πPI · Pi Network
Inflation analysis
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PI · years of mined balances are unlocking into the market, with nothing to soak them up.

PI is the token of Pi Network, its own mobile-mined mainnet — ~10.9B circulating of a 100B hard cap, with more than 58B still held off-market by Pioneers waiting to migrate.

Sell pressure. Unlocking lockups and new migrations add about 585M PI to the live float over the next 90 days — the last 90 days ran near 786M.

Buy pressure. Zero. No buyback, no fee burn — nothing removes PI from supply.

Net. About +5.4% to market over the next 90 days — supply heading up hard, among the most inflationary assets we cover.

Inflation
Last 90 Days
+7.22%
updated
Net flow: 7.22% of supply goes to market over 90 days
Next 90 Days
+5.37%
estimate
Net flow: 5.37% of supply goes to market next 90 days
Supply growing · projected to keep growing
monitor gap · Our supply monitor reads net change near +7.8% over the last 90 days, while our framework reads about +7.2% — the same roughly 786M PI addition, measured against a different base. The framework divides that flow by the current float (~10.89B), the monitor divides it by the 90-day-ago float (~10.12B); the ~0.55pp gap is the denominator base, not a different flow. The tracked circulating float rose ~10.109B to ~10.900B over the window, checked Jul 8 2026; primary read kept.
Sell pressure
1. Protocol inflation
0

Fresh mining is now a trickle. After five halvings the base rate sits near 0.0029 pi an hour, and newly-mined Pi lands in locked or not-yet-migrated balances first, so it adds almost nothing to the live, tradable float inside the window. The supply that actually reaches the market is the unlock engine below, not new mining.

checked · Jul 8 2026
2. Vesting unlocks
~585M PI

This is the whole story. Migrated Pi releases on individual lockup schedules at roughly a 6.5M-a-day pace, and freshly KYC-verified Pioneers keep moving dormant app-mined balances onto mainnet — together adding about 585M PI to the live float over the next 90 days. Around 103M is scheduled to unlock in July, easing from the heavier spring migration wave that pushed the last 90 days to about 786M.

checked · Jul 8 2026
3. Foundation + unscheduled unlocks
0

No evidence of a discretionary Core Team release beyond the ongoing schedule — monitored. The overhang here is large but sits still: roughly 20B PI in the Core Team allocation (20% of the 100B cap) plus more than 58B in not-yet-migrated Pioneer balances, which is the reservoir that feeds the unlock row above rather than a separate dump.

checked · Jul 8 2026
4. Long-term locked or bankruptcy
0

No bankruptcy estate or court-ordered distribution applies to Pi. Supply is hard-capped at 100B, and voluntary Pi Lock-ups are user-chosen mining boosts that are already accounted for inside the unlock schedule.

permanent · no change
Buy pressure
1. Programmatic buyback
0

There is no revenue-funded buyback. Nothing in the protocol purchases PI back from the market.

checked · Jul 8 2026
2. Protocol fee burn
0

Pi does not burn a base fee. Transaction fees on the Stellar-Consensus chain are negligible and are not destroyed, so nothing is removed from supply.

checked · Jul 8 2026
3. Foundation buy
0

No discretionary open-market buying programme — monitored.

checked · Jul 8 2026
4. New long-term lock
0

No new multi-year protocol lock or escrow was announced in the window. Voluntary Pi Lock-ups are user mining-boosts, not a supply sink, and are already netted inside the unlock schedule.

checked · Jul 8 2026

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Supply check · sell, buy & net
 
Last 90D
Next 90D
Sell total (M PI)
786.000
585.000
Buy total (M PI)
0.000
0.000
Sell % of circ
+7.216%
+5.371%
Buy % of circ
0.000%
0.000%
Net inflation %
+7.216%
+5.371%
Circulating supply: 10891.789M PI
Read the inflation analysis
The full Pressure Framework write-up for PI.
Why the unlock schedule, not mining, is the supply story — and why nothing offsets it.

MrNasdog Pressure Framework analysis of PI, Metric 1 (Inflation Monitor). Data + explanation only. Not financial advice. Updated Jul 8, 2026.