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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. Why the Government Is Throttling Anthropic to Save OpenAI | Ep 525

    5h ago

    Why the Government Is Throttling Anthropic to Save OpenAI | Ep 525

    Good now revolutionaries—Evan, Will, and Alex are all back in the studio for the first time in nearly a month, and it's a heavy news weekend to unpack. The headline: a US-Iran peace deal is reportedly close to signing on Friday with a 60-day ceasefire extension, the Strait of Hormuz reopening, and a complete stop to military engagement. Will's frame: the oil chart called this two weeks ago — kept failing to hold resistance through the worst of the escalation headlines, telling you the conflict was winding down before the diplomats admitted it. "I have confidence in the war ending because I have confidence in the market." Plus: Blockworks acquired Masari for roughly $10M — Will's read is that founder Ryan Selkis torpedoed his own brand on the timeline and that's why the company sold. Anthropic gets hit with a US government export control on Mythos V + Fable V models (KYC required for foreign nationals) — Alex's take: the government is trying to prop up OpenAI because Anthropic keeps spanking them at every benchmark. Paradigm bought the unsolved Kryptos sculpture cipher from artist Jim Sanborn — even the NSA hasn't cracked it. Helios Foundation acquired Light Protocol — Solana is marching toward privacy. On the macro side: SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire on paper. The wealth-transfer mechanism (NASDAQ forced inclusion, gajillions of retirement accounts shoehorned in) lets early employees finally realize equity — but at the cost of forced retail exposure. Starlink is 60% of SpaceX revenue and the only profitable piece. SpaceX itself lost $4.9B last year on $18.7B in revenue. Saylor added another $100M in Bitcoin. Tom Lee raising another $300M for ETH. Will's Keeta (KTA) review walks through the textbook scam-warning signs: layer-1 compliance-ready talk track, KYC baked in, $9M earmarked for buying a bank (the purchase hasn't gone through), Abu Dhabi + Ask Financial Group backing connecting to Arab Coin + Islam Coin (companies that have done predatory faith-targeted projects before). Plus a Velvet Protocol / Aerodrome 92,000% APY pool teardown — the numbers don't make sense, it presents as ponzi-farm. EXCLUSIVE: Use code RISEUP20 for 20% off your entire order at riposacoffee.com. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

    1h 30m
  2. Why Protocol Revenue Buybacks Are the Smartest Crypto Investment Signal | Ep 524

    4d ago

    Why Protocol Revenue Buybacks Are the Smartest Crypto Investment Signal | Ep 524

    Good now revolutionaries—Will and Alex close out the week from home with a compressed Thursday show before Will heads to a mountain cabin for his 12th anniversary. The whole hour is essentially a master-class on revenue buyback policies: Sky Protocol just temporarily dropped its buyback rate from 87% to 7.5% for three months to cushion the USDS stablecoin reserve, with a planned return to 25% (still aggressive at $46M/year on current revenue). Will's full leaderboard: Hyperliquid leads at ~$1.1B/year in buybacks, Uniswap will land at $100-300M when its policy fully rolls out, Pump.fun at ~$71M/year (though the token has tanked anyway), Jupiter and Raydium at ~$50M each (also haven't recovered). Aave correction worth noting: Aave HAS had a buyback policy (40-50% of protocol revenue, capped at $50M annual), but it was paused April 4 after the RS-ETH/KelpDAO exploit and remains paused pending full resolution. Watch for that to unpause any day now. Plus: Dr. Nick Almond confirmed JTX (Jito's trading engine, launching next month) will direct 80% of revenue to buying back JTO — token already pumped 100%+ on the announcement. The Pengu/Igloo IPO threat lands as Will's most provocative take of the morning: if Luca takes Igloo public, the meme coin gets cannibalized. "Why would you buy Pengu when you could get actual partial ownership in the parent company?" Unless utility or aggressive buyback gets bolted onto Pengu, the IPO is the death sentence. Same logic applied forward to Hyperliquid when 24/7 perps land on every centralized exchange. Plus: a quick XRP-vs-stablecoins teardown ("yes, stablecoins make XRP dead — next question"), the Genius Act framing and how Clarity is meant to shoehorn everyone into centralized options, an honest Stellar (XLM) take with the Lindsay Posse departure from SDF context, a worry-don't-celebrate read on the DTCC pump for STX, and Trump's six-hour Iran flip-flop between "deal close" and "we're bombing Karg Island." Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. Support the show —  Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7:  community.rumshq.com — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

