Shows / Rise Up Media
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 Media
Aave's Risk Manager Just Quit. Is the Ship of Theseus Still Seaworthy? | Ep 486
Good now revolutionaries— Tuesday morning. Trump's Iran deadline is tonight at 8pm ET. Will Watson joins for the first half of the show before heading out —…
- Rise Up Media
Easter Monday: Iran Deadline, DeFi Heist, and the Hyperliquid Case for Revenue | Ep 485
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…
- Rise Up Media
Drift Protocol's $285M Hack, Liberation Day 1-Year Price Audit & Circle's Banking License | Ep 484
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%…
Rise Up MediaXPR/Metallicus Deep Dive: Is This the Quiet Builder or the Next Failed L1? | Ep 074🍻🌗
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…
- Rise Up Media
April Fools, AI Leaks, and Six Years of XPR Going Nowhere | Ep 483
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…
- Rise Up Media
FTX Payout Today + 2030 Quantum Threat + Aave V4 Launch | Ep 482
Good now revolutionaries— Today's a milestone: Alex officially wraps his day job and goes full-time on Rise Up starting tomorrow. We open with breaking news…
- Rise Up Media
The Jelly Jelly Incident: What Hyperliquid Taught Us About Decentralization | Ep 481
Good now revolutionaries— today's episode is a certified Monday banger. Will Watson rolled in from a Nashville wedding weekend with a smooth brain and a new…
- Rise Up Media
Bitcoin Miners Are Earning Less Than Grocers — $500 a Coin | Ep 480
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…
- Rise Up Media
Bitcoin Long Signals, Circle Deep Dive & the Tether Audit | RUMS 479
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…
- Rise Up Media
Matt Wiley on Katana: The Exit Fee Nobody Voted On, State of DeFi, & the 2026 Crypto Thesis | Ep 478
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%…
- Rise Up Media
Kraken Pauses IPO, Kalshi Hits $1B, Base Debates a Token — News Roundup | EP 477
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…
- Rise Up Media
Casey Craig: Euphoria's Mainnet, MEV Explained + How to Rug the Ruggers | Ep 474
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…
- Rise Up Media
Hooked on Krak: The Global Money App with Jared Blake + Oil Shock and a Trezor Mail Scam | Ep 476
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…
- Rise Up Media
Stand With Crypto's Caulene McDonald: "DLT Is Press, Not Speech" + the SEC/CFTC Memo | Ep 475
Goodnow revolutionaries— Caulene McDonald—Stand With Crypto's Oklahoma chapter president, ZKP builder, and US/Canada underboss for Pizza DAO's Bitcoin Pizza…
- Rise Up Media
The Biggest Single DeFi Loss Ever + Bitcoin's Weekly Breakout | Ep 473
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…
- Rise Up Media
Crypto Altruist Drew Simon: What Web3 Is Actually Doing for Good + OffGrid's No-KYC Visa Card | Ep 471
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…
- Rise Up Media
Is a Crypto Certification Worth It? Tom Guarisco + 5 On-Chain Research Tools | Ep 472
Goodnow revolutionaries— Tom Guarisco—newly certified Certified Digital Asset Analyst (CDAA), and one of the most transparent educators in the space—joins the…
Rise Up MediaJane Street's Smoking Gun: Reading the Lawsuit Live + Euphoria's Rolex Tapathon | Ep 069 🍻🌗
Goodnow revolutionaries— Will breaks down the Jane Street / Terraform Labs lawsuit line by line—straight from the court filing. The SEC is now officially…
Rise Up MediaOil at $92 and Rising: Why Crypto Follows + Hyperliquid's $1.2B Day and PUPOs | Ep 071 🍻🌗
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…
Rise Up MediaThe XRP Debate + Chain Revenue Rankings and Why Hyperliquid Might Be Undervalued | Ep 070 🍻🌗
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…
- Rise Up Media
Tokenization, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Government Hates You: A Monday Morning Reset | Ep 469
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…
- Rise Up Media
Why Is This Token Still Listed? The Exchange Business Model + Nasdaq Chooses Kraken | Ep 470
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…
- Rise Up Media
Radio Dan: The Method Behind the Madness — Wyckoff, Staking, and Seed Phrases | Ep 463
Goodnow revolutionaries— Daniel Baker—aka Radio Dan—is a storyteller, musician, and media entrepreneur who bought a handful of Bitcoin in 2013, forgot about it…
- Rise Up Media
ZachXBT Drops the Axiom Investigation + Bitcoin's Make-or-Break Weekly Close | Ep 464
Goodnow revolutionaries— Bitcoin's weekly candle close is the only thing that matters this weekend. Will breaks down the make-or-break level: if Bitcoin ends…
