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Rise Up Media
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…
Episodes
Rise Up MediaThe Nikkei Macro-Volatility Signal + Circle DCA | Ep 52📈🤑
Good evening revolutionaries— Will's back from his brother's Montreal bachelor party running on 9-12 shots of tequila, three pregame bars, a strip club, and a…
Rise Up Media13,900 Trezor Users Just Had Their Home Addresses Leaked + The Google Sponsored-Link Trap | Ep 559
Good now revolutionaries— Evan and Alex opened with the big Rise Up news: the purple Arculus wallet is officially going to print. Fariba confirmed with Compose…
Rise Up MediaThe Clarity Act Really Isn't Passing: Alex's Reality Check + BIP Hard Fork Coming | Ep 558
Good now revolutionaries— Alex Popovic drove the show solo for the first 50 minutes and turned it into a live-audience Q&A masterclass on why the Clarity Act…
Rise Up MediaJim From Caleb & Brown On The Show + The Coinbase Address-Swap Horror Story | Ep 92🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries— Jim Bazzani from Caleb & Brown joins for the first time on Rise Up After Dark. Jim's Melbourne-based, Fort Lauderdale-adjacent…
Rise Up MediaCPI Met Expectations = Bad News In Disguise + Trading Discord LIVE & The XRP Bridge Hack | Ep 557
Good now revolutionaries— CPI dropped at 3.4% — headline AND core met expectations. Will's read: "meh" is bad news in disguise. The market didn't get the…
Rise Up MediaThe Unbanking Of America: The Book Every Crypto Person Should Read After The Bitcoin White Paper | Ep 27⚖️
Alex and Emily's book-club edition of Trust Issues on The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon — the book Alex thinks every crypto person should read…
Rise Up MediaCesto Is Making Mutual Funds Fun: Invest In The Pelosi Tracker Or Inverse Kramer On-Chain | Ep 556
Good now revolutionaries— Jason Rodriguez, founder of Cesto (cesto.co) and host of the new Humans of Solana podcast, joins for his first Rise Up appearance…
Rise Up MediaSolana Wedge, Circle Setup, Gold Ripping + Riot Earnings Take-Profit Alert | Ep 51📈🤑
Good evening revolutionaries— Will and Doug are running shorts on ETH, SOL, and BTC heading into the biggest macro week of the month: CPI Wednesday 8:30am ET…
Rise Up MediaClarity Act Stalls Again + The American vs Chinese LLM Debate | Ep 555
Good now revolutionaries— Congress hit August recess without a Clarity Act vote, exactly as predicted. The holdup: banking lobby vs stablecoin yield on the…
Rise Up MediaDon't Wait For 50K, Just DCA: Danielle's Cycle Playbook + Bitcoin & Market Takes | Ep 554
Good now revolutionaries— Danielle Lukens (Crush Insights, @cryptocrushshow) is back in the Rise Up chair for a full technical + macro session. Will officially…
Rise Up MediaThe White Whale's First-Ever Interview: Sat Rush Deep-Dive + Insights From The Depths | Ep 91🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries— RUAD 091 is **the White Whale's first-ever in-person interview** — joined by his co-builder Quicks (aka The Fox) from White Whale…
Rise Up MediaWe Announced the World Premier of Sat Rush: Gamified Bitcoin Mining by The White Whale
Good now revolutionaries— RUMS 553 delivers the WORLD PREMIERE announcement Evan teased yesterday: **Sat Rush** — the first product from White Whale Labs, live…
Rise Up MediaJito'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…
Rise Up MediaBullish 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…
Rise Up MediaCold 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…
Rise Up MediaBIP-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…
Rise Up MediaClash 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…
Rise Up MediaOneKey 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…
Rise Up MediaWhy 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…
Rise Up MediaDeFi 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…
Rise Up MediaOne BTC Monthly Close Decides Whether The Bear Market Is Over | Ep 49📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries— Market Watch 049 with Will hosting solo. Doug's on vacation at the Jersey Shore, so it's Will in a Pokemon shirt walking the whole…
Rise Up MediaClarity Act Reality Check, Storj Goes Bankrupt & Circle Buys A Patent | Ep 547
Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 547 with the sharpest, most on-record Rise Up take on the Clarity Act to date. Evan says the part he's been avoiding…
