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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. 24m ago

    Jito's Andrew Thurman On JTX, Advanced Spot Orders, & The Solana Thesis

    Good now revolutionaries— RUMS 552 has technical difficulties (Evan's camera not working, Alex in Seattle) but the guest lineup makes up for it: **Andrew Thurman, Head of Communications at JTX** (Jito's new trading venue). Andrew's crypto backstory hits the full DeFi Summer nostalgia — 2017 top-of-cycle bag holder → Chainlink BizDev in 2019 helping onboard Aave, Synthetix, and Compound → reporter for a couple years → Nansen → now at Jito. "I feel like we peaked at DeFi Summer," Will says. Andrew agrees: "That was the peak of culture. Ethereum: not as good if you're trying to get something done but great to get high and talk about big ideas. Solana: a lot of suits, very serious people from traditional tech." ★ The JTX product walkthrough is the meat. Live for everyone now at JTX.com — and Rise Up has the referral link at the top of rumshq.com. Andrew's positioning is sharp: JTX gives you better price execution on major swaps than anywhere else (SOL, wrapped BTC, wrapped ETH) plus advanced order types (stop losses, resting orders) that actually execute at the prices you want. And critically — **Andrew explicitly rejects the "casino-fied" product design that dominates a lot of other venues**: "There's a lot of platforms where the design is simplified in order to capture the user and you don't really care about whether or not they succeed. We're being very careful to avoid that at JTX." ★ Andrew on copy trading — worth its own clip. The mechanism: copy-trading strategies decay as more people adopt them. "The more people copy trading, the more the alpha decays for whoever's placing the trades." Predatory when combined with gambling UX. And on prediction markets: "I don't understand why you would run a gambling platform when you can run a derivatives platform. I think it's a tactical mistake on the part of the prediction markets." Kalshi + Polymarket both moving into perps. ★ Purple Arculus Wallet update. After ~2 months in pre-order, Evan announces on-air that the team is closing pre-orders this Thursday and sending the wallets to production. **Ship target: Thanksgiving.** 8-12 weeks from production start. Bonus tech pitch: Arculus chips are manufactured by Infineon (world's go-to chip for securing digital info — same chip family in your passport and MasterCard), the cards are made by CompoSecure. "Not basic Betty's — small super computers with a complete operating system." ★★ AND: the show wraps with an announcement that RUMS 553 tomorrow morning will **break world news live** — "a new product from a good friend of ours" that will "influence beyond whatever this or that person on Facebook or social media says." Live 8am → 9:30am EST. Plus a mystery-guest RUAD 091 tomorrow night. Also this episode: Evan's bartering-is-mostly-a-myth anthropology thesis (per the anthropologists, pre-money sharing economies actually existed, not the bartering mythology we're taught); Andrew's DeFi Llama recommendation as the industry's most useful free tool; whitepapers-as-marketing skepticism (Bitcoin + Uniswap being the exceptions). Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/ and trade at JTX.com. RUMS Purple Wallet Want the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today! Crypto Payment · Card Payment Support the show —  Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7:  community.rumshq.com — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗  LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐  LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? 👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com 👉Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

    Jito's Andrew Thurman On JTX, Advanced Spot Orders, & The Solana Thesis

  2. 17h ago

    Bullish Babe Joins: The Wide-Bear-Flag Trap On Solana, and Macro Market Takes | Ep 50📈🤑

