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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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Good now revolutionaries — Thursday April 9, and it's a packed final show of the week. Iran is now accepting ships through the Strait of Hormuz — but requiring payment in Bitcoin, stablecoins, or Chinese yuan. Alex walks through exactly what the Iran oil union's spokesperson got wrong about Bitcoin (one out of three ain't bad: correct on sanctions, wrong on the transaction time and trackability). Community warned: scam tokens with IRGC-adjacent tickers are already proliferating on pump.fun. D...
Good now revolutionaries— Happy Easter Monday. The markets are waiting on Trump's Tuesday 8pm ET deadline to Iran — open the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on bridges and power plants. Will Watson is watching the UConn national championship game tonight, so Doug is running market watch. But before he heads out, Will drops breaking news live on air: Iran officially rejected the U.S. ceasefire proposal and threatened to close the Strait of Bab al-Mandab, through which 25 million barrels of oi...
Good now revolutionaries— Iran threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz overnight, oil jumped 11.4% in 12 hours, and by the time we wrapped it was up 14.5% on the day. Will Watson broke down what that actually means for markets—and why it's not over. We also hit the one-year mark since Liberation Day, and the numbers are grim: beef up 14%, coffee up 21%, oil up 40%, electricity up 36%, consumer prices up 20%, and the national debt is up $2.64 trillion. On the DeFi side, Drift Protocol...
Good now revolutionaries— Tonight on Rise Up After Dark, Evan, Alex, and Will Watson hosted CCS and Zoe — two builders from the XPR/Metallicus ecosystem — for a deep, direct, and occasionally heated conversation about whether this six-year-old blockchain is genuinely building something or quietly doing what a lot of L1s do: building without gaining. Alex brought receipts from Elrond. The conversation covered WebAuth wallet KYC compliance, the Metal X lending platform (21% yield), FedNow and N...
Good now revolutionaries— Happy April Fools Day. Will Watson is out (allergies), so Evan and Alex are holding it down solo. No pranks — but plenty to cover. A story circulated this morning claiming Anthropic's Claude source code was accidentally leaked in a product update. Before you panic: April 1st is the worst day to trust a headline. We walk through what actually happened, what wasn't exposed, and how to think about stories like this. From there: how to detect AI-generated video before it...
Good now revolutionaries — the cost to mine a single Bitcoin just hit $70,000, and the miners making it happen are taking home $500 a token. Marathon Digital unloaded over $1 billion in Bitcoin overnight, and three consecutive negative difficulty adjustments just hit the network for the first time since July. Will broke down exactly what that means for price pressure and who is quietly buying the miners themselves — BlackRock already owns 40% of four of the top six. On the macro front, foreig...
Good now revolutionaries — Wednesday's episode was all about stablecoins, who's winning the legislative fight over them, and why Circle's stock dropping 20% is actually the buy signal, not the warning sign. The Senate Banking Committee's version of the Clarity Act just removed your ability to earn interest on stablecoins held on Coinbase or Kraken. The banks lobbied for it, they got it, and the exchanges and Circle still keep all the yield — they just stop sharing it with you. Will broke down...
Good now revolutionaries— Matt Wiley is back from ten days in Andalusia, Spain, and he came armed with receipts on Katana. The token launched at roughly 88% below its advertised price of 10¢, the team quietly raised the instant-exit fee from 25–40% to 80% days before launch with no community vote, and TVL figures were inflated via paid Binance and OKX campaigns. Alex added the structural analysis: DeFi protocols die when only one side of the market shows up. Katana's only borrowers are ...
