Raijin Takes Shape as the Company Steps Back from the Vote

Safe's problems had kept the first vote to establish the DAO under XIP-1 from opening, so the community meeting carried two questions at once: where the product was going and whether governance could earn trust. A-Zhen had just moved into Raijin integration, while the Night Watchman was collecting the questions people wanted to ask directly.

The meeting began at 4 p.m. New York time. The team acknowledged the poor market but said its focus remained on building the product. Planet X had passed 300,000 registrations, and Tollan was gaining momentum. The final presentation introduced Raijin, formerly called Xai Play, as a rewards platform for players rather than a game. Hearing that distinction, A-Zhen rewrote the player path she needed to explain in her integration work: players would encounter rewards first, with the chain in the background. That evening, Ex Populus also announced that every company team member holding allocated tokens would abstain from this vote to establish the DAO. It would delegate the voting power of the tokens held by the company itself to several community members, saying it wanted the vote to reflect the community's will.

The chat immediately asked whether a community member entrusted with the company's votes might still vote as the company wished. No one could answer that night, so the Night Watchman kept the question in the discussion for later follow-up. The narrator noted a different tension: for the first time on this chain, someone had voluntarily moved their own votes aside, while those who doubted the move remained in the same conversation as those who made it. The player route into the product was clearer, but the voting start date and the credibility of the delegation were unresolved.