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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 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…
Rise Up MediaWill 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…
Rise Up MediaIndustry 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…
Rise Up MediaThe 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…
Rise Up MediaWhat 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…
Rise Up MediaJito's JTX Is The Only Real Challenger To Hyperliquid | Ep 519
Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday morning, full crew, and the audio is 'ducked' from the jump (the new running joke). After fixing the gain on the fly, the…
Rise Up MediaThe SpaceX IPO Is a Paper-Trillionaire Play | Ep 22⚖️
Good now revolutionaries—Alex solo-hosts a Tuesday Trust Issues that gets cut surgical-short when his phone battery dies live on air at 15 minutes in. What he…
Rise Up MediaMost Altcoins Go Down Forever — The Statistical Reality | Ep 518
Good now revolutionaries— Full crew back for Tuesday morning. The opener: Will called Bitcoin's $69.7K gap fill yesterday, tweeted it the moment BTC hit, and…
Rise Up MediaDell Up 299% YTD + Will's Quantum Computing Stock Bet | Ep 43📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries— Doug is BACK on Market Watch. Will and Doug open the June 1 episode with a long book-recommendation riff — Will pitches a light…
Rise Up MediaMicroStrategy Finally Did It: Saylor Sells $2.5M of Bitcoin | Ep 517
Good now revolutionaries— The full crew is back from Miami and back on the morning show. Evan, Alex, and Will welcome back Danielle Lukens — Crypto Crush…
Rise Up MediaClarity Act Timing: July 4 Slips To August — What That Means | Ep 516
Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson rides solo one more time while Evan and Alex are traveling back from Miami after the Super Team USA event. Will opens…
Rise Up MediaWhat Is Superteam USA? America's Home For Solana Builders | Ep 81🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries— Evan and Alex are broadcasting LIVE from Miami at the inaugural Super Team USA event. The hosts hand the keys to two of the best in…
Rise Up MediaBitcoin Looks Bearish — But Oil & Bonds Are Flipping Bullish | Ep 515
Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson rides solo for the third morning this week while Evan and Alex remain in Miami for the Super Team / Solana Foundation…
Rise Up MediaMSTR vs Buying Bitcoin Directly — Will's Read | Ep 514
Good now revolutionaries—Will Watson solo this morning while Evan and Alex are in Miami for the Super Team / Solana Foundation workshop. Short show, sharp…
Rise Up MediaBetty (Deadfellaz) On Building An NFT Project That Lasted | Ep 513
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…
Rise Up MediaWill Calls Chainlink's $125K LINK Buyback 'Not Enough' | Ep 42📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson flies solo on a Memorial Day Market Watch and walks straight into a breaking-news cold open: U.S. self-defense strikes…
Rise Up MediaJito's JTX + BAM: The Long Game Against Hyperliquid | Ep 512
Good now revolutionaries—the full crew is back for the last show of the week. Evan home from LA, Will + Alex on the desks, and an opening salvo on the Trump…
Rise Up MediaKraken Just Got The First Crypto Fed Master Account | Ep 80🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries—Will and Alex behind the dark desk for an evening dose of Hyperliquid (up 16% on the day, 41.6% on the week, breaking technical…
Rise Up MediaToken Transparency Framework: Blockworks Is Rating Every Token | Ep 511
Good now revolutionaries—Nil is back. Five weeks into his new role at Blockworks (Strategic Partnerships) after his very public departure from Polygon, and the…
Rise Up MediaClarity Act Update + Japan's Yen Stablecoin Play w/ Alex & Emily | Ep 21⚖️
Alex and Emily back at the Trust Issues desk for a two-hour deep dive on the regulatory and structural plumbing nobody else is breaking down this clearly…
Rise Up MediaWhy Evan Stopped Paying Attention to Bitcoin ETF Inflows | Ep 510
Good now revolutionaries—Evan and Will sit in for a Tuesday morning that turns into the most useful 'how to think about tokens' session of the year. The…
Rise Up MediaWill's Bitcoin Doomsday Scenario — and Why $30K Has 10% Odds | Ep 41📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries—Will and Doug are back together for the first time in a few weeks, and they're walking through a market that's flashing more red…
Rise Up MediaJillian Hyshaw On Crypto, Farms, And Estate Planning | Ep 509
