Is MicroStrategy's STRC a Dangerous Ponzi? Will Explains | Ep 528

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

Good now revolutionaries— Hayden Tsutsumi from Jito Foundation joins to break down BAM (Block Assembly Marketplace), Jito's execution engine for Solana. The Call-of-Duty quickscope analogy lands hard: BAM determines how transactions get sequenced on Solana so that the rules of the game are KNOWN, deterministic, transparent, and verifiable. It's what unlocks DeFi for institutional market makers, ETF issuers, and pro traders — and ultimately saves retail users money by enabling tighter quotes from the makers. The first BAM plugin to ship is MPP (Maker Priority Plugin) — it prioritizes market-maker quote updates ahead of everything else, so makers can quote tighter without fear of being picked off in milliseconds of confusion. Already seeing strong adoption, and Hayden's team is iterating on more plugin primitives. Plus the Hyperliquid race: Hayden argues Hyperliquid isn't actually a DEX (more centralized than they let on), but BAM unlocks the same trading-experience parity for true DeFi on Solana. Solana flexes hard on tokenized equities: 96% of ALL on-chain stock trading volume last week happened on Solana ($1.36B for the week). Sunrise, xStocks, Backpack (just shipped tokenized stocks 1:1 backed by real shares, redeemable for the actual stock) all building on Solana. Plus Jurassic Finance is tokenizing museum-grade dinosaur fossils on Solana (ticker: RAWR). The future is bizarre and Solana is the chain. Will's macro: Bitcoin breaking the diagonal $59K support line for the FIRST TIME today (tested 5 times in 6 days, now snapping). Today is also the 3-month candle close — if BTC ends below $59.2K, the technical break is confirmed. Next targets: $51K-$45K, then $37K-$32K. Worst-case wildcard: the unfilled $21K bearish gap from March 2023 if Saylor follows through on his proposed $1.2B Bitcoin sale. Bitwise's Ryan Rasmussen on RUAD tomorrow. Alex's Clarity Act PSA: READ THE BILL. Stop trusting the breathless takes. Rebecca Rettig (Jito Labs CLO) is the source you should be reading instead. 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/ [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/]

Why Layer 2s Are Bearish (And Ethereum Eats Them) | Ep 46📈🤑

Good now revolutionaries— Will + Doug on Market Watch in a weird four-day trading week (Canada off Wednesday, US off Friday, end-of-month + start-of-quarter overlap). The market read: Solana looking the cleanest of any major crypto by far, Bitcoin barely hanging on a diagonal $59K support that's been tested 5+ times, and gold weakening fast. Doug's macro thesis: gold has been a leading indicator before crypto + stock moves for the past several weeks. If gold cracks below $3,970, expect everything else to follow. Solana sets up cleanest of the bunch: bullish wedge breakout above $73.70, target zone $80–$87 if the market stays green. Watch the $71.50–$72.50 EMA cluster for support; below that, the long invalidates and Solana joins the broader rollover. Will closed a 21% short on Solana mid-show after sweeping the morning's highs. The rebound is real but constrained. Circle (CRCL) thesis still alive — two bullish daily candles, weekly Stoch RSI oversold, wedge breakout target ~$202–$212 by late Q3 if the Clarity Act passes. Will's plan: scale in tomorrow at market, ladder bids down to $62–$65, expects another sweep of the IPO-gap lows at $63. Hyperliquid printed a clean bullish daily — long invalidation $60, dream entry on retest $40–$50. Pengu showed first signs of life with a daily close above 6+ weeks of trendline resistance. Velvet manipulated; stay away. Casper/Silo/Arb/ICP all dead. Layer-2 thesis broadly bearish — Ethereum getting cheaper and faster eats into the L2 reason-to-exist. Doug's robotics deep-dive: he's tracking 100 robotics stocks broken out by component (eyes/perception, brain/edge compute, muscle/motion, body/embodied, autonomy). ETFs leading the way — Robo ETF, China Large Cap, 3D Printing, Biotech, GLP-1 (OZEM). Airline corner: Southwest (LUV) is the most attractive chart, JetBlue setting up as a lagger, Delta + American both broken. McKesson is the boomer TIE-fighter pattern of the day. Plus Pacifica vs Jupiter for perps (Will switched after a White Whale tutorial — Pacifica plays against a real order book and supports 100 laddered scale-in orders) and JTX beta launching soon. 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/ [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/]

