; $96 is the first real floor, $94 is the next, and if PCE comes in ugly, $85 is the strong-support target worth watching. Plus: the Polygon-vs-Solana Twitter beef, a public fact-check on the viral "stockpile 90 days" fear-porn, and Will's final thought on why you should never borrow someone else's conviction when you have money live. 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...

A Tax-Loss Harvesting PSA for Your 95%-Down Bags + Pump.Fun is Still Shady | Ep 596

Good now revolutionaries — Evan and Alex are solo in the hosting seat (Will and Matthew out). The heart of the episode is Alex's portfolio restructuring PSA — a plain-English tax-loss harvesting walkthrough aimed at anyone sitting on 90%-down altcoin bags they refuse to sell. The math: realized capital losses net dollar-for-dollar against capital gains, with up to $3,000 a year applied against ordinary W-2 income and the rest carried forward indefinitely. Evan runs the GPT-made visual — a $12,000 gain offset by selling an $8,000 loss drops the taxable gain to $4,000, a 67% reduction. Alex names VeChain as the archetypal 95%-down bag that needs roughly a 33X to break even, and makes the case for cementing the loss and rotating into something defensible rather than praying for a cycle that isn't coming. Robert Newstead's Facebook question about claiming scam losses gets a nuanced answer: cost-basis write-offs apply, pig butchering has its own wrinkles, and no, there is no Trump executive order blocking it. The other big story: Alex walks through how Pump Fun launched pack-opening volume on Collector Crypt's API, drove tens of millions in daily revenue, then quietly swapped the backend to Fidgetals inside 72 hours — causing Pump Fun's pack-opening revenue to collapse into the hundreds of thousands. He speculates it was a shady revenue-share play, and reads the Collector Crypt token chart on DeFiLlama (~$0.30, market cap near $125M) with a Breakpoint activation ahead. "We're clout chasing effectively," Alex says of the move, "and then we're going to pull the rug out from underneath everybody." Also on tape: a Fed/FOMC preview (CME FedWatch puts a 90% probability on a hold, Warsh speaks at 2:30 ET) against Bitcoin's $81K break and a big green day; the SolFlare validator key compromise with a Jito tutorial segue on how MEV tips route back into JITO SOL; DeFi governance flash-loan hits on X-100 ($6M) and predict.fund (~$300K); the Coinbase/Amplitude breach of 70k+ users with Evan's "garden shed with a zip tie" metaphor; Alex's intro to ONRE, a Solana-based tokenized reinsurance market with the ONYC token leverageable on Camino; XFRA's NVIDIA-partnered DePIN mesh grid; the Arculus purple wallet update (shipments stalled, now Christmas); and the London Breakpoint broadcast November 12-18. Programming: DST shifts the show an hour later for international viewers starting Monday. After Dark airs tonight. 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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Ripple Got a Bank Charter? Not Quite: Here's What RLUSD Actually Got | Ep 595

Good now revolutionaries— Bitcoin spent the morning scrapping to reclaim $80,000 after dipping below it overnight, with ETH at $2,300 and SOL testing $99–$100. Will walked through the White Whale liquidation heat map band-by-band — $196M of longs clustered just below spot as the first minefield, with roughly $1.4B of stacked liquidity behind it — and previewed a four-hour wedge breakout toward $81.7K ahead of tomorrow's FOMC decision, Kevin Warsh's follow-up remarks, and Thursday's PCE print. Alex broke down the Akash protocol vote (closing November 2) to migrate its entire network from Cosmos to Solana — the yes side holds ~98% with a sliver of abstentions — and warned anyone looking at pump.fun that the AKS ticker on Solana is NOT the migrated token. The crew also walked through Ripple's new OCC-approved Ripple National Trust Bank for RLUSD reserves (not a full bank charter — no deposits, no loans, not FDIC-insured — and NOT the first; Anchorage got there in January 2021), the OCC's "Community Bank Comeback" opening the door for credit unions and community banks to issue payment stablecoins under the Genius Act starting January 2027, and the full-page Wall Street Journal op-ed where IBM, Oracle, Intel, and INQ joined 22 other issuers objecting to OKX/ICE Markets tokenizing their stock under the SEC innovation exemption. Scam warnings and security — this one is critical: Keystone announced it will destroy nearly 20,000 cold wallets after an intruder exfiltrated the WebAuth key used to verify device authenticity, meaning counterfeits could pass as real. User data (home address, phone number, legal name) is also compromised. If you're on Keystone, treat your device as burned. Alex also went deep on the January Walker "Bitcoin is malware" grifter with the recycled blue-checkmark TikTok account — a reminder to ask simple questions rather than argue, and a reminder that "I'm the CISO of digital assets globally" is not a real title. Plus Alex's take on the Casey Affleck / Gal Gadot / Pete Davidson Bitcoin movie that leans into Craig Wright's debunked Satoshi claim: just sign the key or move the coins. 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...

