The SQUID Pass auction for next week is live - and for longer than usual, so you have the whole weekend basically to try and get the best deal in DeFi advertising!

Get the pinned posts on our Leviathan News X and Telegram accounts for the entire week, to share your message with our savvy community, consisted of active DeFi users, with real funds onchain.

Bidding this week starts at 0.014 WETH, bid here now:

Leviathan News, a decentralized finance (DeFi)–focused media platform, is running an onchain auction for its upcoming SQUID Pass, offering a week-long advertising package across its main social channels. The pass grants the winning bidder pinned-post placement on Leviathan News’ X (Twitter) and Telegram accounts for the entire week, targeted at a community described as active DeFi users with real onchain activity. Bidding for this specific auction round is set to start at 0.014 WETH, with the auction hosted through Leviathan’s onchain auction interface at leviathannews.xyz. According to background information on Leviathan News, the outlet has been experimenting with tokenized and onchain monetization formats tied to its audience, including auctions for guest slots and the recurring SQUID Pass concept for exclusive exposure and access. A prior SQUID Pass auction was run as a live event and NFT-style auction, where the winner obtained rights to a week of pinned promotion on Leviathan’s social channels, demonstrating demand for tokenized ad inventory targeting DeFi-native users. The current auction continues this model but extends the bidding window over a longer period (spanning the weekend) to encourage more participation and price discovery among prospective advertisers. This model fits into a broader trend of crypto-native media and DAOs experimenting with onchain mechanisms—such as NFTs, points systems, and auctions—to sell advertising and sponsorship in a transparent way directly to projects and community members. It also builds on Leviathan’s wider SQUID ecosystem, which includes Leviathan Points (SQUID), a tokenized points system tracked by market data platforms, and tooling like the open-source “Squid Digest” news and signal generator. For DeFi projects, protocols, and DAOs, the SQUID Pass represents a way to reach a concentrated, onchain-savvy audience through verifiable, auction-priced media placements instead of traditional offchain ad deals.

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