Back to collectionThe Name Narrows to Xai, and Trademark Work Begins
The chain's framework was taking shape, with bridge and sequencer tests still under way, but the team lacked a name it could put into documents and eventually use in public. Discussion converged on “Xai.” Compared with the whiteboard repeatedly filled and erased, the project now had a clearer naming direction and a shared term for engineering and writing discussions.
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The chain's framework was taking shape, with bridge and sequencer tests still under way, but the team lacked a name it could put into documents and eventually use in public. Earlier whiteboard sessions had left many candidates. Today the team needed to narrow its preference and let legal counsel assess whether the name could be used.
Discussion converged on “Xai.” The team saw X as a link to Ex Populus's lineage and left ai open to interpretation rather than assigning it one fixed meaning. Legal counsel promptly began trademark searches and preparations for registration, treating affection for the name and the right to use it as separate matters. The narrator did not know then that those three letters would one day be worth a federal lawsuit.
Compared with the whiteboard repeatedly filled and erased, the project now had a clearer naming direction and a shared term for engineering and writing discussions. A direction was not a registration outcome, however. What the search would find, and whether the preparations could proceed smoothly, remained unanswered that day.