Important Pi Network News and PI Token Price Update: August 13

Here's the latest within the broader Pi Network ecosystem and token moves as PI tries to recover from its July slump. Although the official X account behind the project hasn’t yet announced it as complete, numerous social media users claimed that Pi Network had deployed its second-to-last major upgrade by its deadline. We will take a deeper look into that. There’s also some regulatory news to be explored in this article, as well as the native asset’s moves and upcoming token unlocks. Version 26 Is Here? The Core Team began its major protocol updates at the start of the year with the introduction of version 19.6. Several others followed, and they said that version 26 has to be completed by August 11, and it would be the second-to-last as it reads in the roadmap. The team urged Mainnet Node Operators to complete it by that deadline or risk being disconnected from the network. That date has passed, and the team hasn’t published an official confirmation about the successful migration to v26. However, this has happened in the past as well, which doesn’t necessarily mean that they have failed to do so by August 11. Moreover, numerous accounts on X claimed that the upgrade had been comple...