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I opened Pixels and felt... this is different. Calm pacing. Space to explore. Every action carried weight in its own way. That feeling stayed with me.
Then i noticed something shifting. Players started moving with more intention. Not faster clicks... smarter routing. Like they discovered invisible bridges between gardens and guilds and markets. Everyone still played... but certain paths started glowing.
i think most people expect tokens to work like tickets. Earn one here... spend it there... repeat. That model is clear. It is familiar. And it works... for a while.
Pixels appears to be building something more connected. Maybe by choice. Maybe through growth. Either way... the change is worth watching.

The early model was simple and strong
Most game economies reward action directly. Plant crops... receive coins. Complete quests... unlock items. The system counts every click equally. That approach creates momentum. It brings players together quickly.
When every action receives the same value... players focus on volume. They find the smoothest loop and repeat it. The chart rises. Communities grow. The system feels alive.
Pixels started showing alignment
i saw it slowly... loop by loop. Certain activities began linking to other systems. A harvest in PIXEL Fields could unlock access in Quest Realms. A trade in PIXEL City could strengthen your position in the next season. The connections were subtle at first... then they compounded.
It is less about doing more. It is about doing what routes through the whole network.
i keep trying to describe that moment... when a token stops being a reward and starts being a map. $PIXEL sits right at that crossing point. It signals which behaviors the system continues to support across time.
That idea sounds big... until you compare it to platforms we already know.
Think streaming platforms... not scoreboards
On YouTube or Spotify... not every upload reaches the same audience. The platform amplifies what resonates. Creators adapt their style... not because someone told them to... but because they see which paths keep opening.
Pixels feels similar. Just built with tokens instead of views.
Rewards flow toward loops that connect. Access expands when your actions serve more than one system. Some paths lead to new doors. Others stay as single rooms. Technically you can choose any route... and every route still pays. The difference is... some routes keep paying forward.

That is where starts acting like infrastructure.
It moves attention inside the game. It highlights which behaviors the economy continues to reuse. That distinction builds trust... because players see their effort carry across seasons.
Demand grows from connection
i used to think token value came from player count... transaction volume... new features. Those metrics still matter. They show growth.
What builds lasting systems... is belief. When players believe their actions will continue to open paths... they invest deeper. They specialize. They teach friends. They build inside the loop instead of around it.
The beautiful part... is how quietly this works.
When systems align... players build
If Pixels keeps connecting behaviors... players will keep discovering value. They will find the routes that serve multiple communities and strengthen them. That is how on-chain worlds expand... through shared incentives that reward participation across time.
There is also a clarity emerging. When rewards link systems together... the game feels more predictable in the best way. You understand which paths compound. You see how effort in one season supports the next. You feel progress... because the system remembers your route.
Then behavior becomes strategy. Not just for yield... for worldbuilding.
So what is PIXEL becoming
Maybe this is the real evolution.
PIXEL is moving beyond single-loop rewards. It is becoming the thread that ties gameplay together. Some loops grow because they serve others. Some paths expand because they route value forward. Over months... that difference shapes an economy that looks more like a living network.
i see that shift happening in real time. And once you see it... you start playing differently.
And it raises one exciting question.

If the system continues to connect every action into a larger path... when does playing feel less like grinding and more like contributing to a world that keeps growing?
That idea excites me. It shows how on-chain games mature. It shows how tokens move from rewards to relationships.
Because the next advantage is clear... watch which loop PIXEL touches twice. Watch which behavior the system routes forward without adding new incentives.
Follow the reuse. Follow the compounding. Follow the paths that keep opening.
Everything else becomes background.
Which player loop do you think will connect next... and how will you position for it
#Pixel #pixel $PIXEL @pixels

Two years in Web3 taught me the mercenary loop. I would join a game, dump every reward token, extract value, and leave before the chart died. The cycle felt empty.
Pixels changed that pattern for me.
My first impression was skepticism. Another pixel farming sim with a token looked familiar. The plan was to cash out in a week. Staking my first $PIXEL completely changed my perspective.
Tokens now have purpose in my wallet. Locking PIXEL gives me vPIXEL, and my vote suddenly counts. Last week I helped allocate resources to new biomes. My decisions directly shape where the game expands next.
GameFi projects typically fail because rewards flow straight to dumpers. The data shows the difference clearly. "Holder Retention Strength" through Apr 2026 shows Standard GameFi flat at 15 on the Ecosystem Stability Score. PIXEL + vPIXEL climbs to 58 because stakers are building rather than extracting. The unstaking timer adds stability to the system.
Developers used to control everything. Today I participate in the coordination layer. My PIXEL represents my voice for future development. The "Ecosystem Growth Engine" explains the model: 45% returns to Game Utility Power through vPIXEL, while 30% becomes Healthy Market Flow. My capital funds the content I want to play.

