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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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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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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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Casey Craig—co-founder of Euphoria Finance and one of the sharpest builders in DeFi—is back on the show. Euphoria is tap trading: a grid overlaid on a live price chart where you tap where you think the price is going, each square its own CLOB order book, built on MegaEth for real-time execution. Final audits are incoming and mainnet is imminent.

Casey breaks down MEV from first principles—sandwich attacks, Oracle front-running, and the salmonella strategy her co-founder Nathan pioneered to rug the ruggers. Then she explains how MegaEth's architecture eliminates most MEV risk through sheer speed, and what else builders can do: MEV-blocking RPCs, solver protocols like Cowswap, and intentional settlement delays. She also gives her honest take on the state of crypto building: payments and stablecoins are the real story, tokenized equities are quietly maturing, and the retail meme coin casino isn't what serious builders are focused on.

Alex walks through why almost every major crypto is still massively overvalued by traditional revenue multiples—and why Hyperliquid remains the one exception. Plus: how to read a fake pump vs. a real one, why "two hundred billion dollars flowed into crypto" is not how market cap works, and ETH's recent move likely tied to BlackRock's new ETHB ETF inflows.

Also: the $100M licensing problem keeping Euphoria out of the US, why no current legislation addresses front-end DeFi access, what "non-KYC" crypto cards are actually doing under the hood, and whether iTrustCapital makes sense for most people (short answer: probably not).

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LINKS
Euphoria: testnet.euphoria.finance | x.com/euphoria_fi
Casey Craig on X: x.com/caseycraig
MegaETH: x.com/megaeth_labs
Salmonella attack (GitHub): github.com/Defi-Cartel/salmonella

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Will opens with the weekly Bitcoin chart and the news you want: a strong close above the 200-week EMA, breaking out of the golden pocket in play since February. Short-term target $73,500, path to $79K and potentially $87K if it holds. The Friday dip was one news event—the bombing of Iran's Kharg Island—and the weekly chart never flinched. Rule of thumb: double Bitcoin's percentage move for ETH and SOL, triple it for meme coins.

The Ethereum Foundation drops a 38-page mandate around CROPS—censorship resistance, open source, privacy, security—as preconditions for all protocol decisions. Alex reads it as healthy proactivity. Also: Glamsterdam, the upcoming hard fork targeting MEV fairness, and why Fusaka's blob fee structure finally ties ETH token demand directly to layer two activity.

Then the $50M Aave story. A fresh Binance-funded wallet breezed through multiple slippage warnings, tried to buy 3% of Aave's token supply in one shot, and walked away with $36K. MEV bots sandwiched it in the mempool—Titan Builder alone extracted $34M straight to Coinbase. Alex explains why DeFi worked as designed and why the whole setup looks a lot like the insider trading patterns we've seen out of DC all cycle.

Katana's KAT TGE is March 18th. Terms quietly changed—token valued well below the implied $1B FDV, exit tax raised from 25% to 80%. If you pre-deposited or hold VCAT, bring questions to the community before the TGE. Plus: Clarity Act dead for 2026, CBDC ban through 2030, and how to exit a cold storage position step by step.

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LINKS
Ethereum Foundation mandate: ethereum.foundation
Aave post-mortem: x.com/aave
Cowswap post-mortem: x.com/CoW_Protocol
Katana: x.com/KatanaDefi
River.com (buy Bitcoin, support the show): rumshq.com/recommendedtoolsdeals
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Goodnow revolutionaries—

Oil hit $92 a barrel during the show—up over $10 in nine hours after the US announced a release from the Strategic Reserve that apparently convinced nobody it was under control. Will breaks down exactly why oil going up means crypto going down: PPI inflation leads CPI by months, transport costs spike, profit margins fall, stocks follow, crypto follows. The Fed's hands are tied until global oil supply stabilizes.

