Claim Day: a USD 0.035 Open and a USD 2.50 Spike

The delayed Season One claim and exchange trading finally fell on the same day. Fake links had already appeared, so the narrator and moderators needed players to identify the right entry point. A-Zhen’s chain team awaited its first real peak. For people who had completed Odyssey tasks, numbers on an eligibility list were about to become tokens in a wallet.

Three hours before claiming, the announcement area displayed the sole claim contract, token contract, and claim website side by side, warning that every other address claiming to be official was a scam. Both chatrooms closed thirty minutes before the claim; once it opened, moderators reposted the notice every ten minutes. Claiming opened at 9:30 UTC. Half an hour later, Binance opened six pairs—BTC, USDT, BNB, FDUSD, TUSD, and TRY—with a seed tag warning of the new token’s risk. Token generation was completed at the same time: initial circulation was 277,118,150 XAI, or 11.08% of the 2.5 billion total supply. On Gate, trading opened at USD 0.035. Buy orders hit a thin order book and pushed the price to USD 2.50 within minutes, a roughly seventyfold spike, before it fell sharply and closed near USD 0.60. Some bought above USD 2; others had orders filled at USD 0.04. The same day, 125 million airdropped tokens reached Pioneer and Legend badge holders and Sentry Key operators, worth about USD 70 million at the closing price. Sisyphus appeared for the first time: an office worker who had finished Odyssey tasks, he received several thousand XAI. His balance had been zero the day before; now it was worth roughly two months of his pay. His hands shook as he asked the group, “Is this real?” No one had time to answer. On the chain side, every transaction during the peak confirmed normally and the gasless channel had no failures. A-Zhen posted a sleeping emoji in the internal chat and finally logged off.

The opening gave people sharply different experiences: those who caught a low price, those who bought near the spike, and players seeing an airdrop balance could hardly feel the same way about the same token. The narrator recorded the sequence: Gate opened at USD 0.035, spiked to USD 2.50 within minutes, then fell back and closed near USD 0.60 that day. His “fifteen-minute preview” described the opening turmoil, not the timing of the closing price or a forecast of what would come next. The chain had survived its first real peak. Moderators still had fake entry points to watch for, and Sisyphus still had to decide what this sudden income meant for him.