As AI makes software development increasingly accessible, reaching users and sustaining engagement are becoming more important challenges for developers. Pi addresses both sides of this process by providing tools that simplify app development and integrations, and access to an existing ecosystem where developers can connect their products with real users.
These advantages will be a central focus of Pi Network’s first-ever Ecosystem Summit on November 17–19.
Pi offers builders access to a global community of 60 million+ Engaged Pioneers, an ecosystem of decentralized human infrastructure, and a network of 420,000+ Nodes. Pi’s infrastructure provides developers with user authentication, Pi payments, AI-compatible development, monetization and app discovery capabilities, helping them bring applications to an established community and tap into Pi’s collective resources to build useful and engaging applications.
Building and Growing Applications on Pi
These capabilities are accessible through Pi SDK, Developer Portal, Pi Ad Network, App Studio, Solohost and more.
Beyond development, Pi provides mechanisms to help applications reach users and support sustainable business models. Pi Browser enables Pioneers to discover and access ecosystem apps while Ecosystem Directory Staking allows the developers to gain support from their users to boost their app listing rank for more visibility and traction through Pi staking. The Pi Ad Network also provides eligible developers with advertising monetization opportunities, alongside business models supported by Pi payments.
These capabilities can support a broad range of applications across different industries and use cases, from consumer-facing products to specialized tools, services, and platforms. Developers can build entirely new applications or integrate Pi’s infrastructure into existing products, leveraging its community, payment capabilities, and other resources without having to develop each component independently.
Pi’s Broader Approach to AI
AI’s impact extends beyond making software development easier. As AI becomes more capable, it also introduces challenges involving authentic human participation, the future of human work, and how individuals can contribute to and benefit from an increasingly AI-driven economy.
Pi’s approach is to acknowledge and make use of the inevitable change that AI brings to productivity and production while creating potential solutions to overcome and mitigate the challenges posed by AI. Specifically, it involves facilitating more use of AI in production processes and capturing such processes on the blockchain, and at the same time, providing the necessary platform and infrastructure for decentralized participation in an AI-driven economy.
Pi Network Founder Chengdiao Fan explores these challenges in greater depth, including how AI could reshape work, ownership, and economic participation, in her contribution to TIME Africa’s Africa Is on the Move (Part III).
For example, Pi’s identity infrastructure, with over 18 million KYC-verified Pioneers, provides a foundation for authentic human participation. Its KYC validator system has already demonstrated how more than one million individuals can contribute human judgment at scale, completing over 526 million validation tasks and receiving compensation in Pi.
Beyond Pi’s own KYC-verified community, PiVerify extends identity-verification capabilities to third-party businesses and applications to further solve authenticity and identity challenges when real humans, AI agents and malicious bots are all active online in social interactions and economic transactions.
Pi’s distributed Node infrastructure and SoloHost beta offer another direction, enabling developers to distribute self-hosted applications, such as AI agents, and explore opportunities involving individually operated computing resources.
These capabilities illustrate how AI, blockchain, and human participation can complement one another, creating opportunities for people to contribute resources and participate in economic activity supported by emerging technologies.
Looking Ahead to the Pi Ecosystem Summit
The upcoming Pi Ecosystem Summit will highlight Pi’s continued efforts to improve the developer experience and expand opportunities for utility creation. Through new platform announcements, technical demonstrations, developer conversations, and application showcases, the Summit will explore how developers can use Pi’s infrastructure and evolving capabilities to build and grow applications.
Learn more about the Pi Ecosystem Summit and explore Pi’s developer resources.