Major PI News: Pi Network Breaks Silence With Long-Awaited Winner Announcement

The Core Team behind the popular project hosted its first hackathon event during the Open Network era earlier this year, which concluded in mid-October.

After two months in which they didn’t post any updates on the matter, the team outlined the winners earlier this week and their respective prizes.

Hackathon Winners

CryptoPotato reported in August the details about the event, which started on the 21st of that month. The optional midpoint check-in took place in mid-September, while the entire event was scheduled to conclude on October 15.

Following two months of inactivity on the matter, the Core Team finally announced the winners of the Pi Hackathon 2025 on Thursday:

1st Place: Blind_Lounge, a privacy-first social and dating platform where people connect anonymously and reveal identities only by mutual choice.

2nd Place: Starmax, a loyalty program app that enables Pioneers to spend Pi at participating businesses and earn rewards for their engagement.

3rd Place: RUN FOR PI, a fast-paced runner game that incorporates Pi directly into its in-game economy.

The hackathon rules stated that the first-positioned Pioneer will receive 75,000 PI tokens, the second will get 45,000, and 15,000 coins will go to the third. The five honorable mentions will receive 5,000 each, which were as follows: Kindrek, Workflet For Pi, PallyPay, SimpleJoy, and Agora Pulse.

Overall, the team said there were more than 215 Mainnet app submissions received from August to October that met the ecosystem requirements. They added that this showcases developers’ “clear motivation to build utility-oriented, production-ready apps on the Pi Mainnet.”

The Fine Print

However, the Core Team also warned that some of the features on these apps could be a work in progress and outlined the possibility of occasional bugs or limitations as they are community-built projects that continue to evolve after the hackathon.

The disclosure also reads that, since they do not officially develop these apps, they do not have any affiliation with Pi Network itself.

The post urged users who encounter any issues with the apps or have suggestions to share them directly through the application’s reporting channels or in the relevant community spaces.

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