Diversify: Bringing TradFi rebalancing strategies on-chain

Good now revolutionaries— Kid Paddle from Diversify joins from the French countryside (during a 100°F heatwave that hit 99% of the planet for hottest country) to walk through their portfolio automation thesis. Diversify is the BONK-incubated rebalancing engine bringing TradFi portfolio strategies on-chain — but using crypto's volatility as the alpha generator instead of a problem to dampen. Pre-made vaults launching now: Big Four (BTC/ETH/BNB/SOL), Boomer (cbBTC + ORO tokenized gold + Syrup USDC), Stable Yield. Plus tonight at 8pm Europe time: the self-build vault launches where you can deploy any tokenized asset (including xStocks once SPL-22 support ships) and capture rebalancing volatility yourself. Will's macro setup: Bitcoin sitting on a diagonal support line at $59K that has now been tested FIVE times in six days. Glass-pane-and-spider-web analogy — every tap weakens it. Spot Stochastic RSI is oversold on the daily, but the FUTURES chart Stochastic RSI is NOT — and that mismatch tells him there's more selling to go before a meaningful rebound. If the diagonal breaks, $51K–$48K is the next target. Tonight's full moon is the next moon-cycle buy signal (2/3 hit rate so far). Circle (CRCL) news: BNY adds USDC to digital asset platform; Nomura (~$150B FX market) will use USDC for fiat-to-fiat swaps starting 2027. The Ansem meme coin saga: Pump.fun's airdrop is overdue, Ansem (the biggest KOL on crypto Twitter, the guy who fought BitBoy) launches a token called ANSEM on Pump.fun over the weekend, it explodes to ~$95–100M market cap in hours. Speculation thread on the show: this was a coordinated Pump.fun psyop to revive their daily revenue (Collector Crypt passed them recently). Whatever the truth — every influencer-led meme coin in history has gone to zero. None excepted. If you play, assume the entire stake is gone. Plus: the Collector Crypt CARDS tokenomics deep-dive (supply triples by August 2027, but the 85–87% revenue burn could offset if platform usage holds). Alex's gotcha-machine fatigue diagnosis — 100+ pulls in, the average return is negative; the smart play is buying specific chase cards directly on the secondary market. Will's 'don't open Pokemon packs from Walmart, go to your local game store' guide. The Legendary Birds promo card story: $28 → $280 in months. And the CME vs CFTC perpetual futures lawsuit — Chicago Mercantile suing its own regulator over Kalshi perps. 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/ [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/]

The Man Who Made Bottled Water Free | Ep 532

Good now revolutionaries— Josh Cliffords joins the show. He's the founder of Free Water — the world's first negatively-priced beverage company. Advertisers pay for the can; the water inside is free, and every bottle donates a minimum of 10¢ to fight the global water crisis. His viral TikTok exchange with a skeptical bystander pulled 300M+ impressions in 10 hours. The book is called How to Make a Free Product Company. A second edition and an engineering follow-up land in the next 1–2 months — both digital versions free on freewater.io. The economics: ~60¢ to manufacture, 10¢ minimum to charity, ~5–10¢ to sales, sells to advertisers for $1–$1.20+. Same model scales to soda, beer, legal marijuana, fruits, vegetables, cereal — anywhere ad space on packaging can fund the supply chain. The longer thesis: free is just the on-ramp. Negative pricing (where the product PAYS you to use it via solar + robotics + open-source supply chains) is the actual destination — Ecosia is already running a roughly 180% negative model by donating 100% of search revenue to planting trees. Will breaks down the PCE inflation print that dropped 8:30am EST: headline +4.1% (met expectations), core PCE +3.4% (flat, met expectations). Maybe a top signal. Oil falling should pull headline lower next print. Josh adds the supplier-side reality — US manufacturing costs have DOUBLED over the last two years from tariffs while non-US costs barely moved. The 'cheap to manufacture stateside' window is officially closed. Closing beats: Alex's anthropology crusade — pre-money humans didn't barter, they SHARED. Barter happens between strangers without trust; sharing is what relational communities do. Will's incentive-design tangent on Aerodrome vs Uniswap as why aligned tokenomics outcompete dump-on-holders models. Pokemon cards as the next free product? Watch ads, accumulate value, pay at the card shop. Plus Jeff Bezos's instantly-iconic 'humans are drinking too much water and taking it from the data centers' quote. Liquid Death tagged as the most likely beverage incumbent to adopt the free model first. 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/ [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/]

Will's Bitcoin Golden Pocket — $59.5K Is The Line | Ep 85🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries— a BYOB (Bring Your Own Bread) After Dark with Dan Rodman, co-founder and CEO of Co-Unity. Dan's an actual mechanical engineer who treats community building as a discipline, not a buzzword. He walks through the three pillars of a real community (identity + experiences + structure), the 1,000 True Fans framework, and his GTC thesis — Go-to-Community strategy as the moat that Go-to-Market can't build. Real example: Cursor scaled to $100M ARR with zero marketing spend because the product was 10x better and word of mouth carried. Will breaks down Bitcoin's macro setup: dipping into the 'golden pocket' (3-month 21 EMA at ~$59.5K and 1-month 55 EMA at ~$63.8K). The 3-month candle closes in 6 days. If it breaks, $51K–$45K opens up. Historically, bear-market bottoms have stayed below the pocket for 19 weeks (2018), 39 weeks (2022). Dollar-cost-averaging strategy starts now, but spread it across many months — be prepared for another 30–50% downside. PCE inflation + Q1 GDP final revision drop Thursday 8:30am EST. Will's Circle (CRCL) thesis: nearly every TA + narrative buy signal lining up at once. Stochastic RSI heading oversold on daily, weekly, and 8-hour timeframes. Price falling into the bottom of the IPO gap at $64. Wedge breakout could target $210 by mid-late August. Pair with the Clarity Act narrative — passage in mid-to-late August is the prediction-market base case. Alex's Clarity Act fact-check: still in committee merge, July recess from 7/4–7/13, Senate floor vote unlikely before end of July. Altcoin picks: Alex on Aerodrome (still doing more DEX volume on Base than Uniswap, real revenue, business model) + a small Hype position. Bonus tokenized-stock corner: Alex owns Circle and — wait for it — Atlantic Waste Management (yes, the trash company). Dan's been playing tokenized stocks via xStocks on Solana, scooped the SpaceX IPO that way. Plus the Crush Insights dashboard ($10/month at rumshq.com): Nancy Pelosi +258% over 5 years, Mark Wayne Mullin +393%, Druckenmiller +230%. Warren Buffett +119%. Cathie Wood +103%. Politicians are smoking professional fund managers, and Shaq is beating Mr. Wonderful by one percentage point. 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/ [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/]