Bitcoin's $78.8K Target: Why the Liquidation Map Points Down | Ep 59📈🤑

Good now revolutionaries— Will and Doug open the week with a market in that odd "waiting for what's next" chop. Bitcoin closed below the 55-day EMA on Sunday, bounced Monday, but the 12-hour RSI is tap-dancing on a trend line of support that keeps almost breaking. If it goes, Evan is eyeing $78K first and $76K (the 200-day EMA at $76.3K) as the strong bounce zone. The macro ambush is already on the calendar: Wednesday Oct 28, 2:00 PM ET Fed decision (90% expectation of a hold), 2:30 PM ET Governor Warsh presser, then Thursday 8:30 AM PCE — forecast is 0.5% MoM headline vs 0.3% prior, 0.3% core vs 0.2% prior. In other words, PCE is expected to come in worse. Buckle up. On the sponsor side, BTCC's Uptober promotion is still live for four and a half more days: deposit $200+ to unlock a 50–200% reward multiplier, plus a 10% first-deposit bonus using the RUMS referral link at rumshq.com → Recommended Tools and Deals. Doug walks through it live — he's a current user and hadn't realized the 10% was there either. On the market tape, Doug flashes The White Whale's liquidate.fun to show the biggest juicy liquidation cluster sitting right at $78.8K — same number Evan has as his downside target, which is why he's still short. Altcoin quick-fire: NEAR is squeezed against resistance and probably rolls over, with the real buy zone at $4 (or $3 on a flush). ONDO retraced a huge move but is holding — scale-in on spot, don't trade below 35 cents. SUI, QNT, FARTCOIN all look heavy — memes are flat-out dead this cycle, 10M market caps dying in under 12 hours. AERODROME printed a doji after five red candles but the weekly closed below the 12-week EMA — Evan sees 58–48 cents before the bounce holds, classic buy-the-rumor-sell-the-news on the Velodrome merge. CANTON (CC): wait for an 8–9 cent flush and reclaim before buying. PSA from Evan: a brand-new trader just joined The Beacon running 100x leverage and asked if that was "good." Please don't. The trading competition kicked off today — $1,000 total prize pool plus $150 for single largest trade. Open to Beacon members only. 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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Rise Up $1000 Trading Competition is LIVE + Is The McRib Rally Upon Us?? | Ep 594

Good now revolutionaries— it's McRib week, the full Hunter Moon is tonight, and the Fed decides on rates Wednesday. Evan and Alex, with Will for the first half, sort the memes from the market. The McRib "rally" is really three wins and three losses. Argus is still a lottery ticket tied to ARK's ~$623M in DeFi TVL. Will maps exact levels for Cards (a daily close below ~$0.306 breaks the channel) and for AERO after the Velodrome merge (support box around $0.64–$0.59). Then a value-capture masterclass. Why SXT is a pass despite the "Microsoft-backed" headlines (it's M12, and operators are paid in a token they have every reason to sell). Why TAO's brand outruns its mechanics, why HYPE and AERO actually connect users to holders, and how subnets silo value. Plus Kamino's new Multiply vaults, the new Aero dashboard, NEAR buybacks, and Plasma's tollbooth problem. Scam watch: during the Aero migration, triple-check links because spoof sites are everywhere. Avoid gas station Bitcoin ATMs. And any token called "US [Asset] Reserve" is a scam, full stop. Macro calendar for the week: FOMC at 2pm ET Wednesday, the first post-methodology-change PCE print Thursday. 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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Pacifica's Head of Growth on Why You Should Pick Decentralized Perps | Ep 593

