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The Problem With Altcoin Valuations: Polkadot Earns $1.29/Day. Its…
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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
Episodes
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- The Problem With Altcoin Valuations: Polkadot Earns $1.29/Day. Its Market Cap Is $1.5 Billion. | Ep 604 · 1 h 21 minGood now revolutionaries— It's Veterans Day, and Alex is ten pounds lighter in the haircut department. Evan and Alex start with a brutal post-mortem on Polkadot — a project that…
- Ambire: The All in One Wallet + NYSE Just Picked Avalanche. Here's Why the Price Didn't Care | Ep 603 · 1 h 25 minGood now revolutionaries— Nadia from Ambire Wallet joins Evan and Alex for her first time on RUMS to walk through what account abstraction actually buys you. We set up a fresh…
- Solana Has a Pump.Fun Problem: The "Vape Cabal" Threatening The Ecosystem | Ep 602 · 1 h 34 minGood now revolutionaries—Will is shaking up his schedule. Starting this week he's on the morning show Monday + Thursday only (first 30 minutes), co-hosts Rise Up After Dark…
- Markets Flip Red, but $CRCL is Still Fundamentally Strong: 119% EPS Beat and the $213 Gap | Ep 601 · 1 h 0 minGood 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…
- Jito Just Dropped JTX Equities + Aave vs Morpho: The SEC Letters That Could Reshape DeFi | Ep 103🍻🌗 · 1 h 44 minIt'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…
- Dems Flip Congress: Is This Actually a Win for DeFi, or is Decentralization Still At Risk? | Ep 600 · 1 h 25 minGood 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…
- Justin Sun Just Sued World Liberty: Here's What Comes Out If He Wins + Election Night Stakes | Ep 34⚖️ · 1 h 16 minGood 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…
- Chainlink vs. Pyth vs. Redstone: The Honest Oracle Rank + RUMS Trading Contest Results | Ep 599 · 1 h 29 minGood 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…
- $6.3B Binance Hack: How One Laptop Took Down the Biggest Exchange + Its Industry Impacts | Ep 598 · 1 h 12 minGood 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…
- OKX + NYSE Want To Tokenize Your Stocks (And The SEC Just Opened The Door) | Ep 597 · 59 minGood 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…
- If You Can't Swing It, Don't Hold It: The Altcoin Recovery Math That'll Snap You Out Of It | Ep 102🍻🌗 · 2 h 15 minGood 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…
- A Tax-Loss Harvesting PSA for Your 95%-Down Bags + Pump.Fun is Still Shady | Ep 596 · 1 h 27 minGood now revolutionaries — Evan and Alex are solo in the hosting seat (Will and Matthew out). The heart of the episode is Alex's portfolio restructuring PSA — a plain-English…
- Ripple Got a Bank Charter? Not Quite: Here's What RLUSD Actually Got | Ep 595 · 1 h 30 minGood now revolutionaries— Bitcoin spent the morning scrapping to reclaim $80,000 after dipping below it overnight, with ETH at $2,300 and SOL testing $99–$100. Will walked…
- Bitcoin's $78.8K Target: Why the Liquidation Map Points Down | Ep 59📈🤑 · 39 minGood now revolutionaries— Will and Doug open the week with a market in that odd "waiting for what's next" chop. Bitcoin closed below the 55-day EMA on Sunday, bounced Monday, but…
- Rise Up $1000 Trading Competition is LIVE + Is The McRib Rally Upon Us?? | Ep 594 · 1 h 39 minGood now revolutionaries— it's McRib week, the full Hunter Moon is tonight, and the Fed decides on rates Wednesday. Evan and Alex, with Will for the first half, sort the memes…
- Pacifica's Head of Growth on Why You Should Pick Decentralized Perps | Ep 593 · 55 minGood now revolutionaries — Thursday closes out the week with Greg, Head of Growth at Pacifica, back for round two ahead of Monday's trading contest launch. Greg walks through…
- Earn Yield for Insuring GPUs on Chain: Reamplify Explained | Ep 101🍻🌗 · 2 h 3 minGood now revolutionaries— Wednesday night After Dark pulls up a drink and brings in Gabriel Coleman, co-founder of ReAmplify, a pioneer bringing digital assets into the…
- Jupiter Perps explained + Ripple Is Lobbying the SEC to Rewrite "Decentralization" | Ep 592 · 1 h 25 minGood now revolutionaries — Evan and Alex take the show solo on Wednesday morning with Matthew joining mid-episode to help demystify perpetuals ahead of next Monday's trading…
