Back to collectionA Record Month Meets a Game Launch and a Node Deadline
November ended with Xai facing a rising price, a game launch, and a node upgrade at once. XAI closed at USD 0.390, up 95% for the month, its biggest monthly gain of the year. The launch and airdrop gave players a reason to try something immediately, while the version requirement sent the Night Watchman back to check his node before talk of games distracted him from rewards.
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November ended with Xai facing a rising price, a game launch, and a node upgrade at once. Players wanted to see what the new game offered; operators needed to know whether older software could still earn rewards.
XAI closed at USD 0.390, up 95% for the month, its biggest monthly gain of the year. Valeria's mobile game launched alongside a USD 2.5 million play-and-airdrop campaign. Node operators received a firm warning: without version 1.2.0, they would receive no rewards. That evening, the narrator named Riftstorm, Planet-X, Valeria, The Lost Glitches, and Tollan Universe, hoping one of the five might become Xai's own Axie Infinity. The month's market performance owed something to both strength and luck.
The launch and airdrop gave players a reason to try something immediately, while the version requirement sent the Night Watchman back to check his node before talk of games distracted him from rewards. The narrator's list expressed a hope, not proof that a winner had emerged. Next came the questions of whether players would stay and whether operators could complete the upgrade.