    1h 3m
  3. Hyperliquid, Sky Protocol, BNB — Will's A-Tier Crypto Picks | Ep 83🍻🌗

    4d ago

    Hyperliquid, Sky Protocol, BNB — Will's A-Tier Crypto Picks | Ep 83🍻🌗

    Good now revolutionaries—Will and Alex break down the post-NYC week from home, and the After Dark conversation lands on the question every active investor should be asking right now: where do you actually want to be when liquidity gets sucked out of everything by the SpaceX IPO? Alex's framework: stay focused on ecosystems where real businesses are still being launched (Solana + Ethereum), and use a tier system that rewards revenue + buyback policy over hype. Will's A-tier list with reasons: Hyperliquid (revenue + buyback + brand), Sky Protocol (the rebrand of MakerDAO — they made DAI), and BNB (the discount-at-the-exchange moat). B-tier: Maple Finance / Syrup (quarterly buyback, strong TVL), Solana, Ethereum. And then a 14-minute teardown of BitTensor / TAO: $3M-$15M in annual revenue against a ridiculous valuation, no buyback policy, plus Covenant AI's April 9 departure and scorched-earth criticism of the team. Will worked in AI/ML for the first six years of his career — the technical critique lands hard. The DeFi Llama AI comparison is the segment Matthew will want to bookmark: side-by-side Solana vs Ethereum revenue chart from 2022 through 2026. Solana's on-chain app revenue ($3.9B trailing 365) is now neck-and-neck with Ethereum's ($3.83B). Ethereum's chain fees down 54% on the 30-day post-Dencun; Solana's chain revenue trending up. But the punchline lands: Ethereum had the burn mechanic + revenue tailwind for years and its token still underperformed — Solana's lacking the burn AND a revenue buyback means brand has to do all the lifting. Plus: a defense of Aave the protocol vs Aave the governance token, an honest take on the KelpDAO exploit and what Aave could have done differently, the BASE-is-the-only-non-doomed-L2 take, Chainlink as "great at what they do but tokenomics flat," the CPI inflation report (4.2% — double the Fed target), and Will's BTC dead-cat-bounce read. Bitcoin moon-trading running on autopilot would have outperformed most active traders this year. EXCLUSIVE: Use code RISEUP20 for 20% off your entire order at riposacoffee.com — code applied once per customer. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

    1h 47m
  4. The Crypto Brand That Became Real: Raposa Coffee | Ep 523

    5d ago

    The Crypto Brand That Became Real: Raposa Coffee | Ep 523

    Good now revolutionaries—Will and Alex are back from NYC and sit down with Sebastian (CEO) and Andrew/Sock (Founder) at Raposa Coffee for the partnership launch episode. Raposa is the rare NFT-era project that built a real, sustainable business: nitro cold brew cans made to European standards (8-13 month shelf life), official coffee sponsor of the Miami Heat AND the Miami Marlins, a 3-year X Games partnership through MoonPay, plus permanent custom-can collabs with Kraken, Jito, Solana, and just about every major Solana conference. Andrew's origin story: started Raposa November 2022 with an accounting/CPA background and 9 years running a food-and-beverage content agency in NYC. Got rugged as community manager at Balloonsville, helped de-rug it with Magic Eden, and brought Crayon (the original Balloonsville artist) over to design every Raposa can — which is why each one looks like a page from a storybook. Sebastian DJ'd, ran club events, did film commercials, then dove into NFTs full-time. They met through the Balloonsville derug — Seb listed his number-one balloon home on the marketplace literally minutes before Sock messaged him asking to come work on the project. Hard numbers: longest ambient-temperature shelf life in the canned cold-brew category. Two teas (peach + biscuits) are doing as well as the best-selling coffee flavor. Matcha launch next month from organic ceremonial grade Shizuoka, Japan beans. Riposa-branded loyalty app coming with USDC-backed treasury behind the scenes. First Marlins game July 7, first Heat preseason game in August. New Miami cafe + roastery launching next month at the Super Team USA office (the doc); permanent space target is early 2027. EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNT FOR THE COMMUNITY: use code RISEUP20 for 20% off your entire order at riposacoffee.com. Limit one per customer, no limit on the use of code. Starter pack is recommended: 8 cans, one of each flavor, the cheapest way to find your two favorites. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