- Revoke.cash Walkthrough: The Tool Every Self-Custody User Needs + What is Tornado Cash? | Ep 591 · 1 h 33 minGood now revolutionaries— Tuesday wrap with Will's clearest Bitcoin chart teach in a while. The daily is coiling tighter than it has in months — the super trend sits at $81,291…
- $1000 Trading Contest Announced + Burn Mechanics 101: Crypto.com vs Hyperliquid | Ep 590 · 1 h 49 minGood now revolutionaries— Monday wrap with a one-week trading contest incoming. Will's announcing a $1,000 competition — four prizes paid by PERCENTAGE return (not dollar…
- How to Manage Risk on Your Trades + What the Macro PPI Data means for Markets | Ep 589 · 1 h 16 minGood now revolutionaries— Thursday wrap with a hot inflation print. PPI came in at 6.3% versus 5.3% expected — a FULL percentage-point miss — and crypto broke live on-air. Will's…
- After Dark Hits Episode 100🎉 Our Favorite Moments + Crypto Macro Updates | Ep 100🍻🌗 · 1 h 55 minGood now revolutionaries— Rise Up After Dark hits ONE HUNDRED. The headline comes in as the show opens — Richard Heart (Hex / PulseChain) was perp-walked in Istanbul. Alex reads…
- The JTX Tutorial: Zero to Pro in Under an Hour + How to Handle Your Crypto Taxes | Ep 588 · 2 h 2 minGood now revolutionaries— A full JTX tutorial day — from zero to pro — triggered by Daniel P's '4% fees' question from the community. Three sign-in options, fund the wallet, cap…
- Explaining the Recent Ledger Exploit + How to Ensure Your Cold Storage Wallet is Secure · 1 h 52 minGood now revolutionaries— Back from Pirate Fest on Tybee and straight into the biggest hardware-wallet story in a long time. The Ledger exploit: tiny transmission chips installed…
- Will's Altcoin Picks: $ARGUS (Chaos) and $CARDS (Safer) + $JUP, $RAY, and $CRV | Ep 58📈🤑 · 56 minGood now revolutionaries— Will and Doug on Monday Market Watch — and they're announcing the biggest format change the show has had since launch. After a year of hour-long public…
- Samsung partners with Solana to bring USDC to 82 million Galaxy devices · 1 h 5 minGood now revolutionaries— Pirate Fest Thursday — the whole crew in costume, Will's hat sized up a notch, and Alex opening another short because Bitcoin just crashed through the…
- Grading Crypto Altcoin Ecosystems S to F + Will's Portfolio Stack | Ep 99🍻🌗 · 1 h 54 minGood now revolutionaries— Episode 99, full crew in person on Tybee for the second night. The opening question that doesn't go away: do you need a trust or an LLC for your crypto?…
- Why Bitcoin Dumped and our Signals in The Beacon That Called Before It Printed | Ep 585 · 1 h 23 minFull crew on the Tybee Island couch — Evan, Alex, and Will in person — opens with Will driving the Bitcoin chart live. The three signals that triggered yesterday's Beacon short…
- Why the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill Is Six Pages of Nothing + Abstract shuts down operations | Ep 32⚖️ · 54 minGood now revolutionaries— Will's in the air, Lindsay just landed back from Korea Blockchain Week, so this is Alex and Emily holding down a shorter Trust Issues built around one…
- ZachXBT Exposed a Chinese Crime Syndicate + Why Aerodrome Is The Most Undervalued-vs-Revenue Token Right Now | Ep 584 · 1 h 37 minGood now revolutionaries— Tuesday morning kick-off of Tybee Pirate Fest week. Evan + Alex live from Alex's house in Tybee; Will remote for one more day before his flight. Cold…
- Pump.fun Chart Is Contender For 2027 Chart Of The Year + Why 2026 Altseason Looks Nothing Like 2024 | Ep 57📈🤑 · 1 h 2 minGood evening revolutionaries— Monday Market Watch with Will + Doug. Macro setup: ISM services PMI came in at 54 vs ~55 last month — still growing, just a touch slower. Not weak…
- Hermine Wong Decodes The SEC's Latest Band-Aid Guidance + SatRush Bitcoin Yield Update| Ep 583 · 1 h 45 minGood now revolutionaries— Extended Monday Rise Up Morning Show. Evan is traveling to Alex's for Tybee Pirate Fest week; Alex + Will + Matthew hold the show down and…
- Is Bitcoin Just A Meme? The Thesis Behind the Largest Crypto + DeFi Llama Walkthrough · 1 h 20 minGood now revolutionaries— Thursday morning, abbreviated show, after-show heading straight into the free Rise Up community for voice-to-voice Q&A. Cold open: Alex is face-down on…
- Full Quant Chart Deep-Dive + Talking Crypto in the Workplace With Viv Ford · 1 h 58 minGood now revolutionaries— Full-length Wednesday Rise Up After Dark with the trio + returning guest Viv Ford. Litecoin halving reminder (July 27, 2027). 'Quant micro-influencer'…
