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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 grid overlaid on a live price chart where you tap where you think the price is going, each square its own CLOB order book, built on MegaEth for real-time execution. Final audits are incoming and mainnet is imminent. Casey breaks down MEV from...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Caulene McDonald—Stand With Crypto's Oklahoma chapter president, ZKP builder, and US/Canada underboss for Pizza DAO's Bitcoin Pizza Day—joins the show for a conversation that starts with pizza and ends with constitutional law. She explains what Stand With Crypto actually does (political advocacy and education, not lobbying), what it looks like to teach Bitcoin to...

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 know-how.  The conversation covers what makes Krak genuinely different from Venmo and Zelle. Jared walks through onboarding step by step, and answers audience questions about how it works. He also shares his OpenClaw setup: an agent...

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 Will have receipts. Tom Bombadil, the Shire scouring, the Battle of Helm's Deep—why every major deviation from Tolkien's books made the films better, not worse. Then: is it stupid to buy ETH right now? Alex makes the bull c...

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 metaverse review: it has things to do in it, which is more than could be said for any metaverse that came before it. Then the news: Kraken and Nasdaq have partnered to build tokenized equity infrastructure, with xStocks expected to roll out...

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 right now, and it's more than you'd think. He covers HESABPAY, built out of necessity after the Taliban shut down Afghanistan's central banks and now a dominant payment tool in the country. He breaks down anticipatory action—s...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Tom Guarisco—newly certified Certified Digital Asset Analyst (CDAA), and one of the most transparent educators in the space—joins the show to break down what getting a digital asset certification actually looks like, who it's for, and where the curriculum falls short (spoiler: anything about regulation written before 2022 is already obsolete).  Will runs the Bitcoin a...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Will breaks down the Jane Street / Terraform Labs lawsuit line by line—straight from the court filing. The SEC is now officially investigating Jane Street for crypto insider trading, and the order books may already be changing. Will and Evan dig into what it means, who's really to blame, and why the discovery process could rewrite the history of two bear markets. Plus...

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 $70K, $71K, and $71.9K on any short-term cooldown. He follows that with Solana (channel breakout target ~$107, resistance stacking up at $107–$117), and a bearish read on silver—bear flag on the daily, monthly RSI still overextended, likely...

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 apparently convinced nobody it was under control. Will breaks down exactly why oil going up means crypto going down: PPI inflation leads CPI by months, transport costs spike, profit margins fall, stocks follow, crypto follows. The Fed's hands...

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 for a decade, then got back into crypto after watching Ripple on 60 Minutes in 2024. Since joining the Rise Up community, he's gone from salty bag-holding to swing trading Wyckoff ranges on a 5-minute chart, staking ETH and SOL across...

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 Sunday above the 200-week EMA at $68,333, expect a rally to $79–80K and 30–50% moves across altcoins. If not, more downside ranging. No confirmation yet—just a bullish hammer candle and a lot of hope. The guys cover the ZachXBT investiga...

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 GameStop (he was there when Vlad at Robinhood turned off buys). He explains why that moment inspired Sei, and what it's like to build a general-purpose L1 when every serious founder defaults to Ethereum or Solana. From launching Sei on...

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 Coinbase went a completely different direction. Kraken's path: become a bank, get a Fed master account, settle directly. No more middlemen between your bank and your Kraken account. The Fed is calling it an experiment, a one-year pilot. Coinba...

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 analyst two months removed from his divorce and a federal seizure of all his assets. Today there are 67 active chapters across 23 countries. The one rule: you're not allowed to email Lou and ask permission to do something. Lou walks us thro...

Goodnow revolutionaries— David Phelps from Confetti joins to explain the Doge Cat Matrix—his framework for NFT use cases. Intellectual property, community building, and why he thinks prediction markets miss the point. Evan creates a live Confetti contest on air: Which RUMS host is the coolest? The voting is live through March 5. Evan explains his strategy (seed early, front-run Will, hedge everyth...

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 best episodes yet. The book's thesis: capitalism isn't missing from developing nations. Capital is. Billions of people hold assets, houses, businesses, land, but none of it is documented in a way that lets them leverage it. Dead capi...

Goodnow revolutionaries— Matthew Wiley joins the Rise Up team. He brings DeFi research experience, a tennis tournament coming up this weekend, and thoughts on why the Clarity Act should probably be renamed. Will and Evan walk through how liquid staking works using Jito as the example. The conversation covers validator economics, why people stake even when markets are sideways, and what liquid stak...

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 decision to use AI for mass surveillance and lethal weapons is entirely in government hands now. Alex rants on the ethics of prediction markets after Polymarket and Kalshi saw insider trading during the war, plus ZachXBT's Axiom exposé. Someo...

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 & wonderful world of web3.  The guys are joined in this episode by special guests Mashal Waqar, CMO of Octant; Azeem Khan, cofounder of Miden; and Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital and host of the Chopping Block. We give...

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 there's the revolutionary stuff like stablecoins that solve real problems for businesses. Yesterday at the conference: hosted by the Kraken team (bullish on Savannah, Wesley, Krakaccinos by Raposa Coffee), the Stellar Development Founda...

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 thinking about the problems they're solving, bear market or not. Someone asks why everything is down and when it'll come back. We give the bear market update nobody wants to hear but everyone needs. Plus: if you buy Bitcoin at $...

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 you had 40K to invest in crypto for the first time, what would you buy and how would you do it? The answer is simpler than you'd think—and Kraken and Coinbase both make it easy. Then it gets weird: the Netherlands wants to tax unrealiz...

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 broadcasting live from the conference all week. Someone asks why the market is down, and Evan talks about the survival mindset—what it means when you're asking that question and how to make sure you never end up in that position aga...

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 his next move on Circle stock. Also: someone floats the idea of a hot tub livestream, which goes about as far as you'd expect. Will explains why he bought Circle (CRCL) stock and what "USDC to the moon" actually...