The Nasdaq is a kaiju like monster that appeared in the 2030's. Nobody knows where it came from, but it's suspected it appeared after OpenAI tried to activate a nuclear fission reactor to power up an LLM with 5 zillion parameters.
Its body it's a manifestation of the horrors the global market has inflicted on humanity and the planet, and thus it has taken the shape of the Twin Towers at NYC, before they were destroyed in 2001