- $QNT Chart Deep-Dive: Why Evan Wants To Short This Thing Twice + ZBEC vs Sablier | Ep 581 · 1 h 40 minGood now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning, monthly candle close day, and the trio is back for an extended session. Cold open goes straight to Magic's Beacon cards-alpha call…
- BitGet Just Got Hacked $387M, And Their CEO Nailed The Crisis Comms | Ep 31⚖️ · 1 h 5 minGood evening revolutionaries— Solo Alex Trust Issues tonight. Congress is on recess, Clarity is still stalled at cloture, and Washington's crypto attention has shifted to AI. In…
- How To Consolidate A 40-Token Portfolio Without Losing Your Mind + Evan's $QNT Short | Ep 580 · 1 h 36 minGood now revolutionaries— Tuesday morning and Evan opens the show admitting he's trapped in a Quant short at ~72% drawdown. Full post-mortem: entered at $237 based on textbook…
- Altcoin Breakdown: $QNT at $250 is a no; $ARGUS is a yes + the Bitcoin & Gold correlation | Ep 56📈🤑 · 1 h 1 minGood now revolutionaries— Solo Market Watch tonight with Will (Doug out). Bitcoin is holding the $82.3K consolidation top as support after the reclaim, and Will's macro read is…
- Duckzilla Charts Are The Altcoins You Should Stay Away From | Ep 579 · 1 h 42 minGood now revolutionaries— Monday morning and the trio is back for an extended session before Will heads out to host Market Watch tonight. Cold open dives straight into Quant…
- JTX Auto-Compound + 0.02% Fees On Stonk-Eco Tokens Until End Of Month | Ep 578 · 1 h 6 minGood now revolutionaries— Thursday morning and news drops within the first minute. IBM has officially connected banks to SWIFT through their Digital Asset Haven, built on Linea…
- Someone Just Sold A Charizard For $1M On-Chain: Record Broken Twice In A Day | Ep 97🍻🌗 · 2 h 9 minGood now revolutionaries— Wednesday-night After Dark with the full trio back. Scrimmy from PizzaDao was scheduled to continue the Stand With Crypto conversation from Trust Issues…
- Raydium Just Put $1M Of Its Treasury Into USDV + The $5B Kalshi Wash-Trading Article | Ep 577 · 1 h 4 minGood now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning and the full trio is back. Will opens on his Boston North End video (a quarter-million views in 30 hours) blasting the De Pasquale…
- Near Protocol Just Turned Every Zcash Swap Into A Buyback + Binance Bought $100M Of $CRCL | Ep 576 · 1 h 41 minGood now revolutionaries— Tuesday morning and it's officially the first day of fall. Will kicks off by making the case that we're at the end of the first inning of the bull…
- Stand With Crypto's Scoring Is Broken: A Diabolical Bias Breakdown | Ep 30⚖️ · 1 h 7 minGood evening revolutionaries— Trust Issues is back and Alex is fired up. Full-episode diatribe on standwithcrypto.org and the diabolical scoring bias in their politician-grades…
- Why Doug Is Long $UNI, $NEAR, $ARB And Waiting To Long $CRV + the Bullish Market Overview | Ep 55📈🤑 · 1 h 0 minGood now revolutionaries— Monday-night Market Watch with Will and Doug. Will's back from Italy where he was in a 35x Bitcoin short the entire vacation and closed it Sunday at a…
- Kalshi Accused Of Wash Trading Their Crypto Volume + Alex's Aerodrome Playbook: How To Take Profits | EP 575 · 1 h 55 minGood now revolutionaries— Monday morning and Will is back from Italy with a story: he was in a 35x Bitcoin short for two weeks while he was gone, lost 174% on that trade before…
- Aave Just Released Its Mobile App Paying 6% Base + Alex's New Favorite Pokemon TCG Platform | Ep 574 · 1 h 15 minGood now revolutionaries— Thursday rounds out the week with Matthew the intern back for his twelfth(?) appearance. Today's House Republican-majority day is the last one before…
- Danielle Lukens On The Launch of Circle's Blockchain, Arc, and The CBDC Endgame | Ep 96🍻🌗 · 1 h 55 minGood now revolutionaries— Danielle Lukens (Crypto Crush Show, Crush Insights, Crush Circle) joins from northern Bali on the night the Fed hikes 25bps in line with the 92% CME…
- Rate-Hike Day: 92% Odds + Zcash's significant voting turnout & Tokenized Stocks Explainer| Ep 573 · 1 h 45 minGood now revolutionaries— Wednesday's show sits on top of the biggest macro morning of the week. The FOMC rate decision lands at 2pm ET; the CME Fed Watch is pricing a 92%…
- Cloture Failed: Post-Mortem on the Clarity Act Vote That Wasn't | Ep 29⚖️ · 1 h 6 minGood evening revolutionaries— the cloture vote on the Clarity Act failed this afternoon, and Alex, Emily, and Lindsay run the post-mortem. Opening beat: Mitch McConnell's…







