Panama City, Panama — October 15, 2026 — Chainwire

Pixagram has announced free account creation for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026. Built on the standalone Layer-1 Pixa blockchain, Pixagram is a self-described anti-hierarchy social network in which every post, vote, and comment is recorded as a signed on-chain transaction. The platform carries no advertising and requires no cryptocurrency purchase to get started.

As part of the offer, Pixagram will cover the approximately 20 PIXA network fee normally required to open a Pixa chain account, for up to 250 new members per day through the end of 2026. The fee is denominated in PIXA and applies at the account-creation step, ahead of any posting or voting a newcomer might do. New members can claim a free @username at Pixagram.com and join the platform's on-chain community for creators.

On-Chain Username and Wallet Address

Each @username on Pixagram functions 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.

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

Not Really Anti-Social, Truly Anti-Hierarchy

The company positions Pixagram against mainstream social media, which it argues 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, which the company says allows creators to reach every follower automatically.

On-Chain Storage and Artwork Permanence

The announcement contrasts Pixa's approach with that of many NFT platforms, where 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 no upfront cost. In a note on the platform's build phase, the company states that direct on-chain art sales launch in 2027, so everything published today builds a permanent portfolio ahead of the marketplace release.

Proof-of-Brain and Community Curation

Instead of relying on the computational process in Proof-of-Work systems, Pixagram uses Proof-of-Brain, a mechanism that allocates rewards based on posting, commenting, and voting activity. The model originated on Steem, the earlier blockchain social protocol whose code lineage Pixa shares.

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, and 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 it can never erase the transaction record from the chain.

Every artwork is also 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." — 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." — Mathiew Estepho, Co-Founder of Pixa

Registration and Developer Resources

Pixagram offers fee coverage for up to 250 new accounts daily through the end of 2026. With the offer's end-of-2026 cutoff and the planned 2027 on-chain sales launch, the rollout carries two stated milestones for observers to track. 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 owner is the Pixa Omnibus Foundation; Pixa Rex S.A. can be reached at contact@pixarex.net.

This announcement first appeared on Metaverse Post.