Pi Network hits 18.1M verified users amid KYC delays

Pi Network’s April 2026 progress update reported 18.1 million fully verified users and 16.72 million mainnet migrations to date. The update said April alone produced more than 100,000 KYC approvals and roughly 30,000 mainnet migrations.

The Pi Core Team described its in-app KYC as a hybrid system that combines human reviewers with AI fraud detection. The team reported that over one million people have completed about 526 million verification tasks to confirm nearly 18 million unique identities, and that each application typically goes through roughly 30 separate checks before approval.

Many Pioneers responded to the update with complaints about long waits for ‘Tentative’ KYC status to be resolved. One user posted on social media: The @PiCoreTeam promised a decentralized revolution, but for millions of Pioneers, the only thing ‘decentralized’ is the hope of passing KYC. Commenters said prolonged tentative status prevents full participation on mainnet.

The Pi Core Team defended a conservative review approach, arguing that less strict verification could allow duplicate accounts to migrate to mainnet, distort rewards and participation, and undermine services that rely on authentic users. The team noted a system upgrade rolled out in October 2025 moved more than 3.36 million Pioneers from Tentative to fully approved KYC status.

The group advised Pioneers in Tentative status to complete any available liveness checks in the app, confirm that submitted information is accurate and clear, and continue active mining to trigger additional system checks. The team explained some stuck cases are technical corner cases that require custom fixes and clarified that Tentative status does not mean rejection.

On the network side, April’s roughly 30,000 migrations added to the 16.72 million total mainnet migrations reported so far. Pi Network set May 15 as the deadline for nodes to install Protocol 23. The previous Protocol 22 upgrade briefly lifted PI’s price. PI has declined about 2.6% so far in May and traded near $0.17 at the time of the update, with a one-day gain of about 1.3%. Approximately 174.2 million PI tokens are scheduled to enter circulation over the next 30 days.

Pi Core Team described resolving user concerns as a priority while verification and migration work continues.