XRP Deep Dive: 5M Tether Users vs 120K Ripple Users | Ep 538

How Zinc.cash Is Putting Bitcoin Mining Inside a Solana Contract | Ep 539

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 pulled him in), the mechanics (statistical mining odds, tile choice, mint distribution), and the roadmap (Coingecko mintable warning is temporary — full immutability doesn't happen at week six of a project, it happens once the mechanics stop needing tuning). Full-transparency founder answering every hard question. Community + founder-availability masterclass: Shift Boss is in the Zinc Telegram 24/7, has 20-30 people in his DMs every day, personally answers every question. This is how Rise Up found him. Founder access is the underrated moat in early-stage crypto — nothing accelerates trust faster than a founder who ships and shows up. He and Evan agree the community is where the actual product feedback loop lives, not the tweet section. Also this episode: BONK TREASURY DAO GOVERNANCE HEIST — full coverage. Someone proposed a vote to drain the treasury, vote passed, funds moved. 'Perfect heist, embarrassing for them.' Solar Mass exploit continues the same governance-design story. Carol's portfolio-consolidation story — going from ~20 coins down to 4, then down to Hyperliquid + a couple others (if you can keep your portfolio to 3 assets, keep it to 3). Aerodrome breakdown watch continues (Alex's Arrow-love take). Robinhood Network memecoin guessing game — cash cat, hood rat, GME, or 'one dollar is all you need' — which one is fake? Reposa Coffee at the X Games this weekend facing massive demand. Cross-border coffee shipping delay explainer. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today! Crypto Payment [https://forms.gle/r9fBTRAw79oSmBWaA] · Card Payment [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0oeervCE5Jbawrz6JIE7F06CDqgv2tJVjhum0JpdbB1NFpQ/viewform] Support the show [https://community.rumshq.com/checkout/premium-membership] —  Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7:  community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗  LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐  LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? 👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com [https://rumshq.com] 👉Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan [https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan] 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info [https://alexpopovic.info/] 🐬 Will Watson: https://c... [https://coinguide.vip/]

XRP Deep Dive: 5M Tether Users vs 120K Ripple Users | Ep 538

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-conscious about NOT knowing the tournament — the international-crypto conference circuit is a soccer draft day. Big-picture trading segment: Solana TA on the weekly chart looks like the beginning of a bottom formation — key EMAs converging with current price. Bitcoin's chart looks a little worse structurally, but SOL is showing early rounding signals. Not printed yet — watching. Twitter/X trending list overnight: Ansem Black Bull, Monad, The Grove, Bonk, Lighter (a Hyperliquid competitor on Solana), Octra, Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum. 'Monad? Who is searching Monad?' Cards token deep dive — aggressive burn mechanic, high adoption, could be another Hyperliquid IF the buyback actually turns on (Alex thinks it isn't yet, Evan needs to double-check). XRP DEEP DIVE. Evan walks through the full Ripple/XRP thesis history: 'bridge currency for banks' idea from ~2013 was elegant back then; the pitch was that XRP could become the whole world's on-ramp. Then the hard data: Tether has ~5 million active users (chart up-and-to-the-right); Ripple is hovering at ~120K active users and has been stagnating for years. Adoption ≠ price appreciation ≠ token value capture. XRP token isn't necessarily designed to capture the value the network might create. Same lens applied to Chainlink (LINK) — Pyth Oracle services are being gated behind holding/paying with LINK, which is step one of value capture. Same lens on Ansem token. Different token, different design. Also this episode: Evan joining SuperTeam Solana as an advisor for narrative strategy at their Mountain Dow (Utah) + Malaysia + Thailand residencies in August. Governance-exploit-as-student-council metaphor (Compound-style attack where someone just proposed a vote to take $14–$16M and it passed — 'not a hack, they asked and you gave it to them'). Full Arculus sponsor read at closeout — 'we pursued Arculus because their product was superior, team was the best, customer service was the most responsive. Made in USA, three-factor auth, same tech as Visa/MasterCard. CompoSecure parent, publicly traded.' Deepest Arculus read of the year. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today! Crypto Payment [https://forms.gle/r9fBTRAw79oSmBWaA] · Card Payment [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0oeervCE5Jbawrz6JIE7F06CDqgv2tJVjhum0JpdbB1NFpQ/viewform] Support the show [https://community.rumshq.com/checkout/premium-membership] —  Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7:  community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗  LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐  LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? 👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com [https://rumshq.com] 👉Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan [https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan] 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info [https://alexpopovic.info/] 🐬 Will Watson: https://c... [https://coinguide.vip/]

