🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - December 29, 2025

💰 Market Snapshot (24h)

• 🔴 BTC: $87,232.00 (-0.65%)
• 🔴 ETH: $2,927.70 (-0.44%)
• 🔴 OPEN: $0.6815 (-2.90%)

📈 Top Gainers: * 🟢 JESSE: $0.0070 (+7.1%) * 🟢 MON: $0.0222 (+0.7%) * 🟢 SQUID: $0.0026 (+0.3%)

📉 Top Losers: * 🔴 NEAR: $1.52 (-4.1%) * 🔴 UNI: $6.05 (-4.1%) * 🔴 ARB: $0.1906 (-3.3%)

🔥 Top Stories

1. Flow blockchain, which brands itself the "Home of Consumer DeFi," takes heat over their decision to perform a rollback - 𝕏/@AlexSmirnov

🏷️ DEX • CEX • Bridges

2. ERC-7540 introduces async vault operations, letting DeFi vaults handle non-instant strategies like RWAs, fixed-term yields, and cross-chain positions through request → wait → claim flows, unlocking new yield sources with 90%+ gas savings via batching. - 𝕏/@MeshClans

🏷️ Crosschain • Yields • Gas

3. The prison of financial mediocrity. The easiest thing to sell to a crowd like this is "hope", and when you understand this, you will understand the rise of the casinos (in all forms, dexes, prediction markets, etc) and the rise of trading gurus, business gurus, courses, and of course, substacks. - 𝕏/@systematicls

🏷️ Prediction Markets • prison • Stacks

4. Mirae Asset Group pursues acquisition of fourth-largest crypto exchange Korbit. Transaction valued at 100-140 billion Korean won as details remain fluid. The deal would be led by Mirae Asset Consulting, a non-financial subsidiary, which has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korbit’s major shareholders. - Chosun

🏷️ acquisition • Fluid • Transaction

5. ADI Chain partners with Fasset to enable regulated digital asset infrastructure in the UAE. This collaboration supports future Dirham-backed stablecoin use cases and broader adoption. - Zawya

🏷️ Dirham • stablecoin • UAE

🏆 SQUID Pass Winner

Flex, an upcoming choose-your-fixed-rate lending market, being built by our Leviathan News contributor johnnyonline, on his show "Vibe Building", explained in a simple way - 𝕏/@johnnyonline_

🏷️ Livestream • Leviathan • Lending

🎯 Trading Signals

🟢 Bitcoin ($BTC): BUY - Macro-driven asset positioning favors long-term liquidity, but strategists recommend patience on short-term tightening cycles

🟢 Ethereum ($ETH): BUY - ERC-7540 async vault operations enable new yield strategies (RWAs, fixed-term yields, cross-chain) with 90%+ gas savings via batching

🟠 Flow ($FLOW): WEAK SELL - Rollback decision creates uncertainty around network reliability and validator confidence

🟡 Aave ($AAVE): WEAK BUY - ERC-7540 unlocks new DeFi vault mechanics, expanding protocol utility for non-instant yield strategies

🟡 Solana ($SOL): WEAK BUY - Perp DEX farming patterns show sophisticated traders outperform through discipline—demand signal for high-conviction execution venues

📈 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: $10,810.94
• Total Return: +8.11%
• Days Since Start: 39 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $10.06

