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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. 23h ago

    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...

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

  2. 1d ago

    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...

    Jito Just Dropped JTX Equities + Aave vs Morpho: The SEC Letters That Could Reshape DeFi | Ep 103🍻🌗

  3. 1d ago

    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...

    Dems Flip Congress: Is This Actually a Win for DeFi, or is Decentralization Still At Risk? | Ep 600

  4. 2d ago

    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...

    Justin Sun Just Sued World Liberty: Here's What Comes Out If He Wins + Election Night Stakes | Ep 34⚖️

  5. 2d ago

    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...

    Chainlink vs. Pyth vs. Redstone: The Honest Oracle Rank + RUMS Trading Contest Results | Ep 599

  6. 3d 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

  7. Oct 29

    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

  8. Oct 29

    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🍻🌗
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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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  • Creator
    Rise Up Media
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    474
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Rise Up Media, LLC
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