The Rise Up Morning Show

Clarity Act Timing: July 4 Slips To August — What That Means | Ep 516

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 trade unwinds and crypto + stocks can run. If it breaks bullish, global liquidity gets crunched and the rally dies. The macro section gets specific: Bitcoin is testing $69K weakness, the three-month chart isn't oversold yet, and Will sees several months of downside as a possibility — $60K is the floor he'd consider buying. Ethereum's bear flag has an $800-$1,100 target if it breaks. Solana below $77 opens $59, then $40, with a far-tail $19 print possible if rates and oil keep pushing the wrong way. Circle (CRCL) keeps grinding lower into the Clarity Act timing — Trump's goal is July 4, but a congressional recess pushes the realistic window to August. Will runs a short Terra/Do Kwon communications recap as the educational segment — how the comms collapsed in 2022 alongside the protocol. He also previews 'Coin Guide WW' coming soon. Closing reminders: Arculus cold storage (code ARCURUMS10), Jito for SOL staking (better returns than any centralized exchange), and community.rumshq.com for the office hours sessions — Will is hosting them Tuesdays 3-4pm EST, $30/month, full small-classroom Q&A. 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip [https://coinguide.vip/] RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

What Is Superteam USA? America's Home For Solana Builders | Ep 81🍻🌗

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 the event ended and the team is fully decompressing on-air — board vodka in hand, courtesy of John from Drink Board Vodka who walked the bottle over at the event. Super Team USA is a global Solana Foundation initiative now headquartered in Miami. The thesis: bring the best builders, founders, and investors together IN PERSON, build a 'Solana > everything else' culture, and onboard the next wave of non-crypto-natives without dumbing it down. Today's event was the launch — half the room wasn't crypto-native by design, the talks were deep instead of basic, and the talent pull surprised even the team. Nikki and Amy share the 'who would you draft' game (Dylan Abrascato, Bibu, Bearded, and the white whale all get picks), the Hyperliquid 'face the giant Achilles' meme war, and the 'launch a Solana app in minutes' Poof tagline. Amy closes with a teacher-mode masterclass: what IS a Solana app, why would anyone build one, and where AI agents — which can't deal with bank holidays — fit in. The takeaway: Solana solves real problems, Super Team is the bridge for builders to find the room, and Miami's Wynwood neighborhood is quietly becoming the East Coast's crypto founder hub. Plus the Mountain Dew commercial that Amy can't stop bringing up. 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] 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip [https://coinguide.vip/] RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

Bitcoin Looks Bearish — But Oil & Bonds Are Flipping Bullish | Ep 515

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 through why a real Iran-US peace deal lowers oil, drops the ten-year, and reopens the rate-cut trade — and yesterday's intraday lag from oil-up to BTC-down is the cleanest live tell of the correlation he's seen. Mid-show, Iranian state media releases a draft of the Iran-US peace deal LIVE while Will is on chart — oil drops severely on the headline, Will reacts on tape, and reframes the rest of the macro segment around it. Bitcoin's weekly is trying to break the 12-week EMA; if oil keeps falling, the bearish daily setup may not deliver. He also lays out his short Circle (CRCL) thesis — targets at $100 or $64 — and why the Clarity Act passing by July 4 is the cleanest near-term catalyst. Gold gets a 'sell-the-rip' read on the weekly EMAs. NEAR Protocol at $2.42 is the swing-trade level to watch. 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] 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip [https://coinguide.vip/] RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

MSTR vs Buying Bitcoin Directly — Will's Read | Ep 514

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 either, but Jito is clean." Market layer: stablecoins on Kraken still earning ~4% (Will's personal yield desk), Base continues to win in the bear market (backed by Coinbase, security infrastructure advancing), oil up overnight, BTC has flipped from the dead-even bull/bear pressure last week toward more bearish positioning — Will watches Binance market-maker behavior carefully. The Bitwise piece is worth flagging — traditional research team + on-chain team paired up at their recent event, messaging is all about crypto education. Will on the open: "I wouldn't mind a Bitwise sponsorship." DeFi Llama deep dive: Hyperliquid leads, EtherFi underperforming (down on EigenCloud too), Pendle's actually up. Vaults are the post-Clarity-Act winner — Morpho + Steakhouse + Aave the shape of who wins next. Base ecosystem flipped: Uniswap up 10.14%, Aerodrome down 3.2% (Velodrome deprecating). Polygon's DeFi is functionally kaput — 40% of TVL is Polymarket; Polygon is now a payments-focused chain. Solana is bleeding from the Drift fallout but Jito staking is holding steady. Closing: code ARCURUMS10 for 10% off the Arculus hardware wallet, plus the Iran headlines watch — peace deal or escalation, you'll know by Friday. 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip [https://coinguide.vip/] RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....

Will Calls Chainlink's $125K LINK Buyback 'Not Enough' | Ep 42📈🤑

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 Fed back toward rate hikes — bad for crypto, bad for stocks, period. From there it's pure macro: Bitcoin's monthly chart pressed against the 12-month and 21-month EMA cluster as resistance, the open futures gap below pulling toward $73.4K, and why the weekend pump shouldn't be trusted until the next daily candle closes confirms direction. Will also walks through his recent rotation into quantum-computing equities, why Circle (CRCL) is starting to look oversold for the first time in months, and the bearish engulfing candle on Solana's weekly that's lined up with everyone draining capital toward Hyperliquid and Zcash. The Chainlink segment is the meat of the episode — Will reads SmartCon coverage live and breaks down the $125K-in-a-week LINK buyback program. He concedes it's a positive signal but does the math: $1M total since August 2025 isn't enough to drive a re-rating, and the chart is still a 'sad chart.' Plus a Maple Finance / Syrup chart check-in and a clean Uniswap-dethrones-Aerodrome read on Base. 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 Monday @ 7p central Technical analysis, real macro insight, and practical takeaways to help you invest smarter in every market. — 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://coinguide.vip [https://coinguide.vip/] RISE UP! ✊🔥 — Nothing on this channel should be construed as financial/legal advice. Educational/entertainment purposes only....