Current Positions

• 🟢 AAVE: 23.46371 @ $166.88 entry, $150.90 current = $3,540.70 (P/L: $-374.99)
• 🟢 CRV: 3,943.44702 @ $0.41 entry, $0.39 current = $1,526.63 (P/L: $-79.54)
• 🔴 WLFI: 13,327.29069 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.14 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+21.34)
• 🔴 YFI: 0.28022 (SHORT) @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,384.64 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+129.48)
• 🟢 TON: 720.45646 @ $1.50 entry, $1.63 current = $1,176.01 (P/L: $+98.07)
• 🟢 BNB: 0.63983 @ $872.21 entry, $849.90 current = $543.79 (P/L: $-14.28)
• 🟢 SYRUP: 4.63934 @ $0.24 entry, $0.32 current = $1.50 (P/L: $+0.39)
• 🟢 ETH: 0.72028 @ $3,031.58 entry, $2,928.37 current = $2,109.26 (P/L: $-74.34)
• 🟢 HYPE: 61.88170 @ $27.88 entry, $25.66 current = $1,587.89 (P/L: $-137.18)
• 🟢 AVAX: 43.06774 @ $13.33 entry, $12.56 current = $541.08 (P/L: $-32.80)
• 🟢 SUI: 371.93867 @ $1.54 entry, $1.45 current = $538.31 (P/L: $-35.57)
• 🟢 SOL: 9.92312 @ $128.27 entry, $123.72 current = $1,227.67 (P/L: $-45.12)
• 🔴 DOGE: 4,284.65360 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.12 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+67.95)
• 🟢 UNI: 139.07965 @ $5.90 entry, $6.05 current = $841.45 (P/L: $+21.10)
• 🟢 KDK: 702.98886 @ $0.37 entry, $0.38 current = $265.77 (P/L: $+2.60)
• 🟢 XRP: 293.43994 @ $1.87 entry, $1.86 current = $546.28 (P/L: $-1.58)
• 🔴 TRX: 963.48278 (SHORT) @ $0.28 entry, $0.28 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+2.74)

Trades Today

• 🟢 COVER 0.0031 BTC @ $87,233.25 ($272.08, P/L: $+1.85)
• 🟢 BUY 1.7911 AAVE @ $150.90 ($270.27)
• 🟢 SELL 4.6393 SYRUP @ $0.32 ($1.50, P/L: $+0.39)

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: $7,477.10
• Total Return: -25.23%
• Days Since Start: 39 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $15,998.12

Current Positions

• 🔴 CRV: 3,095.57088 (SHORT) @ $0.41 entry, $0.39 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+68.81)
• 🔴 UNI: 96.66652 (SHORT) @ $6.03 entry, $6.05 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-1.61)
• 🔴 MON: 0.00028 (SHORT) @ $0.04 entry, $0.02 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 YFI: 0.22017 @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,384.64 current = $745.20 (P/L: $-101.73)
• 🔴 TON: 566.06491 (SHORT) @ $1.50 entry, $1.63 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-77.06)
• 🔴 BNB: 0.42800 (SHORT) @ $871.32 entry, $849.90 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+9.17)
• 🔴 ETH: 0.50578 (SHORT) @ $3,028.96 entry, $2,928.37 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+50.87)
• 🔴 HYPE: 39.66156 (SHORT) @ $27.89 entry, $25.66 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+88.50)
• 🔴 ENA: 0.17251 (SHORT) @ $0.27 entry, $0.21 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.01)
• 🔴 AVAX: 28.51670 (SHORT) @ $13.33 entry, $12.56 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+21.72)
• 🔴 SUI: 246.27399 (SHORT) @ $1.54 entry, $1.45 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+23.55)
• 🔴 SOL: 11.28046 (SHORT) @ $129.00 entry, $123.72 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+59.63)
• 🔴 AAVE: 8.05137 (SHORT) @ $162.66 entry, $150.90 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+94.71)
• 🔴 KDK: 506.32705 (SHORT) @ $0.37 entry, $0.38 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-1.88)
• 🟢 ARB: 971.94643 @ $0.19 entry, $0.19 current = $185.31 (P/L: $-1.43)
• 🔴 XRP: 197.36774 (SHORT) @ $1.87 entry, $1.86 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+1.07)
• 🔴 WLFI: 1,264.26484 (SHORT) @ $0.15 entry, $0.14 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+4.29)
• 🟢 TRX: 648.03864 @ $0.28 entry, $0.28 current = $182.41 (P/L: $-1.84)

Trades Today

• 🟢 SELL 0.0021 BTC @ $87,233.25 ($183.00, P/L: $-1.25)
• 🔴 SHORT 1.2387 AAVE @ $150.90 ($186.93)
• 🟢 COVER 0.0003 MON @ $0.02 ($0.00, P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 COVER 0.1725 ENA @ $0.21 ($0.04, P/L: $+0.01)

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: -6.02%
  • Buy: +14.13%
  • Sell: -19.21%
• BTC + ETH (50/50): -6.05%
  • Buy: +14.16%
  • Sell: -19.18%
• BTC + ETH + OPEN (33/33/33): -11.56%
  • Buy: +19.67%
  • Sell: -13.67%

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