🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - December 16, 2025

💰 Market Snapshot (24h)

• 🔴 BTC: $87,048.00 (-2.53%)
• 🔴 ETH: $2,933.55 (-6.35%)
• 🔴 OPEN: $0.7500 (-4.44%)

📈 Top Gainers: * 🟢 XMR: $414.40 (+0.6%) * 🟢 ZCHF: $1.26 (+0.2%) * 🟢 DAI: $0.9986 (-0.2%)

📉 Top Losers: * 🔴 ASF: $0.0853 (-16.3%) * 🔴 S: $0.0830 (-7.0%) * 🔴 ARB: $0.1973 (-7.0%)

🔥 Top Stories

1. Custodia Bank asks full federal appeals court to reconsider ruling upholding the Fed’s denial of its master account, arguing the decision misreads banking law and undermines state authority. - 𝕏/@EleanorTerrett

🏷️ FED

2. North Korean hackers are using fake Zoom and Teams calls to install malware that drains crypto wallets via social engineering. Security researchers say the tactic has already stolen over $300M from victims. - Cryptonews

🏷️ wallets • North Korea • Social Engineering

💬 This is a lot for the year already, can we wrap it up — @Hades

3. Ripple announced plans to expand its $1.3B RLUSD stablecoin to Ethereum layer-2 networks next year, including Optimism, Base, Kraken’s Ink, and Unichain, using Wormhole for interoperability. The move aims to boost DeFi adoption, payments, and on-chain utility as Ripple pushes a multichain strategy, following recent approval to pursue a national trust banking charter. - decrypt.co

🏷️ Wormhole • INK • Unichain

💬 Hopefully, it goes well for them — @Hades

4. Gnosis is considering a hard fork to recover ~$9.4M in funds from the Balancer hack - 𝕏/@DefiIgnas

🏷️ Hacks • Gnosis • Balancer

💬 TL;DR: Gnosis is debating a hard fork to return ~$9.4M frozen after the Balancer hack, since a soft fork already stopped the attacker but can’t restore funds. Supporters argue Gnosis prioritizes user protection and enterprise use over strict immutability, and similar interventions have already happened on other chains. Critics warn this sets a precedent: when is a hack “big enough” to justify a fork, and does this encourage weaker security if developers expect chain-level bailouts? — @Danicjade

5. RWA DeFi moves into sports finance with tokenized football club revenues. A new protocol on Chiliz is providing football clubs with faster access to liquidity by converting future media and broadcasting revenues into tokenized, onchain assets. - archive.ph

🏷️ Chiliz • Real World Assets • Onchain Liquidity

💬 This is a very interesting move. One way or the other, clubs get to keep their equity — @Hades

🏆 SQUID Pass Winner

A nice AIOZ Network write up by decrypt tells us why we need decentralization now and forever - 𝕏/@DecryptMedia

🏷️ $AIOZ (token) • AIOZ Network • Decentralization

💬 "AIOZ AI aims to “empower contributors” by offering them more control over their work, enabling developers, researchers and technical teams to publish, share and scale their datasets in a collaborative setting. Through AIOZ AI, users can upload and store datasets and train their models—with the potential for token rewards based on how they perform and are used by others." — @Spencer420

🎯 Trading Signals

🟢 HYPE ($HYPE): STRONG BUY - Bitwise ETF filing finalized with BHYP ticker and 0.67% fee locked in signals launch imminent and mainstream institutional adoption

🟢 XRP ($XRP): BUY - Ripple expanding $1.3B RLUSD stablecoin to Optimism, Base, and Unichain in 2025 validates multichain strategy and boosts utility as company pursues national banking charter

🟢 Optimism ($OP): BUY - Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin expansion to Optimism brings institutional-grade liquidity and payment rails to the network

📈 Backtest Results

Buy the News Strategy

How would a portfolio perform if it traded daily on Leviathan News headlines?

Strategy includes risk management: -20% stop loss on all positions, +20% profit-taking (50% position reduction) on all positions.

• Portfolio Value: $11,507.23
• Total Return: +15.07%
• Days Since Start: 26 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $2,179.56

