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 its initial price and the cast breaks it down as 'a meme coin launch on the NASDAQ' — extremely low float (~4.25%), insiders absorb most of the supply, and retail comes in as exit liquidity.

Alex walks through zinc.cash — private proof-of-work mining on Solana powered by Arcium's confidential compute. Deposit SOL, pick mining tiles in 30-second rounds, compete for newly issued ZINC tokens. The bonanza-style jackpot mechanic is essentially privacy-preserving on-chain roulette. The white whale has been actively mining all 30 tiles and stakes his ZINC for the 'really nice' rewards, calling it still-early with outsized rewards and a persistent buyback-and-burn engine.

Pokemon platform power rankings via David Onchain's deep-dive post: Collector Crypt 8.5/10 (best ecosystem-wide UX, eating everyone's lunch — $66M market cap, $100M annualized revenue), Monster 9/10 (highest rated, on MegaEth with Solana wallet bridge, withdrawal-to-MegaEth-only the main con), Fidgetles, Beezy, and Tilt Rips also covered. The bigger thesis: tokenized Pokemon is the most retail-relatable demonstration of RWA tech we have right now. Hot Wheels, Beanie Babies, sports memorabilia and comic books all next.

Evan and Alex stack hits on the classic 'why Bitcoin, not [X]' questions: USDC vs Bitcoin (different tools — dollars are a transport, Bitcoin is a store), Litecoin and Dogecoin as Bitcoin forks that proved faster + cheaper hurts price, and the trust question (it's the opposite of blind — tens of thousands of nodes, every transaction publicly verifiable, no single owner). River.com data: ~300M people own Bitcoin (~4% of the world) as of May 2026. Final segment: a sharp critique of Ben McKenzie's 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' tour and Jake Claver — 'right tree, wrong dog.' Plus the Raposa Coffee TikTok Shop push (code RISEUP, free shipping on TikTok), upcoming guests Colin from The Book of Ethereum (Wed) and Josh from Free Water (Thu), and Dan Rodman of Co-Unity on RUAD.

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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–$45K opens up. Three-month chart is the one he's watching — stochastic RSI still not in oversold territory, which is what historically marks the end of every bear market. Probably one more candle to go (~3 more months) before that flips. Bull market base case: end of summer / early fall.

Stock picks: Circle (CRCL) at $80, target $65 to fill the IPO-day gap from February — Will is bullish into that buy zone. Bullish on Coinbase too. Both should outperform Bitcoin on percentage gain when sentiment turns. Saylor selling 1,000+ Bitcoin instead of his recent 32 would be the panic catalyst that flushes BTC to $30K or even a $22K wick — Will would buy as much as he could in that scenario. Power law chart eyeballs as a better long-term DCA model than the rainbow chart.

Hyperliquid is his highest-conviction bet — would make it his biggest position. Buyback math: ~$2–2.8M/day in bear-market conditions = ~30–50k tokens/day = ~11M–18M tokens/year = ~4% of total supply absorbed annually. Half the supply is already in circulation. He's hoping for HYPE to drop to $40–50 range to load up. Pudgy Penguins / Pengu thesis: if Igloo IPOs, the stock outperforms the meme coin. Aerodrome strong because of the Coinbase-to-Base flywheel.

TA roundup on viewer requests: Solana = bear flag, 9th red monthly candle in a row, target $46 (DCA range $46→$25); SUI = no real adoption growth, ugly chart; Polkadot = too late to the interoperability game, well-funded but no users; Aster = OK adoption but ugly chart; Tron = double top, $0.317 critical; Cardano = sad chart, near weekly oversold; WorldCoin = take profits (caller up 79% from $0.34, short signal flashing 8h); Cypher + TerraWolf = profit-taking range, bearish divergence on TW; Wormhole = great solution, terrible coin. Plus a one-week-out preview: macro corner with PCE inflation + Q1 GDP final revision Thursday.

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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 Bitcoin last week to cover the dividend payment. Will walks through the variable-rate mechanic — as STRC drops, the yield ratchets up to attract new buyers, which means fewer holders eventually each owed more, but the unwind risk grows.

Big news for Drift Protocol users: the DFX Recovery Token and Insurance Fund claim checker is live. If you were affected by the ~$300M Drift exploit, each DFX token represents $1 of verified loss. Watch for scam tokens and scam accounts targeting affected users — Drift's official account is @DriftProtocol. PSA also: keep your distance from anything claiming to be the official launch.