Tier 5 eliminated infinite inflation. Items now degrade and break. Recycling materials, trading with neighbors, and planning land became necessary. Three guild Discords became part of my routine because collaboration creates value. Real scarcity built real social connections. Solo farming ended. Coordinated planning began.
The "Evolution to Coordination Power" chart marks the shift. Phase 1: Jan 2024 showed 5% coordination. Phase 3: Apr 2026 shows 60% Ecosystem Coordination Layer. Staker decisions drive the game now. Community Building naturally decreased from 80% to 15% after the foundation was set. Staking Rewards Growth and Coordination now lead.
"Staking Value Advantage" locked me in long-term. Previous games paid 90% from Short-term Emissions. Pixels pays 70% from Real Ecosystem Value - land sales, crafting fees, marketplace trades. My rewards exist because the game economy functions. The loop is closed.
Voting with vPIXEL determines funding for fishing areas or mining upgrades. My guild pooled votes last month to unlock rare seeds. We cultivated them, sold the output, and fees returned to stakers. The model reinforces participation. Selling makes less sense when staking compounds value.
Complexity increased with the update. Expiration timers on resources initially felt overwhelming. Planning spreadsheets sometimes takes more time than playing. Balancing depth with accessibility remains important for new player retention.
Governance security needs monitoring. Large holders could accumulate PIXEL and direct resources to personal lands. The unstaking timer and vPIXEL decay create friction against attacks. The first major DAO dispute will test these systems.
Coordination introduces slower development cycles. Biome votes take weeks. Centralized games shipped updates overnight during Axie’s peak. My expectations adjusted to match the governance process.

The alignment here stands out. While 99% of Web3 tokens function as speculative chips, Pixels transformed PIXEL into a coordination tool. Other projects announce DAOs. This one operates through staker input daily.
Extraction was my old role in the ecosystem. Farming, dumping, and leaving contributed to game failures. The community blamed developers afterward. The mercenary behavior was the actual problem. Mercenaries drain games.
Pixels created an ownership path. Staking represents a bet on surrounding players. Neighboring land success increases my staked rewards. Economic growth benefits all participants. The incentive alignment feels new for GameFi.
This model shows long term viability. Tokens without human coordination function as memecoins with extra mechanics. Web3 requires founders more than farmers.
The transformation is clear. Extraction defined my past. Coordination defines my present. Mercenary habits ended. Stakeholder responsibility started.

My wallet holds more than PIXEL today. Voting power, land rights, and social capital are attached to it. The stake continues through Apr 2026 and beyond.
Will $PIXEL become the tool to coordinate and build together?
@Pixels #pixel $PIXEL
DYOR before trade.

I am sitting here after hours in the docs. Not because the staking update was confusing. Because one phrase kept showing up and it finally clicked.
You do not 'get' rewards anymore. You 'unlock' them.
I am realizing that change is everything. It is not marketing. It is architecture.
I am the one who used to log 40 hours a week. I am the one who watched a friend do 20 hours and walk away with more $PIXEL . I am the one who thought the system was unfair.
I am wrong. I was just on the wrong road at the wrong time.

$PIXEL stepped out of the spotlight on purpose :
I am no longer farming PIXEL directly. I am using PIXEL to unlock faster tools, better spots, and deeper gameplay. It feels like a demotion for the token. But I am seeing it is an upgrade for the game.
The old way was brainless. I am talking grind, dump, repeat. I am talking rewards hitting the market in minutes. I am talking sell pressure that could kill any chart. That loop was not evil. But I am watching it snap under its own weight every time.
Pixels is not killing emissions. I am watching it reroute them.
I am starting to see my 40 hours differently. I was driving for base fare. My friend was driving surge. Same city. Same time. My hours were priced cheap because I am not positioned.

