Madrid – Journalist Briefing
"Anonymous crypto-anarchists engineered a self-sustaining stablecoin designed to bypass state control."
"The DAO behind the system has collapsed. Law enforcement is still pursuing key figures."
The feed freezes. In the comments, someone writes: “What if they wanted it to collapse?”

Buenos Aires – Market Scene
A vendor takes $PEG for empanadas. He shrugs.
“It’s just money, no?”
Later that night, the same vendor is questioned. He says he was “only using what works.” He deletes his wallet app.

Kigali – School Network
A teacher runs a draw on a solar-powered Raspberry Pi.
The prize: one notebook, four pencils, lunch.
The students cheer.
The teacher never heard of Alias. He downloaded the tool from a Telegram group labeled No Gatekeepers.

Berlin – PegDAO Forum
Last proposal: “Decentralize entropy using plant-based governance metaphors.”
Three votes. No discussion.
Then the forum goes dark.
A graffiti tag appears near the former DAO coordinator’s apartment:
“Governance is dead. Long live the draw.”

Nairobi – Street Mural
A child paints three blocks, a green circle, and four cryptic numbers.
A woman asks what it means.
“Luck,” he says. “And it’s ours now.”

Telegram Channel – Accelerationist Node
“The Pegged system is neutral. We are not. Use it. Replace it. Fork it. It is a delivery system. Not a belief system.”
A comment thread underneath argues if that means Pegged succeeded—or failed.

Anonymous Post (likely Ava)
“Pegged was never an answer. It was a refusal to keep asking the same question.”
“Now that question belongs to the world.”