Pi Network

Open Network has officially launched, marking a groundbreaking moment for all Pioneers! With external connectivity now enabled, Pioneers can engage in transactions beyond the Pi ecosystem, connect with KYB-verified businesses, and access new integrations like centralized exchanges. Want to explore all the new possibilities? Go to the Pi mining app home screen to watch a video from Pi Network founder, Chengdiao Fan, and read the official announcement. Discover how Open Network unlocks a new era for Pi and how you can be part of it!

Here is last month's Network Update! Over 100,000 Pioneers have been KYC'd and over 30,000 migrated to Mainnet.

Reminder: All Mainnet nodes are required to complete the Protocol 23 upgrade by May 15, 2026 to remain connected to the network. This upgrade takes longer to complete, so please plan ahead. Details: minepi.com/pi-node

Pi Founder Nicolas Kokkalis spoke today at Consensus 2026 Miami on the panel, “How to Prove You’re Human in an AI World (Without Doxing Yourself).” The discussion focused on one of the most urgent challenges in the AI era: how to maintain trust and verify real human identity as AI systems become capable of generating convincing bots, profiles, and interactions at scale. Stay tuned for the full video!

Pi Founder Chengdiao Fan spoke today at Consensus 2026 Miami in her session, “Aligning Web3, AI, and Blockchain for Utility.” Dr. Fan shared how Pi’s blockchain infrastructure, identity verification, and a globally engaged network can support utility-driven products and businesses in the AI era. Her talk built on a central challenge in the broader crypto industry: the frequent misalignment between token design and real innovation. While tokens in the industry have often been used primarily as capital-raising tools or quick exits, Dr. Fan discussed Pi’s approach to treat tokens as tools that can support growth, engagement, and long-term utility. Pi’s approach to ecosystem tokens and launch mechanisms focuses on tokens for user acquisition and integrating token design into the product innovation process. By using tokens to help products acquire real users who can engage, provide feedback, and use those tokens within actual product experiences, this approach connects token design more directly to utility and product development. More broadly, Dr. Fan’s talk invited discussion on how blockchain can help shape AI-era business models, financial literacy, ownership, and socioeconomic participation. As AI lowers the barrier to building, the focus shifts toward something harder to replicate: real users, real participation, and trusted human input at scale. Stay tuned for the full session video!

The Pi Founders are featured speakers at Consensus 2026 in Miami this week. Chengdiao Fan will speak on Wednesday, May 6 (11:15–11:35 AM EDT, Convergence Stage) on “Aligning Web3, AI, and Blockchain for Utility,” exploring how Pi’s blockchain infrastructure, verified identity, and globally engaged network can support utility‑driven products and AI‑era business models. Nicolas Kokkalis will join a panel on Thursday, May 7 (10:15–10:45 AM EDT, Convergence Stage) titled “How to Prove You’re Human in an AI World (Without Doxing Yourself),” exploring how the internet’s trust model is breaking as AI systems become capable of creating bots that can generate profiles and interact like real users. Together, these sessions highlight Pi’s approach to the AI era: supporting utility-driven products and sustainable business models through blockchain, verified identity, and a globally engaged network, while enabling global identity verification and providing authenticity solutions through Pi’s native KYC solution. See you there, Pioneers!

The Pi Mainnet is upgrading to Protocol 23 – Deadline: May 15. All Mainnet nodes are required to complete this step before the deadline to remain connected to the network. This upgrade takes longer to complete, so plan accordingly. Details here: minepi.com/pi-node

Network Update: The Pi Mainnet has successfully upgraded to Protocol 22! Node operators, please ensure your systems are up to date and stay tuned for instructions regarding the upcoming v23 upgrade.