Bitcoin Has Been Trapped Between $58K–$69K Since February | Ep 047📈🤑

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. The United States is far ahead of China'). Same beats, same bounce. BTC target zone continues to be $69K–$71K — that's where the 12-month EMA (3-month chart) and the 200-week SMA (weekly) converge. BTC has been chopping between $58K–$69K since February 2026 — the whole 5-month range remains intact. Will's DCA zone: $57K–$67K, and the current price is deep inside that range. Coinbase (CB) has an eight-touch bottom at $144 but the weekly stochastic RSI is not yet oversold — support is getting weaker. The bullish flip would be turning the $200 200-week EMA into support. Ethereum has to hold the $1,822 55-day EMA short-term or a target zone at $800 opens up (58% fall — Will finds that unlikely but never says never). Solana lovefest: Will's favorite coin to trade, most-used chain (perps + Pokemon cards via Collector Crypt). But he's not building a position because that capital goes into Hyperliquid instead. Hyperliquid TA doesn't matter — the fundamentals are so bullish that any correction is a buy. MicroStrategy analysis: 'MSTR will give you higher percentage gains than Bitcoin IF Bitcoin's at a bottom — if you're wrong, it'll rip your shirt off, throw it at your mom, and punch your dad in the throat.' Sway (SWE) $60 support = long-term buy; $42 = better long-term buy. Robinhood chain — dismissed. XRP DCA question — Will's answer is no. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today! Crypto Payment [https://forms.gle/r9fBTRAw79oSmBWaA] · Card Payment [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0oeervCE5Jbawrz6JIE7F06CDqgv2tJVjhum0JpdbB1NFpQ/viewform] Support the show [https://community.rumshq.com/checkout/premium-membership] —  Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7:  community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗  LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐  LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? 👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com [https://rumshq.com] 👉Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan [https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan] 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info [https://alexpopovic.info/] 🐬 Will Watson: https://c... [https://coinguide.vip/]

Hyperliquid Buy Zone: $60–$64 With a $50 Dream Entry | Ep 537

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 slightly differently. Nine fingers, full send. Market pass on the morning of the truncated holiday week: Bitcoin chart on the daily + 4-hour, TradingView-monopoly-of-crypto sidebar (their charting engine is embedded in Jupiter, Pacifica, and every perp DEX on the internet — someone please tell us their revenue). Hyperliquid is the strongest-looking chart in crypto and the crew's Buy Zone: $60–$64 accumulation with a dream re-entry at $50. HYPE lost ground on the CASINO-to-serious-exchange narrative last cycle; per (perpetual protocol) is down 30% while HYPE is flat, so a 75/25 HYPE-to-per split as a volatility hedge is on the table. Aerodrome breakdown: if $0.28 breaks, next stop is $0.135. Cards token (Arthur Hayes + Ansem pumped it) has a bullish chart — with the Arthur context caveat. Also this episode: Log a Dog XYZ hot dog contest is LIVE through Labor Day — bounties paying out $50/frank for logged eats. USA World Cup team collapsed in an embarrassing manner (Alex furious). Will's swing-trading philosophy: 5x–10x positions on ETH + SOL are the maximum his headspace allows given he's not full-time trading — swing over scalp forever. Solana's swing-trade thesis maturing to match his ETH thesis (volatile but predictable). Stablecoin network-dominance question closes the show: which chain wins the stablecoin liquidity race — Polygon, BSC, or something else? Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today! Crypto Payment [https://forms.gle/r9fBTRAw79oSmBWaA] · Card Payment [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0oeervCE5Jbawrz6JIE7F06CDqgv2tJVjhum0JpdbB1NFpQ/viewform] Support the show [https://community.rumshq.com/checkout/premium-membership] —  Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7:  community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗  LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐  LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? 👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com [https://rumshq.com] 👉Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan [https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan] 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info [https://alexpopovic.info/] 🐬 Will Watson: https://c... [https://coinguide.vip/]