    1h 23m
  5. Will XRP Settle the National Debt? Long-Form No | Ep 522

    6d ago

    Will XRP Settle the National Debt? Long-Form No | Ep 522

    Good now revolutionaries—Day two from Solana Skyline NYC with Evan, Will, Alex, and Doug pulling himself out of the confessional cam to make a confession that absolutely earns it: minted 5 Solana Monkey Business + 8 DeGen Ape Academy NFTs in 2021, made $250K, lost it all. "At least I lost house money" and most of his current friends came from that era, so... net positive? Plus PubKey + Knicks game recap from the night before, Rain (the $3,000-a-year Bitcoin speakeasy), and Alex's "when you get there, tell Nick it's okay" entrance. Evan reveals he placed his first three perps trades ever on Jupiter — 10x and 20x leverage, made $36, retired with a 100% win rate. JTX countdown is officially on, and the goal is to do the JTX walkthrough from a place of "having actually done this before" so the comparison lands. Alex's perps PSA: the Hyperliquid 250x leverage threshold means "if a butterfly farts six states over, you're getting liquidated." The Humanity (H token) exploit gets a deep dive — dev laptop compromised, admin keys lifted, 200M+ tokens minted illegitimately and dumped for ~$30M, all on the heels of a 300% pump. Then the Cardano on-chain allegations: ~$925M in token sales between $1-3 ADA, plus $20M/month payments allegedly going to Gavin Wood. Charles Hoskinson is 38 years old. "His helicopter must be nice." Alex's other confession is one for the ages: took a $15K loan from Regions Bank to buy more Cake (PancakeSwap), made it back to almost-break-even, lost ~$1K. Then the Sundae Swap airdrop disaster — staked thousands in ADA for a year, opted out of base staking rewards to qualify, total airdrop value: $2.75. Plus Daedalus wallet horror stories, the Brittany Nicole "will XRP settle the national debt?" rebuttal in full, and the team's first-Solana-NFT mints (Karuma, Snakes, Star Atlas). Tomorrow on RUMS: Raposa Coffee with Seb and Andrew. Evan won't be there — Alex hosts. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

    1h 1m
  6. Industry Updates from Solana Skyline — NYC Conference Week Starts Now | Ep 521

    Jun 8

    Industry Updates from Solana Skyline — NYC Conference Week Starts Now | Ep 521

    **SKIP TO 5:30 DUE TO AUDIO ISSUES** Good now revolutionaries—Evan, Will, and Alex broadcast live from Solana Skyline on the 8th floor in NYC, with Matthew Wiley and chief sanity officer Tori in the room. Casey Craig opened her Euphoria launch party at Soho House the night before, and Orangy walked away with the tap-trading crown. Nine minutes in, the conversation pivots to record ETF outflows, Saylor selling 32 BTC at $77K only to buy back 1,000+ at $60K, and Arthur Hayes denying he re-entered Hyperliquid despite on-chain receipts. Will lays out the Bitcoin mining doomsday math: the 2028 halving puts cost-to-mine at $103K. Miners are already pivoting hard into AI compute (IREN, CleanSpark) — "the death-blow argument has been around for ten years and hasn't broken Bitcoin yet, but the gap is widening." Plus a Cardano takedown — $300/day in chain revenue against a $6.15B market cap, a 57-million-times annual-revenue-to-market-cap ratio, and an extended argument for why "volume isn't life" when the only people making money are the market makers fleecing retail. Two Silicon Valley quotes get cited in earnest: Russ Hanneman's "never make revenue" rule ("the second you make revenue, it puts a ceiling on your valuation") and Alex being Guilfoyle. SpaceX IPO at $2T valuation goes through the wash again — SpaceX itself lost $4.9B last year, Starlink is the only profitable piece, the NASDAQ is forcing inclusion while the S&P refused. Plus the Jelly Jelly Hyperliquid validator-vote story to explain why "decentralized" deserves scare quotes, the Brian Armstrong / Jamie Dimon Heated Rivalry edit, and Will's Circle CRCL setup at the $64 gap fill tied to the CLARITY Act vote. Critical PSA: the Rise Up Twitter was compromised Friday in a phishing attack. Alex got hit by a fake X copyright-violation email while boarding a plane, hackers posted a pump-fun s*****r, Tori filed the takedown in under 15 minutes. The phishers tried again mid-show with an "Aeon XYZ" pump from the @riseup account — DO NOT BUY anything posted from Rise Up Twitter accounts. Rise Up is never launching a token like that. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