Alex spends the back half of the show in the Pokemon / Collector Crypt rabbit hole. After two weeks deep in the platform, she's calling out a major structural problem: the on-platform insured-value pricing has almost no correlation with real eBay sales data. A Gengar she wanted to buy was insured at $200+ above the highest recent eBay sale in the last year — meaning sellers won't accept offers below the inflated insured price. The fix she's proposing: pull real-time market sales feeds into the platform and price accordingly. Plus debates with Will on whether the gotcha machines should go seasonal vs always-on (Will's idea), and what utility could actually link the CARDS token to the platform.

Macro corner: Will pulls up the Bitcoin monthly chart — $59.8K (3-month 21 EMA) and $63.8K (1-month 55 EMA) are the levels to watch. Monthly candle closes in eight days. If we end below $63.8K, $51K–$45K targets open up. Dollar continues testing resistance. Thursday is PCE inflation data + Q1 GDP final revision — expect heavy volatility second half of the week. Plus: Alex breaks down the SBI / XRP-in-Japan story (SBI's CEO clarified they don't actually own XRP — only ~9% private equity stake in Ripple Labs, ~$4.5B paper value, which is why he's the loudest XRP cheerleader on Twitter), and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a 0.2% tax on every crypto transaction including wallet-to-wallet transfers and DeFi interactions. Clarity Act before July 4? Per Eleanor Terrett: logistically impossible. Prediction markets give August passage ~22%.

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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-pollination.

The meatiest segment is Will's plain-English breakdown of MicroStrategy's STRC instrument after Bearded asked if it's a dangerous Ponzi. Will frames STRC as a corporate bond with an 11.5% dividend, senior to common equity, and walks through the unwind risk if Bitcoin has consecutive bad years. Companion PSA: Satori Finance is closing — 30-day clock to withdraw.

Alex levels the most direct rant of the season on the "buying Cardano here could be the move" creator content making the rounds. Cardano's TVL is now BELOW Katana's (~$92M). Cardano's daily chain revenue is $276 — Alex makes more daily revenue from Pokemon cards than Cardano makes as an entire blockchain. The Solana-at-$8 comparison is dishonest and disqualifying — Solana cratered because of FTX/SBF leverage, not a fundamental network failure; nothing fundamental changed, the builders stayed. Cardano's situation is the opposite. "Comparing the two is manipulative, maybe just stupid."

Macro corner: Will pulls up CME FedWatch — odds of rate hikes (not cuts) by the December 9 Fed meeting sit at ~87%; ~75% by October; ~66% by September. Dollar testing key resistance, looking to flip it to support. Both bad for crypto. Plus a SuperTeam Ireland castle residency for Solana builders (Alex angling hard for a RUMS hosting gig), the Dialogue/Peter Thiel "secret society" attendee list leak (Joseph Gordon-Levitt + Ezra Klein + Tim Ferriss + Ted Cruz + Sam Harris + Scott Bessent + Reid Hoffman, plus panels titled "How to Build Your Own Cult" and "Money Can Buy You Happiness"), and Jito's upcoming JTX heist workshop with The White Whale and select content creators.

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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-long comedy show that toured the world for a year and is now becoming a TV show with Roman Coppola's Decentralized Pictures.

Alex re-demos the interactive AI/chip-company web she built with Claude — investment lines, competition, lawsuits, supply chain, government contracts — now colloquially known as The Tangle. She'll publish it as a live artifact at tangledweb.rumshq.com (or in Circle, depending on where it lands). The walkthrough doubles as a Claude/vibe-coding tutorial: one-sentence prompt to start, iterative fixes ("this part looks broken," Claude fixes it), and the realization that you can build legitimately useful software now if you can speak a language and have a vague idea.

Mid-show Viv goes live on a POAP scavenger hunt at EWR — the airport POAP exists, but it's POAP-gated and she doesn't have the prerequisite POAP, so it's a $1 fallback. Patricio Worthalter (Mr. POAP) sighting at the consensus VIP speakers dinner. The team also recaps Octant Demo Day Epoch 12, which Evan and Alex co-hosted earlier today (Griff Green of DAO-hack-and-hack-back fame on stage, Roscoe from revoke.cache, Maggie Love showed up with food poisoning AND the DeFi toddler, full quadratic funding explainer). Plus: Will's continuing butter-futures campaign — long beef, short butter into the full moon. Will's Collector Crypt CARDS token burn-rate PDF for premium members is up 19.5% in the hour since the show started.

