🔍 Looking around the Pi logo, you’ll find organizations and technologies that have helped shape the modern world.
➜ Standing alongside them, Pi does not need flashy marketing campaigns or exaggerated promises to prove its value.
➜ Its presence in that environment speaks for itself: this is a project that has moved beyond theory and into the stage of building global infrastructure. 🌎⚡
🎓 Projects born out of Stanford often carry the DNA of rigorous research, long-term thinking, and the ambition to solve some of humanity’s most complex challenges.
➜ Placing Pi in the same arena as other Stanford-affiliated innovations highlights an important reality:
➜ Pi is not a spontaneous experiment or a passing trend.
➜ It is a product built from the beginning on a foundation of advanced academic research and technological innovation. 🚀📚
🌱 The bigger picture is becoming increasingly clear.
➜ A project nurtured within an ecosystem like Stanford,
➜ Supported by tens of millions of users,
➜ Expanded by thousands of developers building on its platform,
➜ And steadily aligning itself with emerging regulatory frameworks,
creates a very different conversation today. 💜
❓The question is no longer:
"Can it succeed?"
✨ A more relevant question is:
"How prepared are you to be part of that success?" 🚀🌍💡
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Ecosystem Directory Staking just got a new look and improved user experience!
Originally launched on Pi2Day 2025, staking through this feature increases an app’s exposure to the Pi community, resulting in more impressions and potentially more user traffic. By staking Pi, Pioneers can collectively support apps and services while developers and creators can promote their apps and tap into Pi’s 60M+ engaged community to acquire users.
The update prepares the feature for further utilization by developers, creators, vibe coders and Pioneers as more apps onboard to the ecosystem.
Note there are no rewards at the protocol level for staking, and the original staked amount will be returned once the staked duration has ended.
Go to the Pi home screen to learn more about Ecosystem Directory Staking and check out the recent design updates to the Ecosystem Interface.
🔥🇺🇸 THIS IS NOT A STORY ABOUT BITCOIN. IT'S A STORY ABOUT WHAT NICOLAS WAS SEARCHING FOR.
This post does not claim anything as fact.
However, when several historical pieces are placed side by side, they raise an interesting question:
Could the vision behind Pi Network have begun taking shape at almost the same time Bitcoin was being born?
📌 2008
While Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin Whitepaper, Nicolas Kokkalis was completing his PhD at Stanford, focusing on areas such as:
• Computer Science
• Distributed Systems
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
📌 2009
Bitcoin Mainnet officially went live.
Around the same period, Nicolas began building large-scale technology and social application projects, including the social gaming platform Gameyola.
📌 Before Ethereum Existed
According to Pi's official profile, Nicolas had already been researching frameworks for smart contracts on fault-tolerant distributed systems long before the concept became widely known through Ethereum.
What makes this particularly interesting is the contrast in focus.
Bitcoin was attempting to answer the question:
"How do we create decentralized money?"
Meanwhile, Nicolas appeared to be exploring a different challenge:
"How can distributed systems and blockchain technology become usable for everyday people?"
Looking at what Pi Network is building today:
• KYC
• Digital Identity
• User Experience (UX)
• Mobile-First Access
• Real-World Utility
There are some notable parallels with that earlier research direction.
A detail that often goes unnoticed:
Back in 2008–2009:
• Bitcoin had not yet become a global phenomenon.
• Ethereum did not exist.
• Smart contracts were not a mainstream topic within the crypto industry.
At the same time, Nicolas was already working with:
• Distributed Systems
• Distributed Consensus
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Early smart contract frameworks for fault-tolerant systems
This is why many members of the Pi community argue that Nicolas did not emerge after the crypto wave.
The available historical record suggests that he was already active in foundational fields closely related to blockchain technology from a very early stage almost alongside Bitcoin's first steps into existence.
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Pi Launchpad has updated its participation flow and model, incorporating data and feedback from the first Testnet token that launched on Pi Day 2026!
The first Launchpad test token attracted over 478,000 participating Pioneers and generated valuable feedback on the Launchpad mechanism. That feedback has now been incorporated into a simpler participation flow, updated Launchpad mechanics, and an improved user experience.
A second test token “SLICE” is now live on Testnet to help evaluate if the updates can achieve these goals, and to give Pioneers another chance to learn the new ecosystem token mechanics. As a reminder, SLICE is a Testnet token and will never go onto Mainnet.
To participate:
• Open Pi Launchpad in Pi Browser
• Review the SLICE test token and project
• Choose a commitment amount in Test-Pi
• Confirm participation
• Engage with the Slice of Pi app and provide feedback
Participation will remain open until Pi2Day on June 28.
Learn more on the Pi home screen!