Pioneers, it has now been over 100 days since the launch of Open Network! The Open Network launch was the culmination of over six years of building Pi Network’s infrastructure and ecosystem, and making sure that its utility was ready for use at launch.
Open Network’s external connectivity unlocked Pi’s thriving ecosystem, innovative applications, and extensive peer-to-peer network for integration with the broader blockchain world. This also allowed businesses to integrate with Pi after passing the KYB business verification process.
Open Network was key to Pi’s mission: to create an inclusive, utility-driven, and widely adopted cryptocurrency that is accessible to anyone. Pioneers around the world—crypto enthusiasts, mainstream ordinary people, and everyone in between—are the driving force behind Pi because Pi is set to solve the problem of mass adoption and real world utility.
In the first 100 days of Open Network, Pi’s ecosystem and utilities have continued to benefit Pioneers and expand. Let’s take a look back at the network’s progress and growth, including key updates on utility.
Pi Network Ventures: Investing $100M in Innovative Startups
Pi Network Ventures, a development initiative of $100 million held in Pi and USD, was launched by the Pi Foundation to strategically invest in startups and businesses, including those that advance the utility, adoption, and real-world impact of Pi.
Its three main objectives are to boost Pi utility, enable more of the world’s production onto Pi Network, and bring Pi to the real world.
By investing in startups and businesses, Pi seeks to empower developers, many of which build, integrate, and innovate with Pi, and bring real-world utility. Pi Network Ventures investments seek out innovators that are focused on globally accessible, community-driven, and economically meaningful projects.
Gaming is a key vertical that Pi Network Ventures will focus on for its investments. Gaming sits at the intersection of several key strengths—social interactions, the attention economy, and virtual goods—and Pi Network Ventures is uniquely positioned to leverage Pi Network to help game developers achieve their goals, which in turn, benefits the Pi ecosystem.
To that end, Pi Network launched FruityPi, a fun fruit-matching game that also demonstrates Pi’s existing gaming utility in action. By integrating with various Pi products and utilities—such as the Pi Ad Network, Pi Wallet, and Pi payments—FruityPi has been used by Pi Network as an early signal of how gaming, with inherently built-in social dynamics and virtual economies, can drive both app-level engagement and broader ecosystem utility at the same time.
PiFest and Expansion of Local Commerce with Pi
Pi Day 2025 was the start of the first PiFest after Open Network, a week-long event that ran from March 14 – March 21, 2025. With Open Network’s external connectivity enabled, PiFest supported Pi-integrated commerce, providing even greater opportunities for merchant use and adoption, and Pioneer engagement, including through seamless transactions on the Pi Mainnet blockchain and through related Pi products. PiFest saw engagement with:
- More than 125,000 total registered sellers—including 58,000 active sellers;
- Use of the community-built Map of Pi app by over 1.8 million Pioneers; and
- Over 45,000 reviews submitted by Pioneers.
The success of PiFest illustrates that Pioneers and businesses are engaged with Pi Network and eager to transact in Pi. This serves to reinforce that Pi Network’s long-term vision of building an inclusive, peer-to-peer ecosystem powered by Pi has been achieved and will continue to expand.
.pi Domains Auction: A New Platform-Level Utility
Pi Day 2025 also introduced .pi Domains Auction, a platform-level utility that harnesses the collective resources of the Pi community—attention, authenticity, and a large community that is ready to transact—and Open Network’s external connectivity to further expand Pi’s role in real-world commerce and digital interactions.
.pi Domains allow individuals, apps, and businesses to bid for and own unique digital identifiers within the Pi ecosystem. .pi Domains already possess clear, immediate, and measurable real-world use cases, as well as practical applications now, which set .pi Domains apart from other virtual property/ownership in less-developed ecosystems.
