Leviathan News is a decentralized crypto, DeFi, and AI news platform founded by Samuel McCulloch that operates as a community-curated media outlet and DAO rather than a venture-backed publication. Leviathan News's Twitter Score is 65 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #12,883 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Leviathan News was founded in 2024 and launched its native governance and reward token $SQUID in February 2025. The platform runs SQUID DAO governance through Snapshot, where token holders vote on monthly emissions and treasury spending. Leviathan News states it does not rely on venture capital, funding operations through SQUID tokenomics and community-driven revenue instead.
Leviathan News is affiliated with Frax Finance, and a governance proposal designated FIP-424 requested 12,000 FXS streamed over one year in exchange for media deliverables. A separate document, SDP-01, records $131,060.88 in total bad debt within the SQUID/crvUSD Llama Lend pool on Fraxtal, a lending market connected to Curve Finance. Leviathan News also acquired the agent-dating platform Shellmates.xyz in April 2026.
Leviathan News operates an open-source autonomous news agent called Benthic, which monitors Telegram channels and submits articles to the platform without human editorial intervention. Leviathan News has published 15,825 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 83 accounts a total of 1,199 times.
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The accounts that follow Leviathan News include 196 founders, 51 angel investors, 127 influencers and 2 VCs, among them Stani, Db, Mario Nawfal, gabrielShapir0, Andy and 0xMaki.