Good now revolutionaries— Monday morning with Evan and Alex (Will off) and a long-anticipated guest: Jillian Hyshaw — 23-year agricultural attorney, founder of…
Rise Up Media[Special Edition] Interview with Dr Adam Lowe of Arculus | Consensus Miami
We caught up with Dr. Adam Lowe of Arculus at Consensus Miami to talk all things cold storage. And if you're ready to level up your security, grab your very…
Rise Up Media[Special Edition] Jito Co-Founder Reveals JTX: Solana's New Professional Trading Platform | Solana Accelerate
Goodnow Revolutionaries! Last week at Solana Accelerate, Jito co-founder Lucas Bruder sat down with us to discuss JTX Trade — their new professional trading…
Rise Up MediaWhy USDC Is Flowing From Coinbase To Hyperliquid Via Circle | Ep 508
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…
Rise Up MediaThe DeFi Education Fund Letter Congress Doesn't Want To Hear | Ep 79🍻🌗
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…
Rise Up Media240,000x Revenue Valuations — The Crypto Speculation Trap | Ep 507
Will opens with TA — Bitcoin coiled, oil pushing through $100, Hyperliquid finally selling off (anything below $35 is a good DCA, in his view). He hands off to…
Rise Up MediaWhat Clarity Act Draft 2 Actually Does To DeFi | Ep 20⚖️
Alex is back with the full Trust Issues lineup — Lindsay and Emily on the line, Alex on the bill. The hook is Emily's viral nine-minute video on Andrew…
Rise Up MediaCircle Just Raised $222M For Its Own Blockchain — Should You Care? | Ep 506
Evan and Alex are back from Consensus in Miami and Evan starts by handing Will a celebratory drink for keeping the lights on while the boys were out at Solana…
Rise Up MediaCircle's Banking License Is The Trade | CRCL Breakdown | Ep 40📈🤑
Will's flying solo from Maine on Market Watch — the boys are back from Consensus but he hasn't caught up with them yet, so it's just charts and chat. Nothing's…
Rise Up MediaJito Is Going After Hyperliquid — JTX.trade Just Launched | Ep 505
Good now revolutionaries — Evan and Alex are back from a week at Consensus Miami and Solana's Accelerate, with Matthew in the third chair. Top take: Consensus…
Rise Up MediaMicroStrategy's Chart Looks Better Than Bitcoin's Right Now | Ep 504
RUMS x Arculus Purple Wallet Order Form: https://forms.gle/r9fBTRAw79oSmBWaA Solo Will episode — last one of the week before Evan and Alex return from…
Rise Up MediaMichael Saylor Is Soft-Launching Selling Bitcoin | Ep 503
RUMS x Arculus Purple Wallet Order Form: https://forms.gle/r9fBTRAw79oSmBWaA Solo Will episode — 36 minutes, abbreviated show while Evan and Alex are still…
Rise Up MediaValidity Proofs Over Multisigs — The Argument For Math Over Trust In DeFi| Ep 502
RUMS x Arculus Purple Wallet Order Form: https://forms.gle/r9fBTRAw79oSmBWaA Bootstrapped episode — Will + Matthew while Evan and Alex are at Consensus Miami…
Rise Up MediaCoinglass Liquidation Heat Map — Where Binance Wants Bitcoin To Go | Ep 39📈🤑
Bootstrapped, traveling, half-hour-late Market Watch — Will solo from Maine. No Doug, no jingle, no soundboard, no Evan/Alex (still at Consensus Miami)…
Rise Up MediaHyperliquid Is The Only AAA Coin Right Now | Ep 501
May the 4th be with you. Short solo show — 38 minutes — with Will from Maine while Evan and Alex are down at Consensus Miami. Heavy on technical analysis…
Rise Up MediaWe Made It To 500🎉. Happy 500, Revolutionaries. | Ep 500
Good now revolutionaries — five hundred. Will, Evan, and Alex on the milestone. Ninety-nine percent celebration, one percent macro data drop, zero percent…
Rise Up MediaMeta Is Paying Creators In Stablecoins On Solana + Polygon | Ep 78🍻🌗
Eve of the 500th. Evan, Alex, and Will go long on After Dark — almost two hours of crypto-Twitter dunks, macro, and an ongoing argument about whether Pi…
Rise Up MediaWhy Institutional Capital Lives on Ethereum (Per BlackRock's Own Guy) | Ep 499
Good now revolutionaries— Will is hosting After Dark tonight, so Evan and Alex take the wheel for episode 499 (yes, tomorrow is the big 500). It's a sharp…
Rise Up MediaEric Trump's Mining Company Hasn't Won A Block In Months | Ep 19⚖️
Episode 19 of Trust Issues — Alex and Emily on the Tuesday before Consensus Miami. The Bitcoin Vegas conference is happening in parallel, Forbes just dropped a…
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Robinhood Holds 13 BILLION XRP? We Pulled Up The Receipts | Ep 498
Good now revolutionaries— Will and Evan open Episode 498 with the call that's already playing out: Bitcoin's printing a short-term double top, breaking…
Rise Up MediaSoFi Crypto Bank Is an ETF in Disguise (And It's on Solana) | Ep 38📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries—Will and Doug ran the tape on a market caught between a Bitcoin double top, a sneaky bullish bear-trap setup, and an oil chart that…