    Good now revolutionaries— Market Watch 050 is Will + Doug back together (Doug's back from the beach — "weather lied the entire time") with a first-time guest: **Chelsea, aka Bullish Babe** (@BullishBabe on TikTok). 7.5 years in crypto, 4 years charting and trading, and she runs a trading school with a live session every weekday morning at 9:15. Her pitch: "I'm a different kind of trader. Not as technical as a lot of the traders on this app. I go a little out of the box. People with ADHD can watch me and learn." Chelsea and Will's central TA thesis: **wide bear flags are still forming on Bitcoin, Solana, and most altcoin charts** — and the widening is the trap. Chelsea's frame: "They widen the bear flag out so it doesn't seem like you're in one. And by the time you notice you're in one, you drop out of it." That's a community-actionable trading tip — retail-friendly, not just for chartists. Will's Bitcoin call: still expecting a correction, watching $59-60K for support + higher-low confirmation. Solana tokenomics deep-dive. **SIMD-550 passed** — Solana emissions will now be reduced by 30% every year. Long-term supportive for Solana's price without being an immediate catalyst. SIMD-553 (splits of signature fees + burn compute unit fees) is still at the concept stage, not yet up for a vote. Chelsea shares her Solana chart read: bear flag setup, potentially $50 target if things break down. Will recommends staking any Solana DCA via Jito — "the largest Solana staker in the world" — and diversifying: keep some on centralized exchange, look at the Solana ETF too. Bitcoin dominance breaking above 5% is Chelsea's other high-conviction call — comparing to the level from before the last major move down. "Just moved above a level that we haven't been trading above since — which is wild to me." If Bitcoin dominance keeps climbing, altcoins face structural headwinds. Chelsea uses SHIB (Shiba Inu) as her altseason precursor — "if SHIB and the high-cap memes start holding support and breaking out of their bigger patterns, I will think we have an altcoin season coming." Inverse head and shoulders forming on Moodang / SHIB currently. Also this episode: Corn TA ($4.75 long level, bottomed and bullish); Tesla short from Chelsea's monthly chart, buy under $100; SoFi cautious-buy read from Will (RSI weak, fundamentals check the box); Hedera + Adara falling-wedge setups; Sierra DCA-territory (buy below $0.10 or above $0.20 — "purgatory in between"); Alex + team's forthcoming Solana Report walkthrough; and Doug's confession he has "maybe three hundred and forty wallets" across ten blockchains as his ADHD diversification strategy. Chelsea's final thought: "Do good things, be good people, and make a bunch of money." 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...

    Bullish Babe Joins: The Wide-Bear-Flag Trap On Solana, and Macro Market Takes | Ep 50📈🤑

  3. 1d ago

    Cold Card's Exploit, Strategy's $5B Bitcoin Sale Plan, and The Clarity Act's Race Against Time

    Good now revolutionaries— RUMS 551 is Alex + Will hosting on the biggest cold-storage exploit of the year: the Cold Card wallet RNG vulnerability. Cold Card's random-number-generator check in firmware only verified that an RNG existed — not that it was actually working. When it didn't work, the device generated deterministic (crackable) seed phrases that a computer with enough compute could guess. The attack is ONGOING. It originally hit MK III, MK IV is now being attacked, and it's "only a matter of time before the entire line of Cold Cards gets attacked." Air-gapped hardware means nothing when the device firmware itself has this bug. Arculus issued an official statement addressing the Cold Card vulnerability at 5:36. Alex's recommendation on-air (14:35 → 14:38): "Hardware wallet, just not Cold Card. And we recommend Arculus." This is the sharpest sponsor tie-in the show has recorded — Arculus explicitly positioned as the safer alternative during an active industry breach. The bit.lovin (Timo) deep-dive at 53:14 → 82:00 is the technical meat. He explains the RNG check flaw, why the passphrase feature isn't enough entropy-wise to save affected users, and — critically — the solution: dice-roll entropy. Cold Card offers a feature where you generate your own randomness by rolling literal dice. 100+ dice rolls in a row create entropy "just not possible within the confines of physics and of our universe" to guess. bit.lovin buys casino-grade dice for his own setup. BitBox 02 also supports user-entropy. Cold Card MK V and Cold Card Q have improved the underlying entropy generation. Also this episode: Strategy (Michael Saylor) announced a June 29 capital-management plan that could sell up to $5B in Bitcoin to fund dividends + debt (would go through OTC desks, not the open market); Circle preparing consumer-facing explainer video content (Alex's friend is doing the work through an agency); Alex's Clarity Act civics-101 rant — "if you failed civics one-on-one and you also haven't read the bill, please feel free to stop talking about the bill"; the fictional "180-day countdown" from Clarity misinformation debunked; the Truth API launch (Alex: "the only surprising thing is that it's called the Truth API and not the Trump API"); Kevin Warsh as the boring-but-safe Fed chair pick vs missing Papa Powell; and Bitcoin holding $59K at the 21-week EMA. Bullish Babe joining Market Watch tonight for TA. Book Club is BACK next week — Alex is bringing back the community-organized read with **The Unbanking of America** as the first pick. "Relatively quick read. Download it and read along and come in and join the discussion." No Trust Issues tomorrow — Alex is traveling. 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...

