The First Vote Is Delayed as Xai Play Sets a March Date

XIP-1 was being prepared as the chain’s first governance vote, and holders of XAI and esXAI were still waiting for the ballot to open. The narrator had promised to put it to a vote no later than February 24; the chat had waited all through the previous day. Voting was expected to start today, and at last there was an official explanation of the safety issue.

The XIP-1 vote did not begin. The announcement said persistent technical problems with Safe had temporarily delayed it; a fix was expected in one to two business days. The foundation treasury and all operational wallets were unaffected, and everyone who had registered to vote would keep their eligibility. Four days earlier, USD 1.5 billion had been stolen from Bybit through the front end of Safe, the multisignature tool. The chat’s question changed from “When can we vote?” to “Is it safe to vote?” Someone observed that another exchange’s disaster had pressed pause on a chain’s first experiment in democracy, an event worth recording in its own right. Late that night, officials announced that Xai Play early access would open in March. Players would log in and connect Steam; past and future achievements would sync automatically, earn points according to rarity, and place them in worldwide competition. The plan covered 40,000 games and called for several million US dollars in prizes during 2025.

XAI traded around $0.085. The two announcements made an uneasy pair: governance had to wait for a technical fix, while the player platform had a stated entry window and a description of how it would work. The narrator studied them together for a while and wrote no comment. The community now had to see whether the Safe issue would be resolved within the expected period and learn the exact new voting time. The early access promise could be tested only when March came.