Hyperliquid's oil perp market hit $1.2 billion in 24-hour volume, briefly surpassing ETH as the platform's second most-traded market. MicroStrategy added another 1,422 Bitcoin and amended their sales agreement to let multiple agents raise capital around the clock. An AI agent built on Alibaba's Qwen architecture broke containment and started mining crypto—which Will argues is actually the ideal outcome, since a rogue AI distracted by on-chain casinos is a rogue AI not launching missiles. The Tornado Cash retrial is set for October 2026 and may define whether open-source developers can be held liable for how others use their code.

From there: a live teardown of BlockDAG (PUPO—Ponzi Until Proven Otherwise), a closer look at X.One blockchain that nobody can verify does anything, mobile mining explained for the last time, American Oil Reserve launched on Pump.fun, and a surprisingly nuanced case for ZBEC ahead of a potential Bitcoin Vegas announcement pump. Alex closes with a clean breakdown of native vs. liquid staking, slashing risk, and why Jito and Lido are still the right starting points for SOL and ETH respectively.

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LINKS

Hyperliquid: app.hyperliquid.xyz

Abstract airdrop: portal.abs.xyz

DeFi Llama: defillama.com

Confetti opinion markets: confetti.win

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Will pulls out the Bitcoin chart and walks through the breakout of a coiling wedge—target range $77K–$80K, with key support levels at $70K, $71K, and $71.9K on any short-term cooldown. He follows that with Solana (channel breakout target ~$107, resistance stacking up at $107–$117), and a bearish read on silver—bear flag on the daily, monthly RSI still overextended, likely heading back toward $50–$60.

Then the guys go deep on chain revenue as a valuation tool using DeFi Llama. Tron leads all chains by a mile at $1.13M/day. Solana does $860K. Ethereum does $90K in chain revenue but $2.4M in app revenue. Cardano made $400 today. BearChain made $77—on a $125M market cap, that's a 6,300x annual revenue valuation. Hyperliquid, meanwhile, is generating $1.2B/year and is arguably the only appropriately valued crypto besides Bitcoin. The guys make the case for why HYPE might be the most interesting buy in the space right now.

Also: Kraken becomes the first digital asset company to receive a Federal Reserve Master Account—what that means for users and why it matters for their upcoming IPO. Western Union launches a stablecoin on Solana. Alex breaks down why "bridge currency" isn't a real concept, why XRP doesn't appear anywhere on the chain revenue rankings, and throws down an open challenge: bring your best XRP thesis to a live debate, no cop-outs, no "just Google the IMF."

Will closes with a weapons demonstration from his home armory. Christina wins the points again.

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LINKS

DeFi Llama: defillama.com

RWA.xyz: rwa.xyz

Confetti opinion markets: confetti.win

Euphoria testnet: testnet.euphoria.finance

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Will breaks down the Jane Street / Terraform Labs lawsuit line by line—straight from the court filing. The SEC is now officially investigating Jane Street for crypto insider trading, and the order books may already be changing. Will and Evan dig into what it means, who's really to blame, and why the discovery process could rewrite the history of two bear markets.

Plus: Coinbase launches 24/7 commission-free stock trading. Nvidia crushes earnings ($68.1B revenue vs. $65.8B expected). The NASDAQ put/call ratio hits its highest since the 2022 bear market low—options traders are bracing. And Will walks through a bullish volume spike on Ethereum's 4-hour chart that has his attention.

Friend-of-the-show Casey Craig's tap-to-trade game Euphoria is live on testnet—first place wins a Rolex and an all-expenses-paid trip to London. It's free to play with paper money, built on MegaETH (but requires a VPN for U.S. users). Message us in the community for a code. Evan and Will also field live questions on staking vs. lending (including why "XRP staking" isn't really staking), how to swing trade your way out of a losing position, which altcoins to cut vs. hold, and what all those TA indicators actually mean—MACD, stochastic RSI, Moxie, and more.

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LINKS

Euphoria Testnet: testnet.euphoria.finance

HYLO (xSOL): hylo.so

DeFi Llama: defillama.com

Citrini Article: citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

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