Capped by the Purple Arculus Wallet prototype reveal again, with the full economics confessed on air (Alex personally backs the entire sprint run if pre-orders don't sell — RUMS doesn't make a dollar on the wallets, just recoups). Plus the Tangem-vs-Arculus question handled with grace after viewer Drew shared a $5M loss story, and a Ripple x Matt Damon $25M-to-clean-water aside. Viv's parting wish, said from the floor: "What a joy that crypto still brings such fun wild creatures together for a solid two-hour hang."

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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, competition lines, feud lines, lawsuit lines, supply chain lines. The picture that emerges is a closed-loop money-laundering ouroboros where the same dollars cycle between the same five companies as investments, payments, and equity, while each one's paper valuation climbs.

Highlight news beats: SpaceX bought Cursor today (Cursor valued at $60B against ~$4B annualized revenue, fresh off SpaceX's $2T-on-paper IPO). Anthropic's Fable 5 model was banned by the US government within 72 hours of release after Amazon engineers reportedly jailbroke it — and Pete Hegseth called Anthropic "woke" because they wouldn't sign off on autonomous kill bots. The DoD contract went to OpenAI instead. David Sachs is overseeing all this as the White House AI/crypto czar despite still having undisclosed VC exposure across most of these companies. Emily walks through the historical context for the Fort Knox gold audit chatter, why re-pricing the reserves would amount to Bank-of-China-style currency manipulation, and what that does to a country running 112% debt to GDP.

The Bitcoin debate flares up again: Emily argues the 21M hard cap is functionally broken via ETFs, wrapped versions, MicroStrategy treasury manipulation, and PolyMarket-style synthetic exposure — the decentralization narrative is marketing fluff at this point. Alex pushes back, eventually conceding the hard cap is being structurally diluted even if not technically changed. Both end up agreeing that Ethereum is structurally more important than Bitcoin going forward — it's the universal backer for stablecoins, the substrate for tokenized everything, and the only EVM environment compatible with serious AI-agent activity.

Plus: Saylor's manufactured dead-cat bounce, TSMC + ASML's chip-manufacturing chokepoint (silicon photonics + EUV lithography), why tariffs are just an extra consumer tax, the difference between "security by obscurity" and "security through transparency," Solana DEX meme-coin volume actually being only ~5% (not the majority everyone claims), Ethereum gas fees crashing to under 25 cents for even the most expensive transaction type, and Alex's final wish: to be first in line to sit on Lincoln Memorial Santa's lap. Book club next week: The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon.

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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, competition lines, feud lines, lawsuit lines, supply chain lines. The picture that emerges is a closed-loop money-laundering ouroboros where the same dollars cycle between the same five companies as investments, payments, and equity, while each one's paper valuation climbs.

Highlight news beats: SpaceX bought Cursor today (Cursor valued at $60B against ~$4B annualized revenue, fresh off SpaceX's $2T-on-paper IPO). Anthropic's Fable 5 model was banned by the US government within 72 hours of release after Amazon engineers reportedly jailbroke it — and Pete Hegseth called Anthropic "woke" because they wouldn't sign off on autonomous kill bots. The DoD contract went to OpenAI instead. David Sachs is overseeing all this as the White House AI/crypto czar despite still having undisclosed VC exposure across most of these companies. Emily walks through the historical context for the Fort Knox gold audit chatter, why re-pricing the reserves would amount to Bank-of-China-style currency manipulation, and what that does to a country running 112% debt to GDP.

The Bitcoin debate flares up again: Emily argues the 21M hard cap is functionally broken via ETFs, wrapped versions, MicroStrategy treasury manipulation, and PolyMarket-style synthetic exposure — the decentralization narrative is marketing fluff at this point. Alex pushes back, eventually conceding the hard cap is being structurally diluted even if not technically changed. Both end up agreeing that Ethereum is structurally more important than Bitcoin going forward — it's the universal backer for stablecoins, the substrate for tokenized everything, and the only EVM environment compatible with serious AI-agent activity.

Plus: Saylor's manufactured dead-cat bounce, TSMC + ASML's chip-manufacturing chokepoint (silicon photonics + EUV lithography), why tariffs are just an extra consumer tax, the difference between "security by obscurity" and "security through transparency," Solana DEX meme-coin volume actually being only ~5% (not the majority everyone claims), Ethereum gas fees crashing to under 25 cents for even the most expensive transaction type, and Alex's final wish: to be first in line to sit on Lincoln Memorial Santa's lap. Book club next week: The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon.

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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 coin is not appropriate." Then the morning dives straight into a week of crypto-and-AI drama nobody asked for.

