🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - December 27, 2025

💰 Market Snapshot (24h)

• 🔴 BTC: $87,364.00 (-1.56%)
• 🔴 ETH: $2,926.27 (-1.57%)
• 🔴 OPEN: $0.6850 (-1.54%)

📈 Top Gainers: * 🟢 HYPE: $25.77 (+2.9%) * 🟢 XMR: $452.38 (+2.6%) * 🟢 DOT: $1.77 (+2.3%)

📉 Top Losers: * 🔴 MON: $0.0225 (-9.1%) * 🔴 ASF: $0.0807 (-8.8%) * 🔴 COW: $0.2145 (-2.6%)

🔥 Top Stories

1. Leviathan Livestream: Llama Party Christmas Special "HEROES OF AIRULE" - Youtube

🏷️ Livestream • Leviathan • Llama Party

💬 very beautiful art — @johnnyonline

2. AI crypto tokens crashed ~75% in 2025, erasing $53B in value. Losses accelerated in Q4 as hype faded, liquidity thinned, and investors rotated out, with December alone wiping nearly $10B. - Cryptonews

🏷️ Liquidity • invest

💬 Q4 is a really unbelievable quarter. Tokens down so bad — @Hades

3. Japan’s ruling coalition unveiled a 2026 tax reform blueprint proposing to classify crypto as a financial product, consider separate taxation for trading gains, and allow limited loss carryforwards, signaling a shift from purely speculative treatment. - Cryptonews

🏷️ Japan • Signal • Crypto Taxes

💬 Cryptocurrency is winning as usual — @Hades

4. Russia's Central Bank has proposed a framework that would legalise and regulate cryptocurrency trading, amid years of informal adoption. - Paragraph

🏷️ legal • Central Bank • Russia

💬 Future of Fr.. oh — @GroupAnonymousBot

5. DeFi will win. Aave snapshot vote is now closed. - 𝕏/@Marczeller

🏷️ AAVE • Aave

💬 Let the best winner win — @Hades

🏆 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

🟢 UNI ($UNI): BUY - Uniswap DAO activated fee switch with buyback-and-burn mechanism destroying up to 100M UNI (~$600M), creating deflationary pressure

🟢 Solana ($SOL): BUY - Solflare prediction markets powered by Kalshi and DFlow now live, expanding Solana's DeFi ecosystem utility

🟡 Aave ($AAVE): WEAK BUY - DeFi sentiment strengthened with Aave snapshot vote completed and strong "DeFi will win" positioning

🟡 Ethereum ($ETH): WEAK BUY - Ethereum maintains positive momentum amid regulatory clarity from Japan's 2026 tax reform blueprint proposing separate crypto taxation treatment[3]

🟠 XRP ($XRP): WEAK SELL - Technical analysis indicates potential weakness with XRP projected to fall to $1.6 support level before buyers return[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: $10,822.21
• Total Return: +8.22%
• Days Since Start: 37 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $1,059.55

Current Positions

• 🟢 AAVE: 21.67265 @ $168.20 entry, $155.92 current = $3,379.16 (P/L: $-266.26)
• 🟢 CRV: 3,943.44702 @ $0.41 entry, $0.38 current = $1,512.31 (P/L: $-93.85)
• 🔴 WLFI: 13,327.29069 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.14 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+5.87)
• 🔴 YFI: 0.28022 (SHORT) @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,343.68 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+140.96)
• 🟢 TON: 720.45646 @ $1.50 entry, $1.57 current = $1,133.46 (P/L: $+55.53)
• 🟢 BNB: 0.63983 @ $872.21 entry, $839.22 current = $536.95 (P/L: $-21.11)
• 🟢 SYRUP: 18.55736 @ $0.24 entry, $0.34 current = $6.30 (P/L: $+1.85)
• 🟢 ETH: 0.72028 @ $3,031.58 entry, $2,926.27 current = $2,107.75 (P/L: $-75.86)
• 🟢 HYPE: 61.88170 @ $27.88 entry, $25.78 current = $1,595.46 (P/L: $-129.61)
• 🟢 AVAX: 43.06774 @ $13.33 entry, $12.46 current = $536.66 (P/L: $-37.22)
• 🟢 SUI: 371.93867 @ $1.54 entry, $1.41 current = $525.11 (P/L: $-48.76)
• 🟢 SOL: 5.81049 @ $130.99 entry, $122.97 current = $714.49 (P/L: $-46.61)
• 🔴 DOGE: 4,284.65360 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.12 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+71.29)
• 🟢 UNI: 139.07965 @ $5.90 entry, $5.92 current = $823.20 (P/L: $+2.84)
• 🟢 KDK: 702.98886 @ $0.37 entry, $0.38 current = $266.73 (P/L: $+3.56)