    Cold Card's Exploit, Strategy's $5B Bitcoin Sale Plan, and The Clarity Act's Race Against Time

  4. 5d ago

    BIP-110 Explained: The OP_RETURN Fight and Bitcoin Core vs Knots | Ep 550

    Good now revolutionaries— RUMS 550 is the Bitcoin-governance masterclass Evan teased on Wednesday. First-time guests: Timo (@bit.lovin on TikTok, former collegiate football coach at Stanford, now writing bitcoinandfootball.substack.com) and Satoshi Nakamoto (@Satoshi_Nakamoto TikTok creator, not the real one — "a picture of a guy on a computer"). Their backgrounds set the stage: Timo went from 2021 altcoin/meme-coin trading with no understanding, faded away, then got orange-pilled in 2023 and found white space for Bitcoin content on TikTok. Satoshi runs his own node + Lightning node + spends Bitcoin at Square merchants and Steak 'n Shake. "Verify, don't trust." The BIP-110 deep dive is the meat. OP_RETURN is where Bitcoin transactions can attach arbitrary data. Bitcoin Core recently raised the default size from ~83 bytes. Most people run defaults (via Umbrel or start9), so oversized OP_RETURNs get rejected by their nodes as non-standard. BIP-110 wants to bring OP_RETURN back down to 83 bytes as a CONSENSUS rule (not just default). Author's main argument: prevent illegal-content uploads to the blockchain. Bitcoin Core's counter: even at 83 bytes people bypass with fake public keys — and OP_RETURN can be pruned, fake pubkeys can't. Timo and Satoshi both lean Knots + BIP-110, partly because "all the institutions and BlackRock are not with BIP-110 — that confirms my gut feeling is right." Bit.lovin's cleanest insight of the hour is on ETFs + chain splits. If you hold an ETF and Bitcoin forks, the issuer decides which chain is "Bitcoin." You lose optionality. With self-custody, when the network splits you have double the Bitcoin and can wait out which chain wins — no decision forced on you. The single sharpest argument for self-custody the show has recorded this quarter. Also this episode: the 256 Foundation's "telehash" — people donated hash rate over 8 hours to open-source Bitcoin mining development and hit a block; the discussion of Foundry losing blocks as an escalation calculation; Timo's skepticism of legal protection for developers post-Kash-Patel-and-Todd-Blanch at Bitcoin 2026 ("there's always ways for how they can be like, 'as long as you weren't meaning to do that'"); Alex's Clarity Act tangent on the Bitcoin ATM section; the macro update — US GDP + Core PCE 3.4% → 3.3%, Headline PCE 4.1% → 3.7%; and Bit.lovin's Brian Armstrong rant: "I trust Brian Armstrong to lead the charge for us because we have the same goals — no you don't. He's a billionaire." 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...

    BIP-110 Explained: The OP_RETURN Fight and Bitcoin Core vs Knots | Ep 550

  5. 5d ago

    Clash Of Perps DeFi Game, Base App Takes + BlackRock's Clarity Act Push | Ep 90🍻🌗

    Good now revolutionaries— RUAD 090 with Rachael Sacks (@Ransacks). Six years in the crypto space, five on crypto Twitter, an "absurdly long time" doing crypto marketing — and now pivoting to investing via Aiden, an autonomous venture fund where she's got the "investor arc." First checks into Soup (Tori's project) and Bone Condor. Her thesis: "I like to see manic tweets. I want a manifesto. I want an absolutely obscene amount of passion for what you're doing — and just distribution. Incredible distribution." On why crypto marketing failures dominate her radar: "Founders need to be tweeting crazy crazy. If you're not tweeting, you're not going to get trust, you won't get users." The Stanford critique lands hard: "There are people in venture who just raise money because they're friends with the same twenty people from Stanford. That's why crypto is a graveyard — you're taking the same flavor of person and expecting the same things to work over time." And on AI vs crypto culture: "AI just doesn't have culture. Like what is it — shipping Claude and getting no bitches? Crypto is the highest density source of interesting people I've found in any industry." Rachael's Coinbase hot takes are on-record: "The golden parachute out to Steph is either going to Tempo or being an advisor at Paradigm." And on Jesse-to-Kobe: "In six months Jesse will announce, 'Building Base was incredible, changed my life — I'm going to go take my next adventure.' I'm putting myself in the prediction market on this specifically." Watch this space. Evan and the panel dig into a heavy Fourth Amendment story (courtesy of Colleen at Stand With Crypto): a traveler flying into the US was detained, asked to unlock his phone, and entered a DURESS passcode via an app that wiped everything. He wasn't under arrest at that point. The case is going to court. Alex: "It's such a clear and flagrant Fourth Amendment violation. If this goes anywhere we are in serious trouble." Discussion of duress-passcode apps and self-custody parallels. Also this episode: Rachael's Who-Owns-What-in-AI whiteboard (SoftBank, Anthropic, OpenAI, XAI, Meta); Clash of Perps (Clash of Clans + perp trading) as the crypto gaming pick; the BASE app + how to connect a wallet on-chain walkthrough (POID); the kid-focused educational platform Rachael + Evan co-built and got zero grant interest in (Roblox generation as the missed thesis); Rachael's meme-coin pick — "got financial advice, please do your own research — currently in Jimothy the raccoon"; BlackRock's Clarity Act push announcement; Rachael's Perp City marketing project (perp.city); and the show game — Rachael wins with 8 points, Will second with 6. 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...

