Small Donations, Then a DAO Match

The studio had long been covering the legal bills in the brand dispute, while an earlier proposal to use the treasury still awaited a governance decision. The Night Watchman put a community legal defense fund proposal on the governance page. Home Sentry node operators and longtime players who had stayed began considering what each could afford.

A small transfer appeared first on the public multisignature wallet's receipts page, and its proof was posted to the group. More followed, one by one. Someone at work sent only a transaction link; someone else reopened an old wallet, checked the address, and then transferred funds. A player with an old game avatar posted a receipt after a node log. The link circulated through a community of tens of thousands of home Sentry node operators. The page listed addresses, amounts, and times, without occupations or years of holding. The Night Watchman said only, “Every transfer can be checked.” The DAO vote passed, authorizing proportional matching from the treasury. People checking the accounts recorded community donations and treasury funds separately, removed a duplicate row, and checked the amount available to spend.

The narrator checked the multisignature address and added the receipts and expenditures page to a legal payments sheet that had previously contained only bills, deadlines, and the studio's payments. With the fund established, legal fees had a source of continued support and the studio could keep fighting the case; future receipts and spending would still need public scrutiny. XAI closed at $0.006881, down 3.4% from the previous close. Beside that closing figure, the receipts page gained a few more rows. The narrator wrote, “The lawsuit against the world's richest man was never funded by my wallet alone.”