As blockchain technology matures and artificial intelligence accelerates, their convergence can reshape how production is created and distributed. For Pi Network, this moment highlights the importance of producing real apps and utilities at scale, mass adoption, and identity verification. Built around a utilities-driven Web3 ecosystem, Pi Network enables millions of verified users worldwide to engage with real-world apps and utilities.

On October 1, 2025, Dr. Chengdiao Fan, one of two Pi Founders, will present at TOKEN2049 Singapore on the TON Stage from 4:30-4:45 pm local time. The session, Crypto’s Future: From Liquidity to Utility — Web3 Pathways to Innovation, will outline how Dr. Fan approaches real-world utility and human-centered design for the next era of AI and blockchain technology.

This is one stop of many as Pi Network engages directly with the global community and Web3 industry, as well as with the Pi community, at the recent Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul, followed by TOKEN2049 and surrounding key events.

Utility-Driven Blockchain: Pi Network’s Approach

Pi’s large and engaged social network, over 60 million members in over 200 countries and regions, provides the essential distribution layer and the social network for meaningful utility creation. Real-world applications require real users, and Pi’s global reach ensures that decentralized apps (dApps), marketplaces, and tools have the adoption potential to create lasting impact.

Pi’s utility takes different forms, such as:

  • Platform level utilities like the Pi Ad Network and .pi Domains auction translate Pi’s collective resources, such as Pioneer attention and the size and engagement of the community, into a form of utility that benefits developers and Pioneers network-wide.
  • Apps and utilities in the Pi ecosystem provide real-world functions and use cases for Pioneers to engage with. These apps are created by community developers, the Core Team (e.g. Pi Wallet), and even regular users who can use the AI-powered Pi App Studio to create apps without a technical background.
  • Local commerce is being conducted across communities worldwide, with peer-to-peer exchanges of goods and services using Pi, reflecting Pi’s expanding reach and practical use.

Moreover, Pi Network facilitates the safety, compliance, and authenticity of its utility through verification processes such as its native KYC solution, Mainnet migration requirements, and more. This ensures that real people, not bots or fake accounts, benefit from the network, laying the foundation for trust in Web3 systems, readiness for any real-world asset integration, and equitable distribution in an AI-powered future.

Pi Network, Blockchain, and Arising Issues in the Age of AI

Today, the world is at a pivotal moment with respect to AI infrastructure breakthroughs. While AI can generate unprecedented amounts of production, new issues continue to arise, such as the infancy of the AI application layer, the unclear role of human labor and intelligence, and how the benefits from AI are distributed to people in a way that maintains an acceptable or improved level of equality and equity.

In this regard, Pi sees blockchain, in relation to AI, as a scalable and accessible solution for societal distribution and redistribution. Pi therefore emphasizes a broader vision: the macro-level decentralization of the production created by AI through blockchain.

Critical Foundations for the Vision

Pi Network is uniquely positioned to achieve this vision effectively, having already established the critical foundational elements necessary to do so:

  • Authenticity: Pi Network’s native KYC requires users to complete identity verification before migrating to Pi Mainnet—over 14.8 million have been migrated thus far. This allows Pi the ability to accurately distinguish real humans from AI entities, so distribution reaches actual people equitably.
  • A flourishing AI application layer: To facilitate a robust and prolific AI application layer, the AI-powered Pi App Studio enables creators—not just engineers—to easily create and launch innovative, blockchain-integrated AI applications. Through the App Studio, over 21,000 apps were published within the first month alone. 
  • A Vibrant Social Network: As one of the largest crypto-enabled social networks worldwide, Pi Network’s more than 60 million engaged mobile app users across 200+ countries and regions provide the reach necessary for applications to achieve real-world use and sustainable business models.
  • Accountability and rights management: Through Pi’s equitable design principles in its mining mechanism and leveraging blockchain’s intrinsic features of accountability and transparent rights management, application-generated production can directly and equitably benefit genuine human users within the ecosystem. 

Pi Network’s approach reflects a consistent principle: develop technology in such a way that it serves real people and solves concrete problems. 

For further insight into one Pi Founder’s vision for blockchain, AI, and utility-focused design, watch Dr. Fan’s presentation, Crypto’s Future: From Liquidity to Utility — Web3 Pathways to Innovation, from 4:30-4:45 pm local time, October 1, 2025, at the TON Stage at TOKEN2049 Singapore.