$PI Pi Network team controls massive assets and executes precise “pump-and-dump” schemes (2025–2026 proven patterns)

The project team independently controls a proprietary asset pool of 71 billion Pi tokens; it is not part of users’ mining allocation, not belonging to ecosystem reserves, and is entirely managed separately by the official.
Within two years, there were dozens of highly consistent abnormal trading “schemes”: official Twitter and self-media first released update news to generate hype and build an atmosphere of anticipation, then immediately after that, wallets linked to the core team transferred millions of Pi tokens in batches to certain exchanges—some to “k,” some to “G,” some to “M,” etc. After each transfer landed, the market price would inevitably crash sharply in the short term. The timelines closely matched every time, which is absolutely not a coincidence.

Over 60 million registered users, despite 4–6 years passing, still cannot complete KYC verification and mainnet asset mapping. Instead, those studios using AI-generated virtual documents are particularly easy to get approved and mapped. Large numbers of real users’ review statuses have been locked for a long time as “provisional review,” and all appeal tickets have gone unanswered with no follow-up—no human review at all.
In the face of widespread user community backlash across the internet and a huge volume of email inquiries, as well as core issues like KYC paralysis, the official has consistently avoided and refused to answer directly. Throughout, they only placated the community with machine-generated template copy.