Back to collectionEight Months After Listing, What Counts as Staying?
The excitement around XAI’s listing had passed. Eight months had passed since XAI’s listing, and a research account chose the retention of airdrop recipients as a topic. The topic shifted attention from distribution at listing to participation eight months later.
A creative chronicle combining project history with imagined scenes. Story events are not verification of network activity.
The excitement around XAI’s listing had passed. In September, the community was doing new tasks while asking whether the games could hold players’ interest. As the narrator assembled this part of the story, what had happened to people after they arrived seemed harder to answer than how many had claimed the airdrop.
Eight months had passed since XAI’s listing, and a research account chose the retention of airdrop recipients as a topic. Some in the group counted anyone still around after the airdrop as having stayed; others thought continuing to play games or take part in the community should be the test. The narrator noted the disagreement and urged people to define “retention” before drawing conclusions.
The topic shifted attention from distribution at listing to participation eight months later. It had not yet produced a retention rate, and no single measure could explain every player’s decision to stay or leave. The narrator planned to distinguish those who claimed the airdrop, those still following events, and those actively participating, rather than fold their different experiences into one word.