Somebody struck the first gold coin.
Gold stopped being treasure and became money. Twenty-six centuries later, it still hasn't stopped.
The lore
Gold stopped being treasure and became money. Twenty-six centuries later, it still hasn't stopped.
They crossed a continent on a rumour. Most of them found nothing. The instinct never died: get there early, dig, hold.
SPDR Gold Shares launched as GLD. You could finally own the metal without ever touching a shovel.
22 years later…
someone put it onchain and handed it back to a guy with a pickaxe.
0gold collectedThe vault
maybe that's completely meaningless.
but holy shit is it good lore.
Revealed at launch
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