A pixel is a cent
of the company.
That is the whole idea. Not points, not a voucher, not a promise. One pixel is one cent of tokenised stock in the company whose app you were using, and it goes to a wallet only you control.
The arithmetic
- 1 pixel
- 1 cent of that company
- 100 pixels
- one whole dollar of it
- 1,000 pixels
- ten dollars of it
- 33,869 pixels
- one entire share of Alphabet, at $338.69
One cell, one cent. Fill the grid and a whole dollar of the company is yours.
Because a pixel is a fixed amount of value, an hour is worth the same whether it goes to Snapchat or Alphabet. The share price only decides how many pixels make up a whole share.
What each platform pays
Watching earns per hour. Posting earns per piece. The daily cap is the most any one platform can pay you in a day, so a phone left playing all night earns no more than a normal evening.
| Platform | Pays | Watching | Posting | Daily cap | A day at the cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | GOOGL | 3 px / hr | 50 per upload, 5 per 1,000 views | 24 px | $0.24 |
| Roblox | RBLX | 5 px / hr | 100 per experience update | 40 px | $0.40 |
| RDDT | 3 px / hr | 10 per post, 2 per comment | 24 px | $0.24 | |
| Snapchat | SNAP | 2 px / hr | 20 per Spotlight | 16 px | $0.16 |
| META | 3 px / hr | 30 per post | 24 px | $0.24 | |
| Netflix | NFLX | 2 px / hr | watch only | 16 px | $0.16 |
| Xbox | MSFT | 4 px / hr | 40 per server or mod | 32 px | $0.32 |
| Twitch | AMZN | 3 px / hr | 20 per hour streamed | 24 px | $0.24 |
| GTA | TTWO | 4 px / hr | 40 per creation | 32 px | $0.32 |
| Everything else | QQQ | 1 px / hr | watch only | 8 px | $0.08 |
A worked example
Say you watch 3 hours of YouTube a day, every day.
- 3 hr x 3 px
- 9 pixels a day
- 9 pixels
- $0.09 a day
- over a month
- $2.74
- over a year
- $32.85
- which is
- 0.097 of a GOOGL share
Add the other apps you use and it stacks. Share prices as of 9 September 2026, and they go down as well as up.
How it is counted
Allow usage access once and your phone reports how long each app was open. Creator earnings come from read-only logins to the platforms themselves. Nothing is self-reported, and there are no receipts to photograph.
How it is paid
Once a day the totals are added up, the matching stock tokens are bought, and they are transferred to your wallet. You never sign anything to earn. The only time you sign is when you decide to move or sell.
If you post
Publishing earns pixels on the piece itself, and views that arrive through your Pixels link earn more. Anyone who joins through your link earns you ten percent of every pixel they earn, for as long as they keep earning.
Where the money comes from
Pixels charges a fee on token trading and protocol usage. Eighty of every hundred it collects funds the pixels people earn, so rewards are paid out of revenue rather than from a pot that empties. The other twenty buys $PIXELS on the open market and burns it.
What you actually hold
Stock tokens issued by Robinhood Assets (Jersey) Limited on Robinhood Chain. They track the price of the share and can be moved or sold at any hour. They are not shares and carry no voting or shareholder rights.