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Today on The Rise Up Morning Show we welcomed back Dr. Adam Lowe, founder of Arculus, for a deeply technical session on what still holds crypto adoption back. We focused on the real frictions users feel daily: on-ramps that break across geographies, confusing security models, hard custody choices, and a rising wave of scams hitting retail users at scale.

Adam walked us through how Arculus tackles these bottlenecks with rate aggregation, global-friendly on-ramps, and cold-storage UX built for normal people instead of experts. From there the conversation moved into passkeys, embedded banking, account abstraction, and why removing visible complexity will carry the next wave of users onchain.

We dove into fears around government seizure, subpoenas, backdoors, and why true self-custody only works when hardware physically cannot comply. Adam broke down the realities of compliance requests and why cryptographic design must dictate what’s possible, not policy pressure.

We closed with the modern threat landscape: dusting, address poisoning, signature traps, recovery options, and the habits that keep users safe as scams grow more sophisticated. The session ended with institutional custody, multiparty access, and a preview of what Arculus aims to ship in 2026, from B2B integrations to yield flows to white-label wallet technology for onbo

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Alex and Will held down the fort while Evan recovered from a late night in Buenos Aires. The show opened light with weather talk and a few moon cycle jokes before shifting into the charts. They mapped out potential volatility around the upcoming Fed minutes and NVIDIA earnings, walked through Solana levels, and talked stablecoin yields and how to manage positions when the market refuses to pick a direction.

With much of the episode weaving around Base: They broke down developer sentiment, incentives, distribution, and why crypto continues to struggle expanding beyond its own bubble. They revisited early experiences with Base, highlighted how ecosystems misallocate resources, and explained why marketing, distribution, and real applications will always outperform burns, hype, and token mechanics.

The conversation widened to chain competition, gaming’s ongoing VC distortion problem, and how repeating the same growth playbook is keeping the entire space stagnant. Closing with real bright spots: Polygon’s Revolut integration and Arculus teaming with ChainAbuse to improve scam reporting and user protection.

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http://chainabuse.com
http://getarculus.com
http://polygon.technology
http://solana.com
http://base.org
http://coinbase.com
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We opened with quick post-travel recovery talk before diving straight into a sea of red candles. Evan, Alex, and Will broke down the Bitcoin gap around 92K, why bounces appear even in heavy pullbacks, and why DCA only works when you actually trust the assets you’re stacking. Monad’s massive raise and Aztec’s weak sale signaled that retail is tired of hype without real product.

The crew reflected on DevConnect and how crypto feels like a global internet city. That led to the big point: crypto is coordination tech, not just money. Which makes it all the more frustrating to see real builders struggle while empty projects pull huge checks. The DappRadar shutdown landed as proof.

When Cloudflare briefly knocked half the internet offline, it sparked a live conversation on central choke points, nodes, and why better onboarding is essential. Then talks of playing the current market with intention—rotating into stables, stacking yield with Lido, Jito, Maple, Morpho, and DeFi Carrot, and securing identity early with ENS or Unstoppable before scammers do. One host shared five rules for this cycle: expect drops after you buy, take profits fast, keep it simple, learn DeFi, and never stay stuck in assets you don’t believe in.

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