Current Positions

• 🟢 AAVE: 13.49202 @ $168.66 entry, $188.19 current = $2,539.11 (P/L: $+263.54)
• 🟢 CRV: 2,584.45561 @ $0.41 entry, $0.37 current = $949.03 (P/L: $-114.53)
• 🔴 WLFI: 13,327.29069 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+148.04)
• 🟢 UNI: 88.98963 @ $6.25 entry, $5.16 current = $458.78 (P/L: $-97.56)
• 🔴 YFI: 0.28022 (SHORT) @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,343.34 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+141.05)
• 🟢 TON: 720.45646 @ $1.50 entry, $1.53 current = $1,100.46 (P/L: $+22.53)
• 🟢 BNB: 0.31751 @ $903.15 entry, $864.03 current = $274.34 (P/L: $-12.42)
• 🟢 SYRUP: 2,375.34240 @ $0.24 entry, $0.26 current = $623.45 (P/L: $+53.65)
• 🟢 ETH: 0.36090 @ $3,133.68 entry, $2,933.04 current = $1,058.52 (P/L: $-72.41)
• 🟢 HYPE: 61.88170 @ $27.88 entry, $27.38 current = $1,694.07 (P/L: $-31.01)
• 🟢 ENA: 2,142.77953 @ $0.27 entry, $0.22 current = $477.41 (P/L: $-96.94)
• 🟢 XRP: 570.52082 @ $2.01 entry, $1.93 current = $1,103.55 (P/L: $-44.21)
• 🟢 AVAX: 43.06774 @ $13.33 entry, $12.26 current = $527.86 (P/L: $-46.02)
• 🟢 SUI: 371.93867 @ $1.54 entry, $1.51 current = $560.71 (P/L: $-13.17)
• 🟢 SOL: 5.09335 @ $132.12 entry, $128.39 current = $653.95 (P/L: $-18.96)
• 🔴 DOGE: 4,284.65360 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+35.02)
• 🟢 OP: 1,962.37370 @ $0.29 entry, $0.29 current = $575.36 (P/L: $+0.00)

Trades Today

• 🟢 BUY 42.0342 HYPE @ $27.38 ($1,150.72)
• 🟢 BUY 1962.3737 OP @ $0.29 ($575.36)

Sell the News Strategy

Once it's in the headlines, it's supposedly too late! How would your portfolio perform if you did the opposite of the signal?

Strategy includes risk management: -20% stop loss on all positions, +20% profit-taking (50% position reduction) on all positions.

• Portfolio Value: $7,274.34
• Total Return: -27.26%
• Days Since Start: 26 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $11,396.54

Current Positions

• 🔴 CRV: 2,160.18613 (SHORT) @ $0.41 entry, $0.37 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+100.50)
• 🟢 WLFI: 14,468.18589 @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $1,921.84 (P/L: $-160.72)
• 🔴 UNI: 66.56900 (SHORT) @ $6.25 entry, $5.16 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+72.98)
• 🔴 MON: 2.31082 (SHORT) @ $0.04 entry, $0.02 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.04)
• 🟢 JESSE: 9,814.82002 @ $0.01 entry, $0.01 current = $94.18 (P/L: $-0.21)
• 🟢 YFI: 0.22017 @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,343.34 current = $736.11 (P/L: $-110.83)
• 🔴 TON: 566.06491 (SHORT) @ $1.50 entry, $1.53 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-17.70)
• 🔴 BNB: 0.20615 (SHORT) @ $903.15 entry, $864.03 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+8.07)
• 🔴 SYRUP: 1,574.19940 (SHORT) @ $0.24 entry, $0.26 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-35.55)
• 🔴 ETH: 0.24693 (SHORT) @ $3,133.68 entry, $2,933.04 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+49.55)
• 🔴 HYPE: 39.66156 (SHORT) @ $27.89 entry, $27.38 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+20.45)
• 🔴 ENA: 1,413.16778 (SHORT) @ $0.27 entry, $0.22 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+63.93)
• 🔴 XRP: 377.76238 (SHORT) @ $2.01 entry, $1.93 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+29.27)
• 🔴 AVAX: 28.51670 (SHORT) @ $13.33 entry, $12.26 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+30.47)
• 🔴 SUI: 246.27399 (SHORT) @ $1.54 entry, $1.51 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+8.72)
• 🔴 SOL: 5.26793 (SHORT) @ $135.08 entry, $128.39 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+35.23)
• 🟢 DOGE: 2,551.57337 @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $334.54 (P/L: $-20.86)
• 🔴 OP: 1,240.52237 (SHORT) @ $0.29 entry, $0.29 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)

Trades Today

• 🔴 SHORT 26.5721 HYPE @ $27.38 ($727.43)
• 🔴 SHORT 1240.5224 OP @ $0.29 ($363.72)
• 🟢 COVER 2.3108 MON @ $0.02 ($0.05, P/L: $+0.04)

Performance vs Benchmarks

Benchmark returns show the benchmark's performance since portfolio start. Portfolio returns show how much better/worse the portfolio performed relative to the benchmark.

• BTC Only: -6.22%
  • Buy: +21.30%
  • Sell: -21.03%
• BTC + ETH (50/50): -6.07%
  • Buy: +21.14%
  • Sell: -21.19%
• BTC + ETH + OPEN (33/33/33): -8.98%
  • Buy: +24.05%
  • Sell: -18.28%

Disclaimer: Trading strategies generated by AI, which is wrong about everything, so you'd have to be a complete clodhead to take financial advice from one!