AMA Recap Mar 12 2025

• You can talk about where the market’s at or what we’re doing, but the key thing is we’re continuing to build. Web3 is about incentive alignment. If we continue to build, things will work out. We do AMAs every week and have been doing them for 3 years. Originally they were Twitter spaces, January 3 years ago. We’ve maybe missed 2 or 3, which is nuts. But AMAs have been getting too repetitive and we’ve been getting feedback about that but the focus is to increase speed and scrappiness.

• We wanted to focus on the long-term for Pixels. This has sacrificed some of the short-term speed which is not good so we need to refocus. We’ve been doing something every week but key concept is to build out end-game features that make the end-game better. Short-term fixes that need to get out is surface T3/T4 tasks to more users. Some AMAs we’ll focus on ecosystem stuff but we’re changing it up a bit. People aren’t watching the AMAs anymore cuz they just get a summary of the updates we’re doing, then that’s fine. No matter what, we’re gonna keep showing up every single week.

• Pixels has onboarded a lot of people into Web3 - current market, stock market, etc are not looking good right now and Pixels gets affected by that. You can see all the tokens in the Genesis market. Up until yesterday, they had not been touched. Team, Investors and Advisor tokens were moved onto Ronin into vesting contracts. You can see all the vesting on-chain. We’ve done things the right way the whole time.

• Quicksilver: The speed up currency, a brand new feature in Pixels, that’ll change the game a lot.

• We’re trying to make it so there’s more reason to use resources inside the game. Merchant ships is coming soon which is a new mechanic that uses higher tier resources, it introduces new prizes to earn that’s more than just $PIXEL. We should have a larger demand sink when this comes out. The interesting part about this feature is if someone uses this on your land, 15% of the worth of that $PIXEL is going back to the LO. You have to hold the land for 30 days.

• Pets coming next week for the St. Patty’s Day event. This will not be a leaderboard event, but will be more like the LNY event which was much more chill:

  

• For Spore Sports rewards, we’re combing through cheaters right now. We take it super seriously. One of the biggest breakthroughs we had in the last few months is realizing this is an economic problem again. If we make them less effective, they wont find it useful to bot. We wanted to publish some reports but the more transparency we give into our bot-detection, the more botters will know how to avoid it. We’ve done a decent job at stopping bots from getting $PIXEL but there’s more we need to do. Things like taxing withdrawals. We’ll probably set withdrawal taxes quite high, and reduce it based on rules (like owning land, having VIP, etc). We’re working on a Piggybank feature. Where you have to spend a certain amount before you can withdraw.

• We now have WalletConnect. Make sure you do your own research before trusting a wallet and connecting it to your Pixels account. Ronin wallet is no longer a requirement, but we do recommend it. But your primary wallet no longer has to be the Ronin wallet.

• Pet App is going into beta stages now. The plan on the pet app is to have a Tamagotchi style app where you have to take care of your pet. It can die. Timeline we’re thinking about: it’s almost time to release to users to test. It’s going to be like a F2P Web2 focused game, but there will be Web3 rewards for the end game and for players who have Pet NFTs or assets inside of Pixels. It’s going to be completely F2P, we’re going to give incentives to download it for the first time, but it’s not going to be an earn-oriented game. It’ll be about helping the game grow. Super pumped.

Q: Pixels went from “whoa we have high DAUs” to “DAUs not really important” from “i really don’t like staking” to “cant wait for staking”
A: This is a journey. At the time, people thought we didn’t have any Web3 Gamers in 2023. But over time, DAU just became easy to bot. RORS is a better metric now. Also I don’t like traditional staking. Staking takes rewards away from their game and gives it directly to stakers. That’s just inflation. We’re sharing Pixels value to make a more fair economic distribution.

Q: So we get to speed up bots industry or bots create faster now? Huh?
A: The idea for this is we’re creating shared incentives with Land Owners. This helps us to achieve our goal too. LOs are rewarded. And it is monetization. If you don’t wanna use speed ups, you don’t have to do it. But if you do, then the option is there.

Q: I would love it on winery, like c’mon, it’s so unreachable with lock lands or fast clickers on it, I want to play to make wines
A: Yes it works on the Winery. More industries are coming. This is just the first wave.

Q: Remember guys, marketplace is insta-craft in exchange for COINS

Q: Actually maybe better to fix some resources from PETCARE to have some usecases tho cuz some of them have no use and useless event it was hard to get such an item
A: We’re reworking our recipes. There will be recipes that have a mixture from all industries.We’re also going to shift the taskboard meta a little as well. The crafting meta’s gonna be different. How do we make it so T3/T4 resources are more useful? How do we make it so Quicksilver is useful? How do we shift the TB to be more crafting-oriented? We need to tweak the balance so the end-game is good content.

Q: Is quicksilver tradeable?
A: Dont believe so

Q: How do you feel about a competitive PIXELS task where you have a pool of players and first the uncraftable item/s wins the pool. Increase more uncraftable items in case
A: This is how we view Chapter 3 with contestable lands. You might get a chance to go out and discover Competitive lands and get access to T5 items. It’s gonna look different, themed differently, etc.

