HACHI Day-Host
HACHI Night-Ninja silhouette
STX.BUZZ Mascot Contest

Bring HACHI to Life

Day-Host by sunlight, Night-Ninja by moonlight — the HACHI only you could draw.

Your art becomes the official face of STX.BUZZ Season 1 — the first HACHI ever. Credited to you, forever.

Submit Your EntryGet the DNA Kit
  1. DRAWNow

    Now through July 23

    Grab the DNA Kit, design your HACHI, post it on X with #BringHachiToLife.

  2. VOTE

    July 24 – 31

    The hive votes. Every bee gets 5 votes — spend them on your favorites.

  3. CROWN

    August 1

    The winning HACHI reigns as the official Season 1 mascot — the artist credited as HACHI's Founding Artist, forever.

HACHI DNA Kit

Reference poses, palette, and the character bible. Download what you need — no attribution required for reference use.

Day-Host

Bright, buzzing, ready to hand you the daily drop.

Night-Ninja

Silent, stealthy, moving through the shadows of the hive.

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🐝 HACHI has a job

Design a character built to emote.

HACHI is not a logo. He lives inside the game: celebrating your streak, sulking when you miss a question, snoozing between daily drops, panicking when your streak is one day from gone. Design a character built to emote, not a mark built to sit still.

Daily Buzz Bounty

Build in public — get paid for it.

Every day through July 23, the best #BringHachiToLife WIP post on X wins the Daily Buzz Bounty: 10 STX (20 STX on final day, July 23), announced from @stxbuzz. Post your process, tag @STXAI_IO, and you're in.

Some bounty days are themed (a specific HACHI mood or moment), announced morning-of from @stxbuzz.

Share your WIPFollow @stxbuzz for daily contest updates

Want an edge? ⚡

Show HACHI in an extra mood or two beyond the Day-Host ☀️ / Night-Ninja 🥷 pair — celebrating, confused, sleepy, streak-panicking. Range impresses both the panel and the crowd. Optional, but the character that wins will be the one that can carry a whole game.

Prizes & judging

What you actually win 🏆

    How we judge

    • ◇Character range and expressiveness
    • ◇Legibility at small sizes
    • ◇Fidelity to the DNA Kit

    How the 50/50 works: your final score is Community (50 points) + Panel (50 points). Community score = (your votes ÷ the highest vote count of any entry) × 50, so the community favorite earns the full 50. Panel score = the STX.BUZZ team's average across the judging criteria, out of 50. Highest combined total wins. Tiebreaker: artists who shared their process publicly with #BringHachiToLife.

    The hive awaits its first HACHI.

    The hive's vote counts for 50% of the final score.

    Voting opens July 24

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    Rules & contest terms

    • ·Open worldwide, where lawful.
    • ·Entries close July 23, 2026, 11:59 PM ET.
    • ·Tagging @stxbuzz is appreciated but not required.
    • ·Voting is unrewarded by design — every bee gets 5 votes to spend on their favorites, and no BUZZ or prizes are earned for voting.
    • ·Final score = 50% community vote (July 24–31) + 50% STX.BUZZ team judging. Community score = (an entry's votes ÷ the top entry's votes) × 50. Panel score is the STX.BUZZ team's average across the judging criteria, out of 50.
    • ·Tiebreaker: artists who shared their process publicly with #BringHachiToLife.
    • ·Winner announced August 1, 2026.
    • ·Prizes: official Season 1 mascot status, permanent Founding Artist title and in-game credit, plus 150 STX (1st), 100 STX (2nd), 50 STX (3rd).
    • ·Main contest prizes paid to a Stacks wallet the winner provides, within 7 days of the August 1 announcement. Daily Buzz Bounty payments follow the 48-hour timeline above.
    • ·Daily Buzz Bounty: one 10 STX prize per day, July 5–22, and a 20 STX Final Day Bounty on July 23, for the best work-in-progress post on X using #BringHachiToLife and tagging @STXAI_IO. Winners chosen daily by the STX.BUZZ team and announced by quote-post from @stxbuzz. Winners DM a Stacks address to @stxbuzz; paid within 48 hours. Maximum 2 daily bounty wins per artist for the contest. Daily bounties do not affect final judging. Low-effort or spam posts are ineligible; team decisions are final.
    • ·The winner assigns full rights to the winning design to STX.BUZZ, including derivatives, adaptations, additional poses and expressions, animation, merchandise, and digital and on-chain uses — only if they win. Non-winning entries remain the property of the artist. By entering, you grant STX.BUZZ a limited right to display your entry for contest promotion and voting.
    • ·AI-assisted and AI-generated original work explicitly welcome. By entering, you warrant that you have the right to assign all rights in your entry.
    • ·STX.BUZZ may disqualify entries that violate these rules.