On August 15, 2026, the X1 Telegram community went through the largest reorganisation in its history. The scattered set of chats that had grown up around the chain over the past two years was consolidated into a single group — X1 World — built around Telegram's topics feature, with every subject that used to need its own group now living as a separate thread inside one room.
The goal, in one sentence: collect the entire community in one place, and organise it well enough that being in one place does not mean drowning. Announcements no longer compete with price chatter. Validator operators no longer scroll past memes to find an upgrade notice. And a newcomer who joins once is now inside every conversation the project has, instead of hunting down invite links for six separate groups.
You can join X1 World here: t.me/+HtiLywX2Dug3MjJk.
The topic map
X1 World is divided into fourteen topics. Each one is a persistent thread with its own unread counter, which is the mechanic that makes the consolidation work — you can mute the ones you do not care about and keep notifications on for the ones you do.
| Topic | What lives there |
|---|---|
| Announcements | Official releases, upgrades and Foundation notices |
| Validator Chat | Node operators: client upgrades, delinquency, hardware, uptime |
| Projects | Teams building on X1 and what they are shipping |
| Jack's Office | Direct line to the founder — open questions, direction, roadmap |
| XDEX | The native DEX: pairs, liquidity, farming, order types |
| Degen | Launchpad activity and new token launches |
| X1 Wallet | Install, recovery, Backpack and mobile support |
| XNT Price | Market talk, kept out of every other room |
| Delegation Program | Foundation stake delegation, P85 thresholds, eligibility |
| Bridge | Moving assets in and out of X1 |
| X1 Alpha | Early information and things not yet announced |
| Shill Hole | Memes and promotion — the designated place for it |
| Fight Club | Arguments, unfiltered |
| X1 KOLs | Coordination for creators and community voices |
Why Shill Hole and Fight Club exist
The two topics that look least serious are doing the most structural work. Every crypto community eventually faces the same problem: activity surges, tempers rise, promotion floods in, and moderators are left choosing between mass bans and letting the main chat degrade. Both options cost you people.
Shill Hole and Fight Club are the third option. Instead of suppressing that energy, the structure gives it an address. Promotion goes to Shill Hole. Arguments go to Fight Club. Neither is a punishment channel — both are among the most active threads in X1 World, which is exactly the point. The surge is channelled rather than banned, and the effect on everything else is immediate: Validator Chat stays technical, Announcements stays clean, and the moderation team does not have to police tone in rooms where tone was never the problem.
It is not a dead formality elsewhere, either. Jack's Office gets busy in its own right, and members of the X1 team are reachable across the group rather than sitting behind a support form.
Where the community came from
X1's community was not assembled after the chain launched. It predates it by years, and it was built deliberately.
Jack Levin — Google's first network architecture engineer for distributed systems, there from 1999 to 2005, and later the founder of x1.xyz and X1 Blockchain — started building it around xen.network and the XEN token. XEN launched across 13 chains, and that multi-chain footprint had a side effect that turned out to matter more than the token mechanics: it pulled in participants from every major EVM ecosystem at once, from every timezone, and gave them a common thing to talk about.
By the time X1 was ready to launch, the hard part of community building was already done. There was an existing, global, engaged group of people who understood the project's history and were willing to run nodes, test software and explain it to newcomers. A new chain launching cold has to buy that. X1 already had it.
For more of the founder's own framing of how XEN and X1 connect, see our write-up of Jack Levin answering XEN and X1 community questions.
Why Telegram is the first channel
Telegram has always been X1's primary medium for communication and updates — not one of several equal channels, but the first place things appear. It is also where the project has done the bulk of its user education: how staking works, what a validator actually does, how to recover a wallet, what a new technology in the stack means and why it was chosen.
That is a function of the admin network more than the platform. X1 runs an unusually large group of admins and long-term community members who keep the rooms current, answer the same beginner questions without visible fatigue, guide new users through their first stake or first swap, and surface projects that deserve attention. It is the reason the groups stayed active and accurate through periods when a lot of chains' chats went quiet or turned into pure price speculation.
Cyberdyne: an AI agent for builders
Builders have a dedicated room outside the main group. Cyberdyne — t.me/+mSRNqsvHnGU1YWEz — is where development happens, and it comes with something most chain communities do not offer: a working AI agent, Theo, made available for community use.
The model is open by design. Anyone can join, open a topic for their idea, and build a project on X1 with Theo — there is no application process and no gate. Theo runs on Kimi K2.6 via Ollama alongside GLM 5.2.
For a chain positioning itself around cheap, high-frequency settlement, putting an agent in the builders' room is more than a convenience — it lowers the distance between "I have an idea for X1" and a deployed program to roughly one conversation. If you are looking at what to build, our comparison of the best chains for AI agents covers why X1's fee structure matters for agent workloads specifically.
Discord and X
Telegram is the centre, but it is not the only door.
- Discord — an unofficial X1 server for anyone who prefers that platform: discord.gg/4exNYW6es
- Jack Levin on X — the founder's main account: @mrJackLevin
- X1 Chain on X — the project account: @X1_chain
What the restructuring means in practice
If you were already in one of the old X1 groups, the practical change is that you now need one invite instead of several, and you should spend a minute setting your topic notifications — that is the whole user interface of the new structure. Mute Shill Hole, keep Announcements on, and X1 World behaves like a quiet feed. Leave everything on and it behaves like a busy trading floor. Both are valid; the choice is now yours rather than the group's.
If you are new to X1, this is the single highest-value link in the ecosystem. Fourteen topics means you can arrive knowing nothing and find the exact room for the one thing you care about — running a validator, bridging in, checking why XNT moved, or shipping a contract — without joining anything else first.
Join X1 World: t.me/+HtiLywX2Dug3MjJk · Builders: Cyberdyne. A full directory of ecosystem sites, tools and community rooms is on our official X1 links page.