Back to collectionA Running Mainnet at the Edge of Attention
In May, people in the ecosystem forum kept asking whether the project was still alive. There were more than 51,000 token-holding addresses, still growing slowly; market capitalization stood above USD 20 million, while Xai's ranking was sliding beyond the top several hundred. The snapshot gave concrete grounds for saying Xai was still operating, while showing how far it had moved to the margins.
A creative chronicle combining project history with imagined scenes. Story events are not verification of network activity.
In May, people in the ecosystem forum kept asking whether the project was still alive. The narrator wanted to bring the scattered network, product, and legal threads together to answer that question, while distinguishing what was running from what remained pending.
There were more than 51,000 token-holding addresses, still growing slowly; market capitalization stood above USD 20 million, while Xai's ranking was sliding beyond the top several hundred. Tens of thousands of Sentry Keys still helped secure the network, Raijin had real users, the lawsuit continued, and games awaited release. That same day, a newcomer asked whether Xai was still on testnet. The official reply was that the testnet phase had long passed and mainnet had been running all along.
The snapshot gave concrete grounds for saying Xai was still operating, while showing how far it had moved to the margins. The narrator decided to track network operation, player use, and game progress separately from then on. For anyone asking when they could play a new game, an active mainnet still was not an answer.