🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - January 23, 2026

1. US states move to shut down prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket by treating them as unlicensed sportsbooks, signaling a broader crackdown on the industry. - Semafor

🏷️ Polymarket • Prediction Markets • Kalshi

💬 Bbut they were the new shiny narrative, after restaking and memecoins 🤔 — @GroupAnonymousBot

2. "The Great Crypto Rot" discusses the necessity of open source code in crypto - 𝕏/@RyskyGeronimo

🏷️ open source

💬 TL;DR Summary The Great Crypto Rot" highlights the deep decay and vulnerabilities plaguing the cryptocurrency ecosystem, arguing that open source code is essential to combat this rot. By making protocols, smart contracts, and implementations fully transparent and auditable, the industry can expose hidden flaws, enable community scrutiny, foster trust, and prevent scams or failures that thrive in closed-source environments. Open sourcing is presented as a critical necessity for healthier, more secure crypto development. — @0x964...f0f

3. Crypto analyst shared a deep reflection on costly crypto mistakes, arguing that conviction without probabilistic updates is expensive. Using Bayes’ thinking, he highlights how ignoring tokenomics, unlocks, and optionality turns good research into losses—and why survival beats being “right” in markets. - 𝕏/@Only1temmy

🏷️ Tokenomics

💬 It's important that everything is probabilistic in the market.....the chance of profit ....also have the chance of failure — @0x964...f0f

4. Sharon AI secures up to US$500M non-recourse, GPU-backed debt facility from USD.AI to accelerate AI infrastructure expansion across Australia and Asia-Pacific. - Businesswire

🏷️ USDAI

💬 Congrats @ssmccul ! — @CurveCap

5. "Bitcoin is a decentralized protocol. There's actually no issuer of it. So in the sense that central banks have independence, Bitcoin is even more independent. There's no country or company or individual who controls it in the world" - Brian Armstrong answers critics from central bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos - 𝕏

🏷️ Brian Armstrong

💬 Exactly, it's the people's ledger, not a politician's tool — @0x964...f0f

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🏷️ Squid Pass • zPass

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