To date, .pi Domains Auction has received:
- Over 123,000 active bids
- Over 57,000 unique bidders
- Over 69,000 domains with active bids
- Active bids consisting of more than 3 million Pi in total during the auction
Ecosystem Interface Updates
The Ecosystem Interface lists qualified Mainnet apps that Pioneers can use. This continues Pi’s mission of empowering Pioneers and developers by providing access to apps and utilities, while providing developers more opportunities to get exposure for their apps. In the first 100 days of Open Network, Pi Network made several updates to the Ecosystem Interface. These included:
- Mainnet Ecosystem Application Expanded: Developers who meet the Mainnet app deployment requirements can now apply to add their apps to the Mainnet Ecosystem Interface directly through the Developer Portal without having to wait to be whitelisted.
- Improved Ecosystem Interface Design: The Ecosystem Interface design has been updated to improve intuitive navigation of community apps for Pioneers through a cleaner design and improved user experience.
- Pi Ad Network Application Expansion to Pi Apps: Pi App developers are now able to apply to join Pi Ad Network. Those that are selected will join the first group of Pi Apps from the pilot program – who are now generating and receiving ad revenue through this program.
- New Apps Join the Mainnet Ecosystem Interface: New Pi apps have been added to the Mainnet Ecosystem Interface since Open Network, signaling continued community, user and developer support of Pi Network, and the continued growth of apps across the Pi Ecosystem in the first 100 days since Open Network.
Network Metrics
Here are a few current key metrics that showcase the network’s growth and size:
- Over 3 million additional Pioneers were migrated to Mainnet since Open Network, bringing the total to over 13 million Mainnet users.
- Over 7.4 billion Pi has been migrated: 5.2 billion Pi locked and 2.20 billion Pi unlocked.
- Over 400,000 Nodes are active across the Pi blockchain (Testnet1, Testnet2, and Mainnet).
Pioneers can check out the Pi Blockexplorer to see up-to-date metrics, and read more about Pi’s tokenomics and supply here.
Account security, Mainnet migration, and Mainnet Wallet activation
Since Open Network, Pi continued to support Pioneers through updates to account security and Mainnet migration, and expanded Mainnet accessibility via Mainnet Wallet activation.
- Full Phone Number Change for KYC-Verified Pioneers: Pioneers who have passed KYC can now update their full phone number after completing a liveness verification test.
- Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for Pi Migration Wallet to Help Ensure Pioneer Account Security: Pioneers are required to complete 2FA to secure and confirm their migration Pi Wallets. For those Pioneers impacted by this requirement, it is required to be completed before their Pi can be successfully migrated to the Mainnet blockchain.
- Shifting to Email-Based 2FA: this security measure allows for more accessible, secure and cost-effective verification via trusted emails. Email- based 2FA does not have the limitations of SMS-based verification (i.e. geographic limitations due to telecommunication restrictions, carrier policies, individuals’ service subscriptions, costs, etc.).
- Expanding Accessibility to Pi Mainnet Ecosystem Through New Wallet Activation Opportunities: The Mainnet wallet activation feature enables identity-verified Pioneers, including those who are fully KYC’d, as well as most of those who are tentatively KYC’d, and users who have not yet joined Pi Network, to activate their wallet on the Pi Mainnet blockchain. This unblocks their participation in, and broadens the inclusion of, the Pi Mainnet ecosystem.
- New Account Recovery Option Now Available: A new flow has been introduced for password resets. This is available for Pioneers that have set up a trusted email for their account. If they have, they can request a password reset, and they will receive a password reset link at the trusted email address, in addition to existing methods of recovery already available to Pioneers.
- KYC Updates: Pi Network also resolved various issues that may have blocked some Pioneers from progressing through KYC. These included identification and remediation of small bugs with the process, updates to permit Yoti users to fully complete the process, and addressing issues related to missing data.
Conclusion
Pi’s ecosystem at Open Network is defined by initiatives for apps and utilities, real and practical use cases, and engagement from the Pi community. During the first 100 days of Open Network, Pioneers have demonstrated a widely adopted, utility-based Pi cryptocurrency is here to stay and grow. Pioneers, developers, and businesses should continue engaging and creating on Pi, pushing the network to continue its achievements that benefit the entire ecosystem.
