HALT

2021 → 2026

they turned the button off · the stocks kept trading anyway

  1. 01
    January 2021

    A crowd on the internet buys one ticker together. The app that sold it to them turns buying off for a day. Selling stays on.

  2. 02
    The lesson

    Nobody argues the mechanics any more. The part that stuck is simpler: the button belonged to somebody else.

  3. 03
    Tokenized stocks

    The same tickers show up as tokens on a public chain. No closing bell, no queue, and no button that can be taken away.

  4. 04
    194 tickers, one chain

    Robinhood Chain lists the whole registry. Anyone can open a pool against any of them. Most nobody has.

  5. 05
    So: the board

    This sheet counts which tokenized stocks a meme has claimed and which are still open. The button is the mascot. The board is the product.

Then and now, side by side
Plate I · the same character, five years apart.

Where the numbers come from

194 tickers in the registry, 183 of them with nobody on the other side.

See the board