🔗 Integration with [QR] Wallet: what, why, and how
Hi, Pixels! 👋
We’re starting a strategic partnership with [QR] Wallet.

👀 What’s happening:
[QR] Wallet is a non-custodial DeFi wallet with its own app on Google Play and the App Store. It will now become infrastructure for Pixel:

• Pixel will exist inside [QR] Wallet as a GameFi sector.
• QR Wallet becomes the Wallet / DeFi infrastructure.
• You’ll be able to use Pixel directly from the QR Wallet iOS/Android app.

🤴 Why this matters for us and for you

• Convenience — play Pixel and manage your assets in one wallet.
• Functionality — pay for real purchases in Russia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Brazil with crypto (Thailand, Japan, and China are next!).
• Accessibility — the app is already in the stores and works on mobile devices.
• Gifts — all Pixel holders will receive gifts in [QR] Wallet.
• Customization — every Pixel will receive a unique badge 🙂 next to the username, visible to every user.
• Growth — we’ll keep building new content and improving the infrastructure.

👷‍♂️ What we gain (audience and marketing):
This is a strategic partnership with a promising wallet in early access (Beta), with no active marketing yet, but already with fast-growing real users and apps in the App Store / Google Play.

Through the integration, we get:

• Cross-marketing with [QR] Wallet.
• Access to a broad audience — essentially a ready-made marketing hub.
• Our Pixel project will be seen by new users who are already using a DeFi wallet.
• By actively participating in beta testing, our users will have a chance to receive valuable rewards from the [QR] Wallet project.

🤔 How the integration will work (3 stages):

1️⃣ Stage one
Pixel will appear inside [QR] Wallet. You’ll be able to play directly from the app (already available, details in the next post).

2️⃣ Stage two
DeFi integration inside Pixel — all Pixel networks and assets will be added to [QR] Wallet.

3️⃣ Stage three
Further infrastructure development and release of new content.

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IMPORTANT!
During registration, on the @username creation screen, there will be a field for entering a promo code a little lower down.

Be sure to enter the promo code HELLOPIXEL

Without this step, you will not be able to receive rewards and unique bonuses for Hello Pixel users.
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👀 WHY DID FEES GO UP ON THE SONGBIRD NETWORK?

It's the gas price on the Songbird network itself that went up — our ecosystem has nothing to do with it. This is part of a pre-planned reform of Flare's economics, not an outage and not network congestion.

Gas used to cost next to nothing, so transactions were practically free. Now the network is raising the gas price as part of the reform — to burn more of the token and bring inflation down. The full increase on Songbird takes effect on July 7, 2026; what we're seeing right now is the preparation phase, with gas prices climbing in advance 😢

Important: fees go to the network and its validators — not to the project.

Why claiming costs more than a regular transfer: a claim is not a single transaction, but a whole process (account verification → reward calculation → token distribution → writing to the blockchain). That's why it always requires more gas than a simple transfer. It just went unnoticed before, because gas was practically free.

Why does this affect Songbird if it's a Flare reform?

Songbird is Flare's "canary" network (like Kusama is for Polkadot). It's a fully live network with real value, where Flare battle-tests upgrades BEFORE rolling them out on the Flare mainnet.
They share the same codebase (the same go-flare client). So fee and protocol changes land on Songbird first — often earlier than on Flare itself.

The dates make it obvious: the new fee threshold activates on Songbird on July 7, 2026, but on Flare only on July 14. In other words, we get the price increase first, as the testing ground.
Bottom line: while the FIP.16 reform is formally about Flare's economics, it ships through shared code and network parameters — so it directly affects Songbird too.

For those who want the details:

Gas price. A week ago, gas on the network cost ~2 wei; now it's ~150 Gwei — roughly a 75-billion-fold increase per unit of gas. Today's network recommendation is ~slow 24 / avg 52 / fast 69 Gwei, and the app sets its price even above "fast" to make sure transactions go through.

What this means in real money. Gas consumption has NOT changed: a simple SGB transfer is ~21,000 units, a reward claim is ~225,000 units (about 10x more, because a claim is a full process, not a single operation). With gas now more expensive, a claim that used to cost a tiny fraction of a cent (~0.0000000005 SGB) now costs ~0.034 SGB.

Where the fees go. Right now the base fee is still close to zero and almost nothing is being burned — so the money goes to validators as a priority fee (a tip for including your transaction in a block), not into the burn. The full burn mechanism will activate later.

What the reform is. FIP.16 (approved April 24, 2026) raises the base fee ~20x — from 25 to 500 Gwei — via the go-flare v1.14.0 node upgrade and the ACP-176 dynamic fee mechanism. The goals: cut inflation from 5% to 3% per year and increase the annual token burn from ~7.5M to ~300M.

Timeline. The 500 Gwei minimum threshold on Songbird takes effect on July 7, 2026 — meaning the full increase is still ahead, and what's happening now is the preparatory ramp-up of gas prices.

No congestion. Network utilization is only ~1.85% — no outages, no attacks, no spam. This is a controlled, protocol-level price increase, not a malfunction.

Sources:
proposals.flare.network (FIP.16)
github.com/flare-foundation/go-flare (RELEASES)

Smart Claimers are now back to work 👷‍♂️
Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience!

