💥😯$PI ‌ The Truth Behind Application Verification Checkmarks 🤷 What Is the Core Team’s Strategy? 🔎 Looking at the list on Pi Apps, it is clear how the Pi Core Team allocates resources and determines priorities within the Pi ecosystem. Applications that receive investment, strategic partners, or clear support are always reviewed first, receive verification checkmarks, and are pushed to the forefront of the ecosystem. Meanwhile, independent community developers have to wait endlessly for approval, stemming from several key strategic challenges across the system: ➢ PCT must prioritize supporting major partners or funded projects to ensure critical services operate smoothly and establish initial credibility for the mainnet network. ➢ The number of community-built applications is enormous. If approvals are issued too quickly and one of them happens to contain malware or be a scam application, the platform’s reputation could be damaged immediately. Therefore, the legal and technical evaluation process requires a considerable amount of time. ➢ Projects with larger teams or financial backing usually gain earlier access to APIs and support tools, while independent developers (independent developers) mostly have to rely on their own resources, making their review process significantly slower. 🏗️ When the network enters the commercialization phase or prepares for a major initiative, it urgently needs refined, highly complete products from major studios to serve as the ecosystem’s public face to partners and the media. If buggy self-developed applications were placed at the center of the ecosystem, the market would immediately form a negative impression. ✨ Applications developed by studios or funded partners are more professional, from their interfaces to their server infrastructure, run smoothly, and rarely go offline. Meanwhile, independent applications are sometimes developed as trends, and when problems occur, no one can fix them quickly. Users may try an application a few times, encounter problems, and then simply give up, thereby dragging down the ecosystem’s overall reputation. 💰 Larger partners usually have stronger commercial commitments, making it easier for PCT to guide capital flows or deeply integrate economic mechanisms into the core infrastructure without worrying about the system collapsing midway. 👉 Therefore, at this stage, it is unavoidable that community developers have to “wait endlessly” for approval. This can be viewed as a way for the system to maintain a minimum level of security before opening its doors more broadly to the entire market.

$PI $PI . Commercial Sponsorship Mechanism (“Paying for Exposure”) Eligibility to participate in industry conferences largely follows commercial logic. Pi Network was one of the official sponsors of the Consensus 2025 conference and received an exclusive 20-minute speaking slot. This means that as long as a project is willing to pay a hefty sponsorship fee, it can gain the opportunity to appear on stage and present to thousands of industry elites and financial or investment institutions in attendance. In essence, this is a commercial marketing activity, not an absolute official endorsement of its value. 2. The “Data Packaging” Enabled by a Huge User Base The Pi coin project team has vigorously amplified its user base in its external promotions, claiming to have tens of millions or even more than 100 million users. Although blockchain data reveals that its actual number of active wallets is far below the claimed figure—for example, it claims 60 million users, while the actual number of active wallets may be only around 9 million—these enormous “reported figures” are sufficient to initially mislead some participants who are unaware of the truth, becoming their “bargaining chip” for attending conferences and engaging in dialogue with the industry.

$PI . Commercial Sponsorship Mechanism (“Paying for Exposure”) Participation in industry conferences largely follows commercial logic. Pi Network was one of the official sponsors of Consensus 2025 and received an exclusive 20-minute speaking slot. This means that as long as a project is willing to pay a hefty sponsorship fee, it can gain the opportunity to appear on stage and present to thousands of industry elites and capital institutions in the audience. In essence, this is a form of commercial marketing, rather than absolute official recognition of its value. 2. “Data Packaging” Brought by a Huge User Base The Pi coin project team has vigorously exaggerated its user base in its external publicity, claiming to have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of users. Although blockchain data reveals that the actual number of active wallets is far below the claimed figure—for example, it claims 60 million users, while the actual number of active wallets may be only around 9 million—this huge “paper figure” is sufficient to mislead some uninformed participants in the early stages, becoming their “bargaining chip” for attending conferences and engaging in dialogue with the industry.