Good now revolutionaries — the Rise Up Morning Show is back for EP477, Monday March 23. Evan is joined by Will Watson and Alex as the week kicks off with a heavy macro backdrop: Iran and the US are trading contradictory statements about peace talks, oil is pushing past $110/barrel, and the S&P 500 just closed below its 200-day EMA for the first time this cycle. Will puts it plainly: from a pure TA standpoint, stocks are in a bear market. But before we get into the chaos, Will reveals Rick...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Jared Blake—head of product at Krak, Kraken's global money app—joins the show to explain why a better bank shouldn't require crypto know-how. The conversation covers what makes Krak genuinely different from Venmo and Zelle. Jared walks through onboarding step by step, and answers audience questions about how it works. He also shares his OpenClaw setup: an agent that scrapes his Substack and X bookmarks and turns them into a daily podcast he listens to while exer...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Caulene McDonald—Stand With Crypto's Oklahoma chapter president, ZKP builder, and US/Canada underboss for Pizza DAO's Bitcoin Pizza Day—joins the show for a conversation that starts with pizza and ends with constitutional law. She explains what Stand With Crypto actually does (political advocacy and education, not lobbying), what it looks like to teach Bitcoin to Oklahoma state regulators, and how to find your local chapter president to get involved. Will opens with b...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Casey Craig—co-founder of Euphoria Finance and one of the sharpest builders in DeFi—is back on the show. Euphoria is tap trading: a grid overlaid on a live price chart where you tap where you think the price is going, each square its own CLOB order book, built on MegaEth for real-time execution. Final audits are incoming and mainnet is imminent. Casey breaks down MEV from first principles—sandwich attacks, Oracle front-running, and the salmonella strategy her co-found...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Will opens with the weekly Bitcoin chart and the news you want: a strong close above the 200-week EMA, breaking out of the golden pocket in play since February. Short-term target $73,500, path to $79K and potentially $87K if it holds. The Friday dip was one news event—the bombing of Iran's Kharg Island—and the weekly chart never flinched. Rule of thumb: double Bitcoin's percentage move for ETH and SOL, triple it for meme coins. The Ethereum Foundation drops a 38-page ...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Oil hit $92 a barrel during the show—up over $10 in nine hours after the US announced a release from the Strategic Reserve that apparently convinced nobody it was under control. Will breaks down exactly why oil going up means crypto going down: PPI inflation leads CPI by months, transport costs spike, profit margins fall, stocks follow, crypto follows. The Fed's hands are tied until global oil supply stabilizes. Hyperliquid's oil perp market hit $1.2 billion in 24-hou...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Will pulls out the Bitcoin chart and walks through the breakout of a coiling wedge—target range $77K–$80K, with key support levels at $70K, $71K, and $71.9K on any short-term cooldown. He follows that with Solana (channel breakout target ~$107, resistance stacking up at $107–$117), and a bearish read on silver—bear flag on the daily, monthly RSI still overextended, likely heading back toward $50–$60. Then the guys go deep on chain revenue as a valuation tool using DeF...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Will breaks down the Jane Street / Terraform Labs lawsuit line by line—straight from the court filing. The SEC is now officially investigating Jane Street for crypto insider trading, and the order books may already be changing. Will and Evan dig into what it means, who's really to blame, and why the discovery process could rewrite the history of two bear markets. Plus: Coinbase launches 24/7 commission-free stock trading. Nvidia crushes earnings ($68.1B revenue vs. $6...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Tom Guarisco—newly certified Certified Digital Asset Analyst (CDAA), and one of the most transparent educators in the space—joins the show to break down what getting a digital asset certification actually looks like, who it's for, and where the curriculum falls short (spoiler: anything about regulation written before 2022 is already obsolete). Will runs the Bitcoin and oil charts before heading out: a false bullish breakout followed by an immediate recovery is h...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Drew Simon—founder of Crypto Altruists and Octant Epoch Nine alum—joins the show to walk through what Web3 is actually doing for good right now, and it's more than you'd think. He covers HESABPAY, built out of necessity after the Taliban shut down Afghanistan's central banks and now a dominant payment tool in the country. He breaks down anticipatory action—smart contracts that automatically pay out funds to farmers and NGOs before a disaster hits—and explains why sta...
Goodnow revolutionaries— Will spent his morning as Marcus—a pink penguin in a leather jacket and unicorn hat—completing a platformer in Pudgy World. The actual metaverse review: it has things to do in it, which is more than could be said for any metaverse that came before it. Then the news: Kraken and Nasdaq have partnered to build tokenized equity infrastructure, with xStocks expected to roll out in the first half of 2026. Not to be outdone, NYSE parent company ICE invested in OKX at a $25B ...
Goodnow revolutionaries— The show opens with a full-scale intervention: Evan committed the cardinal sin of saying Lord of the Rings was "fine," and Alex and Will have receipts. Tom Bombadil, the Shire scouring, the Battle of Helm's Deep—why every major deviation from Tolkien's books made the films better, not worse. Then: is it stupid to buy ETH right now? Alex makes the bull case—Larry Fink said ETH is the foundation of tokenization, BlackRock is putting its money there, and at 65% off its h...
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