The supply counter crossed its programmed threshold and daily Sentry Node emissions halved without ceremony, interruption or manual permission. The referee contract applied the written schedule while blocks continued. That quiet transition gives Protocol Command a rare clean event: the rule, boundary and expected result were all known before the first reduced reward appeared.
Node Accounting will preserve the boundary as a verification fixture. It records the final full-rate block, first half-rate block, eligible keys, total emission, rounding behavior and any delayed claim. Operators will reconcile independent node samples against chain totals so a correct global number cannot hide one participant receiving the wrong local result.
Official Xai documentation describes `$XAI` as network gas and as a token intended for games and in-game item payments. Emission therefore enters an economy with several jobs. Night Ash will keep node reward accounting separate from gas spending and future game payments, even when each function uses the same native asset.
The next drill will replay the threshold with an offline node, a claim submitted on each side of the boundary and a deliberately delayed indexer. The contract result must remain unchanged, while displays and receipts eventually converge on it. Treasury will also test whether budget forecasts apply the reduced rate immediately without rewriting rewards earned before the threshold.
Acceptance requires exact agreement across contract events, node receipts and aggregate supply for three simulated boundaries. Any rounding residue receives a named destination and any delayed claim retains the rate determined by its eligible event, not the time a screen later displays it. Manual override remains disabled unless a separately governed emergency rule is invoked.
A referee earns trust through uneventful execution. Night Ash can build future reward schedules around this boundary because the transition left inspectable evidence and preserved network continuity. Operators now have a fixture for testing dashboards, budgets and player-facing explanations before the next programmed change reaches live traffic across every connected route.