Pi2Day 2025: Launching AI Initiative to Scale Next-Generation App Creation and Platform Utilities

Happy Pi2Day 2025, Pioneers!

Today, Pi released two major features: (1) an AI application platform that intends to solve problems the world faces as AI advances, based on both blockchain and AI technologies, as well as expand Pioneers’ access to contribute to, engage with, and support Pi apps and utilities in the ecosystem; and (2) another platform-level utility allowing Pioneers and businesses to support Pi apps and utilities via a staking mechanism. In addition, various tech and product updates have been released along with a new Pi2Day Ecosystem Challenge, which takes Pioneers through new releases and Pi ecosystem features to obtain digital prizes.

Before discussing Pi2Day’s releases, let’s dive deeper into the questions on AI, blockchain, and Pi Network that were posed to the community earlier this week: “How is GenAI related to Pi Network?”

Pi’s Solution to an AI-Driven World
The ultimate utility of any technology, including blockchain, resides in solving the fundamental problems of humankind. Today we’re at a pivotal moment with respect to AI infrastructure breakthroughs. However, the world is facing the following problems that are yet to be solved.

The infancy of the AI application layer between AI infrastructure and real production;
A lack of clarity regarding the role of human labor and intelligence; and
Lingering questions on human well-being in an AI-pervasive world where AI could generate an unprecedented amount of production and how the resulting benefits are distributed to human beings in a way that maintains an acceptable or improved level of equality and equity.
Pi believes that the world can solve these problems using both AI and blockchain technologies. In Pi’s view, the intersection between the two technologies expands beyond the typical understanding of “decentralized AI applications,” which often narrowly focuses on decentralized data, computing, governance, and ownership for AI accountability. While these aspects remain important, Pi Network sees a more fundamental utility of blockchain: a scalable and accessible solution for societal distribution and redistribution. Thus, Pi emphasizes a broader vision for blockchain and AI: the macro-level decentralization of the production created by AI through blockchain. Through blockchain technology, production by AI should be equitably and inclusively distributed among humans in crypto networks, addressing core challenges around human well-being, economic equity, and the sustainable role of human intelligence in an AI-driven future.

Achieving this vision requires a few critical components. First, authenticity must be established, accurately distinguishing real humans from AI entities to ensure distribution goes to real humans. Second, there needs to be a flourishing and prolific AI application layer bridging advanced AI infrastructure with practical, real-world production; this means empowering creators to easily build innovative AI-driven applications integrated with blockchain. Third, a vibrant social network is essential to widely distribute these applications, facilitating their practical use by many people and enabling sustainable business models. Finally, leveraging blockchain’s intrinsic features of accountability and transparent rights management ensures that the production generated by these applications directly and equitably benefits genuine human users within the ecosystem. Pi Network is uniquely positioned to tackle these challenges effectively, having already established the critical foundational elements necessary to do so. For authenticity, Pi has developed a native KYC solution, requiring every account to pass identity verification before onboarding onto the Pi Mainnet, ensuring a high level of humanness in the community. Currently over 13.7 million people have migrated to the Pi Mainnet after their identity verifications were processed by Pi KYC. To meet the need for a large social network, Pi boasts one of the largest global crypto-enabled social networks, with over 60 million engaged members across more than 200 countries and regions.

For blockchain accountability and transparent features, Pi originated as a blockchain project and employed equitable design principles in its mining mechanism to ensure that the benefits of its network are widely accessible and inclusively shared by the community. Finally, to facilitate a flourishing and prolific AI application layer, today Pi officially released the Pi App Studio powered by GenAI capabilities, enabling creators—not just engineers—to easily create and launch innovative, blockchain-integrated AI applications. Supporting Pi App Studio, existing Pi products such as the Pi Ad Network, .pi Domains, and Pi Wallet