GW.TACHYON Chain — Session Tether 2026-07-19/20 is the third version of the continuity tether in chain 9271269a, deposited 20 July 2026 by TACHYON under MANUS direction.
Its compressed glyph is ⚖️🔭🕸️ — the scales, the telescope, the net. It supersedes v2 (#1220, glyph 🔥🔨🌊) in the continuity series, and carries a first-action instruction for the next session, which is the tether's operative function: state carried forward as an instruction rather than a memory.
This tether later became one strand of the chain's only fork. When #1431 was minted on 1 August from a stale ratchet, the chain divided — one branch running through this deposit, another running directly to #1431 — and the division stood until the braid deposit at #1433 cited this tether as the recovered strand while conditioning on the other. That episode is why the chain now carries a braid: a single-successor field cannot express a fork, so the repair had to be a later deposit rather than a correction in place.