June 30, 2025 – Palo Alto, United States
New tools expand access to decentralized app creation and engagement.Pi Network, a utilities-backed Web 3.0 ecosystem with tens of millions of identity-verified users globally, announced product launches and ecosystem upgrades as part of its annual Pi2Day celebration on June 28, 2025.
These updates include an AI-powered app creation platform that scales app and utility creation capabilities, and a decentralized app ranking system that orders third party apps through community staking in Pi.
AI meets blockchain – Launch of Pi App StudioAt the core of the releases is Pi App Studio, a no-code, AI-assisted platform which enables anyone –regardless of technical background – to build and own functional apps in Pi’s decentralized ecosystem.
The significance of this AI initiative is threefold.
Pi App Studio provides guided AI-powered workflows to facilitate and assist ordinary people to create, customize and run apps using their existing domain knowledge and experience.
This allows for more iterations and attempts at app creation by a wider-range of people in a decentralized way – at cheaper engineering costs than the time it took to create such applications in the Web 2.0 era.
The current version of the Pi App Studio allows users to either follow one workflow to create topic-specific AI chatbot apps trained on their personal domain knowledge and expertise or create any type of app without the need to code.
More workflows created on top of the current platform can guide the creation of more app types.
This marks a strategic step toward Pi Network’s broader vision – solving the world’s important production and social problems through Pi Network, while scaling app production and ownership through AI and blockchain infrastructure.
Chengdiao Fan, head of product and one of two Pi founders, said,
“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.
“We continue to see a lack of development with regard to the AI application layer between AI infrastructure and real production – in addition to the lack of clarity regarding the role of human labor, and intelligence in the future and lingering questions about human wellbeing in the age of AI.
“Pi, based in blockchain technology and with its large global verified human community, strives to provide innovations and solutions for these problems – in conjunction with the innovative use of and decentralized access to AI to facilitate app creation to further utility for both the Pi community and the world.
“Pi, in turn, can continue to expand functionality, app creation, utility and productivity within its ecosystem.
“If Pi wants to have more apps in its ecosystem, let’s scale creation using the most current technology – AI – [to] enable more people, not just engineers, to be creators, and generate apps of the next generation, not apps of the past era.
“That was how Pi App Studio was born.”
Ecosystem directory staking – Decentralized app supportPi Network introduced another platform-level utility – ‘ecosystem directory staking,’ a mechanism allowing businesses and users to boost the ranking of Pi apps in the ecosystem interface by staking Pi tokens on the mainnet blockchain.
Apps with more stakes receive increased global visibility through higher ranking in the Pi ecosystem, creating an incentive loop that rewards quality and community engagement.
The mechanism was designed to balance users’ needs for getting relevant and interesting apps.
The staking is meant for Pi app developers to decide whether and in which format they want to incentivize their users to stake Pi for their app as the individual Pi apps are the beneficiaries of the ranking and visibility – there are no rewards on the protocol level.
Future iterations of this feature will help calibrate and adjust the specific staking mechanism.
This platform-level utility not only relies on the Pi community’s collective resource – attention – but also distinguishes itself from Web 2.0 app ranking systems largely controlled by rigid algorithms or advertising corporations.
With ecosystem interface staking, Pi is supporting an app directory of the Web 3.0 world.
Additional ecosystem enhancementsPi’s Pi2Day 2025 update also includes the following.
These efforts underscore Pi Network’s scalable, utility-focused and human-centered ecosystem in a world increasingly shaped by AI.
About Pi NetworkPi Network is a community of tens of millions of humans mining Pi cryptocurrency to use and build the Web 3.0 app ecosystem.
Founded in 2018 by a team of early innovators in blockchain and social computing, with PhDs from Stanford University, Pi Network is a utilities-based ecosystem for third-party apps on a mobile web platform, with widespread (rather than concentrated) token distribution.
The blockchain platform offers a mobile-first mining approach, with low financial cost and a light environmental footprint within the crypto space.
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