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 https://community.rumshq.com

Rise Up Media is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 436 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Rise Up Media, a education show with 436 episodes published.

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  Is Bitcoin Just A Meme? The Thesis Behind the Largest Crypto + DeFi Llama Walkthrough

  Oct 1, 20261h 20m

  Good 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 the floor from VA paperwork purgatory — Evan proposes a splinter network called 'on-the-floor crypto' where the correspondent is just laying under his desk sighing about the latest grift. While we're there, Quant's perpetual chart just printed a gap-down liquidation live on air. Evan's revenge-short conviction grows. Perp lesson of the week: always keep dry powder. Doesn't matter if it's ten bucks. The most common comment in a bull-market dip is 'I wish I had something on the side' — this is how you build it. Solana wake-up disappointment (the accumulation chunk didn't last long enough; Evan wanted more cheap SOL). USDC-to-$2 T-shirt joke explained in full for the literal-minded + full Rums HQ merch rundown (the shirt, the breakfast-background leggings, Alex's snapback, the mug, stickers) + the river.com referral pitch (free Bitcoin credits + the show gets $5). News adjacent: who benefits from Iran-USDT sanctions? USDC is #1 on a long list. Tether first-mover history reset — Tether was the first stablecoin DeFi protocols supported for lending/borrowing/liquidity; USDC came years later with Coinbase's distribution muscle. Full SUI deep-dive — Sanctum surprise as the top TVL protocol, 'is this a ghost town?' smoke test, side-by-side with Solana ($5.86M daily app revenue vs ~$31K on SUI). Aptos comparison + why 'promising tech' government lists mean nothing for your bags. DeFi Llama metrics explainer for the newer audience — TVL, market cap, FDV, stablecoin market cap, how to read a blockchain like a city (New York beats Dubuque for the hot dog stand because liquidity attracts businesses). Mimblewimble primer (Litecoin privacy layer, Grin, Beam, French Voldemort pseudonym — the password Dumbledore puts on things). Then Ricardo asks 'is Bitcoin just a meme backed by trust and belief?' — and Alex delivers the full 'all money is belief' diatribe. Followed by the Twitch comment of the week (first real human comment on Twitch in Rums history) — 'Bitcoin is backed by energy.' Yes, and that opens the door to the Rise Up full-protocol Bitcoin explainer (nodes, miners, halving, 21M-cap, why PoW works). Closes with the Arculus Purple Wallet shipping update (ships ahead of Thanksgiving), Jito / JTX standing block, and Matthew's $1,400 SatRush Epoch Vault win. Monday heads to Tybee Pirate Fest. 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 from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today! Crypto Payment · Card Payment Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. Support the show — Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7: community.rumshq.com — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. RISE UP AFTER DARK LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. RISE UP MARKET WATCH LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info Will Watson: https://c...

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  Full Quant Chart Deep-Dive + Talking Crypto in the Workplace With Viv Ford

  Sep 30, 20261h 59m

  Good 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' status acknowledged. Full Quant chart deep-dive — Ken's $87 entry at 4x + the sell-ladder. Attention-of-the-market framework for altcoins. Alex's 'coordinated doesn't mean conspiracy' takedown of the clearinghouse pushback. Doug's four-chart macro framework decoded (10Y bond, oil, DXY, gold — why each matters). Profit-taking ladder on the whiteboard + 'paralysis will ruin you.' Watch your token like a soap opera — Athena, XRP channel trades. Bitcoin monthly + three-month candle close + descending-wedge $123K breakout target. Near chart review. Avalanche recovery + tokenomics upgrades. Argus small-cap thesis. DeFi Llama walkthrough — Aave bigger than every blockchain except Ethereum. Viv Ford joins — Non-Technical in the Workplace, second solo show. Humanity-middle thought experiment: do we have 60 years left? Support the show — Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7: community.rumshq.com — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. RISE UP AFTER DARK LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. RISE UP MARKET WATCH LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info Will Watson: https://c...

