Pi Network’s pivot: from mobile mining to infrastructure for AI and identity
On Pi2Day, Pi Network stopped talking about mobile mining and started talking about infrastructure, launching tools to sell its compute, identity, and verification to the outside world. It is a real strategic pivot toward the AI era. Whether it fixes Pi’s actual problem, a token down 96% with no demand, is the harder question.
On June 28, 2026, Pi Network used its annual Pi2Day celebration to make a statement about what it wants to become, and for once the statement was not about mining. The project that grew famous as a mobile app letting tens of millions of people tap a button each day to earn tokens launched three products, SoloHost, Pi Sign-in, and PiVerify, and framed them as a deliberate pivot: from a mining-centric community toward an infrastructure provider for the artificial-intelligence era, offering compute, identity, and verification services to the outside world.
The pitch was explicit. Rather than relying only on growth inside its own walled ecosystem, Pi would begin selling its genuine assets, a verified user base of more than 18 million people, a network of hundreds of thousands of user-run nodes, and a hybrid human-verification system, to external developers and businesses.