🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - December 19, 2025

💰 Market Snapshot (24h)

• 🔴 BTC: $87,993.00 (-0.15%)
• 🟢 ETH: $2,964.58 (+1.89%)
• 🔴 OPEN: $0.7074 (-0.53%)

📈 Top Gainers: * 🟢 ASF: $0.0949 (+14.6%) * 🟢 SYRUP: $0.2936 (+4.2%) * 🟢 COW: $0.1948 (+3.3%)

📉 Top Losers: * 🔴 AIOZ: $0.0991 (-3.5%) * 🔴 TON: $1.44 (-3.5%) * 🔴 FRAX: $0.6182 (-3.5%)

🔥 Top Stories

1. Yearn developer Schlag gives feedback on basic onchain integration of Uniswap V4 and their universal router - 𝕏/@Schlagonia

🏷️ Yearn • Integration • Uniswap

💬 Yeah, not a fan of UniswapV4 — @HappyPsyduck

2. Pumpfun and Solana Face $5.5B RICO Lawsuit Alleging Coordinated Memecoin Scheme That Wiped Out Retail Investors - 𝕏/@mastrxyz

🏷️ pump.fun • Solana • Lawsuit

💬 This is really going to get interesting Hopefully, it doesn't dent the Solana — @Danicjade

3. 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

💬 Bring wall street to blockchain — @Danicjade

4. Vitalik's latest views on popups, network states, coordi-nations, zones, and where all of these things could lead us. "Let a thousand societies bloom". He calls for simpler Ethereum design and pluralistic societies. - vitalik.eth.limo

🏷️ IGN • $ETH • Ethereum

💬 Damn sure the future is bright 🌄 — @Danicjade

5. The fat app thesis is dead: Welcome to the fat distribution era. - 𝕏/@MattFiebach

🏷️ App

💬 TL;DR: Crypto has moved past fat protocols and fat apps into a fat distribution era. Apps themselves are becoming commoditized backends, while the real value accrues to whoever controls user distribution and trusted frontends (Web2/TradFi platforms like Coinbase, Robinhood, banks). Years of infra optimization now deliver diminishing user value; users care more about familiar interfaces than marginally better on-chain rates or mechanics. As a result, DeFi apps are increasingly positioning as pipes integrated into larger platforms (B2B2C), where distribution—not liquidity or UX—becomes the moat. A few apps will still win B2C, but only by fully rethinking strategy; overall, frontends win, backends compete on price, and distribution captures the upside. — @Danicjade

🏆 SQUID Pass Winner

This Thursday December 18th, RAAC is officially launching its gold-backed stablecoin $pmUSD! The launch is via a bond sale on Apebond, where $1M pmUSD will be available with a reward going from 2 to 5%! This means: for every $1 USDT / USDC you deposit, you receive up to $1.05 pmUSD after the locking period. On top of that, this sale also marks the start of the RAAC points program, and participating in this sale will grant the biggest point multiplier of the program! Finally, this sale is private for the RAAC Bots holder, the Llamas and the ApeBond premium users! Follow RAAC on X for additional details! - 𝕏/@i

🏷️ Bond • $USDT • WenLLama

🎯 Trading Signals

🟢 80K ($80K): BUY - The crypto market faced a challenging November 2025, with total market capitalization declining 15.43% amid Federal Reserve policy uncertainty and Bank of Japan rate hike expectations.[1] Bitcoin fell 16.7% to briefly touch $80K before rebounding to $87K, while ETH dropped 21.3% and BNB declined 18.4%.[1] Notably, Bitcoin's realized capitalization reached a record $1.125 trillion despite the 36% price correction, signaling that long-term holders are not capitulating.[4]

🟠 60M ($60M): WEAK SELL - XRP emerged as a bright spot with both Franklin and Grayscale launching spot ETFs that attracted over $60M in net inflows on day one.[1] In contrast, Grayscale's DOGE ETF launched with weak volume, reflecting institutional reluctance toward speculative assets during risk-off periods. However, BTC spot ETFs experienced nearly $4B in outflows driven by panic selling.[1]

🟢 84K ($84K): BUY - Bitcoin is consolidating between $84K-$90K with options markets hedging against a break below $85K.[2] Large holders appear to be quietly exiting altcoins over the past three to five months, visible across Ethereum, XRP, and Solana, while Bitcoin maintains support from consistent buyers preventing sharp declines.[2]

📈 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: $10,920.78
• Total Return: +9.21%
• Days Since Start: 29 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $3,070.77

