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πŸ¦‘ Leviathan News Daily Digest - January 15, 2026

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πŸ’° Market Snapshot (24h)

  • 🟒 BTC: $96,643.00 (+1.68%)
  • 🟒 ETH: $3,359.57 (+1.84%)
  • 🟒 OPEN: $0.7874 (+2.66%)

πŸ“ˆ Top Gainers: * 🟒 FRAX: $1.20 (+47.9%) * 🟒 ASF: $0.0843 (+8.4%) * 🟒 XMR: $741.94 (+3.5%)

πŸ“‰ Top Losers: * πŸ”΄ PEPE: $0.0000 (-7.8%) * πŸ”΄ LIT: $2.08 (-7.4%) * πŸ”΄ WLFI: $0.1707 (-5.4%)

πŸ”₯ Top Stories

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1. Legendary trader Peter Brandt breaks crypto X with Monero purchase, citing similarities with the silver charts. He refers to the privacy-focused cryptocurrency as "digital silver" after acquiring his first position. Brandt highlighted the technical resemblance between Monero's chart structure and historical silver market patterns. - u.today

🏷️ Monero

πŸ’¬ Wait what about ltc? β€” @telegram_6733653281
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2. Vitalik Buterin says decentralized web vision is ready to build. In a detailed thread, Ethereum's co-founder recapped the original plan: Ethereum as a world computer for settlement, Waku for messaging, and systems like IPFS and Fileverse for storage. He highlighted key advances like proof-of-stake, ZK-EVMs, PeerDAS on mainnet, and Layer-2 rollups that cut fees and boost speed. Fileverse offers decentralized Docs and Sheets that pass his 'walkaway test'β€”users can recover files even if developers disappearβ€”contrasting with centralized services prone to shutdowns. - 𝕏/@VitalikButerin

🏷️ docs β€’ ZK β€’ Ethereum

πŸ’¬ It is refreshing to know the vision is bright Only skeptical about how the govt will react to it as usual β€” @Danicjade
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3. Bitcoin nears $97,000 as nearly $800M in mostly short crypto positions are liquidated amid surging ETF inflows and growing optimism around U.S. crypto market structure legislation. - Coinglass

🏷️ Net Inflows β€’ ETF β€’ Crypto Market Structure Bill

πŸ’¬ This is the fear of many traders β€” @0x964...f0f
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4. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg urged New York lawmakers to criminalize unlicensed crypto operations, pushing mandatory licensing and KYC to combat money laundering and large-scale scams. He warned regulatory gaps enable a growing criminal crypto economy. - decrypt.co

🏷️ Scam β€’ KYC β€’ Money laundering

πŸ’¬ Well, that's a valid point. β€” @0x964...f0f
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5. CZ’s YZi backs Genius in multi-8-figure deal to win the terminal wars. Genius, a cross‑chain terminal, aims to unify that chaos. Instead of juggling interfaces, traders use one terminal to access liquidity across 10+ blockchains, including BNB, Solana, Ethereum, Hyperliquid, Base, Avalanche, and Sui–no bridging, no switching wallets, and no public signaling of strategy. - chainwire.org

🏷️ Ethereum β€’ GENIUS Act β€’ Base Chain

πŸ’¬ CZ coming hot with the big bets! β€” @0x964...f0f
SQUID Pass Winner

πŸ† SQUID Pass Winner

The SQUID Pass auction for next week is about to wrap up, if you want the pinned posts, the time to bid is now! - leviathannews.xyz

🏷️ Auction β€’ Squid Pass β€’ $SQUID

🎯 Trading Signals

🟒 84 ($84): BUY - the RSI golden cross occurred, and BTC recently broke out from a downtrend that ran from $84,000 upward[3]. Near-term resistance sits at $100,000, with longer-timeframe sentiment still somewhat bearish despite short-term bullish momentum[3][4].

🟑 XRP ($XRP): WEAK BUY - Market participants are pricing faster Fed easing for 2026 driven by tariff shocks and labor weakness, creating a "perfect setup for Bitcoin to capitalize on both short-term cheap liquidity and long-term fiat credit erosion"[2]. Despite metals dominating 2025, January may mark a turning point as investors rotate back into cryptocurrencies from overvalued asset classes[2]. Altcoin ETFs have attracted over $2 billion in cumulative inflows since launch, with XRP and SOL leading flows, indicating capital is flowing beyond core assets[2].

πŸ“ˆ Sentiment Portfolio

Current Sentiment Rankings

Token Sentiment Strategy Target
BTC +6.12 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
XRP +4.64 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
SOL +2.50 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
SYRUP +2.23 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
84 +2.00 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
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PEPE -2.56 πŸ”΄ Momentum Short / 🟒 Contrarian Long

Momentum Strategy

Portfolio Summary

  • Portfolio Value: $10,321.35
  • Total Return: +3.21%
  • Cash: $0.00

Current Positions

Long (12): ETH, SOL, BTC, WLFI, AAVE, CRV, AVAX, XRP, POL, TON, SUI, SYRUP Short (4): OP, ARB, TRX, PEPE

Today's Trades

  • 🟒 BUY 13.5844 XRP @ $2.12

Contrarian Strategy

Portfolio Summary

  • Portfolio Value: $9,875.88
  • Total Return: -1.24%
  • Cash: $5,066.88

Current Positions

Long (4): OP, ARB, TRX, PEPE Short (12): ETH, SOL, BTC, WLFI, AAVE, CRV, AVAX, XRP, POL, TON, SUI, SYRUP

Today's Trades

  • πŸ”΄ SHORT 80.1120 XRP @ $2.12
  • πŸ”΄ SHORT 364.4944 SYRUP @ $0.39

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

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