Tech and Product Review!
New details about some awesome features the Core Team released. I hope this update inspires new and existing Pioneers to branch out to other forms of crypto mining. This will not be a complete list of all their work done.
Added features like KYC Application have been added. The infrastructure supporting the Pi KYC application was refined throughout the year based on ongoing KYC analytics. These changes reduced the loading time for the features and improved the speed at which applications are processed by the automated features of the app. Improved KYC security was developed and released with these additional security features, Pi is available to many more applicants! The daily rate at which KYC application slots are distributed increased throughout the month, and the number of daily invitations to submit Pi KYC applications is now more than 100 times greater than at the start of May.
Increased Pi application speed at which an application is reviewed increased throughout the month. The rate of false negatives also declined, allowing more applications to be correctly approved (while Core Team works on re-processing the false negatives). By “false negatives,” we mean applications that should have been approved but were initially marked as negative.
User interface (UI) features were worked on and released throughout the month which helped improve the Pi KYC process. They made multiple updates to the liveness detection feature, speeding up the liveness test for both KYC applicants and Validators as well as expanding the types of devices able to display the liveness test to Validators. This not only makes the KYC applicant’s experience easier, but also helps the Validator’s productivity. Released with a quiz that Validators are required to take periodically to refresh and test their knowledge of validation requirements. Pi network has also added a guide for Validators on how to conduct each type of KYC review (i.e., document match, liveness check, and identity match) at the point of their validation workflow. The guide will continue to be updated based on ongoing validation data.
I hope some of this makes sense. Here is some general information about Pi network. The features and tasks needed to migrate Pioneers to the Pi Mainnet Blockchain is currently being worked on while the KYC solution is scaling to verify the identity of many Pioneers! The Pi translation app was designed, developed and is currently testing an application that will source translations of various Pi applications from the community. Those community translations will then be displayed within the application when a Pioneer selects a different language. This application is the first prototype of an ecosystem app that will later be made available for the community to use.
Multiple account security is critical to mobile mining. Pioneers are now able to reset their password either through the login screen or on their Profile page. When a Pioneer resets their password, this also triggers a security feature that they will also be logged out of their Pi account on all devices. It’s preferred for Pioneers to try changing their password when already logged in. Pioneers can also make a report on their Profile page if they suspect their account is potentially compromised, allowing for further investigation. When a Pioneer started but did not complete registration of a new Pi account using their phone number, the phone number was prohibited from being used again in another registration attempt by the Pioneer at a later time. In this case, the Pioneer would see an error message, “the number is already registered to another account.” This update allows Pioneers to create accounts or verify phone numbers which were previously associated with an incomplete registration.
Pi introduced Art Chat Rooms. When entering the #PiArt chat room, Pioneers will now be presented with a popup detailing chat room guide-lines. These guidelines help keep the Pi Art chat room focused on Pi Art, reducing any spam or misuse of the chatroom.