Good now revolutionaries— Rise Up After Dark 093 opens with first-timer Anisha Kapoor — AI technologist, former financial analyst, and Network School / SheFi alum — walking through her year-long pivot from a laid-off higher-ed financial analyst into backpacking Asia, Balaji's Network School (now permanently based in Kazakhstan), and building small-business AI implementation in the Florida + Chicago ecosystems. Along the way she's onboarding the older generation onto AI + crypto through Base44 hackathons and SheFi. Application priority link for Network School: ns.com/anisha.
Alex's Euphoria tap-battle recap — this time against Dougie from Euphoria (not Beacon Doug). ETH ripped ±$40 in one 30-minute battle, no strategy possible, spray-and-pray only. Alex nearly doubled off a bad start but got squirrelier as he went and closed at $105 while Dougie played safe and coasted to the win. Plus Alex's Base wallet debugging saga — the deposit went to a phantom holding wallet, transferred through two more wallets, and eventually landed correctly. Casey Craig's team is talking to Privy about it. Evan's own base-wallet horror story: a Solana refund to a vendor's Coinbase intermediary got auto-rerouted by the smart contract to a wallet no one holds the keys to. Only got recovered via a friend at Base.
Rise Up bingo idea — sparked by Alex's short jokes. "Tori let's clip it" — the running-bingo-card format ships for next week's show, participants can assign handicaps + power-ups. Will's Japan Converse deep-cut fun fact: Japan refused Converse's material downgrade, negotiated licensing rights, and now Japan-made Converse are the only ones still built the old way using 1930s-era machines — and they're 40% cheaper than US-made pairs. Plus Alex's alligator-in-the-Roosevelt-Room recap of Trump's crypto meeting: 99% platitudes, one new line about "working to bring Hyperliquid to the US" (HYPE ripped 15%), Michael Selig behind the podium looking like he full-ported 50x long right before the speech, and Trump's tell that he doesn't actually know what crypto prices are doing.
Will's Bitcoin chart read: cool-off likely, $67.5K back on the table, maybe even $62K where Binance's biggest liquidation cluster on Bitcoin's entire chart lives. Solana is overextended from all key EMAs — short opportunity into the $83-82 range with 75% close, keep 25% open for the potential $62K flush. Tether dominance sliced through the 21-week EMA + the 200-day EMA today — bullish for the space. Then Nick Cryptography Pro's on-chain-market-maker-alpha thesis gets a proper walkthrough: SAFTs sit off-chain in LLC layers for a reason, plausible deniability is the point, and if the alpha were actionable on-chain everyone at the show would be selling their houses to run it. Plus the perfect Anisha sign-off: just do good wherever you can, with whatever you have.
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