🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - December 25, 2025

💰 Market Snapshot (24h)

• 🟢 BTC: $87,437.00 (+0.25%)
• 🔴 ETH: $2,922.42 (-0.30%)
• 🟢 OPEN: $0.6912 (+1.46%)

📈 Top Gainers: * 🟢 MON: $0.0233 (+11.1%) * 🟢 CRV: $0.3927 (+5.9%) * 🟢 SYRUP: $0.3240 (+5.6%)

📉 Top Losers: * 🔴 ADA: $0.3503 (-2.1%) * 🔴 TRX: $0.2788 (-1.6%) * 🔴 DOGE: $0.1261 (-1.6%)

🔥 Top Stories

1. Crypto gaming collapsed in 2025 as venture capital funding dried up, forcing many Web3 games to shut down, abandon communities, and wipe out token value, exposing weak incentives and unsustainable token-first models. - decrypt.co

🏷️ Venture Capital • Gaming • Games

2. Pudgy Penguins successfully wrapped the Las Vegas Sphere with its cartoon characters by positioning the activation around physical products—merch, toys, and animations—rather than crypto, allowing it to bypass the venue’s strict crypto advertising rules that previously blocked Dogwifhat’s $700K community-led attempt. - decrypt.co

🏷️ Sphere • Pudgy Penguins • Gas

3. US lawmakers face a tight 2026 window to pass a sweeping crypto market structure bill, with advocacy groups estimating a 50–60% chance amid midterms, shutdown risks, agency turf wars, and unresolved issues around stablecoins, DeFi, and ethics. - The Block

🏷️ Resolv • Shut Down • stablecoin

4. 2026 will be the year of innovation and mass adoption. This isn't just another cycle; it's an evolution. By solving the critical hurdles of complex user experience and lack of real-world utility, crypto is approaching its "broadband moment", the point where the technology becomes invisible, intuitive, and essential. - 𝕏/@Eli5defi

🏷️ Technology • App • Solv

5. ABN AMRO boosts digital innovation with MiCAR licence and Smart Derivatives. - abnamro.de

🏷️ MiCA

🏆 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

🟠 Bitcoin ($BTC): WEAK SELL - Declined 30% from all-time high to close November at $90k, signaling weakening momentum heading into year-end

📈 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: $10,665.34
• Total Return: +6.65%
• Days Since Start: 35 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $1,138.42

Current Positions

• 🟢 AAVE: 21.67265 @ $168.20 entry, $151.74 current = $3,288.66 (P/L: $-356.76)
• 🟢 CRV: 2,584.45561 @ $0.41 entry, $0.39 current = $1,015.00 (P/L: $-48.56)
• 🔴 WLFI: 13,327.29069 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+130.35)
• 🔴 YFI: 0.28022 (SHORT) @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,348.81 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+139.52)
• 🟢 TON: 720.45646 @ $1.50 entry, $1.49 current = $1,072.37 (P/L: $-5.56)
• 🟢 BNB: 0.31751 @ $903.15 entry, $835.41 current = $265.25 (P/L: $-21.51)
• 🟢 SYRUP: 37.11473 @ $0.24 entry, $0.32 current = $12.02 (P/L: $+3.12)
• 🟢 ETH: 0.72028 @ $3,031.58 entry, $2,922.45 current = $2,105.00 (P/L: $-78.61)
• 🟢 HYPE: 61.88170 @ $27.88 entry, $24.62 current = $1,523.64 (P/L: $-201.43)
• 🟢 XRP: 570.52082 @ $2.01 entry, $1.86 current = $1,063.57 (P/L: $-84.19)
• 🟢 AVAX: 43.06774 @ $13.33 entry, $12.20 current = $525.60 (P/L: $-48.28)
• 🟢 SUI: 371.93867 @ $1.54 entry, $1.40 current = $519.99 (P/L: $-53.89)
• 🟢 SOL: 5.09335 @ $132.12 entry, $121.80 current = $620.36 (P/L: $-52.55)
• 🔴 DOGE: 4,284.65360 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+56.37)
• 🟢 OP: 1,962.37370 @ $0.29 entry, $0.26 current = $514.35 (P/L: $-61.01)
• 🟢 UNI: 47.65892 @ $5.86 entry, $5.83 current = $278.06 (P/L: $-1.18)
• 🟢 KDK: 702.98886 @ $0.37 entry, $0.36 current = $256.49 (P/L: $-6.68)
• 🔴 BTC: 0.00305 (SHORT) @ $87,432.46 entry, $87,432.46 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)

Trades Today

• 🔴 SHORT 0.0030 BTC @ $87,432.46 ($266.63)
• 🟢 SELL 37.1147 SYRUP @ $0.32 ($12.02, P/L: $+3.12)

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: $7,524.65
• Total Return: -24.75%
• Days Since Start: 35 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $12,248.21

Current Positions

• 🔴 CRV: 2,160.18613 (SHORT) @ $0.41 entry, $0.39 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+45.36)
• 🟢 WLFI: 14,468.18589 @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $1,941.04 (P/L: $-141.51)
• 🔴 UNI: 33.28450 (SHORT) @ $6.25 entry, $5.83 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+13.89)
• 🔴 MON: 0.00451 (SHORT) @ $0.04 entry, $0.02 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 YFI: 0.22017 @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,348.81 current = $737.31 (P/L: $-109.62)
• 🔴 TON: 566.06491 (SHORT) @ $1.50 entry, $1.49 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+4.37)
• 🔴 BNB: 0.20615 (SHORT) @ $903.15 entry, $835.41 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+13.96)
• 🔴 ETH: 0.50578 (SHORT) @ $3,028.96 entry, $2,922.45 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+53.87)
• 🔴 HYPE: 39.66156 (SHORT) @ $27.89 entry, $24.62 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+129.68)
• 🔴 ENA: 2.76009 (SHORT) @ $0.27 entry, $0.20 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.18)
• 🔴 XRP: 377.76238 (SHORT) @ $2.01 entry, $1.86 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+55.75)
• 🔴 AVAX: 28.51670 (SHORT) @ $13.33 entry, $12.20 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+31.97)
• 🔴 SUI: 246.27399 (SHORT) @ $1.54 entry, $1.40 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+35.68)
• 🔴 SOL: 5.26793 (SHORT) @ $135.08 entry, $121.80 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+69.97)
• 🟢 DOGE: 2,551.57337 @ $0.14 entry, $0.13 current = $321.83 (P/L: $-33.57)
• 🔴 OP: 1,240.52237 (SHORT) @ $0.29 entry, $0.26 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+38.57)
• 🔴 AAVE: 5.60959 (SHORT) @ $166.71 entry, $151.74 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+83.96)
• 🔴 KDK: 506.32705 (SHORT) @ $0.37 entry, $0.36 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+4.81)
• 🟢 BTC: 0.00215 @ $87,432.46 entry, $87,432.46 current = $188.12 (P/L: $+0.00)

Trades Today

• 🟢 BUY 0.0022 BTC @ $87,432.46 ($188.12)
• 🟢 COVER 0.0045 MON @ $0.02 ($0.00, P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 COVER 2.7601 ENA @ $0.20 ($0.56, P/L: $+0.18)

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: -5.80%
  • Buy: +12.46%
  • Sell: -18.95%
• BTC + ETH (50/50): -6.03%
  • Buy: +12.68%
  • Sell: -18.73%
• BTC + ETH + OPEN (33/33/33): -11.18%
  • Buy: +17.83%
  • Sell: -13.58%

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