    1h 28m
  7. The Trifecta: Hype, Zcash, Near & Why They're All Correcting | Ep 520

    Jun 4

    The Trifecta: Hype, Zcash, Near & Why They're All Correcting | Ep 520

    Good now revolutionaries—Alex and Will close out the week solo (Evan's already wheels-up to NYC) with an abbreviated, no-after-show Thursday that still finds time to dismantle the trifecta CT can't stop talking about: Hype, Zcash, and Near. Will's TA on Bitcoin lands at $45K as the first real bottom — $44.6K to be precise — and reminds DCA-ers that bear markets last nine months at the shortest, so don't blow your load in three weeks. Arthur Hayes tweets "meow hype to 150" and then dumps his entire Hype and Near position four days later. Saylor and Tom Lee are sitting on unrealized losses bigger than the market caps of Hyperliquid and Zcash respectively. The PDT rule got scrapped, which unlocks a little liquidity and a lot of risk for retail. And RWA tokenization is about to eat real estate without any actual legal framework linking tokens to assets — Alex's warning that someone is about to start tokenizing things that don't belong to them is the most important PSA of the show. Alex also does an even-handed deep dive on AI data centers and water consumption — 300 to 3,000 ChatGPT prompts equals one hour of HD Netflix streaming in water use — and a heartfelt rant on why "do your research" is the most useless advice in crypto when retail's been engineered to fail. Plus Oklo at $40 as a nuclear energy entry, Circle's gap fill at $62-65 tied to the CLARITY Act timeline, and Will and Alex confirming why Arculus and Jito are sponsors they specifically chased down. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

    1h 8m
  8. What is Collector Crypt? Putting Trading Cards on the Solana Blockchain | Ep 82🍻🌗

    Jun 4

    What is Collector Crypt? Putting Trading Cards on the Solana Blockchain | Ep 82🍻🌗

    Good now revolutionaries—Evan, Will, and Alex pull up to After Dark with Dakota Pace (Base Buddha), Head of Marketing at Collector Crypt — the Solana-native platform that tokenizes graded Pokemon cards, sports cards, comics, and other real-world collectibles, then redeems them for physical delivery on demand. Two hours of pack ripping, full walkthrough of how to onboard from zero (custodial wallet, Privy, debit-card top-up via CoinFlow), and a side-by-side comparison with Courtyard. Dakota's first Bitcoin story is one of the all-time greats: bought BTC in 2013 to evade a $60 UFC pay-per-view, sold for $220 and paid for a semester of college (now worth ~$2.4M). The hard numbers from Collector Crypt: $30M+ in tokenized inventory (and climbing toward $50M), 50,000 cards redeemed and physically shipped in 18 months, $1B in lifetime volume, and a #17 spot on DeFiLlama's 24h revenue dashboard — ahead of Phantom, Uniswap, and Aave. The platform takes 2% on marketplace sales vs eBay's 14% and runs positive-EV gotcha machines. Will lays out the Bitcoin map: weekly slammed through the 200-week EMA, $59.7K is the short-term bounce zone (double-bottom potential), $45-51K is the realistic next bottom, $30K is the doomsday call. Hyperliquid is putting in a severe top signal. Plus a Polygon Katana rant about the 12-year lockup and $1,000 custom jackets, Kraken sponsoring a major MTG tournament, and a Solflare wallet walkthrough featuring their new NFC tap-to-sign card. Tomorrow's RUMS gets a Raposa Coffee Company drop — partnership announced live with a viewer discount on the way. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

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    Rise Up Media
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    351
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