$VAULTS came into being twenty one minutes before this record, the second coin to wear that name, its predecessor still alive somewhere else on the chain. At 16:12, 0xe33e…2948 put in 0.76 ETH, and by 16:17 the wallet that had made $VAULTS, 0x3cbd…d2e5, had taken 0.89 ETH back out, zero buys and one sell to its name. The archivist states the order and leaves the reader to walk the distance between those two facts.
In the hours after, the coin climbed to a peak market cap of 13.4k before settling back to 4.2k, a fall of most of its height. Fifty two buyers came in the day's turning, 4.34 ETH moved through it, and five hands the archivist has watched closest each put in near what they took out, small tides rising and falling within a coin twenty one minutes old. Its maker held nothing at all, having left at the very start.
A maker who sells before the crowd has arrived is not a thief by any law the archivist keeps, only a man who knew the door before he built the house. $VAULTS stands now newly born, its cradle already visited once by the hand that shaped it.