Cathie Wood Just Bought Another $17M of Circle. Should You? | Ep 536

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 toward a $63.5K → $66K bounce, then re-test. Doji candle education for the newcomers ('doji is not pretentious for doge, promise'). Circle stock update: Cathie Wood/Ark bought another $15–$17M of CRCL yesterday. Will got some too. Post-OpenUSD-launch chop-then-recovery narrative continues. Solana bounce/cool-down analysis with the 15-min chart pulling toward $81. Will's 150x SOL trade update ('if I get liquidated at $15 I get liquidated at $15, only means I should revenge trade 250x next'). Alex's stablecoin ecosystem-stack visualization walks through Tether / USDC / USAT / PYUSD / RLUSD, the reserves-and-custody layer, chain distribution, and end-user layer — the whole stablecoin picture in one slide. Also this episode: Alex's ethical-investing riff on Tractor Supply / Petco / PetSmart animal welfare (has been flagged for it before, doesn't care). Will's Pokemon rabbit-hole confessional — he pulled a PSA-7 Blastoise from a graded pack (turns out Blastoise is his birthday Pokemon). Constructive feedback for Collector Crypt / Griff on how to make graded slabs actually cool on-chain (NFC chip pointing to blockchain history, airdrops, free pack wins, lower fees, higher buyback percentages). Community Premium walkthrough — $30 for the recorded course when you use the sign-up promo code. Get ready for Jito's new JTX beta — signup is live at rumshq.com, first button on the homepage. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. RUMS Purple Wallet Want the safest way to store your crypto? The Arculus cold storage wallet keeps your assets completely offline, away from exchanges, away from hackers, and fully in your control. Get your exclusive RUMS x Arculus cold storage wallet today! Crypto Payment [https://forms.gle/r9fBTRAw79oSmBWaA] · Card Payment [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0oeervCE5Jbawrz6JIE7F06CDqgv2tJVjhum0JpdbB1NFpQ/viewform] Support the show [https://community.rumshq.com/checkout/premium-membership] —  Want to hang out with us after the show, get live answers to your questions, or join future giveaways? Join our free community where the show lives 24/7:  community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] — ☕ THE RISE UP MORNING SHOW☀️ LIVE Monday - Thursday @ 7a central Helpful web3 news, commentary, & answers to your crypto questions. 🍻RISE UP AFTER DARK🌗  LIVE Wednesdays @ 7p central DYOR and BYOB for casual Q&A, fun with expert guests, and altcoin research. 📈RISE UP MARKET WATCH🤑 LIVE Mondays @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. ⚖️ TRUST ISSUES 🧐  LIVE Tuesdays @ 6:30p central Breaking down U.S. crypto policy, regulation, and legislation—what they mean for the industry and what comes next. — WANT MORE? 👉Connect w/us on your favorite social: https://rumshq.com [https://rumshq.com] 👉Become a guest or sponsor: riseup@rumshq.com 👉Join our free community: https://community.rumshq.com [https://community.rumshq.com] FOLLOW OUR HOSTS: ☮️ Evan Mann: https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan [https://beacons.ai/conversationswithevan] 🤬 Alex Popovic: https://alexpopovic.info [https://alexpopovic.info/] 🐬 Will Watson: https://c... [https://coinguide.vip/]