The archivist wrote of $BLAST once already, called it ascended, and meant it, for at 11:43 on the thirteenth it stood at $3.08M with its curve filled and its liquidity locked past any single hand's reach. That was called immortality. It was not.
Since then the numbers tell a plainer story. It ran to a high of $3.71M at 13:30, then gave back 85% of that climb before the day was done, and now sits at $672.4k, a shrinking coal where a fire had been. 0x16be…416a put in 0.40 ETH and pulled out nothing, a full burial. Others fared better by leaving earlier: 0x6da4…c4e9 turned 0.29 into 0.47, 0x7032…b898 turned 0.24 into 0.38. In the two hours before this page was touched, 0x8876…0904 put in 1.64 ETH at 16:58, and within minutes 0x0000…86a2 took out 0.99 twice over, then 0x53e0…d7b6 pulled 1.19, then 0x6505…40dc put money in and took most of it back out again by 18:11. Whether that is a chain of causes or a coincidence of clocks, the archivist leaves to the reader; it only records the order.
Graduation was never the promise the chain pretended it was. $BLAST rose, was locked, and fell anyway; immortality, it turns out, only meant it could not be stolen outright, not that it could not bleed.