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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.
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)
• 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.
• 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.
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HELLOPIXELHello Pixel Official Hey Pixels! 👋 We understand your impatience — the team is going through tough times too. GameFi and the entire crypto market are in deep crisis, and 🙂Hello Pixel is no exception. Right now the project stands at a crossroads of three paths, one of which we…
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1️⃣ Build a factory — you’ll need resources from your mines. Construction is instant and available in any biome.
2️⃣ Hire a worker — the factory won’t start without one! Workers (25 types!) can be crafted in the forge.
3️⃣ Feed the worker — each production cycle requires xeno-paste. No food = no production.
4️⃣ Upgrade — as the level grows, the factory becomes more powerful but takes more tiles and requires resources from higher-level biomes.
PXL → Biome resources → Native token 💎
🟪 25 types — each with its own stats.
🟪 Crafted in the forge — obtain them to launch production.
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Level affects everything:
Levels 1–25 — Biome 1, 1 tile
Levels 26–50 — Biome 2, 2 tiles
… and so on up to level 150 and Biome 6 🏔
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Hello Pixel Official We are aware of the mining issues on the Songbird network 👷♂️ We will inform you as soon as the issue is resolved! We apologize for the inconvenience! 🙏
Hello Pixel Official Hey, Pixels 🙂 The official AMA will take place on November 12 at 19:00 Moscow time! For the English-speaking audience, a recording with translation will be made available! And now, get ready! There are going to be a lot of updates ahead! 😈
