We’re announcing 100,000 free KYC slots open to Pioneers over the next few months. On a daily basis starting today, our system will automatically select Pioneers based on their past and future potential contributions to Pi, including Node, Platform, community and engagement etc. Read more above.

在接下来的几个月里，我们将向先驱者开放 10 万个免费的KYC插槽。从今天开始，我们的系统每天都会自动选择先驱者，根据他们过去和未来对Pi的贡献，包括节点、平台、社区和参与等。阅读更多。

Why do we need KYC?

The vision of Pi Network is to build an inclusive and most widely-distributed digital currency and economy for all people around the world. The mining mechanism of Pi Network is social-network based and the mining rate halves as the social network size grows by 10X. So Pi has a strict policy of one account per person. This requiresa high degree of accuracy to establish that members in the network are genuine human beings, in order to prevent individuals being able to hoard Pi through creating fake accounts unfairly. In addition to various layers of technical solutions to detecting, preventing and excluding fake accounts to enforce the one account per person policy, KYC provides an extra defence to ensure the true humanness of the network. The KYC process of Pi Network does not just fulfill a regulatory checkbox, but is important to guarding Pi’s mining mechanism and the purpose of the project.

How is the current KYC conducted?

Current Pi KYC is conducted bya third-party KYC provider. Even though the current required documents in many countries are limited to only passports, such identity verification solutions provide the level of authenticity that we’re looking for right now, while preserving people’s privacy. Member privacy is a guiding principle at Pi Network. Pi Network does not care as much about the content of the data you submit during KYC as the authenticity of your identity (i.e., that you are a real human being and not a bot). Pi Network deeply respects member privacy and aims to minimize intrusions on member privacy while keeping the currency safe. All Pi KYC processes will only be initiated from this App, and you will be notified if you’re selected within this app. Beware of any scams that claim to give Pi KYC opportunities outside of our app.

We recognize and hear that obtaining passports is difficult for some Pioneers, and we hope to develop a decentralized, reliable, low- to no-cost KYC process customized for the Pi community in the future that does not necessarily require passports.The ultimate goal is to enable every real Pioneer in the network to pass KYC or prove their humanness eventually for the Mainnet. The discussion of the future KYC solution will also potentially be a topic in the upcoming Pi Convention, and we welcome creative ideas from Pioneers.

What does KYC right now enable Pioneers to do?

Currently, we mostly use KYC to enable Pioneers torun nodes in the Pi Testnet, be a developer of Pi Apps on our platform, spend Pi in Pi Apps and perform in-app transfers, which are pillars of building Pi’s economic ecosystem. Eventually, every Pi member will need to pass KYC in order to migrate their Pi to the Pi Mainnet.

KYC does not exempt Pioneers from complying with Pi policies and from prohibited behavior,including selling Pi to exchange with other currencies, selling Pi accounts to others, using any automated scripts in their accounts, and creating fake accounts. Even if a Pioneer passed KYC, the prohibited behavior may cause the KYC’ed account to be frozen, revoked, burnt or banned before the Mainnet. Thus, please do not participate in any prohibited activities. Being a real human following Pi’s policies is the best strategy to secure your Pi.

What are the selection criteria and process for the 100,000 free KYC slots?

The selection criteria as previously announced will bemeritocratic, based on Pioneer’sprevious contributionsto Pi including the length of time being a Pioneer, the amount of time and reliability of Nodes, engagement, growing the community, fostering constructive conversations, andfuture potential contributionsincluding Pi Node and Testnet, Pi Apps Platform, bootstrapping Pi’s peer-to-peer economy and building the ecosystem. The consideration for future potential contribution means there will be both recent and senior Pioneers being selected, but in aggregate the distribution will have more senior Pioneers than Pioneers who recently joined.

We also take into accountthe probability of being or associating with fake account creation. We actually also invite to KYC some of these accounts that we suspect to be "fake" or “running automated scripts”, so that we can further study their practices and evaluate them. These accounts will obviously be excluded from transferring their Pi to the Mainnet if we confirm our suspicions.

