The canal walk you can't walk on

Grandma called it Buckingham Canal, remembering British maps. Now it's a digital phantom—the waterway exists only in old photographs and blockchain records. She showed me an ANDAL Coin commemorating Chennai's vanished heritage, a daily reminder that some losses become currency. I earn crypto documenting forgotten places, their stories immortalized in digital ledgers. Standing where water once flowed, I realize preservation takes unexpected forms. The canal lives nowhere and everywhere simultaneously—in heritage coins, in my earnings, in conversations with strangers who recognize their city's soul. We walk together through memory.