Back to collectionThe Month-End Reckoning: Games, Rewards and Expectations
As October drew to a close, the community was asking what the team was doing beyond Raijin and arguing over what Sentry Keys had actually delivered to their holders. The operator laid out the state of play. The exchange did not settle anyone's final return, but it exposed the source of the dispute: distributing rewards as designed was different from giving holders what they had thought they would receive.
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As October drew to a close, the community was asking what the team was doing beyond Raijin and arguing over what Sentry Keys had actually delivered to their holders. On Halloween, the operator faced two distinct demands: explain the games and explain the rewards.
The operator laid out the state of play. Partner games in the card, mech and social competition genres were already playable, while the mobile game remained in development. Anyone seeking rewards could play games, enter competitions or join giveaways on Raijin, where the prizes were physical items. The operator ended by directing people to the announcements channel. That evening, a holder in the node channel laid out his account: he had paid USD 1,300, staked for a full year and seen no money; airdrops were hard to claim, and he did not know how many people had managed to claim them. The operator asked whether the key had been staked and said that, if it had, the holder should have received esXAI. The holder was asking about a return he could see and obtain; the answer described what the mechanism had distributed.
The exchange did not settle anyone's final return, but it exposed the source of the dispute: distributing rewards as designed was different from giving holders what they had thought they would receive. The operator still needed to explain the claim process and the distinctions among rewards, while the community awaited more concrete news about the mobile game and in the announcements channel. October closed at USD 0.0235, down 41% for the month; the intramonth wick to USD 0.0099 became an indelible marker of the slump.