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  $QNT Chart Deep-Dive: Why Evan Wants To Short This Thing Twice + ZBEC vs Sablier | Ep 581

  Sep 30, 20261h 41m

  Good 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 (buy zone incoming on Collector Crypt) plus Will's full framework for the ARC / Argus / Robinhood-chain play — 'money is honey, degens are flies.' ARC will attract institutional money; whether it also attracts the Wall Street Bets + pump-fund crowd is the open question. Argus at ~$17M mcap is Will's small-cap bet on the honeypot. Beacon early-alpha wins continue — Doug called Aster off CZ's 'you up?' tweet, and Ryan called Near for a longer-term swing. Evan's Quant short from Monday closed at a loss because Quant is still ripping (yes, that also makes them Quant micro-influencers now). News beat: PCE inflation came in at 3.4% vs the 3.7% expected — but the BEA just changed how PCE is calculated (fixing the investment-management-fees, software, and legal-services categories), and analysts already expected the change to knock ~0.2% off core PCE. Read: throw this reading out the window; the number moved because the ruler moved. Post-PCE Bitcoin rally into the mid-eighties with shorts entering the 8-hour, monthly and three-month candles close today. Will's MicroStrategy dilution thesis: last cycle MSTR was the only real crypto-stock exposure; now investor attention is split across MSTR + COIN + CRCL + PURR + upcoming IPOs (blockchain.com, crypto.com), so MSTR still likely outperforms BTC percentage-wise but not by the margin it did last cycle. Full Quant chart deep-dive — Evan wants to short it again but doesn't have the conviction to long the chase. Core teaching beat: necessary vs unnecessary tokens. A token doesn't need to have a use case — it needs a mechanism that makes buying / burning / locking it essential. Bitcoin is the archetype; HYPE is the modern example. XRP is not necessary to the network but is very necessary to Ripple's bottom line ($100–400M/month in token sales). Then the 8Blocks tokenomics-research firm rec — go read their Zcash report. Rapid-fire narrative check on AI-agent tokens (VVV, Tao, Render, Virtuals). ZBEC vs Sablier as the brand-vs-tech payment-streaming case study. Flux TA warning, Morpho's AI-tweet self-roast blowup + Aerodrome preference. Athena / USDe — Standard Chartered's $2 ENA target hinges on USDe growing 8x to $40B by 2028; fee switch already turned on 95% net-revenue → ENA buybacks. SatRush + Stonk-fun contest brainstorm: pair a token with gold, call it Gold Rush. Closer: Morpho vault vs ICP canister explainer for the DeFi power users. Support the show — Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7: community.rumshq.com — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. RISE UP AFTER DARK LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. RISE UP MARKET WATCH LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info Will Watson: https://c...

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  BitGet Just Got Hacked $387M, And Their CEO Nailed The Crisis Comms | Ep 31⚖️

