As of August 19, 2025, the main channel for Pakistani users to obtain Pi coins is the official Pi Network application. There are 370,000 active miners in the country (accounting for 4.2% of global users), with an average of 1,200 new accounts added daily. According to a survey by Dawn in May 2025, Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore have the highest user density, with 48, 52 and 41 active devices per square kilometer respectively. Although Pi Coin is not yet listed, its over-the-counter (OTC) trading price range is $0.12 to $0.18, an increase of 15% compared to the same period in 2024. Most transactions are completed through platforms such as WhatsApp groups and LocalBitcoins, with an average transaction time of 3.7 hours.
Mining efficiency is influenced by multiple factors: users who have not completed KYC (Identity Verification) can only produce 0.04 Pi per hour, while verified users can increase their efficiency to 0.8 Pi per hour through the expansion of the security circle. It should be noted that the country’s power supply is unstable. In Punjab Province, the average daily power outage lasts for 4.2 hours, causing 23% of miners to suspend their operations. According to the data from the Pi Core team, the verification speed of the Pakistan node reached 1.4 seconds per transaction, which is better than the global average of 2.1 seconds. However, the network latency rate of 18% (due to the 4G coverage rate of only 65%) still restricts the output.
Beware of over-the-counter trading risks: In 2024, the Sindh Cybercrime Bureau recorded 74 Pi coin fraud cases, with the involved amount exceeding 1.9 million rupees. The typical method was to forge a “Pi exchange platform “to induce payment of” activation fees “ranging from 500 to 2,000 rupees. Compliant channels can pay attention to the Binance P2P market. The average daily liquidity of its Pakistani rupiah (PKR) trading pairs is 870,000 Pi, with a commission rate of 0.9%, but a 5.2% risk of exchange rate fluctuations is required. It is worth noting that the actual value of pi rate today in pakistan depends on the progress of the mainnet launch – if the mainnet is launched in 2026 as per the roadmap in the white paper, McKinsey predicts that its initial pricing could reach $0.25- $0.40.
Regulatory policy constitutes a key variable: The Central Bank of Pakistan (SBP) still maintains the 2021 cryptocurrency ban, but the National Assembly is reviewing the draft of the Digital Asset Regulatory Framework, which proposes that trading platforms pay a margin of 5 million US dollars. The University of Karachi Blockchain Lab suggests that users should prioritize connecting to international nodes via VPN (with a usage rate of 68%) and use cold wallets for storage to avoid the legal risks associated with unregistered assets as stipulated in SECP 2025-07.