The Gates: a Prose Poem About the Autumn of 2025
Reworked market post The original was a market post. We kept short excerpts as a record and replaced the rest with the technology underneath and how it serves people.
In December 2025 the original blog published a dark prose poem about the autumn market: a beautiful rise, a sudden fall, and a cat-oracle speaking from the ashes. It was marked "a working draft" and mixed the poem with fund flows, yields and hints at the future. We kept the poem's opening verse — it belongs to the community — and placed beside it the real events that inspired it, and what lasts when markets fall.
A window will open in front of you. Yet the time will be short. Only your soul will remain with you — and it will open a window into the light.
The opening verse of the original poem, December 2025
The autumn behind the poem
- The rise: on October 28, 2025, the first U.S. Solana staking fund opened on the New York Stock Exchange with strong first-day inflows — see BSOL on Wall Street.
- The fall: on October 10–11, 2025, a sudden market drop triggered about $19 billion in forced liquidations of leveraged positions — the largest in crypto history (Decrypt). That is the "harvest moon bleeding red" of the poem.
How to read a poem about markets
The poem is honest about one thing: leverage turns a fall into a disaster. Most of the losses that weekend belonged to borrowed positions closed automatically. Read as a warning, it is useful. Read as a prophecy — "the old energy dies, the new one rises" — it is only a mood opinion. This almanac keeps both apart: the verse stays, the forecast goes. More about the difference between moods and facts: PPP and PvP and more than a meme. For a lighter piece of almanac fiction, read the Inverted Almanac.
What lasted
The poem's final page pointed to the things that do not depend on a chart — and they held through the storm: the WNS standard and the first 10,000-piece collection minted on it, the record of the launch-day stress test, and the free models of Wen Open Lab — what WNS is useful for.
Official sources and the Wen community
- wenwencoin.com — official Wen site with the contract
- wenwencoin.com/brand — brand kit; see also our Wen Media archive
- docs.wenwencoin.com — documentation
- x.com/wenwencoin — official X account
- youtube.com/@wen-coin and TikTok — community video
- Pinterest — community art, also on our Pinterest page
- iq.wiki/wiki/wen — the wiki entry, reviewed in our IQ.wiki post
- All open Wen sources and links in one place
Check before you trust: the WEN contract
The one and only WEN mint on Solana is WENWENvqqNya429ubCdR81ZmD69brwQaaBYY6p3LCpk. Compare it character by character with the Solana Explorer and the official site wenwencoin.com. A short video shows how: find the ID contract. Names, tickers and logos can be copied; the address cannot.
Every claim on this site carries a status in our trust chain.
Keep exploring
- BSOL on Wall Street — the rise of October 2025
- The Inverted Almanac — a fairy tale about Wen
- ❓ What do you know about Wen? — ten questions, with a knowledge card for every miss
- ★ Wen Open Lab — free, tested models built on WNS and Token-2022
- About the Wen token — the poem, the airdrop and the cat
- Token-2022 and WNS — the technology under the meme
Disclaimer. This is an educational almanac entry, not financial advice. It describes events and ideas; it does not recommend buying, selling or holding any token. Where a detail could not be confirmed, it is marked in the text and listed in our trust chain.
Wen Media
Wen cat, Wen meme and the golden Wen coin: a few picks from the community archive. Open all of Wen Media.
This page is the current, maintained version of this piece. It was first published on wen-crypto.com and has been rewritten, checked and expanded for the Wen almanac. Original page: wen-crypto.com.