🦑 Leviathan News Daily Digest - October 19, 2025

🔥 Top Stories

1. Arthur Hayes plans a $250 million raise in private equity fund.

Source: Bloomberg

🏷️ Arthur Hayes • Fund • Private Equity

"The fund plans to invest $40 million to $75 million per deal to acquire as many as six companies, focusing on service providers including those offering trading infrastructure and analytics platforms."
@Spencer420

2. 0xJMG proposes to burn 30 billion unused RSR tokens and suggestions to catalyze Reserve Protocol growth

Source: forum.reserve.org

🏷️ Reserve Protocol • Burn

Good move
@Danicjade

3. United Kingdom plans to develop stablecoin rules toward 2026 Q4, to meet up with the United State rules.

Source: Bloomberg

🏷️ Stablecoins

The 2025 U.S. stablecoin law allows only licensed issuers to create payment stablecoins that are fully backed 1:1 by cash or short-term Treasuries. These issuers must provide regular audits and full transparency, and their tokens are regulated like bank money—not as securities or commodities. Holders have guaranteed 1:1 redemption rights and priority over reserves if an issuer fails. Misleading claims of U.S. government backing or FDIC insurance are banned, and all issuers must comply with AML/KYC rules. Overall, the goal is to make stablecoins safe, transparent, and trustworthy.
@Danicjade

4. Jack Dorsey called out Tether’s $250K donation to Bitcoin devs, comparing it to his own $21M gift — sparking debates over sincerity, scale, and impact in Bitcoin funding.

Source: decrypt.co

🏷️ Bitcoin • Tether • Jack Dorsey

Some just want to see the world burn. Can't wait to see how this turns out
@Hades

5. Nigerian Judge to Decide Nov. 12 if $81B Lawsuit Against Binance Can Proceed, after prosecutors mistakenly sent court summons to the wrong email. The case, one of three criminal actions against the exchange, hinges on whether Nigeria can use *substituted service* to notify Binance electronically.

Source: DL News

🏷️ Binance • Lawsuit

Lol, this country must be joking or maybe it is a joke 🤣
@Danicjade

🎯 Trading Signals

Russia Just Ate the UK's Lunch — And It's Not Even Close

While Western crypto bros were busy arguing about ETF inflows and MicroStrategy's latest buy, Russia quietly became Europe's crypto kingpin. We're talking $379 billion in inflows over the past year — a 48% surge that makes the UK look like amateur hour. That's not just growth, that's a complete restructuring of where crypto money flows in Europe.

Here's what's actually happening: sanctions aren't killing Russia's access to global finance, they're accelerating its move into DeFi. When you can't use SWIFT and your currency is worth less every quarter, Bitcoin starts looking less like speculation and more like basic financial infrastructure. The DeFi adoption is now 3.5x larger than last year, which means Russians aren't just buying and holding — they're actually using these protocols for real economic activity.

This is the sanctions evasion playbook playing out in real-time, and Western regulators are watching it happen with basically zero ability to stop it. Every attempt to "cut Russia off from global finance" just pushes more capital into permissionless systems. The irony? By weaponizing traditional finance, the West is creating the exact conditions for crypto to prove its core value proposition.

The Regulation Wave Nobody Asked For

Three completely different jurisdictions are all moving on crypto rules simultaneously, and the contrast is fascinating. The UK is taking its sweet time with stablecoin regulations, targeting Q4 2026 to "meet up with" US rules — which is bureaucrat-speak for "we have no idea what we're doing but we want to look coordinated." Meanwhile, Kenya just dropped what Yellow Card is calling one of the world's most comprehensive crypto laws, and they're openly dunking on US and European regulators for being slow learners.

The kicker? Nigeria is still trying to figure out how to properly email Binance for their $81 billion lawsuit. The court case literally hinges on whether they can use

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