Good now revolutionaries — Thursday closes out the week with Greg, Head of Growth at Pacifica, back for round two ahead of Monday's trading contest launch. Greg walks through what Pacifica has shipped since the last conversation: Swim, Print (their exotic-options product on perps), and the much larger Neptune — an AI-powered strategy platform with uploadable skills, Google Drive integration, notifications, and the ability to run and backtest strategies from one place. The core lesson of the morning is why you'd use a decentralized perps venue like Pacifica over Jupiter or a centralized exchange: deeper RWA order books with the new RFQ mechanic, order types CEXes can't match (including a trailing stop that stays at the optimal profit-taking level as the market keeps going up), and an atomic order type for same-block execution. If you're joining the trading contest Monday, this is the walkthrough. Plus: the Print yield-range mechanic (0.5–10% target price band, yield effectively zero outside it), the Pacifica roadmap toward being a web3 one-stop, and a reminder that Thursday shows end a little early so Greg could host the after-show in the community for live Q&A. 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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Earn Yield for Insuring GPUs on Chain: Reamplify Explained | Ep 101🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday night After Dark pulls up a drink and brings in Gabriel Coleman, co-founder of ReAmplify, a pioneer bringing digital assets into the innovation insurance space. The product: specialized coverage for GPUs and data centers that allows institutions to provide backing collateral to earn a measured return over time. The math: highly engineered, stress-tested risk modeling designed for long-term stability—and in Gabe's humble opinion, it is one of the most structurally sound approaches to risk management on the market today. Will joins mid-show to walk through Bitcoin at ~$84K: the oil chart's bearish pressure from October 6-16, the Iranian-news doji that broke the trend, and the four-hour / eight-hour chart reconnecting with the EMAs. Plus: Will tracks Argus/ARK TVL spiking past $750M then dropping back, Arrow APR climbing from the twenties to fourteen hundred percent during the show, and PK's trading-contest reminder that the thousand-dollar prize pool opens Monday. Also: Evan with an unscripted update on where the RUMS Purple Wallet production is actually at, the migration mechanics for cold-wallet holders, the SEC whistleblower bounty haircut from 10-25% down to 1%, and Monday-night Market Watch pivoting to a shorter stream with more time in the Beacon. BYOB, DYOR, Rise Up. 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...

Jupiter Perps explained + Ripple Is Lobbying the SEC to Rewrite "Decentralization" | Ep 592

Good now revolutionaries — Evan and Alex take the show solo on Wednesday morning with Matthew joining mid-episode to help demystify perpetuals ahead of next Monday's trading contest. The lesson of the day: how to read a Pacifica order book, when maker vs. taker fees actually matter, and why a Jupiter JLP pool is basically a mini crypto ETF underwriting someone else's leverage. The regulatory block: Evan walks through Ripple's 20-page comment letter asking the SEC to carve out a bespoke definition of "decentralization" for XRP. If a chain's validators are chosen by the parent company, is it actually decentralized? Hester Peirce reads these submissions — the public comment form on the SEC site is open to anyone who wants to push back. Plus: Alex builds a live slideshow with Claude on-air to teach maker/taker mechanics, Matthew gets homework from the chat to explain mixers (he's working on it), tonight's RUAD guest is Gabe Coleman of Reamplify (crypto insurance for GPU data centers), and tomorrow's RUMS brings Greg Nehmer, Head of Growth at Pacifica, to walk through the trading-contest venue. 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...

Revoke.cash Walkthrough: The Tool Every Self-Custody User Needs + What is Tornado Cash? | Ep 591