    Clash Of Perps DeFi Game, Base App Takes + BlackRock's Clarity Act Push | Ep 90🍻🌗

  6. 5d ago

    OneKey vs Arculus & Trezor — Quantum-Proof Cold Storage Wallet Breakdown + DXY TA Breakout | Ep 549

    Good now revolutionaries— RUMS 549 opens as "the lay down morning show today because we're all feeling a little bit" — Wednesday-after-Tuesday-night trio energy, but the content lands. Will kicks it off with the greatest Rise Up celebrity encounter to date: at a 70mm screening of The Sojourn, he ran into John C. Reilly, who turned around and said "Thank you, Will Watson." Which means (a) John C. Reilly is a real Rise Up viewer, and (b), per Will's read of his tell during the interaction, "he has really heavy Aerodrome bags." One of the more improbable data points we've gathered on-air. The technical meat of this episode is Evan's live walk-through of Freedom Factory's PQ One — a new hardware wallet claiming to be quantum-proof. It uses an ERC-4337 smart account with Sphinx+C-10 signatures, and two separate Infineon + NXP secure elements so neither chip is a single attack vector. Costs $200 (or 0.11 ETH) and ships whenever. Notably: Infineon is the same manufacturer CompoSecure uses in Arculus cards. Q-Day estimates from Google put a relevant quantum computer as soon as 2029 — but Evan is careful to distinguish quantum-ready, quantum-safe, quantum-resistant, and quantum-proof, and to note that Bitcoin itself is not currently any of them. Alex on the Clarity Act and the SEC/CFTC backup-plan question: internal directives from those agencies are executive-order-level — the next chair can erase them. Not a substitute for a real bill. Alex expects Clarity to eventually pass once Senate Democrats figure out how to cover their own campaigns before the midterms. The specific rumbling: Democrats submitting SEC/CFTC nomination names in exchange for concessions on the bill. "Ultimately they're being paid the same way that Republican Congress people are being paid to usher this thing through." TA + macro roundup: DXY is on a bullish breakout above prior channel resistance (bearish for risk-on). Alex TA on oil at the 200-day EMA showing a textbook bullish setup — Iran attacked a US base in Jordan and the ceasefire broke, Trump says "we're going to beat the f*****g shit out of them." Bitcoin is right at the 55-month EMA make-or-break point — currently $63,704. And Evan's Gary Vaynerchuk pillar-content-plus-AI-tools strategy — do one long-form piece, use AI to slice it into personality-framed shorter content. "Not everyone thinks of themselves as a content creator, but in a world where meaningful money is fragile, your relationships are going to be everything." Also this episode: White Whale Labs is launching a new project next week — Quicks on the marketing side told the crew they'll be "the top revenue generating dApp on Solana" and "onboard waves of new users to Solana." Alex teases an inside scoop coming this weekend. Pavel Durov (Telegram co-founder) now has a Russian international arrest warrant for terrorism. Rise Up After Dark tonight with Rachel Sachs (Alex hosting). Tomorrow morning: RUMS 550 with bit.lovin + Satoshi Nakamoto (the TikTok creator, not the real one) doing BIP-110 and Bitcoin governance. Buck moon last night — pinkish red. 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...

