🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - December 31, 2025

💰 Market Snapshot (24h)

• 🟢 BTC: $88,726.00 (+0.83%)
• 🟢 ETH: $2,990.26 (+0.15%)
• 🔴 OPEN: $0.6860 (-0.34%)

📈 Top Gainers: * 🟢 MON: $0.0235 (+9.1%) * 🟢 COW: $0.2215 (+1.9%) * 🟢 SOL: $126.22 (+1.7%)

📉 Top Losers: * 🔴 JESSE: $0.0054 (-11.9%) * 🔴 ASF: $0.0731 (-5.3%) * 🔴 NEAR: $1.52 (-1.8%)

🔥 Top Stories

1. Want to vibe code like Johnnyonline? A practical guide explains how “vibe coding” lets anyone build software by describing ideas to AI tools, iterating fast, and focusing on what to build rather than how to code, dramatically lowering the barrier to creating real apps. - 𝕏/@SuhailKakar

🏷️ Guide • Coding • App

💬 But ser... @johnnyonline does "vibe building" -- (coding the old fashioned way while playing good music), "vibe coding" is slop 😄 — @CurveCap

2. The US may have banned a CBDC, but through stablecoin regulation, 1:1 reserves, & institutional integration, stablecoins become America's de-facto digital dollar. - Paragraph

🏷️ Integration • Regulation • stablecoin

3. The 2025 crypto news cycle, plotted in one graph - 𝕏/@leviathan_news

🏷️ Leviathan

💬 Over 10 million impressions in 2025! Thanks to $SQUID holders for crowdsourcing such high signal crypto news. Special shout out to increased prevalence of attention deficit disorders, for ensuring news cycles will continue to compress! — @CurveCap

4. Chinese investors bet $188m on CBDC tech after central bank revolutionary payout decision. Chinese banks will pay customers interest on their CBDC holdings. - DL News

🏷️ CBDC • China

5. WPA Hash launched a next-generation AI-driven cloud mining system, offering automated hashrate optimization, institutional-grade security, and green energy-powered mining to deliver stable passive yields across multiple cryptocurrencies. - crypto.news

🏷️ Yields • Loud • Security

🏆 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

💬 Since I'm a dummy, let me learn 😅 — @Hades

🎯 Trading Signals

🟠 Bitcoin ($BTC): WEAK SELL - Down 30% from October highs with December weakness accelerating amid thin holiday liquidity and risk-off positioning

🟠 Ethereum ($ETH): WEAK SELL - Dropped 22% in Q4 alongside Bitcoin, with application-layer sectors underperforming as investors shift to defensive positioning

📈 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: $10,782.62
• Total Return: +7.83%
• Days Since Start: 41 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $2,425.56

Current Positions

• 🟢 AAVE: 23.46371 @ $166.88 entry, $148.89 current = $3,493.50 (P/L: $-422.19)
• 🟢 CRV: 3,943.44702 @ $0.41 entry, $0.37 current = $1,466.59 (P/L: $-139.58)
• 🔴 WLFI: 13,327.29069 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.14 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-5.08)
• 🔴 YFI: 0.28022 (SHORT) @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,283.91 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+157.71)
• 🟢 TON: 720.45646 @ $1.50 entry, $1.64 current = $1,179.05 (P/L: $+101.12)
• 🟢 BNB: 0.63983 @ $872.21 entry, $867.10 current = $554.79 (P/L: $-3.27)
• 🟢 SYRUP: 1.15984 @ $0.24 entry, $0.32 current = $0.38 (P/L: $+0.10)
• 🟢 HYPE: 61.88170 @ $27.88 entry, $25.93 current = $1,604.64 (P/L: $-120.43)
• 🟢 AVAX: 43.06774 @ $13.33 entry, $12.55 current = $540.29 (P/L: $-33.59)
• 🟢 SUI: 371.93867 @ $1.54 entry, $1.45 current = $538.06 (P/L: $-35.81)
• 🟢 SOL: 9.92312 @ $128.27 entry, $126.26 current = $1,252.91 (P/L: $-19.89)
• 🔴 DOGE: 4,284.65360 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.12 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+69.41)
• 🟢 UNI: 139.07965 @ $5.90 entry, $5.91 current = $821.34 (P/L: $+0.99)
• 🟢 KDK: 702.98886 @ $0.37 entry, $0.37 current = $258.59 (P/L: $-4.58)
• 🟢 XRP: 293.43994 @ $1.87 entry, $1.88 current = $550.28 (P/L: $+2.42)
• 🔴 TRX: 963.48278 (SHORT) @ $0.28 entry, $0.28 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+1.09)
• 🟢 BUIDL: 10.06479 @ $1.00 entry, $1.00 current = $10.06 (P/L: $+0.00)
• 🔴 BTC: 0.00304 (SHORT) @ $88,744.23 entry, $88,744.23 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)

