A New Year Begins With Blocks and Unanswered Questions

The community entered the new year after a 93% decline in 2025. The Night Watchman, a longtime member and Sentry node operator, had spent years tending his laptop. In the group, fewer people were making the price wishes that had once accompanied a new year.

XAI began the year at USD 0.0159. Members exchanged New Year greetings, but no one named a price they hoped to see. The chain kept producing blocks, Sentry uptime was normal, and the Night Watchman’s laptop entered its third year of operation. After checking his node, he recalled that people had still been asking at year’s end whether keys could be sold. He decided to prepare a clear answer to common questions about keys and staking so the new year’s first round of questions would not circle back to the same confusion.

The greetings remained, while conversation shifted from price wishes toward maintaining the network and explaining how it worked. Continued block production gave the Night Watchman a reason to keep his watch. Whether his planned answer would reduce confusion, and how the project’s new year would unfold, remained to be seen.