Staking is the toll booth between me and the market :
I am locking PIXEL now because I want boosts. I want access. I want my next hour to count for more than the last one. Rewards are not the finish line anymore. I am using them as fuel for the next lap.
The docs do not call everything a 'boost'. But I am noticing stakers get cleaner routes. I am noticing they optimize loops faster. I am noticing small edges stack. Then I am watching those edges snowball.
I am calling it the surge effect. When I am staked and aligned, my gameplay hour is not a 1x hour. I am making it a 2x or 5x hour. The game is the same. My position is not.
I am facing the emission question head on :
Pixels is not promising zero sell pressure. I am seeing them delay it. I am seeing them spread it. Without new demand, that pressure comes back. The trick is it does not hit all at once.
PIXEL is not the reason I start playing anymore. I am staying because the gameplay hooks me. I am using PIXEL to stay deeper, longer, sharper. That flips every old GameFi model I am used to. The token was the bait. Now I am seeing gameplay is the bait and PIXEL is the rod.
I am done treating PIXEL like cash. I am treating it like a key. And keys are weird. I am realizing access is harder to price than money.
That is why my 40 hours felt bad. I am chasing cash. My friend is chasing the keys to better cash.

The reward dial moves. It is not locked at 100%
I am reading the staking notes carefully. Yield shifts with pool size and participation. I am watching marginal returns drop as more PIXEL gets locked. This is not a theory. I am seeing it built into the system.
Early on, the pools were light. I am hearing those players got better efficiency and faster loops. Double advantage, right out of the gate. I am not there. I am mid stage now.
I am in the compression phase. Yields are thinner. But I am feeling the cost of doing nothing go up. I am watching two groups form. One is tuning their stake. The other is falling behind.
Later, I am betting PIXEL will not win people with high yields. I am betting it wins with access. I am staking now so I do not lose my edge later. If I am not staked, I am watching the gap get wider every week. Rewards will not pull new people in. I am thinking they will just keep the positioned players around.
I am choosing my side.
" PIXEL is not the hero. The game is "
I am watching the token serve the system, not the other way around. If the game is fun, I am expecting the token to find balance. If the game is weak, I am expecting this to just drag out the cycle. I am done viewing Pixels like 2021 GameFi.
I am looking at community dashboards. Locked PIXEL jumped hard after staking expanded. It took a big chunk of supply. But I am noticing price did not moon instantly. That tells me supply is sitting inside the game longer. I am not seeing it flood the market like before.
That is the friction. That is the delay. That is surge pricing for attention.
Old play to earn dumped rewards straight to market. I am seeing Pixels loop rewards back into gameplay first. Subscription games sell flat access. I am seeing Pixels sell dynamic access. Membership that reacts to how I play and when I play.
I am done with empty hour farming. I am done being bitter about short sessions that out-earn me. I am staking. I am aligning. I am hunting surge windows.
I am learning this the slow way. It is not how long I am online. It is how my time is priced.

So I am asking myself tonight:
Am I here to collect PIXEL, or am I here to unlock what $PIXEL lets me become in the game?
Am I still counting hours like they are all equal, or am I starting to price my hours based on position and timing?
If every hour is a drive, I am asking... what street am I on, and is there surge?
@Pixels #pixel $PIXEL

$PIXEL I never thought I’d care about the word “stable” in crypto. Not me. I am the guy who used to chase 4x pumps on tokens I couldn’t even pronounce. I am the one who saw “tokenomics” in a whitepaper and scrolled past it to find the chart.
But something changed. And I am not sure exactly when it happened.
Lately I catch myself doing something weird before I buy anything. I check supply. I do mean I actually open the token page, look at circulating vs total, and run quick math in my head. For PIXEL, that habit started a few weeks back… and it hasn’t stopped.
The Supply Check That Shifted My Head
I do check PIXEL supply now before I even look at price. I saw 68% is already circulating. I am telling you, that number messes with your brain if you’ve been through a few unlock cycles.
When a token only has 20% floating, every advisor vest feels like a gun to the chart’s head. You wait for the date, watch the wallets, pray. With PIXEL… that fear is different. Most of it is already out. I do math 5B total around 3.3 live and it hits different. I #dock my thoughts there for a sec and let it sit. The boogeyman of “unlock day” doesn’t live here the same way.
I am not saying unlocks don’t matter anymore. I am saying the market’s reaction to them tells a story. When a big unlock happens and price just shrugs… I pay attention. It happened with PIXEL. No panic. No cascading stops. Just… volume. Normal volume. That’s data. And data beats narratives.
But supply alone is boring. Supply doesn’t make a project. What people do with the token does.