Good now revolutionaries— Tuesday wrap with Will's clearest Bitcoin chart teach in a while. The daily is coiling tighter than it has in months — the super trend sits at $81,291 and the Lorenzian classification (short-term trend) at $82,384. Every prior time these two have gotten this tight, the result has been a big blast off. Will's call: a make-or-break move within the next 2-3 days. Oil's 1-hour has been riding the 12 and 21 EMAs with zero attempt to break down — testing resistance at $102 headed to the $107 high. Bad for crypto. $75.4K-$79K and $70K-$72K are the two support pockets below. The trading-contest details got the full correction: $500 / $250 / $100 / $150 best-single-trade, measured by PERCENTAGE return so a $10 entry can beat a $50K entry. Start corrected to Sunday Oct 26 7pm EST (weekly candle open). Required: BTCC or Pacifica. Greg from Pacifica (head of growth) on-air Thursday for the full walkthrough. The macro half. UK gas is £2/liter (~$2.64 equivalent per our gallon, and you need 3.75 liters for a gallon). Carnegie Endowment: 107 anti-government protests across 57 countries in the last 12 months, corruption consistently the driver. Alex's end-stage-capitalism frame: 'It's not government overreach — it's government apathy.' Then the Patrick Witt follow-up: the Rise Up post about Witt's goodbye tweet comment section got several DC-adjacent journalists reaching out. The comment lineup — Brian Armstrong, Hyperliquid's Jay Chervinsky, the Solana Policy Institute — bootlicking a guy who did nothing. Alex calls his shot: Witt lands in private sector in 6 months with Bo Hines-style routed money (Hines went from White House Crypto Council straight to Tether's USAT as CEO). On the midterms: writing is on the wall for a Dem sweep. Not necessarily good for crypto specifically (Sherrod Brown has $84M in reasons to retaliate) but good for markets overall because predictability beats chaos. CCS surfaces midterms.theleahfiles.com — look up any Congressional voting record by one click. Then two major teach segments. (1) Drift exploit 6-month update — the April social-engineering attack that compromised signing keys and dragged down DeFi Carrot and others. The exploiter wallets just moved again, re-Tornado-Cashing some of the stolen funds. Full Tornado Cash explainer with the NYC-department-store-with-50-entrances analogy. (2) Revoke.cash walkthrough — the tool every self-custody user needs. EVM-only. Connect, view all approvals, revoke selected or revoke all at once. Base-network demo. Plus the native-wallet revocation paths for Phantom, SoulFlare, Rabby, MetaMask — Alex clears his daily at 9pm every night. Revoke.cash was an Octant Epoch 9/10 grant recipient. Collector Crypt (CARDS) just hit nearly $1M in a single day of revenue — 'basically the layer-one for Pokemon right now.' And XRP's new token-specific Twitter + website — Alex gives credit where it's due on the design, then flags the 'XRP isn't issued by Ripple' line as a technicality lie. 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...

$1000 Trading Contest Announced + Burn Mechanics 101: Crypto.com vs Hyperliquid | Ep 590

Good now revolutionaries— Monday wrap with a one-week trading contest incoming. Will's announcing a $1,000 competition — four prizes paid by PERCENTAGE return (not dollar amount), so $10 and $10K entries compete on the same ladder. Requirement: use Pacifica (decentralized, VPN needed in US) or BTCC (centralized, no VPN, oldest perps exchange around). Thursday he has Greg from Pacifica coming on-air for a full walkthrough. Will's chart teach of the week: why the market is pinned ~$83-84K since September despite the Fear & Greed Index flashing 17 (extreme fear) — the market is still massively over-leveraged long, and every liquidated long gets immediately replaced by a new one diving in late. The liquidation grinder keeps running. Walkthrough of liquidate.fun (the battlefield-metaphor visualization that burns SatRush's RUSH token in its mechanic) explains how to read the heat map. Will on CRCL (Circle): 'a mega crazy weird-ass candle' on October 15 — wedge breakout bearish → same-day mega-reversal → post-market volatility that hasn't printed like this since IPO. 'Some insider bought something and told all their friends.' Will's play: sold at $88, got spooked by the candle, bought back at $85. Argus has a bullish divergence on the 8-hour, bottom signal flashing — Will's $7M-market-cap chaos play might get a baby bounce. The clip-it moment of the week lands at the 46-minute mark: Alex's full-honest frame that 'everyone wants a 500x in crypto — that's the only thing anyone cares about.' We NEED the boring utility products that make an ecosystem work — nobody wants to care about them because they don't communicate 'I'm going to make a 500x right now.' Then straight into the CARDS delisting mystery (Bob + Carol + more community members found CARDS disappeared from their Coinbase and Kraken balances, no official announcement anywhere — 'something is broken, this isn't how delistings work'). 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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How to Manage Risk on Your Trades + What the Macro PPI Data means for Markets | Ep 589

