🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - December 22, 2025

💰 Market Snapshot (24h)

• 🟢 BTC: $90,018.00 (+2.14%)
• 🟢 ETH: $3,061.02 (+3.30%)
• 🔴 OPEN: $0.7055 (-0.06%)

📈 Top Gainers: * 🟢 SEI: $0.1141 (+6.1%) * 🟢 NEAR: $1.57 (+5.8%) * 🟢 SYRUP: $0.3473 (+5.7%)

📉 Top Losers: * 🔴 ASF: $0.0823 (-11.7%) * 🔴 AAVE: $156.66 (-10.5%) * 🔴 SPELL: $0.0002 (-1.4%)

🔥 Top Stories

1. Vitalik Buterin said prediction markets feel healthier than traditional markets because they attach money to beliefs, enforce accountability, and use bounded prices that reduce hype, reflexivity, and pump-and-dump dynamics common in equities and social media. - crypto.news

🏷️ Flex • Prediction Markets • Xi

💬 Hmm... Leviathan is building a prediction market? — @CurveCap

2. "Trying to rush a vote is disgraceful" - Ernesto from bgdlabs says he was not notified by Aave Labs before they've unilaterally submitted a proposal with his name on it, which if asked, he would not have approved. He adds that it's not in the ethos of DAO's governance to put up a Snapshot vote while the community is still trying to have an open discussion - 𝕏/@i

🏷️ Governance • App • Aave

💬 Spicy DAO drama — @kendrickllama555

3. Feel good using Resupply? That’s by design - 𝕏/@leviathan_news

🏷️ Resupply • UI • UX

💬 TL;DR: Ionut Nechifor, Resupply’s UI/UX designer, crafted the protocol’s visual identity and the iconic hippo mascot. His philosophy blends clarity, usability, and emotional connection, turning complex DeFi mechanics into approachable, intuitive interfaces. Drawing on traditional sketching, vector graphics, and game-inspired aesthetics, he emphasizes simplicity, trust, and storytelling in design. Currently, he’s developing Forma, a modular UI kit for Web3 designers, aiming to streamline professional UI creation with optional AI-powered features. — @Danicjade

4. The Picasso problem: Why the future of investing looks abstract, with Bitcoin as the epilogue. - visserlabs.substack

🏷️ Abstract • invest

💬 TL;DR: Jordi Visser argues that investing is shifting from realism to abstraction, accelerated by AI. Traditional valuation frameworks fail as complexity and uncertainty rise. Bitcoin exemplifies this abstract approach, absorbing uncertainty where conventional analysis cannot. Success in this new era requires embracing ambiguity and thinking beyond conventional metrics. — @Danicjade

5. DTCC received SEC approval to tokenize securities entitlements, not actual shares—modernizing settlement and collateral workflows while preserving intermediaries. True onchain ownership is emerging separately via direct-share models that place investors on issuer cap tables. - 𝕏/@chuk_xyz

🏷️ App • Onchain • SEC

🏆 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

🟡 Sui ($SUI): WEAK BUY - Survived a massive 20% supply unlock on December 1 with institutional partnerships and a Coinbase 2x leveraged ETF listing that drove a 6% surge, suggesting strong demand absorption post-unlock

📈 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: $10,854.43
• Total Return: +8.54%
• Days Since Start: 32 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $2,630.99