Rise Up MediaPacifica Deep Dive: The Solana Perpetuals Platform Looking to Raise the UX Bar | Ep 546
Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 546 with Constance and Jose from Pacifica — the Solana-native perpetuals trading platform Alex has been using…
Rise Up MediaPOIDH's Kenny On Human Coordination Via On-Chain Bounties + A Bitcoin TA Marathon | Ep 89🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries— After Dark 089 with Kenny — creator of POIDH (Pix Or It Didn't Happen). Self-proclaimed Bitcoin maxi, lover of the…
Rise Up MediaThe Reality of XRP, JTX Goes Live, and POAP's Eulogy | Ep 545
Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 545. Alex spends the first hour taking apart the XRP/Ripple argument in the sharpest, most-specific detail this show's…
Rise Up MediaThe Clarity Act Reality Check: What The Bull-Posters Are Missing| Ep 25⚖️
Good now revolutionaries— Trust Issues 025 with Alex + Lindsay back after a three-week Michigan-drive gap. Perfectly timed: a fresh bout of Clarity Act…
Rise Up MediaJillian Hishaw On Private Equity, Bankruptcy & The Bitcoin Clawback Case | Ep 544
Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson and Alex are joined by Jillian Hishaw for a wide-ranging Tuesday. Jillian's a bankruptcy attorney whose social platform…
Rise Up MediaBTC, SOL, HYPE, XRP: The Charts That Actually Matter Right Now | Ep 48📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries— Market Watch 048 with Alex + Doug and Will Watson in the background. This is the chart-heavy week check-in you tune into MW for. The…
Rise Up MediaThe Museum Proposal, The Creator Coin Fiasco & Reading Clarity Act Policy | Ep 543
Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson is BACK. Nine days into his engagement, first show since he proposed to Violet at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in…
Rise Up Media'Trade Professionally Without Being a Pro' — JTX Head of Product Explains How | Ep 542
Good now revolutionaries— Call it JTX July: today we unveil JTX by Jito LIVE on the show for the first time, walking through the product with Kevin Beardsley…
Rise Up MediaPhysical Bitcoin, Pokémon Cards & Why Morpho Won 2026 | Ep 88🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries— Rise Up After Dark 088. Evan's holding it down with Matthew the Intern subbing (Alex is at a Super Team USA event down in Florida…
Rise Up MediaStellar's Chief Product Officer on the Real RWA Story Plus JTX Goes Live | Ep 541
Good now revolutionaries— First-time guest we've been building up to: Tomer Weller, Chief Product Officer at the Stellar Development Foundation. Stellar since…
Rise Up MediaChatGPT vs Claude for Chart TA — Alex and Will's Verdict | Ep 540
Good now revolutionaries— Thursday morning, riding our dogs and ponies into the after-show. Rundown of a week's worth of Alex's content experiments: three…
Rise Up Media"Ceasefire" is the New "Tariff" Word From Trump
Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday After Dark, Doug is back on the show and cooking. Cold open news beat: US launched more strikes on Iran, explosions along…
Rise Up MediaHow Zinc.cash Is Putting Bitcoin Mining Inside a Solana Contract | Ep 539
Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning brings a first-time guest by way of The White Whale + Owl: Shift Boss, founder of Zinc.cash — a Solana-based…
Rise Up MediaXRP Deep Dive: 5M Tether Users vs 120K Ripple Users | Ep 538
Good now revolutionaries— Tuesday post-4th, Alex is on the road visiting family — 'while the parents are away, the kids will play.' Evan and Will run the show…
Rise Up MediaBitcoin Has Been Trapped Between $58K–$69K Since February | Ep 047📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries— Will flies solo tonight (no Doug, USA-vs-Belgium bumped MW an hour earlier). Bitcoin got whipped around between $63K and $61K by two…
Rise Up MediaHyperliquid Buy Zone: $60–$64 With a $50 Dream Entry | Ep 537
Good now revolutionaries— Post-4th-of-July Monday, and one of your morning hosts is coming back with fewer digits than he left with. Will lost a finger to a…
Rise Up MediaCathie Wood Just Bought Another $17M of Circle. Should You? | Ep 536
Good now revolutionaries— Pre-4th-of-July Thursday, RUMS goes short so the crew can lift off for the long weekend (afterparty is on the couch in the community…