Hello, Pixels! 👋

Yes, you understood yesterday’s sticker correctly - we’re cooking something interesting for you!

We’ve also noticed that the app has recently experienced technical difficulties across various services. We’ve carried out technical work to improve stability, and this update is already working right in your hands! 👷‍♂️

On our side, we ask you to keep an eye on how the app performs over the coming days and be sure to write directly in the comments under this news post if you run into any issues! We’ll do our best to resolve them as soon as possible!

Pay especially close attention to the Marketplace! 💴
That’s where the most extensive work was done. Your items should no longer get stuck!

And, of course, we’re gradually preparing content updates so that your usual routine will once again shine with bright colors! 🔥

With love, the Pixel Team! 🏴

Technical maintenance is in progress! 👷‍♂️
Over the next 24 hours, you may experience temporary issues with the display of various NFTs.

Important: All your funds and NFT items are safe!

If any item isn’t showing in your inventory or on the Marketplace, please wait a little while.

Additionally:
All Boosters with expired usage periods that were stuck have been burned! 🥵

Pixel 2.0 🙂 — the migration begins
Pixel is moving to a new blockchain. Where and why — we'll tell you in a separate lore post. For now, here's what matters most.

🤖 SKALE network
The SKALE data snapshot has already been taken. Starting from this post, progress on SKALE no longer counts toward Pixel 2.0.

When migrating, SKALE players will receive:

• A unique achievement;
• Part of their NFTs;
• PXLs "for TGE" — same as on Songbird;
• Important items to speed up your progress in Pixel 2.0 😈

The SKALE interface stays online until Pixel 2.0 launches, so you'll have time to withdraw your funds. On-chain access to your wallet always remains available via MetaMask or QR Wallet.

🟧 Songbird network
The Songbird snapshot has been taken too. It includes everyone who launched a drone to the mine in the last 180 days.
You can keep collecting dust: we'll snapshot it separately on the Pixel 2.0 release day.

Early investors, box sale participants, and in-game shop buyers who paid with real money but aren't in the snapshot will be able to apply through a separate form. Purchases made with mined pixels or on the marketplace don't qualify for the form.

What exactly carries over from each network — in separate posts.

🔥 A new era
In Pixel 2.0, mining stays, and combat, a skill tree, dismantling, and crafting join it. Your NFTs will become raw materials for new items.
Thank you for being with us.
The best is yet to come ⚡

Hello, Pixels! 👋

Today, we had planned to publish a lore post that would give you a little more insight into the world, its events, and their consequences — explaining the reason for the transition to Pixel 2.0.

However, we can see that you have accumulated a lot of questions, so the lore will come next time!

Lore is the backstory and internal history of a game world: its events, characters, the reasons behind what happens, and how everything is connected. Simply put, it is the “biography” of the game universe.

Today, we will share a few details about the migration:

1) What we meant by “the snapshot has been taken”:

We recorded who logged into the game and launched their drone into the mine over the last 180 days.

We consider these users to be those who believe in the project and are staying with us. These users were included in the snapshot and will be automatically migrated to Pixel 2.0.

Everyone else who has not been active over the last 180 days, but who participated in collection sales, invested in the project, or used the in-game store with liquid currency, will be able to submit an application through a form. The system will automatically verify the application and add the user to the migration.

2) All NFTs from the Songbird blockchain will be transferred one-to-one.

3) All Dust (PXLd) will be transferred one-to-one.

4) All Achievements will be fully transferred. Keep earning them!

5) All Pixels marked PXLs for TGE will move according to the following mechanic: a one-to-one transfer, but no more than the amount specified in the “PXLs for TGE” field.

If you have less than that amount, the actual number of tokens you hold on the migration date will be transferred. You still have time to collect coins up to that amount!

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Now, probably the most sensitive question: what will happen to existing progress and Pixels held above the PXLs for TGE amount? 👀

At the time of the transfer, PXLs above the “PXLs for TGE” amount, as well as upgrades for the Drill, Storage, and Drone Mine, will be reset (wiped). There will be compensation for each upgrade level.

The compensation amount will be announced no earlier than one month from now.

This is because we are currently running a large-scale simulation of future events, taking into account all variables and the new balance. During the simulation, one second equals one day of real time. This requires significant computing power, so we will need to wait a little longer.

For now, these are all the technical updates we can share with you!

Next time, we will tell you about the world in which your 🙂 Pixel exists!

Hey, Pixels! 👋

Ahead of the move to Pixel 2.0, we've decided to release an interim patch with an updated marketplace!

The new Market is already live on mobile and web!

Also in this update:

• Optimized the whole app
• Improved service stability
• Faster marketplace performance
• Cleared out old stuck lots on the marketplace
• Full-screen mode in Telegram (you can turn it off in the app settings)
• Batch processing for blockchain operations
• Action buttons now have an animated loader
• Added localization to some screens
• Various small improvements and bug fixes

Share your feedback, and happy trading! 💵

The Songbird network itself is experiencing issues.
Everything is running smoothly on our side.

We’re exploring solutions and will keep you updated! 👀


UPD: Stabilized! 👷‍♂️