We’re also introducing a new KYC selection process whereour system automatically selects Pioneers probabilistically based on the above criteria on a daily basis. The selected Pioneers will benotified by a popup prompt inside this app. On the in-app prompt, the Pioneer will be asked to confirm if they have the right identity documents given their country of issuance. If so, they proceed to conduct the KYC in the third-party app. If not, it does not mean they will not be selected again. If someone has been prompted by the system to pass KYC this time, there is a chance they may be selected again for the 100,000 free slots later, but it’s not guaranteed.Falsely claiming to have a certain document not only will lead to a KYC failure right now, but also reduce this person’s chance of being selected in the future to pass it again.

If someone is selected and has the right documents, they have the next 24 hours to pass the KYC. After 24 hours, if the Pioneer has not used this slot, this free KYC opportunity will roll over to other Pioneers. The reason for the 24 hours period for Pioneers who already confirmed they have the right document is because we want to ensure each day we complete a targeted number of KYCs, having an even allocation of KYC slots each day and avoiding peaks of traffic for us and for our third-party providers.

All in all, the 100K free KYC is only the beginning of our enrollment of Pioneers for identification verification that enables more Pioneers to build Pi’s decentralized network and bootstrap Pi’s economy, and again,you can always wait for future opportunities and future KYC solutions as mentioned above.

Why is KYC free for the 100K Pioneers?

Because it is a relatively small group and the 100K Pioneers will beworking to bootstrap our economy and build our Testnet. KYC is costly because it is currently performed by third-party apps that charge on a per KYC check basis. While the Core Team can potentially cover the cost for a small fraction of Pi’s global community, it cannot cover the KYC costs for our millions of current and future Pioneers before we find the low- to no-cost solution. As announced in December 2019,the Core Team will not profit from any of the identity verification processes or KYC solutions. For the large mass of Pioneers, the future KYC willeither be at cost for Pioneers(i.e. whatever the third-party KYC provider charges)or a decentralized, low- to no-cost KYC process, customized for the Pi community. Our aspiration is to create a free KYC option. Although we cannot yet promise we will achieve this goal, we can promise that we will try our best.

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100,000 个免费的 KYC 名额

我们为什么需要 KYC?

Pi 网络的愿景是为全世界所有人建立一个包容性和最广泛分布的数字货币和经济。Pi 网络的挖掘机制是基于社交网络的，随着社交网络规模增长 10 倍，挖掘率减半。所以 Pi 有一个严格的政策，一个人一个账户。这需要高度的准确性来确定网络中的成员是真正的人，以防止个人能够通过不公平地创建假账户来囤积 Pi。除了检测、防止和排除假帐户的各种技术解决方案之外，KYC 还提供了额外的防御，以确保网络的真正人性化。Pi 网络的 KYC 过程不仅是一个监管的复选框，而且对保护 Pi 的挖掘机制和项目的目的非常重要。

目前的 KYC 是如何进行的?

目前的 Pi KYC 是由第三方 KYC 提供商执行的。尽管目前许多国家所要求的证件仅限于护照，但这种身份验证方案在保护人们隐私的同时，提供了我们目前所寻求的真实性水平。会员隐私是 Pi 网络的一项指导原则。Pi Network 并不关心您在 KYC 期间提交的数据的内容，而是关心您身份的真实性(即您是一个真实的人而不是一个机器人)。Pi 网络高度尊重会员隐私，在保证货币安全的同时尽量减少对会员隐私的侵犯。所有 Pi KYC 进程只会从这个应用程序启动，如果你在这个应用程序中被选中，你将会被通知。小心任何声称在我们的应用程序之外给 Pi KYC 机会的诈骗。

我们认识到并听说，对于一些先驱者来说，获取护照是困难的，我们希望在未来为 Pi 社区开发一种分散的、可靠的、低成本甚至免费的 KYC 流程，这种流程不一定需要护照。最终的目标是使网络中的每一个真正的先驱都能够通过 KYC，或者最终证明他们对主网络的人性化。关于未来 KYC 解决方案的讨论也可能成为即将到来的 Pi 大会的一个主题，我们欢迎先驱们的创造性想法。

KYC 现在让先锋们做了什么?

