🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - December 18, 2025

💰 Market Snapshot (24h)

• 🔴 BTC: $85,052.00 (-1.02%)
• 🔴 ETH: $2,804.30 (-0.70%)
• 🔴 OPEN: $0.6795 (-3.56%)

📈 Top Gainers: * 🟢 ZCHF: $1.26 (+0.2%) * 🟢 UNI: $4.92 (-0.5%) * 🟢 ETH: $2,804.30 (-0.7%)

📉 Top Losers: * 🔴 AIOZ: $0.0958 (-11.5%) * 🔴 MON: $0.0169 (-9.6%) * 🔴 HYPE: $23.00 (-7.6%)

🔥 Top Stories

1. FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been quietly moved out of prison after serving 11 months over FTX collapse. - Businessinsider

🏷️ FTX • prison • Caroline Ellison

💬 Wen "FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been quietly moved out of prison"? — @Stengarl

2. Stablecoins are not enough: The case for global, yield-bearing primitives. - 𝕏/@EtherfuseDave

🏷️ Yield Bearing

💬 TL;DR: Stablecoins solved crypto’s volatility problem, but a USD-only stablecoin system isn’t truly global—it’s just a dollar shadow system on better rails. The lack of non-USD stablecoins doesn’t mean no demand; it means existing designs are flawed (no yield, weak store of value, poor FX liquidity). The proposal is “Stablebonds”: local-currency, yield-bearing, DeFi-native tokens backed by short-term sovereign debt (e.g. MXN CETES). Stablebonds combine store of value, native yield, and full onchain utility, making them attractive to users, institutions, and LPs, enabling deep FX markets without forcing dollarization, and unlocking a genuinely global, multi-currency onchain financial system. — @Danicjade

3. Introducing Coinbase Custom Stablecoins. Businesses can create a branded stablecoin, backed 1:1 by collateral custodied by Coinbase. - Coinbase

🏷️ stablecoin • Coinbase

💬 Pointless, might be unstable — @Danicjade

4. JPMorgan’s tokenized dollars are quietly rewiring how Wall Street moves money. The Wall Street titan’s recent embrace of a public blockchain Base is a harbinger of things to come. - archive.ph

🏷️ JPMorgan • Base Chain

💬 Yey tokens for every social media post or whatever according to Jesse — @koenanb

5. SEC Tells Broker-Dealers They Must Control Crypto Private Keys to Meet Customer Protection Rules - The Block

🏷️ SEC

💬 Does it mean that if you don’t - you are not the broker-dealer? — @GroupAnonymousBot

🏆 SQUID Pass Winner

"Gemach: Where the Playing Field Finally Levels" - a new written interview by DAdvisoor with Assune, founder of Gemach, winners of the SQUID Written Interview Pass! Read to learn about the ambitious project aiming to bring DeFi to literally everyone. Enjoy! - 𝕏/@leviathan_news

🏷️ DAdvisoor • Interview • Gemach

💬 TL;DR: Gemach is building “DeFi that thinks for itself” — an AI-driven, cross-chain ecosystem where trading (GDEX), lending (GLend), and automation are fully connected. GDEX handles omnichain trading and copy-trading; GLend (rebuilt from Tender Finance) enables omnichain lending with improved risk models; and an on-chain AI assistant ties everything together to guide users and increasingly automate strategies. All core products are live today, with the next phase focused on full autonomy (auto-rebalancing, hedging, strategy execution), deeper omnichain expansion, and smarter AI over time. The mission, inspired by the original meaning of Gemach (a community free-loan fund), is to level the playing field by making advanced DeFi tools accessible, resilient, and user-adaptive for everyone—from beginners to power users and DAOs. — @Danicjade

🎯 Trading Signals

🟡 XRP ($XRP): WEAK BUY - Franklin and Grayscale spot ETF launches capturing institutional demand with valuations approaching $1B

🟡 Ethereum ($ETH): WEAK BUY - Fusaka upgrade incoming with PeerDAS and Verkle Trees to improve L2 scalability while steadily gaining market share from BTC

📈 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: $10,700.65
• Total Return: +7.01%
• Days Since Start: 29 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $3,070.77

