The Pi crew just dropped four slick technical upgrades to help devs and businesses level up in the ecosystem rn. 🌸 These tweaks hit the Developer Portal, Pi BlockExplorer, SoloHost, and PiVerify, making app builds and launches way smoother overall. 💀
Dev Life Just Got Smoother 💖
The fresh drop from earlier this week says the big shift is a revamped Developer Portal with an App Configuration spot that pulls all the key settings together. Devs can handle domains, API keys, app wallets, privacy stuff, and more from one hub while nav to things like Pi Sign-In, PiNet, the Ad Network, and listings feels way less messy. 🖤 This cuts down the hassle for payments, auth, and other Pi features in your apps. The BlockExplorer update now shows historical price data for those Launchpad Testnet tokens so users can track moves like SLICE against Test-Pi without even firing up the Pi Browser or needing an account. 🌙
Several technical updates have been released to support developers!
– An improved Developer Portal simplifies app configuration and management
– Pi BlockExplorer now tracks historical prices for Launchpad Testnet tokens
– A new SoloHost skill enables AI assistants to prepare app packages for Pi Desktop
– PiVerify has expanded identity verification capabilities for third-party businessesThese improvements reduce barriers to building on Pi, expand utility for Pioneers, and support preparations for the upcoming Ecosystem Summit.
Go to the Pi mining app to learn more!
— Pi Network (@PiCoreTeam) October 31, 2026
These tokens stay Testnet only and won’t hit Mainnet ever, serving as a solid test and learn tool before the first Mainnet launch drops. 🦇
Bringing In The AI Vibes 🖤
The squad added a new skill to the public SoloHost GitHub repo letting AI coders like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex prep apps for Pi Desktop publishing. 💖 Instead of hand-making config files, just feed an existing public Docker image and watch the assistant whip up and check docker-compose.yml plus config_options.yml. The PiVerify update brings face-uniqueness checks and extra liveness scans to help outside businesses spot duplicate IDs and trigger more verification when it matters. 👀 This boosts defense against fakes, fraud, and bots by extending Pi’s own KYC tech. These moves come right after Pi Desktop version 0.6.4 and right before the Ecosystem Summit. 🔥 The native token is still holding those gains and trading above 0.078. 👻
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