The button they turned off · on-chain forever
$UNHALTABLE
They turned off the buy button. HALTED → we can’t.
January 2021: a brokerage disabled the buy button on the way up and let you watch. This is a DEX token. There is no button to turn off.
01 — Exhibit
Two buy buttons
Robinhood · Jan 28, 2021
disabled · you could only sell
$UNHALTABLE · on-chain
no off switch exists
02 — The Bit
No off switch
On January 28, 2021, as retail piled into GME, a “democratize finance” app greyed out the buy button — you could sell, you just couldn’t buy. It was the day the little guy learned who the button belonged to. $UNHALTABLE is a DEX token. It trades peer-to-contract. There is no company, no button, no one who can flip it off. The joke is that this was always possible — they just chose not to give it to you.
03 — What “unhaltable” means
Say it straight
- ✓No central party can halt trading. That’s how a DEX token works — there’s no buy button for anyone to switch off.
- ✓They can’t do to this what they did to GME. That’s the whole point.