From “Game Coin” To “Game Currency”
I used to call PIXEL a game coin. It felt right. It lived inside Pixels, you earned it by farming, you spent it on… more farming. Circular. Cute. But limited.
That label doesn’t fit what I am seeing now.
I am watching PIXEL get spent. I do mean spent, not farmed and dumped. Not staked and forgotten. Spent. Daily.
People are using it for land upgrades. I see plots getting expanded, new layers added, players dropping PIXEL to actually improve something they own. That’s not speculation. That’s a transaction for utility.
Then there’s VIP. I am watching players pay PIXEL for access, for perks, for status. When someone parts with a token to skip a line or get a badge… that’s real demand. You don’t buy VIP with something you think is worthless.
Crafting is another one. I am seeing PIXEL flow into recipes, into tools, into consumables that get used up. It’s not just “number go up” anymore. It’s “number get used to make my gameplay better.” There’s a loop there. You earn, you spend, you need more.
And the social stuff… I am not even a huge social gamer, but I get it. People are tipping PIXEL, buying cosmetics, joining events. They’re using it as money inside a world they log into every day. That’s what currency does. It moves.

The Mental Shift I Didn’t Expect
I am not calling PIXEL perfect. I do think parts of the game are clunky. I am not pretending the onboarding is smooth or that every mechanic makes sense. It’s crypto gaming… it’s still early.
But I am also not looking at an experiment anymore.
An experiment is when you test if players will tolerate a token. PIXEL passed that test a while ago. Now I am looking at usage patterns. I am looking at retention. I am looking at whether the token is flowing through hands or just sitting in wallets waiting for exchange volume.
And the flow is there. I am watching tokens move in and out daily. Not from traders… from players. That’s the shift.
When I talk to people who’ve written off GameFi, they always say the same thing: “It’s all inflation. No one actually wants the token.” I am not sure that applies here anymore. Inflation exists, sure. Every game has it. But when there’s consistent spending pressure from real actions… that’s a different equation.

Why This Matters More Than Price
I am not here to predict the chart. I do think price follows usage, but it follows it on its own messy timeline. Sometimes it lags. Sometimes it front-runs. Sometimes it ignores it completely for months.
What I am tracking is behavior. Because behavior is sticky.
If 10,000 people wake up and decide their land upgrade is worth 50 PIXEL today, that’s 500,000 PIXEL with a job. If VIP renewal happens monthly, that’s recurring demand. If crafting consumes tokens every time someone wants to progress, that’s a cycle of usage.

You can’t fake that with airdrop farmers. They leave. Players who are building, competing, showing off… they stay. And they spend.
That’s why I am questioning the old label. “Game coin” implies it’s trapped in the game. A novelty. A loyalty point. But PIXEL is starting to look like the default unit of account for a digital economy. Small economy, sure. Weird economy, definitely. But real.
*So… Hype or Hands?*
I don’t know if PIXEL is “growing up” in the way a blue-chip token does. It doesn’t have institutional custody. It’s not in your retirement account. It’s still tied to one game, one team, one vision.
But quiet? No. It’s not quiet.
Quiet is when nothing happens. When wallets are dead and Discord is empty. I am seeing the opposite. I am seeing daily transactions. I am seeing people complain about prices, which weirdly means they care. I am seeing updates that actually tie into the token.
Maybe “growing up” is the wrong phrase. Maybe it’s just… becoming normal.
Normal is when you stop explaining the token and start using it. Normal is when new players don’t ask “what’s the tokenomics” and instead ask “how much does VIP cost.” Normal is when the unlock calendar isn’t your whole trading thesis.
I am not all-in. I am not telling you to be either. I do think there are still risks. Game metas change. Teams pivot. Players leave. Crypto is chaos.
But I am also not ignoring what’s in front of me. I am watching a token graduate from “speculative reward” to “thing people spend.” And that transition… that’s rare.
So I’ll ask you the same thing I’ve been asking myself: Are you watching $PIXEL as a chart, or are you watching what people do with it?

