THE BLOCKCHAIN CANON

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Blockchain's canon split after The DAO's 2016 fork into financial infrastructure focused on stablecoins and ETFs versus institutional machinery pursuing DAOs and network states. This comprehensive timeline spans from Chaum's 1983 blind signatures through Satoshi's 2008 whitepaper to 2025's GENIUS Act and Aztec's privacy-first technical whitepaper, documenting how the unified cypherpunk vision fractured when early governance experiments collided with reality. The canon compiled includes cryptographic foundations, political manifestos, catastrophic failures like Mt. Gox and Terra, regulatory milestones, and the shift from protest-oriented infrastructure to institutionally-recognized financial products as blockchain searches for synthesis between its twin mythologies.