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

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/]

The Museum Proposal, The Creator Coin Fiasco & Reading Clarity Act Policy | Ep 543

Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson is BACK. Nine days into his engagement, first show since he proposed to Violet at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The engagement-story retelling includes the elaborate Lego-moving lie, Audrey's fake museum ticket text, and the atrium proposal itself. "I got her good." On-air congratulations across the board. Also: Spain won the World Cup — "Churros for everyone." (No, Argentina.) Will walks us through Bitcoin's technical setup for the first time in a week. Radha teed it up: consolidation range at $51-45K as strong support, $55K as a potential lower target if we slide. Will's macro read: "75 to 80% of things in the bag you could pull out right now are bad." Three bad events in a row — Clarity Act Senate vote, BIP-110 outcome, Saylor selling more Bitcoin — and we slide. The August ETF policy window is going to matter. Alex spends the second hour on Base crapping the bed. Jesse Pollock launched a "creator coin" via the Base app — same thing as a meme coin, called it something else. Got sniped, bots extracted fees, Pollock collected the liquidity fees and used them to buy other creator coins on Zora — individually pumping meme grifters. Brian Armstrong posting other creator tokens too. "Weird if only there was another instance or ten of this happening we could have looked at and learned from — but we don't do that." Alex says Kraken has a massive opportunity to be the credible alternative right now. He's already texting Kraken contacts about it. Also this episode: how to actually read policy documents ("you don't get to post an opinion about a thing on the internet if you haven't read some of it") — Alex's practical framework for using AI as an audit tool on legislation with accessibility options; NFTs with real nuance (POAPs and Pokemon cards on Collector Crypt as the two clean use-case examples); the Arculus mug moment (Crypto Machinery in comments: "mugs are so overdone as crypto merch"); and this week's guest lineup — Kevin Beardsley of Jito/JTX for the platform walkthrough. 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/]

'Trade Professionally Without Being a Pro' — JTX Head of Product Explains How | Ep 542

Good now revolutionaries— Call it JTX July: today we unveil JTX by Jito LIVE on the show for the first time, walking through the product with Kevin Beardsley (Head of Product at Jito and JTX). Kevin joined Jito ~3 months ago after 3 years at Kraken, dialing in from Montreal where the Jito team is on an off-site. Small, flat, remote team that hires slowly and retains hard — culture that's 'very sticky' by design. THE JTX PRODUCT WALKTHROUGH. Live at jtx.trade. The pitch: 'You don't have to be a pro trader, but you'd like to trade professionally.' What that looks like in practice: TWAP order type demoed live — 150 orders split across 2 minutes (~one every 0.8 seconds), $1 minimum trade size for execution quality. Randomized TWAP option to break tracking patterns if you're doing a large trade. Limit orders fill EXACTLY at the price you set because they're written into the blockchain. Direct-mint routing to JitoSOL from within JTX. Platform fee on that route: FREE. Referral program — 20% of referred user fees IN PERPETUITY plus early access to new asset trade sizes. Kevin's philosophy quote: 'Lucas wanted it in people's hands, evolving based on user feedback' — velocity over completeness.  The 'democratizing access' broader thesis: even in TradFi, if you're in Europe you can't cleanly buy Apple stock — you end up with a weird European derivative. JTX's role includes bringing frictionless access to normal-people-want-this products AS WELL as pure-crypto products. 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/]

Physical Bitcoin, Pokémon Cards & Why Morpho Won 2026 | Ep 88🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries— Rise Up After Dark 088. Evan's holding it down with Matthew the Intern subbing (Alex is at a Super Team USA event down in Florida, Will's still off after last weekend's engagement) and Adriano — better known as Technically Web3 — back on the show for a masterclass on where practical, hands-on Web3 is actually working. Adriano's a coder, open-source dev, and one of the clearest teachers in this space. This one runs long because it earns it. Big product tour tonight: Adriano walks us through Ballet's tamper-evident scratch-off physical Bitcoin wallets (a legitimate physical-in-the-world crypto transaction), Collector Crypt's Pokémon-cards-on-chain marketplace with its brand-new gem-based trading system, and — the storyline that keeps compounding — Morpho. Coinbase now offers 7.5% USDC lending powered by Morpho. Robinhood's Katana chain is on Morpho. Katana just crossed $75M TVL in about five days. Alex called Morpho a beast on the show; the tape agrees. Also in the mix: AI-assisted coding stack (Claude Code + Cursor as complements, not replacements), a defense of vibe coders when they actually try to learn what they're building, blockchain social platforms and why the niched-down winner is a bird-watching app called Birda, a proper L1 narrative debate (Base's institutional face vs Solana fighting the meme-chain rep), and Matthew's new TikTok series Intern Insights where he digs deeper on show topics. Homework from Evan: read Delphi Digital's new stablecoin report (newer than Messari's, newer than Artemis's). Tomorrow (Thu Jul 16) — RUMS 542 with Kevin, Chief Product Officer at Jito & JTX. Back-to-back CPOs on the morning show this week. Alex is already inside JTX and running the walkthrough. 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/]

Stellar's Chief Product Officer on the Real RWA Story Plus JTX Goes Live | Ep 541

Good now revolutionaries— First-time guest we've been building up to: Tomer Weller, Chief Product Officer at the Stellar Development Foundation. Stellar since 2017. MIT Media Lab background (digital fabrication + decentralized media). Rise Up first met him at the block's Emergence conference in Prague — the RWA-heavy tradfi-crosses-crypto gathering that unfortunately hasn't returned since (though this year's Consensus effectively BECAME Emergence). The RWA reality-check segment: Evan opens up 'this idea that everything's going to be tokenized so all that value must accrue to people who hold this L1 token' — Tomer walks through what an RWA actually IS and why the DTCC number everyone quotes DOES NOT mean everything is going on-chain (or on-Stellar). Reasonable multi-chain strategy from the legacy institutions. Real estate is the cleanest RWA example to wrap your head around. Then the legal-recognition question — is there progress toward the actual legal-recognition-of-tokenized-assets nobody sees from the outside? 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/]