Panama City, Panama — October 15, 2026 — Chainwire

Pixagram, a social network built on the standalone Layer-1 Pixa blockchain, announced that it will cover the account creation fee for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026. The platform bills itself as an anti-hierarchy social network in which every post, vote, and comment is recorded as a signed on-chain transaction, with no advertisements and no cryptocurrency purchase required to get started.

Opening an account on the Pixa chain normally costs around 20 PIXA. Because account creation is an on-chain transaction, that charge is a network fee rather than a platform signup cost — and newcomers without PIXA would otherwise need to obtain the token before claiming a handle. Under the promotion, Pixagram will pay this network fee on behalf of up to 250 new members each day through the end of 2026. Eligible newcomers can claim a free @username at Pixagram.com and then join the platform's on-chain community for creators.

An On-Chain Username That Doubles as a Wallet Address

Each @username on Pixa serves as an on-chain wallet address, replacing a randomly generated string of characters with a recognizable handle. Once a handle is registered, it remains associated with its on-chain record, subject to the network's rules and technical conditions.

Registration requires one-time phone verification, a measure intended to limit bot abuse of the daily free-account offer. The company notes that a public @username can separate a creator's online identity from their legal name, although public blockchain records may still limit privacy.

A "Truly Antiierarchy" Alternative

According to the announcement, mainstream social media serves advertisers while gatekeepers decide whose gets seen. Pixagram—placed alongside platforms such as Hive and Mastodon, established decentralized alternatives to ad-funded social media—is described as a SIGMA platform built for creators who prefer agency over status games. On the service, posts, art, followers, and feeds live directly on-chain with nothing in between, which the company says allows creators to reach every follower automatically.

On-Chain Artwork Storage and Permanence

The announcement draws a contrast with many NFT platforms, where the token sits on-chain while the image lives on a cloud server or IPFS—a setup in which a token can easily outlive its art. On Pixa, every artwork is stored directly on-chain inside its post as a lossless image. Compact pixel art lives permanently on the blockchain and renders at up to 4K resolution as a painting, with a CRT filter, in hexagonal shapes, or as square pixels.

Every new account also receives a starter delegation of stake—Resource Credits fuel—to cover posting and voting from day one, meaning there is no upfront cost. Because day-to-day activity consumes this staked fuel rather than direct token payments, the delegation is what allows new members to use the network without acquiring PIXA of their own first. Direct on-chain art sales are slated to launch in 2027; the company frames publishing done now as "build mode," in which users assemble a permanent portfolio ahead of the marketplace release.

Proof-of-Brain Rewards and Community Curation

Rather than relying on the computational process used in Proof-of-Work systems, Pixagram uses Proof-of-Brain, a mechanism that allocates rewards based on posting, commenting, and voting activity.

Under the community reward distribution, 70% of newly issued PIXA is allocated to community-voted content, with 60% distributed to authors and 40% to curators after seven days.

The platform's staking and governance mechanisms include Pixa Power, which determines voting weight and supports governance participation, and Pixa Supra (PXS), a unit referenced by an oracle tied to an agnostic purchasing power index without a fixed dollar value. Curators can also receive Pixa Power.

Censorship Resistance by Design

The Pixa chain was built on the Hive codebase, with lineage tracing back to Steem. It launched from a clean genesis block with no airdrop and produces a block every three seconds. According to the announcement, while an application interface can hide a post from its own view, it can never erase the transaction record from the chain.

In addition, every artwork is checked for copies using PAPH-X, described as an open-source perceptual fingerprint for pixel art, and indexed by the Search V4 engine.

Matias Affolter, Co-Founder of Pixa, said: "The old internet wants you trapped in feed fog, renting reach from gatekeepers who track every click. Today information is king, and Pixagram operates outside that hierarchy… Don't believe the hype. Create it."

Mathiew Estepho, Co-Founder of Pixa, said: "The strongest rebellion is a working alternative. We're covering the network fee for 250 new accounts a day so any creator can step into build mode at zero cost. Claim your permanent @username now—because once a handle is written to the chain, it's gone forever."

Registration and Developer Resources

The fee coverage applies to up to 250 new accounts daily through the end of 2026. Eligible new members can register and claim an @username at Pixagram.com, and additional technical information is available in the developer documentation at pixa.org.

About Pixagram

Pixagram is an on-chain pixel art and blog network developed by Pixagram AG (Zug, Switzerland) and operated by Pixa Rex S.A. (Panama City, Panama). The project is owned by the Pixa Omnibus Foundation; Pixa Rex S.A. can be contacted at contact@pixarex.net.

Source: CoinoMedia