The mint went live at 23:45 Central European time on Wednesday. Within eleven minutes the contract address was on the front page of gothamai.io with a copy button beside it, and by then the first buyers were already in the pool. The address is 3DngEJPpnRLJDM43EH1cMoF5iKWHGcX544RqjHhKpump, and the reason this newspaper prints it in full is that dozens of tokens on Solana carry the same ticker and at least one carries a near-identical name.
By 02:53 UTC the market read a price of $0.00002607, a market capitalisation of $24,819 and liquidity of $11,810, with $115,234 of volume across the first twenty-four hours: 1,543 purchases against 1,453 sales. Those figures come from the pool itself and are worth exactly as much as the minute attached to them — they had moved twice more by the time this sentence was set.
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