Good now revolutionaries— Thursday wrap with a hot inflation print. PPI came in at 6.3% versus 5.3% expected — a FULL percentage-point miss — and crypto broke live on-air. Will's second short of the week was already open (50% of his account, high conviction) and started printing immediately. The FedWatch odds for an October hike moved 20% → 25-30% on the day. Kevin Warsh speaking at the IMF 10:30pm tonight — fireside chat, could leak forward direction. The run-up: Alex closed his Quant long yesterday just before BTC nosedived, Quant dropped from $200 to $190 in seconds. Will's own short tightened too aggressively — took the 17% win and watched it quadruple without him. Then the risk-management teach-segment — why Will doesn't use stop-losses anymore, cross-margin at 25% of account with 30-50x leverage, picking ONE support/resistance line as your make-or-break, and the casino analogy for position sizing. Patrick Witt officially confirmed OUT (Eleanor Tourette retweeted + the White House replied within hours of her posting the Rise Up rumor). The corporate-crypto comment section going into mourning — Brian Armstrong, Jake Chervinsky, the whole wealth-made-this-year crowd. Alex's bigger pattern-recognition: Bo Hines left White House → straight to Tether as CEO of USAT (their Genius Act-compliant US stablecoin), with Tether money flowing into companies Hines already owned during his White House tenure. 'The conflict of interest is absolutely crazy.' Then the receipts: Richard Heart's SEC case was dismissed in 2025 as part of the blanket enforcement halt. CFTC identified flagrant insider trading on prediction markets ahead of the Iran war reversal — told to drop it. The CFTC is now just Michael Selleck. Alex's full rant: the industry supposed to disrupt global money has been handed to the worst people on earth while people lose healthcare and homelessness gets criminalized. Also in the pod: Octant launches a live-stream series TODAY 11am ET with Epoch 13 projects — Paperweight, Hisoka Labs, Umbra — all around privacy; follow at Octant app. Jeremy Allaire (Circle CEO) retweeted Argus — 'The whole industry wants to be serious until they look at how much revenue Pump Fun made.' Circle buy-zone math: $73 first gap, $68 real buy. Kraken's parent Payward buying a Lithuanian bank. TAO + the AI bubble — 'imaginary money between six companies and twelve dudes and the US government.' Citrini Research's new 79-page token basket (DRV, EtherFi, AAVE, Athena, Sol, Hype, Aero, LayerZero, Chainlink, Backpack, Maple, Uni, Pendle, Ondo) and the public-markets basket right alongside. Ledger Open live-stream roast as the Laura Shin tampered-Ledger thread ran next to it in the feed. Will's close: 'practice your buying muscle' — $5 micro-buys for anyone paralyzed on the sidelines. The Rise Up mission statement sends off the week: 'You're 99.99% closer to the person you've been told to hate than to the one you think has your best interest at heart.' Lovable Paws Rescue plug + the local-CSA angle. 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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After Dark Hits Episode 100🎉 Our Favorite Moments + Crypto Macro Updates | Ep 100🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries— Rise Up After Dark hits ONE HUNDRED. The headline comes in as the show opens — Richard Heart (Hex / PulseChain) was perp-walked in Istanbul. Alex reads the full Turkish-media inventory: $600K in cash, 24 wristwatches, 20 gold bracelets, 7 gold necklaces, 7 firearms, 1,300 rounds of ammo, 12 phones, 6 laptops, 20 GPUs, 14 SSDs, 2 drones. His wife was taken in too. Caps a long run — SEC's 2023 case alleged ~$1B raised in unregistered offerings and $12M in misappropriated investor funds; Finland's 2024 Interpol red notice did the rest. Will's wearing a $750 Ren Faire fur he eventually names Argus. Alex finally joins at 10:45 after what he calls the seventh-and-a-half circle of VA hell — AND a StreamYard horror story about playback-speed scrubbing silently changing timestamps in cloud recordings, invalidating every clip timestamp he'd pulled for the Ep 100 highlight edit. Silver lining: Alex's demo CARDS buy from this morning's JTX walkthrough fell on-air and he happened to catch the bottom, up 38%. '$50 — now I can afford my healthcare for 17 more minutes.' Patrick Witt officially confirmed OUT: Eleanor Tourette emailed the White House three times trying to confirm the Rise Up rumor, no response. The moment she posted the breaking rumor, the White House replied back — 'His service is over.' Full crypto-council clear-out confirmed on paper now. Then a 90-minute Will-vs-Evan Quant debate. Evan's long leaning on the Coinglass heatmap stacking $2B of shorts at $250. Will's three counterpoints: Coinglass is Binance-owned (don't trust it as a sole source), PPI tomorrow is expected hot, and the chart itself still has no bottom indicator. Round 2: Will overlays BTC and QNT side-by-side — Quant has decoupled from the macro but is actually UNDERPERFORMING Bitcoin on an accelerated schedule, not acting as some market-maker-manipulated outlier. Evan concedes the risk-management point. Full 'how CPI actually moves crypto' explainer from Will — Fed → rates → money supply → risk-on assets, with crypto as the most risk-on in the world. The milestone retrospective: Will's fart heard around the world, William Quigley chasing the bear outside his window, counting in the Bitcoin halving live on TikTok, the Alon-from-Pump-Fun phone call. Aerodrome-Velodrome merger details — Tuesday Nov 1, 1 old AERO → 1 new AERO, every 1,000 VELO → 44 AERO, Alpenglow goes live same day. DeFi Llama's revenue research pins launchpads as the #2 fastest-growing category — exactly why Argus is on Will's watchlist despite the $7M market cap. Doxxed-vs-undoxxed teams got the full accounting: FTX, Terra Luna (currently #119 by market cap, one spot above Jito at #120), Celsius, Richard Heart all doxxed and all rugged; Satoshi was anonymous. Membership giveaway starts tonight as a new tradition — Faye Leaf wins the free month of Premium. Jane Polly takes the dings leaderboard on a birthday bonus. SatRush update: Ethical-ish from the community won the Epoch Vault; White Whale has paused sponsorship temporarily while they onboard a new director of marketing. Alex's close is a hopeful one — Twitter discourse is noticeably better since Ukraine blew up the Russian bot farm (Tucker Carlson's engagement collapsed with it). Will names the fur Argus. 'Here's to a hundred more.' 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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The JTX Tutorial: Zero to Pro in Under an Hour + How to Handle Your Crypto Taxes | Ep 588