Because I am looking at the second one now. And it’s way more interesting.
@Pixels #pixel $PIXEL

$PIXEL Stops Rewarding Time and Starts Rewarding Choice
I used to think PIXEL would matter most if Pixels expanded to multiple games. One token across different worlds. That felt like the obvious path to utility. Bigger map, more users, more reasons to hold.
Now I’m not so sure.
Because what I’m seeing isn’t about how many games PIXEL sits in. It’s about how the system treats different actions inside one game.

Infrastructure isn’t just distribution. It’s curation.
Unlike single game tokens, an infrastructure token like PIXEL aims to sit between multiple games, acting as a common token for distribution, incentives, and routing player attention. That’s the slide deck version.
The real shift is smaller and weirder.
PIXEL is bridging multiple loops beyond one grind. Farming & Gathering. Crafting & Industry. Quests & Social Tasks. It shows up in all of them, but it doesn’t treat them equally. And that’s the point.
Earn Tokens. Spend Tokens. Stake Tokens. Those verbs look the same on paper. In practice, one of them is being quietly promoted and the others are being left to stall.

The recurring incentives look familiar, but the outcome isn’t.
Integrating Services. Routing Payments. Rewarding Platform Participation. Every whitepaper lists them. The challenge isn’t writing the list. The challenge is retaining real usage over time.
When every action earns the same, people chase volume. The system doesn’t know the difference between care and automation. So it gets both. Artificial Activity. Spoofed Engagement. Short Term Farming.
That’s when supply circulates without sticking.
You can watch it happen. Payouts rise, then flatten. New sinks get added, then ignored. The token moves, but the world doesn’t change. Everyone is busy, nothing is building.
Infrastructure only holds if behavior repeats. If tokens move because they’re used, not because they’re dumped. If the loop is chosen, not forced.
PIXEL gets reused without needing new incentives.
That’s the sentence I keep testing. Because most game economies need a new carrot every season. New quest, new NFT, new APR. Stop feeding it and the loop dies.
What happens when the loop feeds itself?
It means the game isn’t paying you for your time. It’s paying you for your choice. For picking the action that keeps the room open. For doing the thing that invites the next thing.
You can still grind. The system won’t stop you. It just won’t remember you. The doors stop opening. The crafting trees stop branching. The land stops unlocking. You’re still playing, but the game has moved on.
Meanwhile, someone else picked different actions. Actions the economy wanted more of. Their rewards didn’t 10x. Their access did. New services to plug into. New payments to route. New reasons to stake.
$PIXEL was there for both players. Only one of them got reused.
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This is why “multiple games” might be the wrong scoreboard.
Distribution matters. But if you distribute a token across five games that all reward volume over choice, you just have five inflation problems. The loops don’t compound. They clone.
Infrastructure holds when the token makes loops stick inside one world first. When it turns one game into a selection process that players trust. When “what you did last week” changes what’s possible this week.
If PIXEL can do that, expansion is easy. If it can’t, expansion is just exit liquidity.
The risk is fog.
When rewards get picky, the rules feel like superstition. Bots get blocked, but so do humans who guessed wrong. Your daily routine becomes a bet on what the system will value tomorrow. That burns people out faster than low payouts.
And no system chooses perfectly. If PIXEL amplifies the wrong loops, players won’t file a ticket. They’ll find the cheapest way to mimic “valuable” behavior and run it until the economy kinks. Every dead P2E project died that way. Not from bad code. From players solving it too well.

So here’s the test I’m watching:
Do players think the thing they’re doing today will still be valuable in three weeks?
If yes, they double down. They build, they reinvest, they teach others. PIXEL circulates because it’s needed.
If no, they cash out. They look for the exit before the door shrinks. PIXEL circulates because it’s leaving.
One of those is infrastructure. The other is just another loop waiting to stall.
The difference isn’t how many games you’re in. It’s whether the token can make a choice today feel like progress tomorrow, without bribing you to show up.
Which is why I’m less excited about “PIXEL in 10 games” and more interested in “$PIXEL reused in 1 game without needing new incentives.”
If it can do that, the multiple games part solves itself.
If it can’t, the multiple games won’t matter.
#pixel $PIXEL @pixels

