Two-Factor Authentication For Pi Wallet Migration Wallet Safety
On March 13, 2025, Pi Network issued a message about two-factor authentication for Pi Wallet Migration (2FA). It was about a popup message some Pioneers would receive. They are prompted to complete their 2FA so that their Pi can be successfully migrated to the Mainnet blockchain. This feature locks and verifies Pioneers’ Pi Wallets, assisted by verification of a trusted email address. This helps greatly to secure Pioneers’ accounts and their Pi coins.
Some Pioneers already have a trusted email, ready to initiate the 2FA to confirm their migration wallet. Some others need to create a trusted email account before performing the 2FA to verify their wallet.
Establish A Trusted Email
This is done by going through a liveness check to make sure that the trusted email address is coming from the actual account owner. The mining app will prompt them to do this. Currently, only those Pioneers who have completed KYC (tentative KYC included) will be able to add a trusted email. The trusted email is also used for account recovery and other important verifications. Hence, you must add email that you own and trust. A random email address you do not check will allow verifications to fail, and you will not be able to verify your wallet to migrate your Pi, or to recover your account in the future.
After adding a trusted email, these Pioneers on this task will gradually receive prompts after a mining session (and email notifications in some cases). These state the need to perform 2FA to confirm their migration wallets. Another approach by which Pioneers can confirm their 2FA wallets is through the Mainnet Checklist.
In the 2FA interface, Pioneers have to confirm access to the migration wallet (or they can change it by creating the new one), Pioneers will later receive another email to verify this confirmation.
Two Factor Authentication
Pioneers will receive only emails from the address “noreply@pi.email”. No other email should be believed as it can be a phishing scam. Always double check email addresses (or URL’s) before clicking or using.
Pending Period of Migration / Retired Pi Balances
In certain cases some Pioneers have migrated their Pi to Mainnet in the last few weeks, but are still within a 14 day pending period. These Pioneers will need to complete the above 2FA requirement. If they don’t, they will see their Pi effectively returned to their mining app in a secured manner. The 14-day pending period after migration was designed for purposes like this. When the Pioneers have completed their 2FA, their migration of the initial balance (or a little above) will be enqueued back to the Mainnet blockchain.
Ensuring Pi Gets To The Rightful Owner
2FA and the features “return” on the Pi are designed to help secure the Pi and accounts of Pioneers as much as possible. These features are there to ensure that Pi coin gets to the rightful Wallet owner. This is because any transaction on the blockchain is immutable and the Pi Wallet is noncustodial.
Pi returns will not apply if a pioneer has 2FA done before the rollback. After the completion of 2FA, all Pioneers whose migrations have been paused and Pi returned will have their migrations re-initiated.
A few key points regarding Pi returns and the Mainnet migration process
The 14 day “pending” period helps to ensure the security and accuracy of Pioneer’s Pi before it becomes permanently irreversible on the Pi Mainnet blockchain. Pi is frozen and no longer usable on the Mainnet blockchain during this time as an essential part of the migration process.
Some of the migrated Pi Balance of Pioneers, who get their Pi returned, may appear in their Unverified Balance instead of under Transferable Balance. The reason was that the presented amount in Transferable Balance is a very pessimistic estimate for the UI. The actual fit amount during migration will be passed to very sophisticated equations that usually need a long time to compute. This does not affect the amount of Pi that only the Pioneers will have in the next migration. So, The Pioneers who successfully migrate will have now the same PI amount as posted in migration (even slightly more because of included mining sessions).
The Circulating Supply Update
The circulating supply would reduce due to the 2FA for wallet confirmation requirement as well the returns of Pi for some accounts in the 14-day period. However, the circulating supply will update as even more Pi are re-queued and migrated again.
In case you have gone through all steps of the Mainnet Checklist and are awaiting completion of the migration process, do make sure to add a trusted email and complete 2FA whenever the prompt comes along. You can check any other details in the Pi Network Original Two-Factor Authentication For Pi Wallet Migration here on the official blog.
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