Pi Network Price Jumps Ahead of v27 Mainnet Rollout and DeFi Gateway Upgrade

Pi Network traders are watching two signals collide this week as a fresh tease about a Pi Network DeFi gateway upgrade has landed just days before the v27 mainnet rollout.

This upgrade is seen as a major step toward on-chain DeFi utility, rather than payments alone. The Pi Core Team has also cleared more than 417,000 Pioneers who had been flagged for possible duplicate accounts during KYC review, with a fix for another 497,000 accounts due within the week.

The timing lines up with the v27 mainnet update, expected within three to four days, which is widely framed by the community as the release that introduces smart contracts and liquidity pools to the network. The token's price today is $0.09142, up 0.2% over the past 24 hours, with its price movement in BTC terms down about 1.3% over the same window.