Back to collectionVanguard Rankings Put Tasks and Key Holdings at Odds
At the start of the new year, the Vanguard phase-three leaderboard was shaping players' judgments about fair rewards. XAI opened the year at USD 0.225, 86% below the March high. The shifting ranks turned the relative weight of completed tasks and key holdings into a dispute.
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At the start of the new year, the Vanguard phase-three leaderboard was shaping players' judgments about fair rewards. As a longtime community member, the Night Watchman saw some people explaining their task records while others watched only their rank.
XAI opened the year at USD 0.225, 86% below the March high. Around the year change, the task interface worked intermittently; one player woke to find their position had fallen from around 600th to beyond 8,000th. Accounts holding small keys obtained through the key split gained points from their holdings, leaving people who played daily farther down the board. Someone in the group displayed the list from roughly 500th to 1,700th place and claimed it was almost entirely bots.
The shifting ranks turned the relative weight of completed tasks and key holdings into a dispute. The bot claim remained a group member's assessment. The Night Watchman suggested discussing interface failures, scoring rules, and suspicious accounts separately before pressing the leaderboard maintainers for answers. Whether players would trust the final ranking remained open.