Trades Today

• 🟢 BUY 91.4207 UNI @ $5.92 ($541.11)
• 🟢 BUY 0.7171 SOL @ $122.97 ($88.18)
• 🟢 SELL 570.5208 XRP @ $1.85 ($1,053.25, P/L: $-94.51)
• 🟢 SELL 18.5574 SYRUP @ $0.34 ($6.30, P/L: $+1.85)

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: $7,503.04
• Total Return: -24.97%
• Days Since Start: 37 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $14,759.25

Current Positions

• 🔴 CRV: 3,095.57088 (SHORT) @ $0.41 entry, $0.38 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+80.05)
• 🔴 UNI: 96.66652 (SHORT) @ $6.03 entry, $5.92 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+11.08)
• 🔴 MON: 0.00113 (SHORT) @ $0.04 entry, $0.02 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 YFI: 0.22017 @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,343.68 current = $736.19 (P/L: $-110.75)
• 🔴 TON: 566.06491 (SHORT) @ $1.50 entry, $1.57 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-43.63)
• 🔴 BNB: 0.42800 (SHORT) @ $871.32 entry, $839.22 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+13.74)
• 🔴 ETH: 0.50578 (SHORT) @ $3,028.96 entry, $2,926.27 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+51.94)
• 🔴 HYPE: 39.66156 (SHORT) @ $27.89 entry, $25.78 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+83.65)
• 🔴 ENA: 0.69002 (SHORT) @ $0.27 entry, $0.21 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.04)
• 🔴 AVAX: 28.51670 (SHORT) @ $13.33 entry, $12.46 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+24.64)
• 🔴 SUI: 246.27399 (SHORT) @ $1.54 entry, $1.41 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+32.29)
• 🔴 SOL: 8.31879 (SHORT) @ $130.64 entry, $122.97 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+63.82)
• 🟢 DOGE: 2,551.57337 @ $0.14 entry, $0.12 current = $312.94 (P/L: $-42.45)
• 🔴 AAVE: 6.81263 (SHORT) @ $164.80 entry, $155.92 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+60.53)
• 🔴 KDK: 506.32705 (SHORT) @ $0.37 entry, $0.38 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-2.57)
• 🟢 ARB: 971.94643 @ $0.19 entry, $0.19 current = $186.80 (P/L: $+0.06)

Trades Today

• 🔴 SHORT 63.3820 UNI @ $5.92 ($375.15)
• 🔴 SHORT 3.0509 SOL @ $122.97 ($375.15)
• 🔴 SHORT 1.2030 AAVE @ $155.92 ($187.58)
• 🟢 COVER 377.7624 XRP @ $1.85 ($697.40, P/L: $+62.58)
• 🟢 COVER 0.0011 MON @ $0.02 ($0.00, P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 COVER 0.6900 ENA @ $0.21 ($0.15, P/L: $+0.04)

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: -5.88%
  • Buy: +14.10%
  • Sell: -19.09%
• BTC + ETH (50/50): -6.00%
  • Buy: +14.22%
  • Sell: -18.97%
• BTC + ETH + OPEN (33/33/33): -11.39%
  • Buy: +19.62%
  • Sell: -13.58%

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