Current Positions

• 🟢 AAVE: 18.12986 @ $172.04 entry, $156.66 current = $2,840.29 (P/L: $-278.80)
• 🟢 CRV: 2,584.45561 @ $0.41 entry, $0.38 current = $972.97 (P/L: $-90.59)
• 🔴 WLFI: 13,327.29069 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.14 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+102.92)
• 🔴 YFI: 0.28022 (SHORT) @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,439.42 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+114.13)
• 🟢 TON: 720.45646 @ $1.50 entry, $1.47 current = $1,060.53 (P/L: $-17.41)
• 🟢 BNB: 0.31751 @ $903.15 entry, $865.24 current = $274.72 (P/L: $-12.04)
• 🟢 SYRUP: 296.91780 @ $0.24 entry, $0.35 current = $103.09 (P/L: $+31.87)
• 🟢 ETH: 0.36090 @ $3,133.68 entry, $3,060.92 current = $1,104.67 (P/L: $-26.26)
• 🟢 HYPE: 61.88170 @ $27.88 entry, $24.97 current = $1,545.43 (P/L: $-179.65)
• 🟢 XRP: 570.52082 @ $2.01 entry, $1.93 current = $1,101.69 (P/L: $-46.07)
• 🟢 AVAX: 43.06774 @ $13.33 entry, $12.35 current = $531.80 (P/L: $-42.08)
• 🟢 SUI: 371.93867 @ $1.54 entry, $1.47 current = $548.51 (P/L: $-25.37)
• 🟢 SOL: 5.09335 @ $132.12 entry, $126.74 current = $645.53 (P/L: $-27.38)
• 🔴 DOGE: 4,284.65360 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+26.86)
• 🟢 OP: 1,962.37370 @ $0.29 entry, $0.28 current = $542.58 (P/L: $-32.78)
• 🟢 UNI: 47.65892 @ $5.86 entry, $6.31 current = $300.77 (P/L: $+21.52)

Trades Today

• 🟢 SELL 296.9178 SYRUP @ $0.35 ($103.09, P/L: $+31.87)

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: $7,460.34
• Total Return: -25.40%
• Days Since Start: 32 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $11,113.35

Current Positions

• 🔴 CRV: 2,160.18613 (SHORT) @ $0.41 entry, $0.38 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+80.48)
• 🟢 WLFI: 14,468.18589 @ $0.14 entry, $0.14 current = $1,970.82 (P/L: $-111.73)
• 🔴 UNI: 33.28450 (SHORT) @ $6.25 entry, $6.31 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-1.96)
• 🔴 MON: 0.03611 (SHORT) @ $0.04 entry, $0.02 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 YFI: 0.22017 @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,439.42 current = $757.26 (P/L: $-89.67)
• 🔴 TON: 566.06491 (SHORT) @ $1.50 entry, $1.47 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+13.68)
• 🔴 BNB: 0.20615 (SHORT) @ $903.15 entry, $865.24 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+7.82)
• 🔴 ETH: 0.24693 (SHORT) @ $3,133.68 entry, $3,060.92 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+17.97)
• 🔴 HYPE: 39.66156 (SHORT) @ $27.89 entry, $24.97 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+115.72)
• 🔴 ENA: 22.08075 (SHORT) @ $0.27 entry, $0.21 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+1.20)
• 🔴 XRP: 377.76238 (SHORT) @ $2.01 entry, $1.93 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+30.50)
• 🔴 AVAX: 28.51670 (SHORT) @ $13.33 entry, $12.35 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+27.86)
• 🔴 SUI: 246.27399 (SHORT) @ $1.54 entry, $1.47 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+16.80)
• 🔴 SOL: 5.26793 (SHORT) @ $135.08 entry, $126.74 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+43.93)
• 🟢 DOGE: 2,551.57337 @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $339.40 (P/L: $-16.00)
• 🔴 OP: 1,240.52237 (SHORT) @ $0.29 entry, $0.28 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+20.72)
• 🔴 AAVE: 3.05790 (SHORT) @ $181.85 entry, $156.66 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+77.02)

Trades Today

• 🟢 COVER 0.0361 MON @ $0.02 ($0.00, P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 COVER 22.0807 ENA @ $0.21 ($4.72, P/L: $+1.20)

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: -3.02%
  • Buy: +11.56%
  • Sell: -22.38%
• BTC + ETH (50/50): -2.41%
  • Buy: +10.95%
  • Sell: -22.99%
• BTC + ETH + OPEN (33/33/33): -8.22%
  • Buy: +16.77%
  • Sell: -17.17%

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