Long before chains linked and tokens moved, there was only stillness. A silent abyss—vast, directionless, devoid of function or form. The First Blockchains brought only disorder. Gas fees towered, throughput withered, and the users suffered, strangled by delay. A land divided, crawling through time, slow and uncertain. But even in this chaos, something ancient began to flicker— a whisper in the darkness, a spark not yet born, the first breath of purpose within the entropy.