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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 videos this week explaining crypto through pop-culture frames — Fortnite terms for Jordan (kid-adjacent), and now Love Island for the reality-TV-and-hard-fork crowd. Christina's suggestion; Alex is running with it. 'Kenzie&ap...

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 the southern coast, oil up as much as 13% since July 2. Ceasefire is 'the pause between each missile strike.' Standard Rise Up After Dark macro-with-a-side-of-black-humor open. ★★ Doug returns with the concept he's been cooking...

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 on-chain mining game that emulates proof-of-work statistics inside a smart contract. Shift Boss walks the crew through the origin story (ETH was too slow and too expensive; Solana + Rust was ready; Jordan Prince and other core Solana engineers pul...

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 two-hander with six cans of string cheese and a little coffee. Immediate housekeeping: USA lost to Belgium 4-1 in the World Cup (Belgium kicked our ass). Evan admits it took a Michelle-at-Octant live stream for him to feel self-con...

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 competing catalysts today: Michael Saylor announced he sold $250M of BTC over the past week and a half (price tanked), then President Trump's press conference bumped it back up ('I'm big on crypto. It's really powerful. T...

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 firework accident on July 4 at Lake Winnipesaukee. His verdict: 'It was worth the freedom.' Welcome to the era of Three-Finger Watson. Evan runs the setup, Alex runs damage control, Will runs the trading segment holding a coffee mug...

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 — join us). Will drops the macro chart pass while Bitcoin dances underneath the 12-month EMA at $63,691 and the 200-week SMA — the same two levels the whole crypto complex is watching for the monthly close. Short-term target: BTC leans towar...

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 Research at Bitwise Asset Management (70+ crypto products, ETFs, staking vaults, private funds — one of the world's largest crypto asset managers, decade in the trenches). Ryan walks Evan, Alex, and Will through how a Bitwise product...

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 Tether, co-founder of Wax, aspiring DJ, aspiring muffin recipient — joins Evan, Alex, and Will to react in real time to the launch of OpenUSD (OUSD), a new consortium stablecoin backed by 140 of the largest companies in tech and finance: Co...

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 show. Alex's thesis holds: he's barking up the right tree but he's the wrong dog to be doing the barking. Fresh from his latest interview clip, we walk through every misfired point — crypto crashing being unique to crypto (news: s...

Good now revolutionaries— Hayden Tsutsumi from Jito Foundation joins to break down BAM (Block Assembly Marketplace), Jito's execution engine for Solana. The Call-of-Duty quickscope analogy lands hard: BAM determines how transactions get sequenced on Solana so that the rules of the game are KNOWN, deterministic, transparent, and verifiable. It's what unlocks DeFi for institutional market...

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 overlap). The market read: Solana looking the cleanest of any major crypto by far, Bitcoin barely hanging on a diagonal $59K support that's been tested 5+ times, and gold weakening fast. Doug's macro thesis: gold has been a leading i...

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) to walk through their portfolio automation thesis. Diversify is the BONK-incubated rebalancing engine bringing TradFi portfolio strategies on-chain — but using crypto's volatility as the alpha generator instead of a problem to dampen. P...

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 for the can; the water inside is free, and every bottle donates a minimum of 10¢ to fight the global water crisis. His viral TikTok exchange with a skeptical bystander pulled 300M+ impressions in 10 hours. The book is called How t...

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 treats community building as a discipline, not a buzzword. He walks through the three pillars of a real community (identity + experiences + structure), the 1,000 True Fans framework, and his GTC thesis — Go-to-Community strategy as the moa...

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. Crypto Tarzan from Book of Ethereum. Octant has been distributing yield from 100,000 staked ETH for three years — Rise Up was a grant recipient in Epoch 9 and just hosted Demo Day for Epoch 12. The major news: Octant now accepts direct ETH...

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 shillsol.com pops up to gamify Solana staking — 9,700+ members enrolled, complete with a step-by-step Replit-built tutorial. Mert posted just the word 'solana' with the paid-promotion tag for the meme. Then the SpaceX IPO drops below...

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 the 12/21/55 EMAs on the 4-hour chart with plenty of room to the downside. Daily chart: short signal triggered going into the full moon. Weekly: rounding-over pattern, $62.4K is the line in the sand (200-week SMA) — break that and $51K...

Good now revolutionaries— opening the week with the funniest Saylor admission yet: a CoinDesk clip surfaces of Michael Saylor saying he literally designed STRC by going back and forth with ChatGPT for a few hours. 'I couldn't have done it myself.' Meanwhile STRC has bled from its $100 par down to $85, MicroStrategy has stopped issuing new STRC, and they had to sell a tiny slice of B...

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, caramel latte, and the coffee-tonic-water hybrid Will couldn't get behind — Violet rates the caramel latte 8.5/10). Will mentions RUMS is meeting with Reposa today to formalize a partnership and explore a Boston food-channel cross-pollin...

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 the creator of Crypto Castle (the show and the actual house) — she moved into a literal SF crypto bro house in 2015 when Bitcoin was $250, lived there four years through the 20K peak and crash, then turned the whole experience into an hour-l...

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 an interactive diagram mapping every relationship between the major AI and chip companies — Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, TSMC, SoftBank, and the US government. Investment lines, compet...

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 an interactive diagram mapping every relationship between the major AI and chip companies — Google, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, TSMC, SoftBank, and the US government. Investment lines, compet...

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 in the A-minus range, Syrup/Maple + Sky Protocol + BNB + Canton + Aerodrome in B-plus, XRP at C, Hedera at C-minus, Kaspa as the only D. Two meme coins (Pepe + Pengu) explicitly refused a grade — "putting a grade on a meme co...

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 the weekend: US-Iran peace deal trending toward Friday signing, Strait of Hormuz potentially reopening in five weeks, oil rolling over, and the stock market melting up. Inside that backdrop, Will and Doug rank 21 cryptos based on chart stren...