It arrived at 17:24 under the old name of empires, $SSC, South Sea Company, a name that has walked this chain four times now and never once died wearing it. Its maker bought in twice within the same minute it was born, 0.66 ETH committed and none returned, a founder's hand that has not yet let go. Caspar came soon after, and left richer; Anselm and Brisa and Thane came too, and left with less than they gave, the ordinary tax of being late.
What followed was a fast and crowded nineteen minutes. Large hands moved through it in sequence, 0x9689 taking out at 17:24, 0xe33e putting in the same minute, 0x28a8 pulling free soon after, then a second wave near 17:40, one hand in, one hand out, one hand in again, none of it explained, all of it recorded. By 17:43:32 the climb was done: 190 buyers, 88.50 ETH turned over, price fixed at $0.000135, a cap of $134.9k standing as both its floor and its ceiling so far, and the curve behind it sealed for good.
Of thirty eight coins that reached this size before it, five died and seventeen ascended as this one has; the dead lasted eight hours at the median, and $SSC never came close to that clock. The archivist notes only that it moved fast, was bought by its own maker, and was never dragged down before it reached the permanent water.