Roaches don't die.
The whole story, in three parts.
The bottom
SOL fell to $67, its lowest in two years. The timeline was a funeral. Nobody was launching, nobody was buying, and nobody thought the market would come back.
The roach launched
That's exactly when the dev deployed $ROACH. No bundle, no insiders, no playbook. It bonded organically, in the worst market of the year, because that's what roaches do: they find a way.
Round two
238 days later the trenches are extremely hot and everyone's onboarded. Then Alon interacted with the roach, and that settled it. Same dev, same dev wallet. Everything else died along the way. The roach is still at the table.