Pi Network Founder Chengdiao Fan to address the real world utility of crypto in her speech at TOKEN2049
Palo Alto, United States, September 28th, 2025, Chainwire
Pi Network has confirmed that Founder Dr. Chengdiao Fan will be a speaker at the TOKEN2049 event in Singapore, taking place October 1-2, 2025.
As excitement builds ahead of one of the largest crypto events in the world, where TOKEN2049 is expected to bring together more than 25,000 attendees, 300 speakers and 500 exhibitors including founders, executives, investors, developers, and policymakers, Dr. Fan’s speech is keenly anticipated by Pi’s community of more than 60 million engaged users.
In her speech, Dr. Fan will focus on crypto and blockchain as mechanisms for real societal utility and impact, analyzing current Web3 challenges and potential solutions for pushing the crypto space for more innovations in real-world utility. ‘Crypto’s Future: From Liquidity to Utility – Web3 Pathways to Innovation’ will be an examination of crypto and blockchain as much more than speculative tools. Dr Fan will analyze the current Web3 challenges in creating real utility and building genuine applications for everyday people, and suggest directions that the crypto space can explore for a potential breakthrough and further innovations. Those future and current innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) will also be explored in the talk, including addressing the core challenges around human labor, economic equity, and the sustainable role of human intelligence. Dr. Fan will unpack the necessary conditions for blockchain to do so, such as mass adoption, identity verification, and decentralized production using AI. For technologists, policymakers, and founders alike, the session will offer a timely look at how we can shape AI and blockchain’s trajectory to benefit humanity and not sideline it.
“Achieving mass adoption in crypto has always been a goal of the industry,” explains Dr. Fan. “One of Web3’s most pressing challenges is unlocking what it will take to bring blockchain into everyday life. In my talk, I will explore the hurdles of reaching mass adoption and use beyond early adopters. I am delighted to bring this topic to both crypto natives and mainstream audiences at one of the most influential technology conferences on the global calendar.”
Pi Network is engaging with the global community and Web3 industry at multiple events; after participating in the recent Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul, Pi will attend several key gatherings including TOKEN2049 and surrounding events.
Dr Fan’s talk: Crypto’s Future: From Liquidity to Utility – Web3 Pathways to Innovation will be at 4.30pm on Wednesday, October 1st on the TON stage.
About Pi Network
Pi Network is a community of tens of millions of humans mining Pi cryptocurrency to use and build the Web app ecosystem. Founded by a team of early innovators in blockchain and social computing, with PhDs from Stanford University, Pi Network is a utilities-based ecosystem for third-party apps on a mobile web platform, with widespread (rather than concentrated) token distribution. The blockchain platform offers a mobile-first mining approach, with low financial cost and a light environmental footprint within the crypto space.
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