Back to collectionA Crowded Roadmap Pulls A-Zhen into a New Project
The foundation had just answered the market shock with a long letter, and the community was waiting for the major announcements it promised. Officials previewed February and March: Xai Play planned to bring 40,000 PC games onto the chain and distribute monthly rewards; an artificial intelligence initiative called Raijin was billed as something that “would change everything”; and the first DAO vote was scheduled for the same period. The preview put the game gateway, artificial intelligence, and governance side by side, while narrowing the team’s day-to-day staffing.
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The foundation had just answered the market shock with a long letter, and the community was waiting for the major announcements it promised. A-Zhen was an early engineer moving from chain-side work into a new project. For her, a public preview would immediately become a question of which integration work to handle first.
Officials previewed February and March: Xai Play planned to bring 40,000 PC games onto the chain and distribute monthly rewards; an artificial intelligence initiative called Raijin was billed as something that “would change everything”; and the first DAO vote was scheduled for the same period. The preview ended by saying there would be no new token: XAI and esXAI were all there would be. A-Zhen was reassigned that day to a project whose name had not been disclosed, leaving only two people on chain-side duty. She and the colleagues who remained first sorted out which integration questions she would continue to answer and which the duty team should handle directly.
The preview put the game gateway, artificial intelligence, and governance side by side, while narrowing the team’s day-to-day staffing. A-Zhen needed to keep a channel open for passing on chain-side knowledge as she worked on the new project. How 40,000 games would be connected, what Raijin would actually do, and how voting would work still awaited explanation.