$PI Fellow partners of the Pioneer Global Community, dear friends, hello. I am Fan Chengbiao. Standing at the crossroads of 2026, a year full of change and opportunity, I reflect that two years ago, since the launch of the Pai Network and Natel on February 20, 2025, we have collectively experienced a milestone of 10 months. In this rapidly changing digital landscape, we have not only witnessed Pai's flow and value contradictions in the global market but also seen how a digital nation built on 60,000,000 real human bases is steadily transforming from a grand blueprint into reality. Today, as a co-founder of the network, from the perspective of a scholar long focused on social computing and human autonomy, I share deep thoughts on artificial intelligence, encryption technology, and the future of humanity. This is not just a forecast report on AI development in 2026, but also an action blueprint for how we defend human civilization and autonomy. We are at a turning point where AI is fully permeating productivity. It is no longer just an auxiliary tool but has penetrated the capillaries of the global economy—from automated legal contract review to self-optimizing industrial supply chains, to AI-driven autonomous trading algorithms—bringing about a profound and urgent question: when machines surpass human overall productivity, what will happen to human labor and autonomy? AI development shows extreme concentration of power, with top models and profits monopolized by a few tech giants. If this trend continues, future wealth distribution will depend entirely on who wins the race, and most humans may become digital proletarians. The flood of AI-generated false information and content drowns out genuine identities, causing the current social system to face collapse. The ultimate sociological significance of the existence of the network is that we are creating a form of cryptocurrency—building a risk-resistant, decentralized safe haven for humanity. In this process, blockchain technology, especially the large-scale social network built by Pai Network, provides a key solution to AI challenges. Why does Pai Network insist on real identity verification? The answer is clear in 2026: when AI can easily forge virtual social accounts, the 60,000,000 verified real users on the network are the most valuable trust in the global digital economy. The mining network, composed of real humans, is the world's largest anti-counterfeiting network, protecting our ecosystem and serving as the only benchmark for real human verification in future AI applications. Through blockchain, we ensure that the benefits brought by AI no longer solely flow into the pockets of giants. Every contribution in the Pai ecosystem—whether it’s node operation data annotation or ecosystem application development—is recorded transparently and rewarded. This wealth created by machines and shared dividends for humans provide a practical social model. To realize the goal of safeguarding human autonomy, our infrastructure must complete a comprehensive leap from a transactional network to a productivity network by 2026. Currently, Pai Network has over 350,000 active nodes. In the past six months, through the Open Mind strategy, we have integrated these distributed nodes into a decentralized AI training and inference framework. While Silicon Valley giants compete for expensive centralized computing resources, the network is leveraging the distributed power of global home computers to build an AI production model for ordinary people. This empowerment is key to defending human autonomy. If AI is the future grain, then every pioneer running a Pai node is cultivating digital land for themselves and their community. In my core philosophy, true value does not come from the fluctuating numbers on exchanges but from the utility of the Pai Network. It has formed a closed-loop effect: developers use Pai to pay, and decentralized pioneers use Pai to exchange real goods. When AI agents perform tasks within the Pai ecosystem, they must also use Pai as the underlying fuel. On the path of growth, we inevitably face storms. I have previously mentioned legal disputes involving output apologies, and I want to emphasize again that any great project aiming to change the world must go through the strength of mainstream society. Civil disputes over communication compliance are not to be avoided—they are essentially a sign that Pai Network is transitioning from a tech experiment to a global mainstream infrastructure. Only projects with genuine global influence are scrutinized under a microscope. We have extremely strict financial management and a professional legal team. These external noises cannot shake the underlying architecture of Pai Network nor threaten the security of pioneers’ assets. In 2026, Pai Network officially became one of the most compliant decentralized networks in the world, giving us an unmatched trust advantage when collaborating with mainstream banks and AI R&D institutions. Based on current progress, I make several key predictions for future development. First, the era of intelligent agent trading will arrive. By the end of 2026, over half of transactions on Pai Network will be completed by AI agents, which will automatically purchase, lease, store, or exchange ecological services based on their owners’ needs. Due to the network’s extremely low transaction costs and high authenticity guarantees, Pai will become the preferred trading medium for these digital lives. Second, from social media to social economy: traditional social platforms are weakening because they exploit user data. On Pai Network, with 60,000,000 users, social interaction is also about co-governance of an economy. In the coming years, we will see new social applications built on Pai Network that automatically match demand and supply through AI, achieving true labor-based distribution. Lastly, the deep integration of fiat currency and digital assets: as the network opens up trading in 2025, by 2026, more countries will recognize Pai as a legitimate payment option or collateral asset, especially in regions with unstable legal systems. Pai Network will become the last line of defense for local people to safeguard their assets and autonomy. This integration is not just about payments but also about sovereignty. AI-driven productivity, no longer limited by international borders, is a value network supported by global consensus. The physical realization of this is the construction of a global productivity operating system that balances efficiency and fairness across crises and civilizations. In the second half of 2026, we plan to further open our node APIs, allowing more third-party AI developers to deploy models directly on Pai’s decentralized network. For the first time in human history, ordinary people can directly participate in cutting-edge scientific and productivity competition using their own computing devices. Dear pioneers, over six years, we have faced countless mockery and doubts. Some say we are too slow; others say we are just dreaming. But I want to tell everyone that true greatness never needs short-term emotional compromises. If we only wanted to be an investment project, we could have launched four years ago. But we chose the hardest path: first cultivating a real community, then building real identities, and finally extracting real utility. Let us stand firmly at the forefront of the AI tide, rather than being swallowed by the waves. Every click, every node, every transaction is a vote for human autonomy. In an era where AI might make humans redundant, the network proves that genuine human connection is the eternal essence of the digital world. We must remain vigilant against forces trying to turn AI into an absolute ruling tool, and against the trend of turning blockchain into a mere casino. The network is a gentle but firm revolution. We ensure human dignity with KFC, guarantee freedom of computation with decentralized nodes, and protect user rights with an ecological marketplace. This tripartite structure is our ultimate shield against future uncertainties.