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Good now revolutionaries—Evan, Will, and Alex are all back in the studio for the first time in nearly a month, and it's a heavy news weekend to unpack. The headline: a US-Iran peace deal is reportedly close to signing on Friday with a 60-day ceasefire extension, the Strait of Hormuz reopening, and a complete stop to military engagement. Will's frame: the oil chart called this two weeks a...

Good now revolutionaries—Will and Alex close out the week from home with a compressed Thursday show before Will heads to a mountain cabin for his 12th anniversary. The whole hour is essentially a master-class on revenue buyback policies: Sky Protocol just temporarily dropped its buyback rate from 87% to 7.5% for three months to cushion the USDS stablecoin reserve, with a planned return to 25% (sti...

Good now revolutionaries—Will and Alex break down the post-NYC week from home, and the After Dark conversation lands on the question every active investor should be asking right now: where do you actually want to be when liquidity gets sucked out of everything by the SpaceX IPO? Alex's framework: stay focused on ecosystems where real businesses are still being launched (Solana + Ethereum), an...

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 launch episode. Raposa is the rare NFT-era project that built a real, sustainable business: nitro cold brew cans made to European standards (8-13 month shelf life), official coffee sponsor of the Miami Heat AND the Miami Marlins, a 3-year X Games...

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 absolutely earns it: minted 5 Solana Monkey Business + 8 DeGen Ape Academy NFTs in 2021, made $250K, lost it all. "At least I lost house money" and most of his current friends came from that era, so... net positive? Plus PubKey + K...

**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 Wiley and chief sanity officer Tori in the room. Casey Craig opened her Euphoria launch party at Soho House the night before, and Orangy walked away with the tap-trading crown. Nine minutes in, the conversation pivots to record ETF outflows, Sa...

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 time to dismantle the trifecta CT can't stop talking about: Hype, Zcash, and Near. Will's TA on Bitcoin lands at $45K as the first real bottom — $44.6K to be precise — and reminds DCA-ers that bear markets last nine months at t...

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 platform that tokenizes graded Pokemon cards, sports cards, comics, and other real-world collectibles, then redeems them for physical delivery on demand. Two hours of pack ripping, full walkthrough of how to onboard from zero (custodial wallet...

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 show goes deep: Nikita Beer (now Chief Product Officer at X) was hired out of the crypto space — interesting tell about where the talent is heading. The SpaceX IPO setup, plus the rest of the IPO calendar, gets walked through as ris...

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 packs into those 15 minutes is sharp: a defense of NFTs as technology (forget the bored apes — non-fungible tokens themselves are an amazing tool for digital piracy, artist sovereignty, fraud, and counterfeiting), a takedown of the SpaceX IP...

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 the team unpacks what comes next. The macro framing of the day: this cycle's alt season isn't going to look like prior ones — liquidity is staying inside ETF products (BlackRock, Fidelity, the bigger names) instead of flowing i...

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 fantasy series (Gloomhaven-tabletop-game energy) and tries to sell Doug on reading more. Then into the macro: Bitcoin read down today on stubborn US-Iran headlines, oil staying bearish (which is bullish for risk), and a watch level at $69K for an...

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 founder, creator of Crush Insights — for a long-form Monday morning conversation. Danielle reports in from Bali (she's been there two years), unpacks the 'everything closes except restaurants and night spots' nocturnal-lifestyle re...

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 with breaking geopolitics: more strikes between the US and Iran, but the oil market isn't yet pricing escalation — crude held below resistance, bear-flag setup with a possible $150/barrel breakout target. If oil stays bearish, the rate tra...

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 the building: Nikki (Head of Super Team USA, ex-multi-billion TVL staking institution, Solana ecosystem since the early days) and Amy Street (Super Team USA co-host, former teacher turned crypto-native operator). It's been hours since th...

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 workshop. They'll all be back together tonight at 8pm EST for Rise Up After Dark. The setup: Bitcoin's chart looks bearish, but oil and the ten-year Treasury are flashing positive forces that could pull crypto along. Will walks throug...

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 tape. Cold open is Will sipping from the Arculus-sponsored espresso cup that Torii sent. Jito gets the on-air shoutout for being structurally unaffected by the recent DeFi exploits including Drift — "you can't say that about Solend eit...

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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 against Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz, mid-ceasefire. Oil tagged up one percent on the news, the bullish $98 gap is back in play, and Will breaks down why a sustained oil push reignites the inflation read that would force the...

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 administration's $2 billion quantum-computing equity stake — $1B to IBM, $375M to Global Foundries, $100M each to IonQ, Rigetti, Quantum, Inflection, $38M to startup Dirac. Will calls it textbook socialism (ownership of private companies...

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 patterns to the upside in every direction), JTO ripping on the Blockworks–Nil announcement, and Will's actually-useful profit-taking framework: cut the position into quarters, take profits into stablecoin on Kraken every 10% pump. Today'...

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 conversation is the kind of arc the show was built for — somebody we watched burn themselves to a crisp in 2024, sitting down for a real reset. The headline: Blockworks is building the Token Transparency Framework — a Moody's-style rat...

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. Clarity Act update first: the Banking Committee version cleared committee, the Ag Committee version is next, and the two big sticking points (software developer protections + the yield definition) are where the bill gets fought over. Japan'...

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 thesis: utility doesn't mean what you think it means, the protocol can win without the token going up, and you should be buying revenue and burn — not announcements and hype. From there: Jito's JTX gets a deep status check (gat...

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 signals than green. Will lays out his Bitcoin doomsday read (key gap at $69K, low-probability tail risk to $30K), why he stays bearish on Hyperliquid even though he thinks it gets one more push to $51-52, and how the Iran war re-escalat...