I used to think winning on Stacked was about volume. More transactions, more hours logged, more daily streaks. I treated it like a factory job where output equals pay.
That mindset broke this year.
Looking at how Stacked rewards are actually distributed now, the data is obvious if you stop chasing surface metrics. Accounts that run like perfect scripts get less. Accounts with messy, irregular timing get $PIXEL . MEV routes that way because it is safer.
Bots can automate volume in seconds. Spin up ten thousand wallets, run loops, generate millions of low quality transactions. It costs them nothing. What bots cannot automate is a real life. They cannot fake weekend gaps because something came up. They cannot fake random night sessions because you could not sleep. They cannot fake bursts of activity around real world events because they do not watch the news.
That entropy is expensive to fake at scale. A human timing pattern across two years carries thousands of micro decisions. When you were busy, when you were bored, when you checked prices at 3AM, when you skipped a week for a vacation. Each decision leaves a timestamp. Multiply that across a full account history and you get a fingerprint that is nearly impossible to script without getting caught.
Stacked weighs TIMING because two years of human noise is harder to spoof than two million transactions. The chain does not care about your feelings. It cares about sybil resistance. MEV is not being nice to humans. It is just playing odds. Messy history is the hardest signal to copy, so MEV routes to it.

The flowchart makes it simple. Volume feeds into patterns bots can fake. Those patterns lead to low yield because the network discounts them. Timing feeds into human noise. That noise is what MEV wants because it signals real demand, not wash activity. Real demand gets PIXEL yield.
I learned this the hard way. For months I tried to optimize like a bot. I set alarms to maintain streaks. I ran small transactions every day to look active. My rewards did not move. Then I stopped. I only used Stacked when I actually had a reason. Some weeks that meant daily. Some weeks that meant zero. My account looked worse on paper if you count actions. It looked more human if you count timestamps.

My PIXEL rewards went up.
This is not a moral argument about humans versus bots. It is a technical one. Sybil detection at scale has shifted from counting actions to evaluating behavior. Volume is a scalar value. One number. Easy to inflate. Timing is a vector across time. Thousands of data points with correlations to outside events, sleep cycles, work hours, market volatility. To fake it convincingly, you would need to simulate a life. The cost of that simulation is higher than the reward Stacked pays out.
So the system aligned around the cheaper defense. It trusts irregularity.
That changes how you should use Stacked if you care about $PIXEL . The goal is not to look busy. The goal is to be unavailable in a believable way. Do not schedule your interactions. Do not batch them for efficiency. Let them be inefficient. Let them be tied to your actual attention. MEV interprets that inefficiency as proof of personhood.
Volume is a commodity now. Every chain has it. Every farm can produce it. Exchanges report billions in daily volume and half of it is wash trading. The market knows this. That is why raw transaction count no longer buys you much. Timing is the new yield because it is still scarce. You cannot buy two years of plausible timestamps. You have to live them.
Stacked did not invent this shift. It just adopted it faster than most. When rewards first launched, volume mattered because it was the only signal available. As sybil attacks got sophisticated, the signal degraded. Now timing is the primary filter. Tomorrow it might be something else. Today, if you are building for $PIXEL , you build around time.
I still use Stacked daily when I am actually active. Some days I open it ten times. Some days I forget it exists. I do not fight the gaps anymore. The gaps are the signal. They tell the system I have a life outside the app, and that life is what makes my activity valuable to the network.

MEV wants counterparties that are not other bots. When a routing algorithm sees a history full of human jitter, it prefers that path because the risk of being the exit liquidity for a farm is lower. Lower risk means better execution, which means more fees, which means more PIXEL flows to that account. It is not charity. It is risk pricing.
So stop trying to look like a bot. Use Stacked when you actually use it. Miss days. Be random. Be inconsistent. Your inconsistency is the product.
The market used to pay for attention. Now it pays for proof that your attention is real. Volume proved you were here. Timing proves you are not a script. In a world where anyone can spin up a thousand scripts, proof of personhood is the only scarce resource left.
That is why my strategy changed. That is why my rewards changed. And that is why, for the foreseeable future, timing will beat volume every time on Stacked.

Because bots can fake transactions. They cannot fake a life.
And $PIXEL flows to the lives, not the loops.
@Pixels #pixel $PIXEL