🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - December 23, 2025

💰 Market Snapshot (24h)

• 🔴 BTC: $87,767.00 (-2.38%)
• 🔴 ETH: $2,957.83 (-3.19%)
• 🔴 OPEN: $0.6846 (-2.93%)

📈 Top Gainers: * 🟢 ASF: $0.0884 (+8.0%) * 🟢 FRAX: $0.6862 (+5.7%) * 🟢 COW: $0.2135 (+5.1%)

📉 Top Losers: * 🔴 MON: $0.0196 (-9.7%) * 🔴 UNI: $5.79 (-8.3%) * 🔴 ENA: $0.1979 (-7.3%)

🔥 Top Stories

1. Pangea releases their token pricing dataset and backtesting tool with Pay As You Go billing over x402, allowing users and agents to pay for on-chain data with USDC - 𝕏/@in_pangea

🏷️ x402 • release • Onchain Data

2. Aave Chan Initiative on "Why this proposal matters" - aavechan.notion.site

🏷️ AAVE • Aave

3. LlamaRisk reflects on 2025 highlights and collaborations while looking forward to continued empowerment of protocols and users in 2026 - 𝕏/@LlamaRisk

🏷️ LlamaRisk

💬 TL;DR: Highlights this Year Onboarded as Risk Partner for Aave Horizon Launched LlamaGuard NAV on Aave Horizon Expanded Real-Time Transparency with PoR Systems Prepared Curve for LlamaLend V2 — @Spencer420

4. One-click DeFi vaults are emerging as crypto’s next mainstream product, packaging low-risk yield into simple, accessible savings tools aligned with Ethereum’s vision of everyday finance, as vault adoption and TVL grow rapidly across global markets. - 𝕏/@KhanAbbas201

🏷️ Ethereum • Vaults • TVL

💬 Is the aim for crypto in 2026? — @Hades

5. Essential Security Tactics to Implement After the Bybit Hack - 𝕏/@officer_secret

🏷️ Security • Hacks • Bybit

💬 "The hack likely stemmed from signer compromises, highlighting the need for layered defenses, better transaction verification, and stricter operational security (OpSec) practices. For users managing crypto assets, especially on platforms like Bybit or similar exchanges, implementing proactive tactics is crucial to prevent similar losses. Below, we outline key strategies, drawing from expert recommendations shared in the wake of the event." — @Spencer420

🏆 SQUID Pass Winner

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

🎯 Trading Signals

🔴 85 ($85): SELL - Year-end liquidity conditions are deteriorating as institutional investors reduce positions ahead of Christmas, creating severe slippage risks (reaching hundreds of dollars for major trades)[1]. Critical support levels exist at $85,000 for Bitcoin and $2,700-$2,720 for Ethereum, with accelerated downside risks if these break[1]. Market expectations for Fed rate cuts in 2026 have cooled significantly, with 75.6% probability of rates remaining unchanged in January[1].

📈 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: $10,594.49
• Total Return: +5.94%
• Days Since Start: 33 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $2,679.12

Current Positions

• 🟢 AAVE: 18.12986 @ $172.04 entry, $150.59 current = $2,730.23 (P/L: $-388.86)
• 🟢 CRV: 2,584.45561 @ $0.41 entry, $0.37 current = $953.88 (P/L: $-109.68)
• 🔴 WLFI: 13,327.29069 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+147.48)
• 🔴 YFI: 0.28022 (SHORT) @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,369.14 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+133.83)
• 🟢 TON: 720.45646 @ $1.50 entry, $1.46 current = $1,049.03 (P/L: $-28.91)
• 🟢 BNB: 0.31751 @ $903.15 entry, $849.71 current = $269.79 (P/L: $-16.97)
• 🟢 SYRUP: 148.45890 @ $0.24 entry, $0.32 current = $48.13 (P/L: $+12.52)
• 🟢 ETH: 0.36090 @ $3,133.68 entry, $2,958.04 current = $1,067.54 (P/L: $-63.39)
• 🟢 HYPE: 61.88170 @ $27.88 entry, $24.19 current = $1,497.03 (P/L: $-228.04)
• 🟢 XRP: 570.52082 @ $2.01 entry, $1.89 current = $1,079.62 (P/L: $-68.13)
• 🟢 AVAX: 43.06774 @ $13.33 entry, $12.18 current = $524.54 (P/L: $-49.33)
• 🟢 SUI: 371.93867 @ $1.54 entry, $1.44 current = $534.35 (P/L: $-39.53)
• 🟢 SOL: 5.09335 @ $132.12 entry, $124.29 current = $633.04 (P/L: $-39.88)
• 🔴 DOGE: 4,284.65360 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+38.94)
• 🟢 OP: 1,962.37370 @ $0.29 entry, $0.27 current = $525.16 (P/L: $-50.21)
• 🟢 UNI: 47.65892 @ $5.86 entry, $5.79 current = $275.83 (P/L: $-3.42)

Trades Today

• 🟢 SELL 148.4589 SYRUP @ $0.32 ($48.13, P/L: $+12.52)

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: $7,562.97
• Total Return: -24.37%
• Days Since Start: 33 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $11,111.16

Current Positions

• 🔴 CRV: 2,160.18613 (SHORT) @ $0.41 entry, $0.37 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+96.44)
• 🟢 WLFI: 14,468.18589 @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $1,922.45 (P/L: $-160.10)
• 🔴 UNI: 33.28450 (SHORT) @ $6.25 entry, $5.79 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+15.45)
• 🔴 MON: 0.01805 (SHORT) @ $0.04 entry, $0.02 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 YFI: 0.22017 @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,369.14 current = $741.79 (P/L: $-105.15)
• 🔴 TON: 566.06491 (SHORT) @ $1.50 entry, $1.46 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+22.71)
• 🔴 BNB: 0.20615 (SHORT) @ $903.15 entry, $849.71 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+11.02)
• 🔴 ETH: 0.24693 (SHORT) @ $3,133.68 entry, $2,958.04 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+43.37)
• 🔴 HYPE: 39.66156 (SHORT) @ $27.89 entry, $24.19 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+146.73)
• 🔴 ENA: 11.04037 (SHORT) @ $0.27 entry, $0.20 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.77)
• 🔴 XRP: 377.76238 (SHORT) @ $2.01 entry, $1.89 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+45.11)
• 🔴 AVAX: 28.51670 (SHORT) @ $13.33 entry, $12.18 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+32.67)
• 🔴 SUI: 246.27399 (SHORT) @ $1.54 entry, $1.44 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+26.18)
• 🔴 SOL: 5.26793 (SHORT) @ $135.08 entry, $124.29 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+56.86)
• 🟢 DOGE: 2,551.57337 @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $332.20 (P/L: $-23.19)
• 🔴 OP: 1,240.52237 (SHORT) @ $0.29 entry, $0.27 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+31.74)
• 🔴 AAVE: 3.05790 (SHORT) @ $181.85 entry, $150.59 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+95.58)

Trades Today

• 🟢 COVER 0.0181 MON @ $0.02 ($0.00, P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 COVER 11.0404 ENA @ $0.20 ($2.19, P/L: $+0.77)

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: -5.44%
  • Buy: +11.38%
  • Sell: -18.93%
• BTC + ETH (50/50): -5.27%
  • Buy: +11.22%
  • Sell: -19.10%
• BTC + ETH + OPEN (33/33/33): -10.92%
  • Buy: +16.87%
  • Sell: -13.45%

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