  Sep 29, 20261h 6m

  Good 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 the dead zone, the SEC dropped a new interim guidance memo. Alex decodes it: 'functional' and 'decentralized' now have working definitions, promoting a token's current utility (and even vague aspirational roadmap statements) doesn't automatically constitute managerial effort under Howey, and if the system is functional with no central party, issuer statements likely can't create investment contracts. The catch: this is agency policy, not law — one new SEC chair can erase it with a single pen stroke. Same is true for CFTC memos and executive orders. It's a fragile framework that will hold until it doesn't. Includes the cleanest Howey primer of the week (four prongs, orange grove, Florida 1946). PSA of the night: if you want to do the things that would be considered managerial effort, you can — there's already a framework for registering a token as a security in the United States. People do it. Alex expects to see more of it as tokens and stocks start to marry up. Bitcoin lives in a category of one — first-mover, mineable, open-source, no central issuer — and doesn't touch this framework. On the macro question ahead of tomorrow's PCE print: can crypto rally through a bad macro? Yes. The catalyst is capital rotation, not macro improvement. Stocks have printed all-time highs for months; when big money rotates out, crypto is one of the few markets small enough to be moved. Have a plan going in. Have realistic price targets. The people who got fleeced last cycle believed the ultra-lofty targets and then forgot to sell at 25% of the way there. Then the news beats: BitGet exchange hacked for ~$387M — deposits fully covered by the exchange's internal insurance fund. Alex holds up the BitGet CEO's post as the crisis-comms case study to steal — clear, concise, prompt, no panic. Contrast with the classic DeFi 'EMERGENCY!!! GET YOUR MONEY OUT NOW' all-caps tweet that killed a whole protocol from panic even though the exploit was minimal. Then the show detour of the night: america.gov just launched — the new US-government single-entry chatbot vibe-coded on Grok + Gemini by former Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia (now the White House Chief Design Officer). Executive-ordered to consolidate 29,000 government websites and integrate login.gov next year — Medicare enrollment, passport applications, IRS tax filings all routed through it. The attack surface is nightmarish. TikTok restricted the stream mid-broadcast for showing an official government website. ETH 'Glamsterdam' upgrade: 200M gas per block, target 78% fee reduction, mainnet Q3/Q4 2026 (testnet Oct 6). Weekend TikTok informal streams are coming back. Portfolio-conviction test to close: for every token you hold, can you articulate multiple sentences on why you're convicted — without reading anything? If not, sell it. Support the show — Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7: community.rumshq.com — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. RISE UP AFTER DARK LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. RISE UP MARKET WATCH LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info Will Watson: https://c...

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  How To Consolidate A 40-Token Portfolio Without Losing Your Mind + Evan's $QNT Short | Ep 580

  Sep 29, 20261h 36m

  Good 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 pump-and-rinse signals, forgot to set the take-profit, watched it hit $205 (up 150%), didn't close, watched it round-trip back to $237 and then rip to $280. Liquidation still ~$350 away. That kicks off the meatiest teaching arc of the week: Alex roleplays a full small-market manipulation op using ZBEC as the example — how you seed the narrative through influencer-authored 'op-eds' on Crypto Panic-style aggregators, drip supply into a thin book, let the TikTok live streams do your marketing for you, then walk away. Perp-trading lessons framework: know your exit before you enter (not just how to sell — where), set the take-profit order BEFORE you get busy, treat your lesson as a rule not a memory, and if you're convicted, size for it — you'll take it more seriously and you'll set the orders you should have set anyway. California just banned government-issued meme coins (from the Trump/Melania mess to Hunter Biden's) with Dennis testifying on the floor. Nicholas Crown's oil-as-the-central-market framing — oil informs politics, war, and every other market's ability to run; crypto is a splinter, and institutional capital rotates in when other sectors get exhausted. Coinbase just announced Pokemon pack ripping — the speculation goes Collector Crypt vs. BZ vs. Coinbase Ventures' just-backed 'Catchback' as the pick. Full SEC + CFTC buyback-and-burn guidance decoded (buybacks don't automatically make you a security; functional network + no central party is the key qualifier), followed by the cleanest Howey test primer we've done — four prongs, orange grove, why every crypto project used to run through a Swiss/offshore foundation. BitGet was hacked for ~$387M; Near Intents' Shield layer froze most of the $50M routed through Near mid-execution. Alex Shevchenko: 'permissionless doesn't mean neutral.' ThorChain refused to block the same attacker. Goldman-Avalanche news gets deflated (it's a $100M LINQ subnet integration, not a $100B fund tokenization). Portfolio consolidation: the 40-token trap, why boring-and-green beats exciting-and-red, trading vs. investing distinction, Doug's four-chart confluence framework (10Y bond, oil, DXY, gold). Alex's final thought: as the market heats up, watch for people selling luck as wisdom — the free-attention grift is about to escalate. Support the show — Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7: community.rumshq.com — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. RISE UP AFTER DARK LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. RISE UP MARKET WATCH LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info Will Watson: https://c...

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