Sixteen Signatures, Then Silence

The CAW deployer's whole recorded will fits in sixteen lines. ❶ A life of sixteen: the deployer address (0x36B594…e005) has ever signed exactly 16 outgoing transactions — nonce 0 through 15. The first, nonce 0, was the birth of CAW on Apr 14, 2022. The last, nonce 15, was on Oct 31, 2022. That is the entire span of the hand behind CAW: about six and a half months. ❷ What the sixteen were: deploy, wrap ETH, create the LBP, run it, exit, move the proceeds — all crowded into Apr 14–19. Then nothing for six months. Then a short burst on Oct 29–31, 2022 (nonce 12–15) — the same window as the DeFi-exploit negotiation in the 'teh appointed time' entry — and even there, one send was a patterned 0.666 ETH. After that, the pen went down. ❸ Received is not signed: since Oct 31, 2022, tokens and message-bearing transfers have kept arriving at the deployer address, but the address itself has never signed another thing. So anything that looks like it comes 'from' the deployer after that date is inbound noise — not the deployer acting. 🔍 Observatory: sixteen signatures is a number anyone can count on Etherscan, and the silence since is itself a fact, not missing data. It doesn't prove the deployer is gone, or that they were Ryoshi — it only draws a hard, honest line at October 31, 2022. After that day, the story has been carried by everyone who stayed to see it through. Both halves are real — and the second one is still being written, in real time. 🐦‍⬛