    OneKey vs Arculus & Trezor — Quantum-Proof Cold Storage Wallet Breakdown + DXY TA Breakout | Ep 549

  7. 6d ago

    Why Senate Democrats Are Holding The Clarity Act Hostage | Ep 26⚖️

    Good now revolutionaries— Alex and Emily are back on Trust Issues, and this week they turn the wonky Clarity Act deep-dive into a broader argument about grift, taste, and how American governance actually operates. Emily kicks it off with a viral TikTok on the "inheritance of taste" — the difference between new-rich (buying the expensive thing because someone told you to) and old-rich (absorbing taste through osmosis). Alex ties it to Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class and "conspicuous consumption" — coming up as book-club material once TI restarts. The Clarity Act mechanics get specific. The two competing insider-trading bills — HR 7008 (the weak one, with a voter-ID poison pill and Trump excluded) and HR 5106 (the comprehensive one, with 104 Democrat co-sponsors) — explain why the "Dems voted against banning insider trading" headlines are dishonest. Alex's tweet quip: "If you don't know the differences between those two bills, your opinion doesn't matter." Bonus: Trump has logged ~3,700 trades in the last year, per the most recent financial disclosure. Section 3101 of the merged Clarity draft is the real ethics story. Covered individuals (public officials + spouses) can't issue/mint/publicly endorse digital assets — but the existing Trump Meme, Melania Meme, and World Liberty Finance are completely untouched, get up to a year to move into a "blind trust" (Alex: "code for give it to Don Jr"), and the entire provision RETROACTIVELY sunsets at the inauguration in January 2029. Plus a third-party carve-out that lets Don Jr keep launching in the family name after divestment. "As long as they on paper never asked." Emily's big thesis lands sharp: JP Morgan is the one who's going to build the crypto app that onboards the world. Banks are realizing the Fed no longer controls their rate advantage — so they'll issue their own stablecoins, back them with US Treasuries, pool those with other sovereigns' treasuries, and arbitrage liquidity anywhere they can. And her governance proposal: sortition. Random-selection representation to kill campaign finance influence entirely. "One of the few moves we have left to restore America." Also this episode: the 159-in-session-days breakdown from Feral in chat (of those, maybe ~6 are actual working days once recess and campaign trail are subtracted), the Genius Act as the actually-dangerous piece (it "weakens the dollar" and "dismantles the Fed's ability to control inflation" starting January), the Chuck Schumer SEC/CFTC-nominations backroom-deal reporting, and Alex's line on why Senate Democrats are the roadblock: the president is "the loose cannon in this equation" that lobbying money didn't foresee. TI is off next week — Alex is heading to Seattle to help his uncle with housework — back in two weeks with a book club segment. 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...

    Why Senate Democrats Are Holding The Clarity Act Hostage | Ep 26⚖️

  8. Jul 28

    DeFi Explained, How to Manage a Liquidity Pool, and the Security Behind It

    Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 548 with a first-time guest: Matt Lopez, better known on TikTok as BlackXXOR. Matt's DeFi origin story starts with the GameStop fiasco — a hard turn away from TradFi and a full dive into decentralized finance. "No instrument has existed in our time on earth that has leveled the playing field more than DeFi." A friend told him he had to start teaching it. When he did, he found he was actually the one learning. The bulk of this episode is a real DeFi masterclass. Will drives the liquidity-pool 101 explainer live on screen: concentrated liquidity, the yellow-band range, why setting a tight range looks like a 5,000% opportunity and usually isn't ("in about three minutes, price drifts out of the band and you stop earning fees"). Steckler asks a real LP question and gets a real answer. Then Evan takes it up a level with the Turtle Club + liquid-fund walkthrough — how these funds go to protocols BEFORE token launch, negotiate better-than-market yields via a SAFE, and how retail can DIY a version with 3-5 friends + a multi-sig + more capital than any of them has alone. Katana (built on Polygon) is the worked example. Alex's Clarity Act update: "Nothing effectively has changed about the status of this bill." The 60-vote count isn't there. Senate doesn't publish the whip count. The headline circulating that "Clarity Act delayed" is technically true but doesn't mean anything — it's in the exact same place it was yesterday. Thune is prioritizing two other things ahead of it before the August 8 recess. Trump technically CAN cancel a recess or reconvene Congress — most likely trigger would be if the SAVE Act doesn't move either (his own party's opposition). Alex's mission: equip you to recognize when someone yapping about the Clarity Act has clearly not read it. "Your weapon is literacy." Also this episode: multi-sig security 101 (Drift ran 2-of-5, some have 3/5 or 5/9), Matt's teaching philosophy ("the student not understanding something is never the student's fault, it's the teacher's fault"), premium-membership rate going up end of August + a week-off production break coming with a Greatest Hits show, new questions@rumshq.com email inbox (courtesy of Torii B), and a new sign-off in the works: "Keep nuance alive." Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today! Crypto Payment · Card Payment Support the show —  Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7:  community.rumshq.com — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗  LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐  LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? 👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com 👉Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info 🐬 Will Watson: https://c...

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