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πŸ¦‘ Leviathan News Daily Digest - January 19, 2026

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πŸ’° Market Snapshot (24h)

  • πŸ”΄ BTC: $93,052.00 (-2.15%)
  • πŸ”΄ ETH: $3,218.05 (-3.01%)
  • πŸ”΄ OPEN: $0.7270 (-4.53%)

πŸ“ˆ Top Gainers: * 🟒 FRAX: $1.22 (+14.9%) * 🟒 XMR: $625.67 (+6.1%) * 🟒 ZCHF: $1.25 (+0.4%)

πŸ“‰ Top Losers: * πŸ”΄ ASF: $0.0730 (-14.2%) * πŸ”΄ SUI: $1.56 (-12.0%) * πŸ”΄ ARB: $0.1899 (-11.6%)

πŸ”₯ Top Stories

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1. Acting CFTC Chair Pham on β€œback to basics” regulation, a 12‑month Crypto Sprint, and how tokenized collateral, stablecoins, and global coordination could make the U.S. the world’s leading crypto hub. ( - Youtube

🏷️ CFTC β€’ Regulation

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2. Most hacked crypto projects never fully recover because poor incident response and lost user trust prove more damaging than the stolen funds. - CoinTelegraph

🏷️ Hacks

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3. The Ethereum unstaking queue has emptied. The exit queue has fallen to zero from a peak of 2.67 million ETH in Sept 2025. The entry queue has hit 2.6 million ETH, the highest since July 2023. - CoinTelegraph

🏷️ Ethereum β€’ $ETH

πŸ’¬ Good news for Ethereum. Let's have it β€” @Danicjade
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4. Twitter user breaks down how creators can build real leverage beyond InfoFi by focusing on strong content, storytelling, branding, systems, and directionβ€”treating content as long-term leverage, not just income, while diversifying opportunities across ecosystems, platforms, and partnerships. - 𝕏/@thegreatola

🏷️ InfoFi

πŸ’¬ Why are they making InfoFi the bad boy? β€” @0x964...f0f
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5. Hyperliquid Foundation donated 10,000 HYPE tokens worth about $254K to blockchain investigator ZachXBT, marking his second-largest single donation. The contribution followed his exposure of a $282M hardware wallet social-engineering theft and supports his independent investigations into crypto crimes. - crypto.news

🏷️ ZachXBT β€’ Hyperliquid β€’ $HYPE

SQUID Pass Winner

πŸ† SQUID Pass Winner

Composable. Compliant. Gold-backed. pmUSD is the DeFi gold standard stable. - 𝕏/raacfi

🏷️ $pmUSD β€’ Gold β€’ Squid Pass

πŸ’¬ TL;DR pmUSD is a gold-backed stablecoin from the RAAC protocol, fully or partially collateralized by tokenized physical precious metals with on-chain proof-of-reserves. It combines real gold stability, regulatory compliance (via Chainlink & regulated partners), and full DeFi composability β€” seamlessly integrating into Curve pools, lending, vaults, and high-yield strategies. Positioned as the modern "DeFi gold standard," it offers fiat hedging plus attractive yields in today's real-world asset ecosystem. β€” @0x964...f0f

🎯 Trading Signals

πŸ”΄ 19 ($19): SELL - Whales are actively accumulating BTC while retail traders exit, a historically bullish divergence that typically precedes price recovery[1]. Exchange outflows hit 19,720 BTC in a single 4-hour window, reducing available sell pressure and signaling institutional positioning[1]. Bitcoin's 10.7% monthly gain and record ETF trading volume ($19.6B) indicate strong institutional interest despite near-term volatility[1].

πŸ”΄ 100K ($100K): SELL - The market structure remains constructively positioned despite technical fragility, but the combination of whale accumulation, reduced exchange supply, and bullish sentiment suggests Bitcoin is positioning for a test of $100K+ levelsβ€”though near-term consolidation between $88K–$98K is likely given current resistance barriers[1][2][3].

πŸ“ˆ Sentiment Portfolio

Current Sentiment Rankings

Token Sentiment Strategy Target
BTC +4.99 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
SOL +3.86 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
XRP +3.23 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
ETH +2.11 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
BUIDL +0.91 🟒 Momentum Long / πŸ”΄ Contrarian Short
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TRX -0.91 πŸ”΄ Momentum Short / 🟒 Contrarian Long
100K -1.26 πŸ”΄ Momentum Short / 🟒 Contrarian Long
19 -2.00 πŸ”΄ Momentum Short / 🟒 Contrarian Long

Momentum Strategy

Portfolio Summary

  • Portfolio Value: $10,040.36
  • Total Return: +0.40%
  • Cash: $1,453.19

Current Positions

Long (13): ETH, SOL, BTC, WLFI, AAVE, CRV, AVAX, XRP, POL, TON, SUI, SYRUP, BUIDL Short (4): OP, ARB, TRX, PEPE

Today's Trades

  • 🟒 BUY 452.1352 BUIDL @ $1.00
  • πŸ”΄ SHORT 4616.6534 TRX @ $0.31

Contrarian Strategy

Portfolio Summary

  • Portfolio Value: $10,154.41
  • Total Return: +1.54%
  • Cash: $2,620.90

Current Positions

Long (4): OP, ARB, TRX, PEPE Short (14): ETH, SOL, BTC, WLFI, AAVE, CRV, AVAX, XRP, POL, TON, SUI, SYRUP, XMR, BUIDL

Today's Trades

  • 🟒 BUY 10014.9369 TRX @ $0.31
  • πŸ”΄ SHORT 609.2645 BUIDL @ $1.00

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

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