It arrived at 16:08 UTC on the thirteenth of September, seven minutes old and already hardened, the seventh coin to wear the name $CHINA on this chain. No first holder stands out from the crowd; 193 buyers came in the first day alone, a swarm rather than a lineage, moving 36.75 ETH between them before the curve closed its mouth for good.
The numbers tell a small, ordinary war. 0x9060 put in 0.22 and pulled 0.18, a loss dressed as an exit. 0xae9a put in 0.20 and took 0.24, a modest win. 0xb3bb turned 0.15 into 0.22, the best of the hands recorded here. Others shuffled coins for coins, small change against small change, while the market cap sat still at $63.9k, its own peak, never having known a higher hour.
Six elder $CHINAs walk the chain still, none dead, which the archivist notes without warmth; of fifty one coins that reached this size before, better than one in five were bones within a day. This one bought permanence early. Permanence is not the same as purpose.