November 2022. The largest centralized custodian in crypto unwinds in days. Block 15,945,872 falls in the middle of the panic week — gas spikes, settlement remains, no off-chain rescue ever arrives.
The single eNAT minted from the canonical anchor block of this event.
Showing 11 neighbouring blocks returned from the indexer.
The blocks immediately adjacent to the anchor, fetched live from the indexer. The protocol layer has thousands more in this window — this is a curated visual cut.
Burn, hash and mint state come straight from the indexer. Blocks the indexer has no record of are silently dropped from this fold.
The reason a frontend would point at this block at all.
Custody promises issued by humans default; ledger promises do not. The week of FTX's collapse the Ethereum chain produced blocks on schedule, settled transactions on schedule, burned base fee on schedule. Nothing on the protocol layer noticed the institutional implosion. eDMT's refusal to depend on any operator off-chain is the same posture, written into the spec.
The protocol layer is silent on history. The narrative is always supplied by readers.
The full timeline of curated events.
Five halls, each centered on one moment of Ethereum since the EIP-1559 fork. Order is chronological; arrangement is editorial.