Trades Today

• 🔴 SHORT 0.0030 BTC @ $88,744.23 ($269.57)
• 🟢 SELL 0.7203 ETH @ $2,991.70 ($2,154.87, P/L: $-28.73)
• 🟢 SELL 1.1598 SYRUP @ $0.32 ($0.38, P/L: $+0.10)

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: $7,439.99
• Total Return: -25.60%
• Days Since Start: 41 (since 2025-11-19)
• Cash: $15,978.79

Current Positions

• 🔴 CRV: 3,095.57088 (SHORT) @ $0.41 entry, $0.37 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+115.95)
• 🔴 UNI: 96.66652 (SHORT) @ $6.03 entry, $5.91 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+12.37)
• 🟢 YFI: 0.22017 @ $3,846.71 entry, $3,283.91 current = $723.03 (P/L: $-123.91)
• 🔴 TON: 566.06491 (SHORT) @ $1.50 entry, $1.64 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-79.45)
• 🔴 BNB: 0.42800 (SHORT) @ $871.32 entry, $867.10 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+1.80)
• 🔴 HYPE: 39.66156 (SHORT) @ $27.89 entry, $25.93 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+77.76)
• 🔴 ENA: 0.04313 (SHORT) @ $0.27 entry, $0.20 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)
• 🔴 AVAX: 28.51670 (SHORT) @ $13.33 entry, $12.55 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+22.24)
• 🔴 SUI: 246.27399 (SHORT) @ $1.54 entry, $1.45 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+23.71)
• 🔴 SOL: 14.29321 (SHORT) @ $127.97 entry, $126.26 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+24.46)
• 🔴 AAVE: 8.05137 (SHORT) @ $162.66 entry, $148.89 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+110.91)
• 🔴 KDK: 506.32705 (SHORT) @ $0.37 entry, $0.37 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+3.30)
• 🟢 ARB: 971.94643 @ $0.19 entry, $0.19 current = $185.12 (P/L: $-1.61)
• 🔴 XRP: 197.36774 (SHORT) @ $1.87 entry, $1.88 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-1.63)
• 🔴 WLFI: 3,885.25558 (SHORT) @ $0.14 entry, $0.14 current = $0.00 (P/L: $-2.58)
• 🟢 TRX: 648.03864 @ $0.28 entry, $0.28 current = $183.51 (P/L: $-0.73)
• 🔴 BUIDL: 747.80659 (SHORT) @ $1.00 entry, $1.00 current = $0.00 (P/L: $+0.00)

Trades Today

• 🟢 COVER 0.0021 BTC @ $88,744.23 ($188.72, P/L: $-1.77)
• 🟢 COVER 0.5058 ETH @ $2,991.70 ($1,513.15, P/L: $+18.85)
• 🟢 COVER 0.0001 MON @ $0.02 ($0.00, P/L: $+0.00)
• 🟢 COVER 0.0431 ENA @ $0.20 ($0.01, P/L: $+0.00)

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: -4.39%
  • Buy: +12.22%
  • Sell: -21.21%
• BTC + ETH (50/50): -4.21%
  • Buy: +12.04%
  • Sell: -21.39%
• BTC + ETH + OPEN (33/33/33): -10.16%
  • Buy: +17.98%
  • Sell: -15.44%

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