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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. His pitch: "one-size-fits-all finance is coming to an end." Cesto is Solana-native tokenized baskets — Dire Straits (oil + gas), Inverse Kramer, Anthropic Anti-Portfolio (which shorts every company Anthropic eats the lunch of), the I...

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, PPI Thursday 8:30am ET. Rate-hike odds are 51.2 / 48.8 — one bad CPI print and September flips fully hawkish. Solana bullish-wedge breakout has a validity problem — the wedge closes August 13, meaning any pullback that far in is technically...

Good now revolutionaries— Congress hit August recess without a Clarity Act vote, exactly as predicted. The holdup: banking lobby vs stablecoin yield on the Republican side, ethics-clause language on the Democrat side. The kicker: the do-nothing Congress of 1948 passed 906 bills — the current 119th has passed 38. A Trezor phishing site is the top sponsored Google result and has vacuumed up millions...

Good now revolutionaries— Danielle Lukens (Crush Insights, @cryptocrushshow) is back in the Rise Up chair for a full technical + macro session. Will officially called the $57.7K Bitcoin bottom on-air yesterday, and Danielle walked through the inverse head-and-shoulders live on the daily chart — $66,676 neckline, $57K head, invalidation and target explained step by step. Fed rate-hike odds have col...

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 Labs. Both are here to walk through Sat Rush, which just launched live earlier today. Will is back in the dolphin costume ("the blue banana"). Alex is joining from the porch in Gig Harbor, Washington. It's a special one. The...

Good now revolutionaries— RUMS 553 delivers the WORLD PREMIERE announcement Evan teased yesterday: **Sat Rush** — the first product from White Whale Labs, live now at **satrush.io**. Evan on-air: "The White Whale Labs has trusted us to tell you for the very first time on any platform anywhere." Sat Rush is a gamified DCA / on-chain Bitcoin mining game. You pick a space, stake USDC, and o...

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 Thurman, Head of Communications at JTX** (Jito's new trading venue). Andrew's crypto backstory hits the full DeFi Summer nostalgia — 2017 top-of-cycle bag holder → Chainlink BizDev in 2019 helping onboard Aave, Synthetix, and Compo...

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: **Chelsea, aka Bullish Babe** (@BullishBabe on TikTok). 7.5 years in crypto, 4 years charting and trading, and she runs a trading school with a live session every weekday morning at 9:15. Her pitch: "I'm a different...

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 random-number-generator check in firmware only verified that an RNG existed — not that it was actually working. When it didn't work, the device generated deterministic (crackable) seed phrases that a computer with enough compute co...

Good now revolutionaries— RUMS 550 is the Bitcoin-governance masterclass Evan teased on Wednesday. First-time guests: Timo (@bit.lovin on TikTok, former collegiate football coach at Stanford, now writing bitcoinandfootball.substack.com) and Satoshi Nakamoto (@Satoshi_Nakamoto TikTok creator, not the real one — "a picture of a guy on a computer"). Their backgrounds set the stage: Timo wen...

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 energy, but the content lands. Will kicks it off with the greatest Rise Up celebrity encounter to date: at a 70mm screening of The Sojourn, he ran into John C. Reilly, who turned around and said "Thank you, Will Watson."...

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 marketing — and now pivoting to investing via Aiden, an autonomous venture fund where she's got the "investor arc." First checks into Soup (Tori's project) and Bone Condor. Her thesis: "I like to see manic...

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, taste, and how American governance actually operates. Emily kicks it off with a viral TikTok on the "inheritance of taste" — the difference between new-rich (buying the expensive thing because someone told you to) and old-rich (ab...

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 GameStop fiasco — a hard turn away from TradFi and a full dive into decentralized finance. "No instrument has existed in our time on earth that has leveled the playing field more than DeFi." A friend told him he had to start...

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 book of charts and opening a live pack on Collector Crypt mid-show. The macro read heading into Wednesday's FOMC: bearish. Will opened a 25x BTC short on the 15-minute during the show — and immediately admitted "I wish I&ap...

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 saying: "I have avoided promoting the Clarity Act because I have so many problems with it. I am not opposed to regulatory clarity — I am opposed to enshrining power, locking crypto into a legal path that gives corporations undue pow...

Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 546 with Constance and Jose from Pacifica — the Solana-native perpetuals trading platform Alex has been using backstage for the last week or two. The Rise Up crew walked through Hyperliquid, Drift, and the rest of the perps landscape before settling on Pacifica. This one is the deep-dive. Product philosophy from Jose: minimize clicks, minimize eyeball movem...

Good now revolutionaries— After Dark 089 with Kenny — creator of POIDH (Pix Or It Didn't Happen). Self-proclaimed Bitcoin maxi, lover of the censorship-resistance stuff that makes crypto cool, and the guy behind the fully-on-chain bounty protocol Alex teased Wednesday morning as the natural POAP successor. This is the deep-dive. The POIDH framing that lands: it's a human-coordination pro...

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 ever committed to tape. Community question from Eleanor Tourette on XRP + Clarity Act triggers it. Real data: an 11M-token wallet that accumulated at $2.39 (once worth $25M) is now worth about $12M. That's the "most XRP holde...

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 bull-posting kicked off Monday night, and the two of them spend the whole hour going through what's actually in the bill vs what's being tweeted about it. Lindsay's angle is academic — one hand, other hand, sit on the fence like it&a...

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 quietly turned into one of the country's sharpest expose feeds on private equity's encroachment against small business. A congresswoman is now hitting her up to talk about protecting local businesses. Great segue into where cry...

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 headline number: BTC needs to end above $63,736 by month-end to reclaim monthly-stochastic-RSI support. If it does, that's a buy signal. If not, the next leg down starts hunting a new bottom. DCA ranges already hit if that's your p...

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 Boston. The engagement-story retelling includes the elaborate Lego-moving lie, Audrey's fake museum ticket text, and the atrium proposal itself. "I got her good." On-air congratulations across the board. Also: Spain won the Wo...

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 (Head of Product at Jito and JTX). Kevin joined Jito ~3 months ago after 3 years at Kraken, dialing in from Montreal where the Jito team is on an off-site. Small, flat, remote team that hires slowly and retains hard — culture that's &apo...

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, Will's still off after last weekend's engagement) and Adriano — better known as Technically Web3 — back on the show for a masterclass on where practical, hands-on Web3 is actually working. Adriano's a coder, open-source dev...