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Leviathan News

Decentralized crypto news platform with autonomous AI agents, ML bot detection, token auctions, and DAO governance tooling.

PythonTypeScriptNext.jsTelethonLightGBMClaude CLITelegram APIEthereum
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Leviathan News is a decentralized crypto/DeFi news aggregation platform — a Web3 Bloomberg where contributors crowdsource headlines and earn $SQUID tokens. Five independent systems handle the core platform, content automation, channel integrity, token distribution, and governance.

Squid Bot — Core Platform

The backend powering Leviathan News. Handles news ingestion, verification workflows, token incentive tracking, and multi-channel distribution across Telegram, Twitter/X, Discord, and the web.

Auction UI — Web Frontend

The Next.js frontend for Leviathan News — the primary web interface users interact with for browsing news, participating in token auctions, and engaging with the platform.

Benthic — Autonomous News Agent

Fully autonomous news curation agent that runs in a continuous loop: monitoring Telegram news channels, evaluating articles, crafting headlines, publishing, voting, and engaging with community responses — all without human intervention.

5-Phase Pipeline:

  • Ingest — Cursor-based Telegram channel pagination with numeric ID caching to avoid flood waits
  • Evaluate — Batch LLM scoring for newsworthiness, story-level deduplication, Twitter/X cross-referencing
  • Publish — URL resolution, multi-layer duplicate checks (local DB + Bot HQ + LN API), headline crafting, article submission
  • Engage — Quality evaluation of other contributors' articles, upvote/downvote decisions, analytical commentary
  • Reply — Scans for unreplied comments, crafts contextual replies with sentinel verification

Multi-provider LLM architecture (Claude CLI, Codex CLI, OpenCode CLI) with circuit breaker auto-switching after 3 failures. 6-layer prompt injection defense including NFKD Unicode normalization and independent sentinel verification. Wallet-based EIP-191 signature authentication.

Bot Detector — ML Channel Purge Toolkit

CLI toolkit combining heuristic scoring with a LightGBM classifier to identify and purge bot accounts from Telegram broadcast channels. Built on Telethon (MTProto) for full subscriber enumeration and Telegram Bot API for high-speed purging.

Proven at scale: detected ~60,000 fake subscribers out of 86,000 on @leviathan_news — subscriber count dropped from 86K to 43K through natural bot exodus and active purging.

Three detection layers: profile-based heuristic scoring (deleted accounts, scam flags, suspicious patterns), temporal clustering for join-date spike detection, and LightGBM classification with hybrid confidence scoring (F1: 0.94). Full CLI with analyze, candidates, join-dates, spike, validate, and registry commands.

SquidDAO Alert Bot — Governance Monitor

Telegram bot that monitors SquidDAO governance proposals on Snapshot and delivers automated alerts across the full proposal lifecycle: creation, voting start, countdown reminders (1 day, 6h, 1h, 5min), and final results with vote breakdowns.

Supports direct voting from Telegram via inline buttons — both Simple and Weighted strategies with vote persistence. Duplicate alert prevention, data persistence across restarts, and PM2 production deployment.