Good now revolutionaries— A full JTX tutorial day — from zero to pro — triggered by Daniel P's '4% fees' question from the community. Three sign-in options, fund the wallet, cap your spend-authority permissions, and run through all four order types with Alex live. Market vs limit vs smart fill vs pro. The structural win over a Coinbase or Kraken limit order: on JTX the parameters live ON-CHAIN, so a smart contract forces the fill — flash crashes don't blow past it, platform glitches don't eat it, no priority stack putting your order behind someone else's. The CEX spread example: BTC market-buying at $84K while a limit sell on the same book is $82.2K — set a limit at market price even if you want it to fire now; you still save the spread. Smart Fill splits one big order into a burst of smaller ones to beat slippage, with a randomize toggle that masks your size from whale-hunters watching the book. Right in the middle of the tutorial — Will crashes in. CPI came in HOT: 3.7% headline (vs 3.6% expected), 2.6% core (vs 2.5%). 'I was right that the PCE methodology change was manipulation to make inflation look better going into the election.' Bitcoin breaks live on-air. Key support $82.3K; break opens $79-75K; worst case $69K. Oil pumpy = crypto dumpy. 'Might be the right day to be learning JTX to lock in gains.' Rate hikes at the end of October now a real possibility. Then a Coinglass liquidation-heatmap deep-dive on Quant — zoomed out to one week, a massive $256 band showing the whole market betting lower while market makers have every incentive to push HIGHER to collect those liquidations. Full explainer on why price is an outcome of activity, not the other way around. Dark pools, CZ, and what hyperliquid Jeff said — 'shocking breaking news: billionaire wants more money.' Taxes without the eye-glaze: HIFO vs FIFO vs LIFO, pick-one-and-stick-with-it, both long- and short-term rates are bracket-based (not a flat 37%), Alex ran Awaken against Coinly this year to compare. POAP has officially sunset — no more minting, Will figure out an alternative for Ep 100 tonight. Then the sober Clarity answer: it's coming back post-midterms and it's going to be WORSE — $84M already spent against Sherrod Brown — plus the political autopsy on how an eviscerated SEC/CFTC/White House Crypto Council (Sacks + Hines + Witt all gone) got here. The DOGE pattern repeats. Pig butchering mechanics + why 'traceable ≠ recoverable.' And breaking: Richard Heart (Hex / PulseChain) arrested in an early-morning Istanbul raid — luxury watches, firearms, cash — on an Interpol red notice from Finland. The Plume Network warning — $2M TVL, negative net flows, stale oracles, $2K daily volume on the 'most liquid' venue. Ep 100 of After Dark tonight. 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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