Inside BAM: Jito's Execution Engine For Solana | Ep 534

Pacifica Deep Dive: The Solana Perpetuals Platform Looking to Raise the UX Bar | Ep 546

Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 546 with Constance and Jose from Pacifica — the Solana-native perpetuals trading platform Alex has been using backstage for the last week or two. The Rise Up crew walked through Hyperliquid, Drift, and the rest of the perps landscape before settling on Pacifica. This one is the deep-dive. Product philosophy from Jose: minimize clicks, minimize eyeball movements on the UI. Adopt better practices from Hyperliquid / LiDAR / NATO whenever they exist. "Why should we tell people to stop using Hyperliquid and use Pacifica? Actually I never tell people to stop using Hyperliquid. They should use Hyperliquid as much as they want." Non-zero-sum framing. Trigger-reverse orders and swarm orders as the sharpest product features that Rise Up hosts have been playing with. Another Moment: Constance's FTX past. She helped build FTX from absolutely scratch — no product, no name, no anything when Sam first called her. Greg is publishing an article tonight covering her FTX story. Alex's frame back to her: Pacifica is the FTX story with the parallels starting the same way (great product built for a bull market) but with the ending they'll actively work to have diverge. On Solana, which currently has more active wallets than Ethereum. Powered by Arculus Wallet — getarculus.com, promo code ARCURUMS10. Powered by Jito — stake your SOL at https://www.jito.network/staking/. 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/]

POIDH's Kenny On Human Coordination Via On-Chain Bounties + A Bitcoin TA Marathon | Ep 89🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries— After Dark 089 with Kenny — creator of POIDH (Pix Or It Didn't Happen). Self-proclaimed Bitcoin maxi, lover of the censorship-resistance stuff that makes crypto cool, and the guy behind the fully-on-chain bounty protocol Alex teased Wednesday morning as the natural POAP successor. This is the deep-dive. The POIDH framing that lands: it's a human-coordination protocol dressed as a bounty platform. Put money on-chain for anything you want to see happen — hug a tree, log a dog, seven-footers-only DAO, create a Rums island, get 200 people to answer "what is Ethereum?" on video. All bounties minted on Base. Kenny's onboarding thesis for crypto: "You can earn some money doing something fun" beats "buy a meme coin and lose everything" as an intro to crypto for real people. His "In Defense of Bounties" blog explains why Pump Fun and Dare Market's terrible bounties (drink your piss on video) are thinking way too small about what bounties actually do for human coordination. Second-hour TA marathon with Will: Google's gap-down setup ($304, longs anywhere below $319), Bitcoin's stochastic-RSI double-top pattern to oversold, Solana margin-trade liquidation zones on the 1-hour, and a Lorenzian classifier walkthrough showing why Bitcoin only turned green at $61K (from $77K) — Super Trend + Lorenzian long setups working across the recent recovery. And Alex's macro "crypto 8-ball" frame: 20 things in the bag, 16 negative — more tariffs, war escalation, government rug pulls, Clarity Act stalling, BIP-110 chaos. Also this episode: bit.lovin coming on Thursday morning show to explain BIP-110 / knots vs core governance drama, Pacifica team coming tomorrow with live trades, Evan going live with Anthony Galima (business anthropologist), and Kenny's clip-it clip-it clip-it moment at the top that will inevitably become the clip. 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/]

The Reality of XRP, JTX Goes Live, and POAP's Eulogy | Ep 545

Good now revolutionaries— Full team RUMS 545. Alex spends the first hour taking apart the XRP/Ripple argument in the sharpest, most-specific detail this show's ever committed to tape. Community question from Eleanor Tourette on XRP + Clarity Act triggers it. Real data: an 11M-token wallet that accumulated at $2.39 (once worth $25M) is now worth about $12M. That's the "most XRP holders are in profit" claim on chain, in one screenshot. Ripple has competing incentives — software company selling to institutions AND token company selling to retail. Two customer bases, one wallet. Clarity Act reality check: the "one yard line" talking point Scott Besson used A MONTH AND A HALF AGO is being recycled by influencers as if he said it yesterday. Alex: we're at the 50 now, not the one yard line. Trump ethics provision still the sticking point. The Republican-only agreement two nights ago wasn't a bipartisan agreement — it was two Republicans already on board. Alex isn't confident this session passes. Different Clarity-esque bills are being surfaced elsewhere too. JTX IS OPEN. Public. Alex is taking down the "early access" link from the show — anyone can hit jtx.trade now. Kevin Beardsley (Jito & JTX CPO) coming through the RUMS lens this week. Also on the sponsor push: RUMS x Arculus Purple Wallet pre-order — the more sign-ups Torii collects, the sooner we ship (12-week production window once we hit quantity). Alex snap-back hat, stickers, leggings — more community merch behind the scenes with Torii and Matthew. Also this episode: POAP is DEAD. Alex genuinely mad — suggests toasting POAP tonight. Kenny from "Pix Or It Didn't Happen" replaces it with on-chain photo bounties (log a dog, hug a tree, find a sponsor for GM Farcaster). Polygon feedback question — real friend-of-the-show lament ("everyone in the Polygon-Runs group chat no longer works at Polygon"). Superteam onboarding as Alex's real final thought — Nikki + Amy giving the crypto-industry masterclass on how business should be done (direct budget conversation in under 30 minutes). And, no spoilers, Alex loved the Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation). 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/]

