I had years of germanic linguistics in undergrad and grad school, and i think this is an alternate ("archaic") past tense of work, so it's literally "worked", just like you said a blacksmith would do.

i mention the germanic classes because i can't at the moment think of other examples where (outside arabic etc) there's a commutativity between a consonant and vowel (work & wrokt) but i'd swear i would think of some if not trying.

Isn't it a form of "wreak" ?

Another odd one is "fraught".

I think so.

It was in the first official Morse code transmission. The title of the Jane Street piece is a play on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_hath_God_wrought

It is also originally a quote from the King James Bible. I'm sure your Wikipedia page mentions that but it's just too interesting not to mention explicitly here as well :)

Oh wow, is that where we get the term "wrought iron"? (Versus "cast iron," which is literally cast...)

They're not interchangeable of course, though. This article's title is meant to be playfully dramatic.

I've always thought of it as basically interchangeable with "created"