Pi Network Prepares for October 16 Upgrade With a Bigger Goal

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Key Takeaways

  • Pi Network is targeting October 16 for Protocol 28 on Mainnet.
  • The upgrade focuses on transaction-data handling and app maintenance.
  • Pi has not set an OUSD launch date or published reward rules.
  • The next test is whether apps turn the plans into regular payments.

Protocol 28 targets the systems behind Pi apps

Pi Network’s next planned Mainnet upgrade follows the move of its Testnet to Protocol 28. In a September 25 update, the Pi Core Team said the new version improves how the network handles delays involving transaction data, lets developers upgrade groups of smart contracts together and gives applications a safer way to change stored data.

Those changes sit beneath the user-facing part of the ecosystem. A marketplace, game or payment service becomes more difficult to update as its contracts and stored records expand, particularly when a developer must change several connected elements at once. Protocol 28 is intended to redu...

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