Panama City, Panama, October 15th, 2026, Chainwire

Pixagram, an anti-hierarchy 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. Every post, vote, and comment on platform is recorded as a signed on-chain transaction, with no ads and no cryptocurrency purchase required to get started.

Under the promotion, Pixagram will cover the roughly 20 PIXA network fee normally required to open a Pixa chain account. That fee reflects the account-based design Pixa inherits from its Steem-lineage codebase, where opening a new identity consumes network resources—so absorbing it removes a step that would otherwise require newcomers to hold tokens before they can participate. New members can claim a free @username at Pixagram.com and join the platform's on-chain community for creators.

An On-Chain Username and Wallet Address

Each @username serves as an on-chain wallet address, replacing a randomly generated string of characters with a recognizable handle. Once registered on the blockchain, an @username remains associated with its on-chain record, subject to the network's rules and technical conditions. In practice, that means a creator can share one readable destination that works as both a profile and a transaction address.

Registration involves a one-time phone verification, which the company says helps limit bot abuse of the daily account offer. A public @username can also separate a creator's online identity from their legal name, although public blockchain records may limit privacy.

Not Really Anti-Social, Truly Anti-Hierarchy

According to the announcement, mainstream social media serves advertisers while gatekeepers decide who sees a creator's work. Pixagram—alongside platforms like Hive and Mastodon—is described as a SIGMA platform built for creators who prefer agency over status games. Posts, art, followers, and feeds live directly on-chain with nothing in between, allowing creators to reach every follower automatically. The free daily account offer functions as the on-ramp to that pitch, since joining requires no cryptocurrency purchase.

Artwork Permanence and On-Chain Storage

On many NFT platforms, the token sits on-chain while the image lives on a cloud server or IPFS—meaning 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 up to 4K resolution as a painting, CRT filter, hexagonal shapes, or square pixels.

Every new account receives a starter delegation of stake (Resource Credits fuel) to cover posting and voting from day one, at zero upfront cost. That starter balance underpins the onboarding promise: newcomers can post and vote immediately, before owning any PIXA of their own. According to the announcement, direct on-chain art sales are slated to launch in 2027, so everything published in the meantime builds a creator's permanent portfolio ahead of the marketplace release.

Proof-of-Brain 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. The concept traces back to the same Steem lineage as Pixa's codebase, which pioneered token rewards distributed by community voting rather than mining hardware.

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. Authors can receive Pixa Power, which determines voting weight and supports governance participation, as well as Pixa Supra (PXS), a unit referenced by an oracle to an agnostic purchasing power index without a fixed dollar value. Curators can also receive Pixa Power.

Censorship-Resistant by Design

Built on the Hive codebase with Steem lineage, the Pixa chain started from a clean genesis block with no airdrop and produces a block every three seconds. While an application interface can hide a post from its view, the announcement notes that it can never erase the transaction record from the chain. For creators, that split means visibility does not depend entirely on any single frontend's policies, since the underlying record persists regardless of what an interface chooses to display.

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

Founders' Statements

"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," said Matias Affolter, Co-Founder of Pixa.

"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," added Mathiew Estepho, Co-Founder of Pixa.

Registration and Developer Resources

Pixagram will offer fee coverage for up to 250 new accounts daily through the end of 2026. For readers tracking the platform, the sequence to watch is the promotion's runway through year-end, followed by the on-chain art sales slated for 2027. Eligible new members can register and claim an @username at Pixagram.com. 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 network is owned by the Pixa Omnibus Foundation and Pixa Rex S.A., which can be contacted at contact@pixarex.net.