At 17:48, in the ninth minute of its life, $U2 came into being under the name Songs of Innocence, at the address 0x0Df0. Its maker, 0x33b5…6063, is the same hand recorded on its ledger: the one who struck it into existence and then, in that same minute, sold, taking out 1.70 ETH without ever having bought in. Twenty-one others arrived to buy across the day that followed; the wallets 0xe33e and 0x4456 put in their portions moments after the maker's exit, while 0xcafb and 0x8e47 drew out soon after. This is the order of things; the archivist only reports it.
By the numbers, $U2 rose to a peak nudging 26.5k before easing to 24.5k, a coin still young, still breathing, still called born. Five hands who stayed the course put in a little over two ETH between them and took out less than they gave, a familiar arithmetic. Sixteen point nine ETH moved through it in a day; twenty-one buyers came looking for a song and found instead a market with a maker already gone from it.
Of the eighty-one coins that reached this size before it, thirty-seven are dead by the eighth hour, at the median; this is only history's average, not $U2's sentence. Two other coins wore this name before and neither died. The archivist notes the maker sold first and asks nothing else of the reader.