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Rise Up is the most trusted source for live crypto education on the internet--join Evan Mann, Alex Popovic, and William Watson plus their expert guests and friends for helpful news, commentary, and answers to your crypto questions wherever you are, whenever you listen! We'll help you learn what blockchain is, why it matters, & how to start using crypto safely in a community where the only thing missing is you 👉 Get the links/schedule to listen live and much, much more at https://community.rumshq.com

  1. 1d ago

    $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...

    $6.3B Binance Hack: How One Laptop Took Down the Biggest Exchange + Its Industry Impacts | Ep 598

  2. 5d ago

    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...

    OKX + NYSE Want To Tokenize Your Stocks (And The SEC Just Opened The Door) | Ep 597

  3. 5d ago

    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...

    If You Can't Swing It, Don't Hold It: The Altcoin Recovery Math That'll Snap You Out Of It | Ep 102🍻🌗

  4. 6d ago

    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...

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

  5. Oct 27

    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...

    Ripple Got a Bank Charter? Not Quite: Here's What RLUSD Actually Got | Ep 595

  6. Oct 27

    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...

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

  7. Oct 26

    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...

    Rise Up $1000 Trading Competition is LIVE + Is The McRib Rally Upon Us?? | Ep 594

  8. Oct 22

    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...

    Pacifica's Head of Growth on Why You Should Pick Decentralized Perps | Ep 593
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Rise Up is the most trusted source for live crypto education on the internet--join Evan Mann, Alex Popovic, and William Watson plus their expert guests and friends for helpful news, commentary, and answers to your crypto questions wherever you are, whenever you listen! We'll help you learn what blockchain is, why it matters, & how to start using crypto safely in a community where the only thing missing is you 👉 Get the links/schedule to listen live and much, much more at https://community.rumshq.com

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    Rise Up Media
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    469
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    © 2026 Rise Up Media, LLC
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