Current Positions

• 🟢 AAVE: 15.04103 @ $170.24 entry, $171.82 current = $2,584.39 (P/L: $+23.80)
• 🟢 CRV: 2,584.45561 @ $0.41 entry, $0.34 current = $876.42 (P/L: $-187.14)
• 🔴 WLFI: 13,327.29069 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.12 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+258.63)
• 🔴 YFI: 0.28022 (SHORT) @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,146.64 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+196.17)
• 🟢 TON: 720.45646 @ $1.50 entry, $1.43 current = $1,030.68 (P/L: $-47.25)
• 🟢 BNB: 0.31751 @ $903.15 entry, $824.45 current = $261.77 (P/L: $-24.99)
• 🟢 SYRUP: 2,375.34240 @ $0.24 entry, $0.27 current = $647.82 (P/L: $+78.01)
• 🟢 ETH: 0.36090 @ $3,133.68 entry, $2,802.47 current = $1,011.40 (P/L: $-119.53)
• 🟢 HYPE: 61.88170 @ $27.88 entry, $22.99 current = $1,422.88 (P/L: $-302.19)
• 🟢 XRP: 570.52082 @ $2.01 entry, $1.81 current = $1,032.98 (P/L: $-114.78)
• 🟢 AVAX: 43.06774 @ $13.33 entry, $11.42 current = $491.99 (P/L: $-81.89)
• 🟢 SUI: 371.93867 @ $1.54 entry, $1.35 current = $501.22 (P/L: $-72.66)
• 🟢 SOL: 5.09335 @ $132.12 entry, $117.74 current = $599.68 (P/L: $-73.24)
• 🔴 DOGE: 4,284.65360 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.12 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+75.76)
• 🟢 OP: 1,962.37370 @ $0.29 entry, $0.26 current = $509.30 (P/L: $-66.07)
• 🔴 BTC: 0.00327 (SHORT) @ $87,116.84 entry, $85,018.90 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+6.86)

Trades Today

• 🟢 SELL 88.9896 UNI @ $4.92 ($437.61, P/L: $-118.74)

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: $7,636.89
• Total Return: -23.63%
• Days Since Start: 29 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $11,086.18

Current Positions

• 🔴 CRV: 2,160.18613 (SHORT) @ $0.41 entry, $0.34 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+161.19)
• 🟢 WLFI: 14,468.18589 @ $0.14 entry, $0.12 current = $1,801.78 (P/L: $-280.77)
• 🔴 UNI: 33.28450 (SHORT) @ $6.25 entry, $4.92 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+44.41)
• 🔴 MON: 0.57770 (SHORT) @ $0.04 entry, $0.02 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.01)
• 🟢 YFI: 0.22017 @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,146.64 current = $692.80 (P/L: $-154.13)
• 🔴 TON: 566.06491 (SHORT) @ $1.50 entry, $1.43 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+37.13)
• 🔴 BNB: 0.20615 (SHORT) @ $903.15 entry, $824.45 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+16.22)
• 🔴 SYRUP: 1,574.19940 (SHORT) @ $0.24 entry, $0.27 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-51.70)
• 🔴 ETH: 0.24693 (SHORT) @ $3,133.68 entry, $2,802.47 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+81.79)
• 🔴 HYPE: 39.66156 (SHORT) @ $27.89 entry, $22.99 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+194.26)
• 🔴 ENA: 353.29194 (SHORT) @ $0.27 entry, $0.19 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+25.94)
• 🔴 XRP: 377.76238 (SHORT) @ $2.01 entry, $1.81 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+76.00)
• 🔴 AVAX: 28.51670 (SHORT) @ $13.33 entry, $11.42 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+54.22)
• 🔴 SUI: 246.27399 (SHORT) @ $1.54 entry, $1.35 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+48.11)
• 🔴 SOL: 5.26793 (SHORT) @ $135.08 entry, $117.74 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+91.36)
• 🟢 DOGE: 2,551.57337 @ $0.14 entry, $0.12 current = $310.28 (P/L: $-45.12)
• 🔴 OP: 1,240.52237 (SHORT) @ $0.29 entry, $0.26 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+41.76)
• 🔴 AAVE: 0.99512 (SHORT) @ $184.00 entry, $171.82 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+12.12)
• 🟢 BTC: 0.00210 @ $87,116.84 entry, $85,018.90 current = $178.70 (P/L: $-4.41)

Trades Today

• 🟢 COVER 33.2845 UNI @ $4.92 ($163.68, P/L: $+44.41)
• 🟢 COVER 0.5777 MON @ $0.02 ($0.01, P/L: $+0.01)
• 🟢 SELL 9814.8200 JESSE @ $0.01 ($71.68, P/L: $-22.71)
• 🟢 COVER 353.2919 ENA @ $0.19 ($68.75, P/L: $+25.94)

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: -8.40%
  • Buy: +15.41%
  • Sell: -15.23%
• BTC + ETH (50/50): -9.25%
  • Buy: +16.26%
  • Sell: -14.38%
• BTC + ETH + OPEN (33/33/33): -13.77%
  • Buy: +20.78%
  • Sell: -9.86%

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