The big AI story: Amazon claims to have jailbroken Anthropic's Fable V and reported it to the White House, contributing to the recent export-control suspension. Anthropic counters that the jailbreak is narrow-in-scope and works on GPT too — further evidence that the government is propping up OpenAI. Pete Hegseth posting anti-Anthropic victory laps on Twitter despite other administration members being invested. David Sachs heavily exposed via his venture fund. The whole industry is just companies trading the same money back and forth while government officials insider-trade around it.

Crypto drama: MetaDAO vs Zinc — public DM-spats, alleged lawsuit threats, White Whale chimes in to contribute to Zinc's legal defense and challenge MetaDAO to even up the playing field. Alex's frame: bear market boredom drives people to find C-tier drama because they've already watched everything good on Netflix.

Then the longest segment of the show — Brian Armstrong's pitch to scrap accredited investor laws. Will + Alex agree philosophically (the rules are gatekeeping, not protection) but split in practice (the sports-gambling-legalization analogy). The fix isn't deregulation alone — it's mandatory financial literacy in high school first. Bearded's "it's my money, let me lose it how I want" comment becomes the foil for a really clean education-system rant.
Plus: Octant Demo Day tomorrow at 10am EST + the proper Quadratic Funding launch in Epoch 12 (Vitalik's original vision), Super Team USA's Miami-is-too-easy comedy skit, Aerodrome up 26% yesterday + 9% today, X Stocks self-custody clarification (you're holding a tokenized receipt, not the share), and Will's hype $75 reload-or-sell question.

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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 strength in the bear market + brand power + adoption + tokenomic structure (revenue + buyback policy).

The A-minus tier: Morpho, Hyperliquid, Bitcoin, and Zcash. Zcash earns the slot despite the recent dip — the team found and plugged the exploit themselves before any proof of abuse, and the privacy narrative is the trend of the moment. B-plus tier: Maple Finance / Syrup (TVL up-and-to-the-right despite weak chart), Sky Protocol (knocked down a tier because the 87% buyback dropped to 7.5%), BNB (bearish engulfing weekly candle to watch), and Canton (whose super-validator is the NASDAQ).

B tier: VVV (Venice — hot chart, no real adoption but legit AI-narrative beta). B-minus: Stellar and Pendle. C-plus: Near Protocol, Chainlink (Will: "I want it to be good so bad — but its life is death"), Aave (buyback paused April 19), and Sui. C: XRP — "can't be more than that because brand still has potential." C-minus: Hedera. D: Kaspa — "stegosaur with Down syndrome" energy.

Memes get explicitly excluded from the grading framework: "It's unfair to put meme coins in the same A-B-C-D tier as cryptos. They're designed to go to zero in bear markets and come surging back in bull markets — they're their own thing." Plus Bitcoin weekly TA showing bullish divergence but the monthly threatening another roll-over, Circle (CRCL) finally triggering a daily short signal as it approaches Will's $63-71 buy zone, and quantum stock updates on INFQ + Rigetti + D-Wave (QBTS).

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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 ago — kept failing to hold resistance through the worst of the escalation headlines, telling you the conflict was winding down before the diplomats admitted it. "I have confidence in the war ending because I have confidence in the market."

Plus: Blockworks acquired Masari for roughly $10M — Will's read is that founder Ryan Selkis torpedoed his own brand on the timeline and that's why the company sold. Anthropic gets hit with a US government export control on Mythos V + Fable V models (KYC required for foreign nationals) — Alex's take: the government is trying to prop up OpenAI because Anthropic keeps spanking them at every benchmark. Paradigm bought the unsolved Kryptos sculpture cipher from artist Jim Sanborn — even the NSA hasn't cracked it. Helios Foundation acquired Light Protocol — Solana is marching toward privacy.

On the macro side: SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire on paper. The wealth-transfer mechanism (NASDAQ forced inclusion, gajillions of retirement accounts shoehorned in) lets early employees finally realize equity — but at the cost of forced retail exposure. Starlink is 60% of SpaceX revenue and the only profitable piece. SpaceX itself lost $4.9B last year on $18.7B in revenue. Saylor added another $100M in Bitcoin. Tom Lee raising another $300M for ETH.

Will's Keeta (KTA) review walks through the textbook scam-warning signs: layer-1 compliance-ready talk track, KYC baked in, $9M earmarked for buying a bank (the purchase hasn't gone through), Abu Dhabi + Ask Financial Group backing connecting to Arab Coin + Islam Coin (companies that have done predatory faith-targeted projects before). Plus a Velvet Protocol / Aerodrome 92,000% APY pool teardown — the numbers don't make sense, it presents as ponzi-farm.

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