目前，我们主要使用 KYC 让先行者在 Pi Testnet 中运行节点，在我们的平台上开发 Pi 应用，在 Pi 应用中花费 Pi，执行应用内转移，这些都是构建 Pi 经济生态系统的支柱。最终，每个 Pi 成员将需要通过 KYC，以迁移他们的 Pi 到 Pi 主网络。

KYC 并没有免除先驱们遵守 Pi 政策和被禁止的行为，包括将 Pi 与其他货币交换，将 Pi 账户卖给其他人，使用账户中的任何自动脚本，以及创建虚假账户。即使一个先驱者通过了 KYC，被禁止的行为可能会导致 KYC 的帐户被冻结，撤销，烧毁或禁止在主网络之前。因此，请不要参与任何禁止的活动。作为一个真正的人，遵循 Pi 的政策是确保您的 Pi 的最好策略。

10 万个免费 KYC 名额的选择标准和流程是什么?

与此前宣布将精英选择标准,基于π先锋之前的贡献包括的时间作为一个先锋,和可靠性的时间节点,参与,社区发展,促进建设性的对话,和未来的潜在贡献包括π节点和 Testnet,π应用平台,引导π对等的经济和构建生态系统。考虑到未来的潜在贡献，意味着会有新近加入的和资深的先驱者被选中，但从总体上看，分布中的资深先驱者将比新近加入的先驱者更多。

我们还考虑了创建虚假账户或与之关联的可能性。实际上，我们还邀请 KYC 来处理一些我们怀疑是“假的”或者“运行自动化脚本”的账户，这样我们就可以进一步研究他们的实践并评估他们。如果我们证实了我们的怀疑，这些账户显然将被排除在将 Pi 转移到主网络之外。

我们还引入了一个新的 KYC 选择过程，在这个过程中，我们的系统会基于上述标准，每天自动选择先驱。被选中的开拓者将会在本应用内弹出提示。在应用内提示中，开拓者将被要求确认他们是否拥有签发国家的正确身份证件。如果是，他们继续在第三方 app 中进行 KYC。如果不是，并不意味着他们将不再被选中。如果有人被系统提示这次通过 KYC，他们有可能会被再次选择 10 万免费插槽，但这不是保证。谎称自己拥有某个文件不仅会导致 KYC 现在失效，而且还会降低此人将来被选中再次通过该文件的几率。

如果有人被选中，并拥有正确的文件，他们有接下来的 24 小时通过 KYC。24 小时后，如果拓荒者还没有使用此插槽，此免费 KYC 机会将转到其他拓荒者。24 小时期限的原因开拓者已经确认他们有正确的文档,因为我们要确保每天完成一个目标数量的什么水平,甚至有一个分配每天什么时段,避免高峰的交通,为我们和我们的第三方供应商。

总而言之，100K 免费 KYC 只是我们招募先锋进行身份验证的开始，让更多的先锋建立 Pi 的去中心化网络并引导 Pi 的经济，同样，你可以等待前面提到的未来的机会和未来的 KYC 解决方案。

为什么 KYC 对 10 万开拓者是免费的?

因为这是一个相对较小的群体，而这 10 万先驱者将努力引导我们的经济并建立我们的测试网。KYC 是昂贵的，因为它目前是由第三方应用程序执行的，他们收取每个 KYC 检查的基础上。虽然核心团队可以支付 Pi 全球社区的一小部分成本，但在我们找到低成本到无成本的解决方案之前，它无法支付我们数百万的当前和未来先驱的 KYC 成本。正如 2019 年 12 月宣布的那样，核心团队将不会从任何身份验证流程或 KYC 解决方案中获益。对于大量的先驱者来说，未来的 KYC 要么以先驱者的成本为代价(即无论第三方 KYC 提供商收取多少费用)，要么采用分散的、低成本到零成本的 KYC 流程，为 Pi 社区定制。我们的愿望是创建一个免费的 KYC 选项。虽然我们还不能承诺我们会实现这个目标，但我们可以承诺我们会尽最大努力。

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