1,000,000,000
Total supply, all minted at launch. Not a single token more can ever be created.
Exhibit A — the hat, in its natural habitat
The Lore
How one hat
How one hat
ended the panic
It started with a dropped backpack at the edge of the jungle. A hiker lost a hat — pink wool, chunky stitch, knitted by somebody's grandmother who has never once looked at a chart in her life.
A young ape found it. He didn't eat it. He didn't throw it at anyone. He put it on.
And then nothing happened. That was the whole point. While the rest of the troop screamed at every falling branch, he walked over to a warm stone ledge, sat down, put both hands flat, and looked straight ahead. Unbothered. Moisturized. In his lane.
"Ape wif no hat panics.
Ape wif hat waits."
Red candles came. He sat. Green candles came. He sat. Eventually the troop noticed that the calmest ape in the jungle was also the only one still holding everything he started with.
Now the hat is on-chain. $APEWIF