Back to collectionAssertions Continue While Rewards Vanish from View
Background: The day before, Sentry operators had seen rewards plunge but could not tell whether the problem was a display delay or a payout failure. Today: By morning, the complaints had become precise. Impact and what follows: October closed at USD 0.200, after a month confined to a range of USD 0.177 to USD 0.246.
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Background: The day before, Sentry operators had seen rewards plunge but could not tell whether the problem was a display delay or a payout failure. The contract for time-based challenge rewards had just been upgraded. Holders urgently wanted to know whether the esXAI they had earned was still there while their nodes continued submitting assertions.
Today: By morning, the complaints had become precise. One holder had claimed just seven esXAI in the past 24 hours instead of the usual 840; another had received only 7% of the normal amount. Yet everyone described the same contradiction: every assertion was being submitted, while claimable rewards had nearly vanished. Officials first said developers were investigating and that rewards were not lost as long as assertions continued. A holder pushed back: the earlier notice mentioned a contract upgrade but said nothing about rewards falling to 1% or when the issue might be resolved. The team should speak up before being asked. That evening, the cause emerged. A defective subgraph deployed alongside the adjudicator contract for time-based rewards kept the runtime from retrieving the list of claimable rewards. Assertions had never stopped, network support was normal, and no rewards had been lost. After the subgraph was fixed, one restart of the runtime would automatically catch up the rewards due; a holder posted that night that it was working again.
Impact and what follows: October closed at USD 0.200, after a month confined to a range of USD 0.177 to USD 0.246. For Halloween, the chat turned the price chart into a ghost picture to laugh at itself. The narrator remembered a different line: “Assertions are going through, but rewards cannot be claimed.” The chain, contract, and consensus continued working; the failure lay in the subgraph that delivered claimable amounts to the runtime. The fix let those who checked recover what they were owed, while exposing a gap in upgrade notices and incident communication. Other operators still needed to restart as instructed and verify their claims.