Good now revolutionaries—

Matt Wiley is back from ten days in Andalusia, Spain, and he came armed with receipts on Katana. The token launched at roughly 88% below its advertised price of 10¢, the team quietly raised the instant-exit fee from 25–40% to 80% days before launch with no community vote, and TVL figures were inflated via paid Binance and OKX campaigns. Alex added the structural analysis: DeFi protocols die when only one side of the market shows up. Katana's only borrowers are loopers, and when the incentives dry up, the loop breaks. Evan's line: "liquidity begets liquidity" — and without organic demand, the oasis is drying up.

Will Watson flagged continued downside risk in equities — another 5–19% before any floor forms — and says he's a buyer of HyperLiquid below $30. Evan called out what looks like coordinated insider trading: $1.5 billion in S&P 500 futures bought 15 minutes before Trump's Iran announcement, with $192 million in oil futures sold at the same time. Margaret Ryan's resignation from the SEC added to the enforcement concern.

Matt also completed his Messari 2026 Crypto Thesis homework. The quantum threat framing for Bitcoin's 8% lost supply is a genuine lose-lose: do nothing and risk sell pressure if quantum computing cracks those wallets, or hard fork and undermine Bitcoin's immutability thesis. ETH is best understood right now as high-beta Bitcoin — the deflationary burn thesis hasn't materialized, fee revenue has declined, and it trades primarily as a monetary premium.

Privacy coins like Zcash get a serious look as a hedge against custodial seizure (24% of Bitcoin supply sits with Coinbase and BlackRock). L2 tokens remain structurally weak, with Robinhood's chain named as the one disruptor that could challenge Base.Plus: how to move assets from Uphold to Arculus across networks, the XRP Tundra $35 reality check, the RUMSHQ Chart Art Competition ($100 USDC, humans only, deadline Monday ET), and Alex's data-backed nuance on AI water usage vs. Netflix streaming. Arculus is the official cold storage sponsor of Rise Up Media — getarculus.com, code ARCURUMS10. Find episodes, community, and more at community.rumshq.com.

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Goodnow revolutionaries—

Jared Blake—head of product at Krak, Kraken's global money app—joins the show to explain why a better bank shouldn't require crypto know-how.

The conversation covers what makes Krak genuinely different from Venmo and Zelle. Jared walks through onboarding step by step, and answers audience questions about how it works. He also shares his OpenClaw setup: an agent that scrapes his Substack and X bookmarks and turns them into a daily podcast he listens to while exercising.

Then: oil facilities responsible for 20% of global supply were struck overnight. Will flags oil heading toward $180 a barrel, Moody's putting US recession odds at 49%, and what that means for Bitcoin and stocks. Alex closes with a physical mail scam—a fake Trezor "authentication check" letter complete with a tamper-proof sticker, his home address from an old data breach, and a March 26 deadline designed to spook you into scanning a QR code. Don't scan it. Trezor has confirmed none of this is real.

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LINKS
Krak app: kraken.com/krak
Krak on X: x.com/krakapp J
ared Blake on X: x.com/jaredrblake
Trezor (verify communications): x.com/trezor
Abstract game night: portal.abs.xyz

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Goodnow revolutionaries—

Caulene McDonald—Stand With Crypto's Oklahoma chapter president, ZKP builder, and US/Canada underboss for Pizza DAO's Bitcoin Pizza Day—joins the show for a conversation that starts with pizza and ends with constitutional law. She explains what Stand With Crypto actually does (political advocacy and education, not lobbying), what it looks like to teach Bitcoin to Oklahoma state regulators, and how to find your local chapter president to get involved.

Will opens with bad news: PPI inflation missed again across the board, core PPI came in at 0.5% vs. 0.3% expected, and three consecutive bad reports means CPI pain is coming in about six months. Combined with the new moon data point that Bitcoin drops 71% of the time within three days, he flags Friday as a volatile day with triple witching.

Then Alex roasts the DC Blockchain Summit sponsor list before pulling up the Digital Asset Summit NYC lineup, which is where Coinbase, Circle, the Ethereum Foundation, Goldman, JP Morgan, NASDAQ, and everyone who actually matters is apparently gathered instead.

Also: the Katana $KAT token is live! If you participated in their pre-deposit program, check app.katana.network and the pinned tweet at x.com/KatanaDefi for contract addresses. Do not click links from tweets—scammers are out in force.

The SEC/CFTC joint memo: Alex and Caulene go deep. Caulene makes the case that DLT should be treated as press, not just code as speech, which would require strict scrutiny for any regulation touching it.

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LINKS
Stand With Crypto: standwithcrypto.org
Caulene McDonald on X: x.com/CauleneAmagi
Bitcoin Pizza Day: globalpizza.party
Katana: x.com/KatanaDefi | app.katana.network
DAS NYC side events: lu.ma

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