Most AI systems still need good human input. Automated training can scale. But it struggles with: Ambiguity Nuance Real-world judgment That’s why human-in-the-loop systems still matter. Not as a fallback. But as a core layer. The challenge isn’t whether human input is needed. It’s how to get it: At scale With quality From real people That’s the bottleneck, and Pi Network has already built the solution: the large-scale, globally distributed workforce of identity-verified human participants already active inside the Pi ecosystem. minepi.com/blog/pi-for-ai/

AI companies can access Pi’s human input infrastructure through the network’s over 18 million identity-verified Pioneers to improve models, tune inference quality, and scale data labeling and evaluation. Read the announcement to learn more about how Pi can provide such services for AI companies, and share it with AI companies that may be interested! minepi.com/blog/pi-for-ai/

526 million human KYC validation tasks have already been completed on Pi. By over 1 million verified people. AI is advancing quickly. But the hardest part of building reliable systems is still deeply human. Models don’t improve from compute alone. They improve from: Judgment Correction Context Nuance Pi represents something different. A globally distributed, identity-verified human workforce that has already demonstrated coordination at scale, already active in the Pi ecosystem. This is real infrastructure, it’s already been used to process hundreds of millions of real tasks. For AI systems, that changes what’s possible. Go to the Pi mining app home screen to learn more.

The Pi Founders will both take the stage as speakers at the Consensus 2026 conference! Dr. Chengdiao Fan will deliver a presentation exploring how Pi’s blockchain infrastructure, verified identity, and globally engaged network can support utility-driven products and AI-era business models. Dr. Nicolas Kokkalis will join a panel discussion on human identity and authenticity in an AI World. Don’t miss the Founders at Consensus Miami to learn more! minepi.com/blog/pi-consen…

To open the Testnet subscription smart contract to technical review and community feedback, Pi has released the second Pi Request for Comment (PiRC2). Developers are encouraged to try integrating subscriptions in their own apps, review the subscription contract design, and test for bugs or edge cases, if any. github.com/PiNetwork/PiRC…

Pi is tackling one of the most urgent problems in the AI era: proving real human identity online. Pi Founder Nicolas Kokkalis will speak on a panel at Consensus 2026 on Thursday, May 7, from 10:15-10:45 AM EDT at the Convergence Stage. The session, “How to Prove You're Human in an AI World (Without Doxing Yourself),” explores how the internet’s trust model is breaking as AI systems become capable of creating bots that can generate profiles and interact like real users. At the core of the discussion is a simple challenge: how do you verify a real human online without exposing private identity data? Want to know how? Join us in Miami on May 7th! See you there!

Pi’s first smart contract capability is now live on Testnet: subscriptions! This fosters real, recurring, utility-driven use cases. Think e-commerce, streaming, online tools, and more, powered on-chain. Read more in the Pi mining app.

The Pi Mainnet is upgrading to Protocol 22 – Deadline: Apr 27. All Mainnet nodes are required to complete this step before the deadline to remain connected to the network. Details here: minepi.com/pi-node

There are over 18 million identity-verified users on Pi. But there is one clear difference between Pi’s users and others. 1 million verified users on Pi ≠ 1 million users on other networks. Most networks measure growth in accounts. Few measure it in verified users. There’s a difference. Pi recognized the importance of identity verification early on and that unverified account creation is simply not enough. Verified identities are needed for any meaningful transactions, especially in real-world economies. Any time an asset (like crypto, fiat currency, property, etc.) is transferred, it raises a basic question of identity: who is sending it, and who is receiving it. If those identities aren’t clear, it becomes difficult to trust that the transfer is valid or that it went to the right person. Therefore, Pi Network has built a fully KYC-verified Mainnet ecosystem. Because when users are verified: Spam drops. Trust increases. Utility becomes more reliable.

Consensus Miami is getting a slice of Pi! Pi Founder Chengdiao Fan will speak at Consensus 2026 on Wednesday, May 6, from 11:15–11:35 AM EDT at the Convergence Stage. As AI dramatically lowers the barriers to building products, competition increasingly centers on authentic data, user acquisition, and trusted human participation. Chengdiao’s presentation will explore how Pi’s blockchain infrastructure, verified identity, and globally engaged network can support utility‑driven products and AI‑era business models. The session presents a fresh perspective on crypto tokens not as exits, but as tools for sustainable growth and real‑world adoption. See you all there!

The Pi Mainnet has successfully upgraded to Protocol 21. Node operators, please ensure your systems are up to date and stay tuned for instructions regarding the upcoming v22 upgrade.

Pi Network has released an RPC server, currently available on Testnet, supporting the development, testing, and future deployment of smart contracts within the Pi ecosystem. The RPC server enables developers to build responsive applications, test contract behavior, and integrate services using real-time blockchain data. Node operators and third-party services can also run their own RPC servers. Read the blog to learn more, and explore the RPC capabilities as a developer. minepi.com/blog/rpc-serve…