Tokenization solved the hard part: issuance. The part still unsolved is distribution.
The next billion dollars onchain won't come from a better app. They'll come from people buying tokenized funds inside the apps they already open every day.
My latest—"Distribution is the last constraint"—linked in comments.
NEW: Five U.S. regulators have jointly proposed customer identification requirements for payment stablecoin issuers, modeled on existing bank rules as part of the GENIUS Act's AML framework.
The permissionless premium is the ability to:
-Experiment and learn privately without approval
-Benefit from innovations you didn't conceive of or build
-Move faster than committees can meet
-Capture value through pathways you never planned or predicted
https://t.co/lGqaiTfnBM
The Pi Mainnet is upgrading to Protocol 24 – Deadline: June 2.
The Pi Mainnet has successfully upgraded to Protocol 23. All Mainnet nodes are required to complete this step before the deadline to remain connected to the network.
Details here: https://t.co/9VehO7hhj1
Introducing Exchange OS, a major upgrade to X Layer.
Deploy institutional-grade or Web3-native trading venues on open, permissionless infrastructure without rebuilding from scratch, and use customizable compliance controls to fit your framework.
Read the whitepaper: https://t.co/gdVVGEFXkj
For the first time, OKX has made Pi available to millions of people in the US through its platform, adding another access point to the Pi ecosystem for US users.
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For the first time, OKX has made Pi available to millions of people in the US through its platform, adding another access point to the Pi ecosystem for US users.
Pi continues to expand its global network of Pioneers and partners, and strengthen ecosystem participation, utility, and real user adoption across the world.
More users. More usage. Stronger network
Today, the Stellar Development Foundation and the Government of Bermuda announced that Bermuda will begin moving key payment and financial-services activity onchain onto the Stellar network.
Learn more 👇
https://t.co/Fh0uaKg3FL
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.
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.
https://t.co/nLpGQQngvs
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!
As announced on Pi Day 2026, the initial version of the Token Launchpad has been released as a Pi App on the Testnet with a test token! Watch the video walkthrough to learn the implemented design in action, and read the blog—originally published in the Pi Day announcement—to understand its deeper meaning. https://t.co/tHRFMspF5x
Pi believes financial literacy is necessary for people to live in an AI-pervasive economy, so Pioneers should start learning today by testing the Testnet Launchpad app through the Pi Browser.
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🚨Pi's new Testnet Launchpad flips the script: projects need a working app BEFORE issuing a token. Raised Pi funds a liquidity pool, not developer pockets. This is a utility-first model for building a real economy.🚀#PiNetwork