Panama City, Panama, October 15, 2026, Chainwire — Pixagram, an anti-hierarchy social network built on the standalone Layer-1 Pixa blockchain, has announced free account creation for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026. Every post, vote, and comment on the platform is recorded as a signed on-chain transaction, and there are no ads and no cryptocurrency purchase required to get started.

Opening a Pixa chain account normally costs around 20 PIXA. Under the offer, Pixagram is covering this fee for up to 250 new members per day, and eligible new members can claim a free @username at Pixagram.com to join the platform's on-chain community for creators. The offer removes the initial account-creation fee; Pixagram separately describes starter Resource Credits for posting and voting after an account is opened.

An On-Chain Username That Doubles as a Wallet Address

Each @username on Pixagram 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.

New members complete a one-time phone verification, a step designed to 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.

Positioned Against Mainstream Social Media

Pixagram describes mainstream social media as serving advertisers while gatekeepers decide who sees a creator's work. Alongside platforms like Hive and Mastodon, it positions itself 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 platform says allows creators to reach every follower automatically.

Artwork Stored Directly On-Chain

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 at up to 4K resolution as a painting, a CRT filter, hexagonal shapes, or square pixels.

Every new account receives a starter delegation of stake, described as Resource Credits fuel, to cover posting and voting from day one. Pixagram notes that direct on-chain art sales are set to launch in 2027, so everything creators publish today builds a permanent portfolio ahead of the marketplace release.

Proof-of-Brain and Community Curation

Instead of 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.

Authors can receive 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

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 transaction record on the chain can never be erased.

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.

Founder 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 handle is written to the chain, it's gone forever." — Mathiew Estepho, Co-Founder of Pixa

Registration and Developer Resources

Pixagram will continue to cover fees for 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).