Current Positions

• 🟢 AAVE: 15.04103 @ $170.24 entry, $182.04 current = $2,738.09 (P/L: $+177.50)
• 🟢 CRV: 2,584.45561 @ $0.41 entry, $0.35 current = $892.21 (P/L: $-171.35)
• 🔴 WLFI: 13,327.29069 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, N/A current = N/A
• 🔴 YFI: 0.28022 (SHORT) @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,236.51 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+170.99)
• 🟢 TON: 720.45646 @ $1.50 entry, N/A current = N/A
• 🟢 BNB: 0.31751 @ $903.15 entry, $847.44 current = $269.07 (P/L: $-17.69)
• 🟢 SYRUP: 2,375.34240 @ $0.24 entry, N/A current = N/A
• 🟢 ETH: 0.36090 @ $3,133.68 entry, $2,964.66 current = $1,069.93 (P/L: $-61.00)
• 🟢 HYPE: 61.88170 @ $27.88 entry, $24.30 current = $1,503.88 (P/L: $-221.19)
• 🟢 XRP: 570.52082 @ $2.01 entry, $1.88 current = $1,072.48 (P/L: $-75.28)
• 🟢 AVAX: 43.06774 @ $13.33 entry, N/A current = N/A
• 🟢 SUI: 371.93867 @ $1.54 entry, N/A current = N/A
• 🟢 SOL: 5.09335 @ $132.12 entry, $126.33 current = $643.43 (P/L: $-29.49)
• 🔴 DOGE: 4,284.65360 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, N/A current = N/A
• 🟢 OP: 1,962.37370 @ $0.29 entry, N/A current = N/A
• 🔴 BTC: 0.00327 (SHORT) @ $87,116.84 entry, $87,989.15 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-2.85)

Trades Today

No trades executed today

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: $7,469.08
• Total Return: -25.31%
• Days Since Start: 29 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $10,587.84

Current Positions

• 🔴 CRV: 2,160.18613 (SHORT) @ $0.41 entry, $0.35 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+147.98)
• 🟢 WLFI: 14,468.18589 @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $1,886.24 (P/L: $-196.31)
• 🔴 UNI: 33.28450 (SHORT) @ $6.25 entry, $5.19 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+35.37)
• 🔴 MON: 0.28885 (SHORT) @ $0.04 entry, $0.02 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.01)
• 🟢 YFI: 0.22017 @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,236.51 current = $712.59 (P/L: $-134.35)
• 🔴 TON: 566.06491 (SHORT) @ $1.50 entry, $1.44 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+29.86)
• 🔴 BNB: 0.20615 (SHORT) @ $903.15 entry, $847.44 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+11.49)
• 🔴 ETH: 0.24693 (SHORT) @ $3,133.68 entry, $2,964.66 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+41.74)
• 🔴 HYPE: 39.66156 (SHORT) @ $27.89 entry, $24.30 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+142.35)
• 🔴 ENA: 176.64597 (SHORT) @ $0.27 entry, $0.20 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+11.24)
• 🔴 XRP: 377.76238 (SHORT) @ $2.01 entry, $1.88 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+49.85)
• 🔴 AVAX: 28.51670 (SHORT) @ $13.33 entry, $11.99 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+37.94)
• 🔴 SUI: 246.27399 (SHORT) @ $1.54 entry, $1.44 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+24.73)
• 🔴 SOL: 5.26793 (SHORT) @ $135.08 entry, $126.33 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+46.11)
• 🟢 DOGE: 2,551.57337 @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $328.51 (P/L: $-26.89)
• 🔴 OP: 1,240.52237 (SHORT) @ $0.29 entry, $0.27 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+29.05)
• 🔴 AAVE: 0.99512 (SHORT) @ $184.00 entry, $182.04 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+1.95)
• 🟢 BTC: 0.00210 @ $87,116.84 entry, $87,989.15 current = $184.94 (P/L: $+1.83)

Trades Today

• 🟢 COVER 0.2889 MON @ $0.02 ($0.01, P/L: $+0.01)
• 🟢 COVER 1574.1994 SYRUP @ $0.29 ($462.23, P/L: $-84.60)
• 🟢 COVER 176.6460 ENA @ $0.20 ($36.11, P/L: $+11.24)

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: -5.20%
  • Buy: +14.41%
  • Sell: -20.10%
• BTC + ETH (50/50): -5.05%
  • Buy: +14.26%
  • Sell: -20.26%
• BTC + ETH + OPEN (33/33/33): -9.91%
  • Buy: +19.12%
  • Sell: -15.40%

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