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Chapter 79 – The Price of Bread

作者: JDHWS
last update 公開日: 2026-03-09 21:38:14

The first signs did not look like catastrophe.

They looked like software maintenance.

At 06:11 UTC, clearing delays began appearing in secondary commodity exchanges tied to grain futures in Rotterdam, Lagos, Mumbai, and Buenos Aires. The delays were small enough that most traders assumed it was congestion. Settlement windows expanded by seven minutes. Then twelve. Then twenty-one.

By midday, three major logistics insurers had paused automatic freight guarantees pending “cross-market verificatio
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