Despite ongoing price pressure on the underlying asset and growing doubts within its community about some features and the pace of improvements, the Core Team behind the controversial project is moving ahead with scheduled protocol upgrades.
In their latest post on X, the team announced the planned timing for the upcoming upgrade and warned it could face delays similar to the previous rollout.
The Pi Mainnet is upgrading to Protocol 25.
Deadline: June 18.All Mainnet nodes are required to complete this step before the deadline to remain connected to the network. This upgrade takes longer to complete. Plan accordingly.
Details here: https://t.co/9VehO7hhj1
— Pi Network (@PiCoreTeam) June 9, 2026
The project’s protocol revision cycle began in February with release 19.6, followed by subsequent updates through versions 19.9, 20.2, 22 and 23 as the year progressed. Most of those upgrades were completed on schedule, which helped maintain confidence across the large user base.
That confidence was tested during the transition to protocol 24. The team originally set a May 15 deployment target but later reported that the upgrade proved “one of the most challenging” to date. According to the Core Team, protocol 24 required “multiple subsystem upgrades and optimizations” and involved internal data reprocessing that complicated the rollout.
By early June the Core Team announced it had resolved those issues and successfully completed deployment of version 24, and they established a June 18 deadline for the next upgrade—Protocol 25.
As with prior updates, the team reminded all Mainnet node operators that completing the upgrade before the deadline is required to remain connected to the network. They also cautioned that, like the previous upgrade, Protocol 25 may take longer than expected to deploy, advising node operators to plan accordingly.