Rise Up MediaSei's Jay Jog on Sei Giga, the collapse GameStop from the Inside + Katana TGE Fallout | Ep 072 🍻🌗
Goodnow revolutionaries— Jay Jog—co-founder of Sei Labs, Forbes 30 Under 30, former Robinhood and Facebook engineer—joins the show to tell the inside story of…
Rise Up MediaTwo Exchanges, Two Paths. Kraken's Fed Access vs. Coinbase's Trust Charter | Trust Issues 012
Welcome to Trust Issues-- Kraken just got access to FedRails through a Wyoming bank charter. Alex and Emily break down what that actually means and why…
- Rise Up Media
Lou Kerner: Crypto Mondays Went Global, Here's How + The "Web3 Wallet" Scam | Ep 468
Goodnow revolutionaries— Lou Kerner launched Crypto Mondays on January 8, 2018 — the exact day the crypto market hit its peak. He came in as a Wall Street…
- Rise Up Media
We Created a Live Contest on Air (Which Host is Coolest?) | Ep 467
Goodnow revolutionaries— David Phelps from Confetti joins to explain the Doge Cat Matrix—his framework for NFT use cases. Intellectual property, community…
Rise Up MediaWhy a Book From 2000 Is the Best Argument for DeFi in 2026 | Trust Issues 011
Welcome to Trust Issues-- Book club. Alex, Emily, and Lindsay finally sit down with The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto, and it turns into one of the…
- Rise Up Media
New Intern, Old Questions: Staking, Security, and the Not So Clarity Act | Ep 466
Goodnow revolutionaries— Matthew Wiley joins the Rise Up team. He brings DeFi research experience, a tennis tournament coming up this weekend, and thoughts on…
- Rise Up Media
The Weekend That Was - War, AI, and Prediction Markets + XRP Treasury Bill Claims | Ep 465
Goodnow revolutionaries— The hot war in Iran and the AI cold war are both escalating. The U.S. government labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and the…
- Rise Up Media
ETH Denver 2026 with Mashal Waqar, Azeem Khan, & Haseeb Qureshi | Ep 462
Goodnow revolutionaries-- And welcome to ETH Denver! Evan, Alex, & Will recorded this session Friday (2/20) to bring you behind the scenes of the wild &…
- Rise Up Media
Is Crypto a Pyramid Scheme? + How to Switch Exchanges | Ep 461
Goodnow revolutionaries— Final Morning Show from ETH Denver 2026. Riverbank asks if crypto is a pyramid scheme. Will answers honestly: most of it is, but then…
Rise Up MediaCan Brian Armstrong Get Fired? + Dense Whitepapers Defense | Ep 068 🍻🌗
Goodnow revolutionaries— Den says this market sucks. We agree. But here in Denver for ETH Denver, the builders are still building—founders who couldn't stop…
- Rise Up Media
40K to Invest in Crypto? The Simple Answer from ETH Denver + 36% Tax on Unrealized Gains | Ep 460
Goodnow revolutionaries— Live from ETH Denver in a bear market, and the builders are still here. Excited and a little sad, but still building. Someone asks: if…
- Rise Up Media
Seed Phrase Security, Custody Trade-offs, and Staking Strategies (Evan goes solo) | Ep 459
Goodnow revolutionaries— Evan's solo from Denver for ETH Denver, and the builders are already here. This week: Alex and Will arrive Wednesday, and we're…
- Rise Up Media
Why DeFi? Alex's Ladder Analogy + Circle Stock Explained | Ep 458
Goodnow revolutionaries— It's President's Day, Will and Alex have the day off from their regular jobs, and Will's breaking down Bitcoin charts while plotting…
- Rise Up Media
The Bullish Babe's Trading Strategy + Evan on Internet Toxicity | Ep 457
Goodnow revolutionaries— Chelsea from The Bullish Babe joins us for a full hour of technical analysis education. She breaks down her exact chart setup…
Rise Up MediaHBAR vs ALGO vs UNI - Live Research Session | Ep 067 🍻🌗
Good now, revolutionaries— Tonight's theme: there's no such thing as the "best" investment. Whether you're picking wallets, platforms, or altcoins, what…
- Rise Up Media
BlackRock Buys Uniswap + DeFi Gets Easier with Carrot & Gauntlet | Ep 456
Good now, revolutionaries— DeFi isn't just surviving. It's evolving. Today JSB from Carrot and Dara from Gauntlet break down what institutional-grade risk…
Rise Up MediaUSD1 Concentration, Saylor's Leverage, and the SafeMoon Sentencing | Trust Issues 010
Welcome to Trust Issues-- A Forbes report drops that Binance and CZ hold 87% of World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin. That is not decentralization. That…
- Rise Up Media
Markets Red, Patience Required | CPI, Taxes, and Trading Strategy | Ep 455
Goodnow revolutionaries— Bitcoin's sitting at a critical level and Friday's CPI data could change everything. We break down the technical setup, what a hot…
- Rise Up Media