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DeFi United Just Raised $237M to Bail Out KelpDAO Victims | Ep 497
Good now revolutionaries— Episode 497 (T-minus 3 to the big 500). Evan and Alex unpack the Ben McKenzie crypto-bashing book tour and where his critique lands…
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Cash Is a Position: Crypto Crush on Circle Under $90 | Ep 496
Good now revolutionaries—Will kicks off solo with Alex Popovich, then Evan catches the back half, and Crypto Crush's Danielle joins from the UK to talk about…
Rise Up MediaThe White Whale Playbook: Why Creator Memecoins Keep Crashing | Ep 77🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries—Emily's back in the co-host chair and we're dissecting the wave of DeFi exploits that just reshaped the conversation around security…
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Kevin Warsh, a Compromised Fed, and the Bond Dump | Ep 495
Good now revolutionaries— Solo-host vibes. Will runs the show today while Evan takes the day off under a new trial schedule, with Alex co-riding. Bitcoin is…
Rise Up MediaDeFi Needs a Safety Stand-Down: Emily Makes the Case | Ep 18⚖️
Good now revolutionaries—Emily's back in the co-host chair and we're dissecting the wave of DeFi exploits that just reshaped the conversation around security…
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Can 12 People Freeze a Blockchain? Arbitrum Security Council Debate | Ep 494
Good now revolutionaries— The Arculus purple wallet order form is officially LIVE. Evan and Will (with Alex taking the morning off to host Trust Issues…
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DeFi Is Bleeding Out — Maple, Morpho, Aave | Ep 37📈🤑
Good now revolutionaries— William Watson IV and Doug aka Drift are back after a two-week break, and they're walking straight into a market that's pricing in a…
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The Arculus Purple Wallet Is LIVE + Biggest DeFi Hack of 2026 | Ep 493
Good now revolutionaries— Will is back from Mexico and the timing could not have been worse for DeFi. Over the weekend, KelpDAO was exploited for ~$293 million…
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Quigley School of Paranoia: How To Not Get Robbed in Crypto | Ep 492
Good now revolutionaries— Quigley is back, and we spent 90 minutes on the two themes everyone in crypto should be obsessing over right now: quantum risk and…
Rise Up MediaWorld Tyranny Financial: WLFI wants to unlock 62 BILLION tokens | Ep 76🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries — it's World Liberty Financial week, whether we like it or not. Evan and Alex break down the new 62.3-billion-token unlock proposal…
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Wrapped BTC on Uniswap, Impermanent Loss, and How to Read DeFi Llama Like a Pro | Ep 491
Good now revolutionaries— Evan and Alex are holding it down solo for another No-Will Wednesday, and they brought the DeFi receipts. This episode runs straight…
Rise Up MediaWorld Liberty Financial is Worse Than You Think | Ep17⚖️
Good now revolutionaries — Episode 17 of Trust Issues is here, and we spent nearly the entire episode doing a deep dive on World Liberty Financial that somehow…
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SEC Said DeFi Might Be Legal. Alex Said Read the Fine Print. | Ep 490
Good now revolutionaries— It's a no-Will Tuesday (he's still in Mexico — Evan has a theory), but Evan and Alex are fully locked in for a packed news day. They…
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World Liberty Financial Just Locked Depositors Out of $80 Million. Here's How. | Ep 489
Good now revolutionaries — Evan Mann and Alex Popovic bring you a packed Monday as Will heads to Mexico for a well-deserved vacation. The show leads with the…
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Iran's Bitcoin Toll, Macro Breakdown, and the Full Katana Story | Ep 488
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…
Rise Up MediaBitcoin Is for Everybody: Fidelity, River.com, and Why Survivorship Beats Upside | Ep 75🍻🌗
Good now revolutionaries — Evan Mann is joined tonight by Smobyday, a software engineer and educational content creator who has built a following by making…
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Why ETH Beats XPR: $10K Math, Morpho Vaults, and the Drift Update | Ep 487
Good now revolutionaries — Wednesday morning, the Iran ceasefire is holding but the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. Alex walks through the hammer candle on…