#pixel $PIXEL

$PIXEL keeps pulling me back to the decentralization timeline.

Phase 1 Pixels team decides which games get emissions. Phase 2 staking weight decides. Phase 3 any game above RORS threshold competes openly. Phase 4 multi-currency integration.

The roadmap exists. The dates are there. Q3 2025. Q4 2025.

What I keep thinking about is the gap between publishing a decentralization roadmap and actually executing one. Phase 1 is live. That means every emission decision right now sits with the Pixels team. They choose which games get resources. They set the reward pools. They control the flow.

That is not criticism. Early centralization makes sense. Faster decisions. Better ecosystem protection. The whitepaper says this directly decentralize slowly, protect the critical early days.

But there is a version of this where Phase 2 keeps getting delayed because dynamic pools are harder to manage than curated ones. Where Phase 3 never arrives because the RORS threshold is quietly raised each time a game gets close. Where the roadmap stays published and the control stays centralized.

I am not saying that is what happens. I am saying the roadmap alone does not prevent it.

Decentralization promises are easy to make when you are in Phase 1. They get harder to keep when Phase 2 means giving up control over where $28 million in monthly emissions goes.

I am still watching whether the phases actually arrive on schedule — or whether the dates quietly shift.

Do you think the staking community will have real influence over emissions by end of 2025?