Who got the idea that any sort of merge (with Cache or with QiBucks) was going to happen?
This could not be further from the truth. What the hell?
It's a development partnership, not a merge. A development partnership is where you pool resources to achieve a mutually beneficial goal.
The benefits do not need to be symmetrical.
The benefits will not create competition for XC.
I think a fair number of people in this thread need to understand the value of collaboration. Crypto is in fact a community, albeit a contentious one, and community is strongly relational. Broadly speaking there are two ways to be relational: to contend or to collaborate. Behind the scenes there are some devs collaborating. Out here there are a bunch of people bickering.
Can you stop and think about how this stuff actually works?