Rise Up MediaRyan Rasmussen (Bitwise) on OpenUSD, Robinhood, and the Institutional Lens | Ep 086🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries— The BYOB DYOR show closes out a huge crypto news week with a first-time guest we've been chasing all year: Ryan Rasmussen, Head of…
Rise Up MediaOpenUSD Just Broke the Circle-Tether Duopoly | Ep 535
Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning brings the biggest crypto news of the week and one of our most-returning guests. DJ William Quigley — co-founder of…
Rise Up MediaOpenAI's Investment Web Is A Schizophrenic Christmas Tree | Ep 24⚖️
Good now revolutionaries— Trust Issues is back after a break, and Alex is joined by both Emily and Lindsay for a full-on Ben McKenzie takedown to open the…
Rise Up MediaInside BAM: Jito's Execution Engine For Solana | Ep 534
Good now revolutionaries— Hayden Tsutsumi from Jito Foundation joins to break down BAM (Block Assembly Marketplace), Jito's execution engine for Solana. The…
Rise Up MediaWhy Layer 2s Are Bearish (And Ethereum Eats Them) | Ep 46📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries— Will + Doug on Market Watch in a weird four-day trading week (Canada off Wednesday, US off Friday, end-of-month + start-of-quarter…
Rise Up MediaDiversify: Bringing TradFi rebalancing strategies on-chain
Good now revolutionaries— Kid Paddle from Diversify joins from the French countryside (during a 100°F heatwave that hit 99% of the planet for hottest country)…
Rise Up MediaThe Man Who Made Bottled Water Free | Ep 532
Good now revolutionaries— Josh Cliffords joins the show. He's the founder of Free Water — the world's first negatively-priced beverage company. Advertisers pay…
Rise Up MediaWill's Bitcoin Golden Pocket — $59.5K Is The Line | Ep 85🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries— a BYOB (Bring Your Own Bread) After Dark with Dan Rodman, co-founder and CEO of Co-Unity. Dan's an actual mechanical engineer who…
Rise Up MediaInside Quadratic Funding With Octant + Telling a better story with The Book of ETH | Ep 531
Good now revolutionaries— two Ethereum OGs join the show: Nico Gallardo from Octant (the Golem Foundation's public-goods funding platform) and Colin a.k.a…
Rise Up MediaBitcoin Wins. Litecoin, Doge, and XRP Don't | Ep 530
Good now revolutionaries— Evan and Alex hold down the show solo (Will is on the train back to Boston) and the timeline is melting. A vibe-coded tool called…
Rise Up MediaWhy Hyperliquid Is Will's Biggest Conviction Buy | Ep 45📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries— Will runs Market Watch solo from his parents' place in Maine. Bitcoin already rolling over as the show opens — sub $64K, broken below…
Rise Up MediaWhy Collector Crypt's Pokemon Card Insured Prices Don't Match eBay | Ep 529
Good now revolutionaries— opening the week with the funniest Saylor admission yet: a CoinDesk clip surfaces of Michael Saylor saying he literally designed STRC…
Rise Up MediaIs MicroStrategy's STRC a Dangerous Ponzi? Will Explains | Ep 528
Good now revolutionaries— closing out the week with the biggest single-episode Reposa Coffee feature yet (Will and Violet do a live tasting of the cold brew…
Rise Up MediaCrypto Castle: Viv Ford on Moving Into SF Crypto Bro House 2015 | Ep 84🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries— Viv Ford joins Rise Up After Dark live from the floor of Newark Airport, mid-layover, on her way to Paris to do comedy shows. Viv is…
Rise Up MediaWhy Alex Sees Layering DeFi Protocols as Too Risky | Ep 527
Good evening— Alex and Emily are back from a one-week break with one of the densest Trust Issues episodes to date. The centerpiece: Alex had Claude build him…
Rise Up MediaAnthropic's Fable 5 Banned by US Gov in 72 Hours | Ep 23⚖️
Good evening— Alex and Emily are back from a one-week break with one of the densest Trust Issues episodes to date. The centerpiece: Alex had Claude build him…
Rise Up MediaBrian Armstrong vs Accredited Investor Laws | Ep 526
Good now revolutionaries—Tuesday morning kicks off with Will's recap of his Doug-led grading session from last night's RUAD: Hyperliquid + Morpho + Zcash + BTC…
Rise Up MediaWe Graded 21 Cryptos S-F Tier — The Full List | Ep 44📈🤑
Good evening revolutionaries—Will and Doug pull up the charts for the deepest A-D crypto grading session the show has run. The macro changed dramatically over…
Rise Up MediaWhy 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…
Rise Up MediaWhy 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…
Rise Up MediaHyperliquid, 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…