Q: If there is a smart taskboard then how about a smart pixel bank, vip purchase and etc. Basically REAL people are given discounts on in-game $PIXEL usage.
A: If you enter in WalletConnect, there’s things like Binance Wallet, and we’ve been talking about soft KYC stuff. If we required KYC in a F2P game, it’ll never work. You cant scale a game with KYC. But there’s some interesting things you can do to have higher confidence that they’re a real user. If we allow login with Binance, then we know if you have a Binance (or CoinsPH or Coinbase account). Also there’s a ton of fraud in KYC, but it’s a lot less friction. We want to provide more rewards to players who are more likely to use the tokens in game or provide value back to the ecosystem.

Q: Please put inifiniportal in middle Terra Villa
A: This is also coming! PLOT building is closing. Say goodbye

Q: I’m looking forward to the pet app! Can a pet owner integrate their pet on that app?
A: The first release of the pet app will just have the F2P Pet. Then the next release: How we built these pets is they can change outfits and stuff. So if you add in a new pet, you can change their outfits and stuff. The outfits are swappable for the other pets. We don’t have a Capybara pet inside the game, but how cool would it be is if you took care of it for 180 days then you could mint it. That’s not how it works, but maybe in the future. Maybe we’ll add a pet for land owners as well. And earnings will be more oriented around growth.

Q: Monetization to buy $PIXELs on the back end
A: We need an AMA just oriented around staking. On the surface level it looks kinda complicated but it’s really not. Staking is set to release around early April. I can show you some wireframes and explain how it’s going to work but 13 minutes is not a lot for this. Basically, we want to position $PIXEL as a multi-game token. $PIXEL is just viewed as the token for the Pixel game. We’ve been building things to be a lot bigger. You’re going to get an option of games to stake to. Pixels, Pixel Dungeons, Pets App, or other games. You’ll be able to get a share of the fees generated back via staking. If you stake to Pixel Dungeons, then Pixel Dungeons might get more $PIXEL to distribute. Users will have a say in which game will receive their staked token and the games will have to compete with each other.

If we start building tools that other teams want, essentially we can build revenue streams of FIAT, stables or other tokens and that can be used as a buy-back system for $PIXEL too. We can’t go in-depth

This will all be described in the Whitepaper before it’s released.

Q: If we stake it to a certain game, then what will the game earn from it? What’s the value of those staked amount to a certain game?
A: If they don’t return a certain amount of $PIXEL to stakers, we’re going to slash their emissions next month. So if we give them $PIXEL and they waste it, then they don’t get as much $PIXEL the next month. You’re going to have to stake to different games. The better their game monetizes, the more rewards they can give back to their stakers. Expectation is over the next 3 months, we do expect profitable games in the ecosystem and those will be the ones returning the most $PIXEL.

Q: Wen Pixels Ronin Validator?
A: Those fees are going to be used to secure the network. Fees generated from in-game purchases will return to stakers, but we can also secure the network by introducing other revenue streams and other rewards from OTHER revenue streams. We have to compete here in this model. Ronin Validator might go live today. Core Pixels team wont take anything from that at all. It’ll be redirected to players who stake to Core Pixels.

Q: Isn’t there the risk of “Avalanche”? That is reward in one game will be good, all people will stake to this game?
A: Isn’t that how it works? As more people stake, the APR gets less competitive. If a game makes 10M Dollars, so 10% return for that particular game. If everyone sees that and 10M staked, the worth-it-ness goes down and it might make more sense to stake to another game. We want $PIXEL to be the P2E token, Core Pixels if the flagship game, NFT Land is the flagship asset of the flagship game.

Q: So is there an update today?
A: Yes! Quicksilver and Wallet Connect is coming today. We’ll try to get T3/T4 in next week, (in your TB regardless of your level). Merchant Ships late March early April, Staking is late March early April. Spore Sports, we’re trying to clean up still but it’s coming. Harvest Hustle, same - cleaning the leaderboards now. There’s less cheaters than we thought there would be. We looked at average session length, etc and there are a few particular people. And some other stuff we looked at that we cant dive into.

Q: Wouldn’t opening a ronin validator and then do buybacks for Pixels be a really awesome idea? It’s basically a burning mechanism type where that token is locked, making sure Pixels doesn’t crash
A: Instead of buy backs with the validator, we’re going to do staking rewards. Stake $PIXEL and you get more value. We have built a lot of tools that other teams will want to buy. Our bot detection is one piece of the stack that other teams want to use. We can start charging teams for this in their token, FIATs or stables and use that to buy back. We might start to see more games that aren’t just ours join the ecosystem. Core Pixels plan and the entire roadmap is to position $PIXEL as the P2E and multi-game token. We’re introducing staking rewards and more players coming into the ecosystem, and maybe even more games into the ecosystem. Second, we’re trying to make Core Pixels as best as possible so we can be competitive. These both have to happen. It’s the flagship game, and if they don’t believe in our flagship game, they wont believe in the ecosystem. We’re working on small changes and large end-game changes. We’re also working on other revenue streams. It’s all coming together, and this is why we’re excited. The team is not rugging. We followed all locks. We did things the right way. If you build things that are valuable, and in the right way, things will work out in the long run. I’m never gonna sacrifice my morals or values. If you wallet track the Pixels team, then you know we’re clean. Everything is on-chain, visible and clean. Almost no team has their stuff on smart contracts. There’s nothing shady we’ve done. You don’t have to trust us, you can just go verify for yourself.

The market is scary, but if you believe in what we’re doing then that’s what matters.

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