$5K to $600 in 3 Days + Shorting with Leverage, Coinbase Goes Big, and Your New AI GF | Ep 454
Goodnow revolutionaries— Will shares an update on his $5K trading challenge and walks through his latest experiment with perpetuals on Hyperliquid—the…
- Rise Up Media
Would've Been $36K Today. Instead I'm Starting Over. TurboSol + Drift Tutorial | Ep 453
Goodnow revolutionaries— Will got liquidated. For the first time ever. His $5K challenge went from $5K to $18K... and then to zero when he shorted Hyperliquid…
Rise Up MediaFat Pipes, Fast Cycles & Policy Concerns: Dawufi Returns | Ep 066 🍻🌗
Goodnow revolutionaries— Dawufi returns to talk hair care secrets, the honest state of crypto social media, and why audiences do not actually care about…
- Rise Up Media
Altcoin Season 2026? Here's the Honest Answer. + Gusto Picks Solana. XRP Army in Shambles. | Ep 452
Goodnow revolutionaries— Will's in the mountains of Maine catching fireball nips from strangers in overalls. Just another Wednesday. Aave founder Stani…
Rise Up MediaYour Financially Abusive Husband, the Clarity Act, & Why Institutions Always Win | Trust Issues 009
Welcome to Trust Issues-- New time slot. Alex, Emily, and Lindsay are all here, and nobody is pulling punches. Lindsay frames the whole Clarity Act situation…
- Rise Up Media
Bootcamp vs Self-Teaching: Which Path Gets You Hired? w/ Ashane from Metana | Ep 451
Goodnow revolutionaries— Evan's computer is melting into sludge (Zincian crab claws involved). Will's skiing in Maine. Alex is captaining. It's Monday. Will…
- Rise Up Media
Did Satoshi See His Shadow? + Will Doubles His Trading Stack in 18 Hours | Ep 450
Goodnow revolutionaries— It's Groundhog's Day! Did Satoshi see his shadow? 6 more weeks of bear market or is the sun coming out? Will kicks off his $5,000…
- Rise Up Media
The Fed Said No + How to Actually DYOR, Turbo Gold, & Bitcoin Bears | Ep 449
Goodnow revolutionaries— Will's back from snowy Boston and we're talking wintahs, the Rise Up calendar (sexy George Washington?!), and the Fed's 10-2 vote to…
Rise Up MediaFrom Med School to Miden: Azeem Khan's Wild Journey (Kimcoin, Kanye & Beyond) | Ep 65 🍻🌗
Goodnow revolutionaries– Tonight we welcome Azeem Khan, co-founder of Miden, to Rise Up After Dark. Med school dropout, biotech escapee, Kimcoin creator…
Rise Up MediaFollow the Lobbying Money. How Crypto Legislation Actually Gets Prioritized | Trust Issues 008
Welcome to Trust Issues-- Alex and Emily cover the Fed's decision to hold rates, then dig into how the Clarity Act got renamed the Market Structure bill and…
- Rise Up Media
Bitcoin Charts, DeFi Llama & Is Your Altcoin Bag Dead? Here's How to Know | Ep 448
Goodnow revolutionaries– Will's back with updated Bitcoin technical analysis—there's a potentially bullish break forming. He walks through how to weigh bull…
- Rise Up Media
Tungsten Mania, Molt Bot Drama & Alex's 10-Year-Old Portfolio | Ep 447
Goodnow revolutionaries– Will's back from Miami with a market update: precious metals are swinging like meme coins while Bitcoin continues sideways. Could the…
- Rise Up Media
Your AI Just Texted Me: Clawd Bot, Debit Cards & The Future of Your Money | Ep 446
Goodnow revolutionaries– Clawd Bot took over our timeline this weekend—an open-source AI agent that can actually do things on your computer. Evan installed it…
- Rise Up Media
"A Bad Bill Is Worse Than No Bill"—Market Structure Breakdown and Scholarship Proposals | Ep 445
Goodnow revolutionaries— Evan and Alex are back for the final show of the week, starting with extreme cold weather reports (negative 30+ windchill in the…
Rise Up MediaShould We Buy a Pirate Ship with Scholarship Money? + EtherFi & Cold Storage | Ep 64 🍻🌗
Goodnow revolutionaries— Evan and Alex kick things off with a little light reading from Alex's nightstand: the new 161-page Senate Agriculture Committee Market…
Rise Up MediaIntegration vs. Absorption. What the WEF Tells Us About Crypto's Future | Trust Issues 007
Welcome to Trust Issues-- The World Economic Forum is happening in Davos, and Alex and Emily use it as a lens to break down the real question: is crypto being…
- Rise Up Media
What Is a DAO? Dr. Nick Almond Explains Jito Governance | Ep 444
Goodnow revolutionaries— Dr. Nick Almond, Head of Governance at Jito joins the show to talk DAOs. He explains what a DAO is, shows us the forums and features…
- Rise Up Media
Crypto Tax Season: Koinly Drive-Through + Awaken Discount (From Backstage!) | Ep 443
Goodnow revolutionaries— and welcome to unauthorized, bootleg, backstage (and in Evan's case, bundled-up) stream! Today we answer your common crypto tax…