The Clarity Act Reality Check: What The Bull-Posters Are Missing| Ep 25⚖️

Good now revolutionaries— Trust Issues 025 with Alex + Lindsay back after a three-week Michigan-drive gap. Perfectly timed: a fresh bout of Clarity Act bull-posting kicked off Monday night, and the two of them spend the whole hour going through what's actually in the bill vs what's being tweeted about it. Lindsay's angle is academic — one hand, other hand, sit on the fence like it's her job — and it's exactly what the topic needs. The section that lit up the room: the Uniswap-Circle-USDC scenario. If Lindsay swaps USDC through Uniswap and Circle catches wind of something problematic, Circle (as the MTL holder) is the one issuing the freeze. Circle KYC's Uniswap. Not you. That's a lot of power in the hands of one issuer — and worth remembering that Circle didn't stop the Drift hack. Front-end vs back-end debate explored via Hayden's argument: the front-end can be rebuilt by anyone, anytime — so front-end protocol-liability language is the murky part of the bill. Also this episode: the 80/20 counterfactual — "If Word Liberty didn't exist, Clarity would have passed last year." Comparison to the Genius Act, which went from initial draft to president's desk in less than six months. Judicial-branch concern: strict-constitutionalists like Neil Gorsuch interpreting technology through frozen-truck-driver-ruling logic. And the SEC/CFTC handoff — corporate crypto protection framing on ICO/TGE disclosure reductions. Plus Alex's evergreen media literacy rant: Dunning-Kruger, Occam's Razor, and "if the answer makes you uncomfortable, it's probably closer to objective." Historical detour: AOC's origin-of-victory over Joe Crowley wasn't just left-vs-establishment — it was that Crowley had moved his family to DMV, kids in DMV schools, no ties to the district he was supposed to represent. Constituent-service theme worth remembering for anyone doing crypto policy work. 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/]

Jillian Hishaw On Private Equity, Bankruptcy & The Bitcoin Clawback Case | Ep 544

Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson and Alex are joined by Jillian Hishaw for a wide-ranging Tuesday. Jillian's a bankruptcy attorney whose social platform quietly turned into one of the country's sharpest expose feeds on private equity's encroachment against small business. A congresswoman is now hitting her up to talk about protecting local businesses. Great segue into where crypto tokenization is either part of the answer or part of the same problem. The bankruptcy walkthrough is worth the whole show. Chapter 7, 13, 11 (corporations like Walmart), 12 (farmers and fishermen), 15 (foreign like Alibaba) — clean explanations, real cases, current data. Filings up 46% in a year, which is NOT typical. Plus the case that should scare anyone paid in crypto for consulting or contract work: hashtag technologies (California bankruptcy court). The trustee used the clawback provision to reclaim Bitcoin paid to a marketing vendor six months before the company went under. Called it a fraudulent transaction. Actionable warning for anyone taking BTC as compensation from a struggling client. Macro read: Coinbase premium purchases are WAY DOWN. Demand is weakening but price is staying flat — the setup for a leg-down if support finally gives. On policy: Clarity Act passed but has NO kickoff date. Same story as the Genius Act — one year mark crossed, still nothing enforced. Enforcement agencies have to write the policy before any of it matters. Polymarket odds tracking the timing. Base / Coinbase saga continues: Jesse Pollock has STEPPED BACK from the Base app. Kobe has been appointed. Community sentiment: "Don't squander our trust." Brian Armstrong's post added fuel. Kraken still sitting quietly as the credible-exchange play. Also this episode: Jillian's food-program cost pressures (prices up, fewer people fed, donation link live), and Alex reminders about the free trial of RUMS premium at community.rumshq.com — free office hours today at 3pm EST. 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/]