Back to collectionA Won Market Opens as Stakers Keep Pools Alive
XAI had been rebounding for days, with traders watching the USD 1 mark. On the morning of this day in South Korea, Bithumb announced that XAI would enter its Korean won market. The won market gave traders another entry point, while the training camp aimed to help studios design game economies.
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XAI had been rebounding for days, with traders watching the USD 1 mark. At the same time, the team needed game studios to understand token economies on the chain. Pool participants had a more immediate question: who was watching the machines and the rewards they had entrusted to pool owners?
On the morning of this day in South Korea, Bithumb announced that XAI would enter its Korean won market. The narrator wrote in the announcements section that day: “This is a great victory for the community.” Xai also announced a training camp with an outside institution specializing in token economy design. It would teach traditional game studios about mechanism design, airdrops, and community-first token models. Intraday, XAI touched 0.966, its June high and close to USD 1, but buying dried up there. Meanwhile, someone in the staking group listed pools that had long been offline. Two had zero uptime and were being kept alive entirely by stakers running backup servers themselves; officials later confirmed the situation.
The won market gave traders another entry point, while the training camp aimed to help studios design game economies. Both would take time to show results. The narrator set those announcements beside the offline-pool list: as the project expanded outward, people inside its pools were keeping strangers' machines covered overnight. Whether the owners would resume operating, and how long stakers would have to maintain the backups, remained unanswered.