Reviewed by Reviewed by Saman Waris Updated 07:45 EDT October 1, 2026 Share Share Share Back to Top Pi Network is widening its stablecoin utility through a new partnership with Open Standard, bringing Open USD [OUSD] into focus for its ecosystem
The partnership offers the Pioneers new ways to earn rewards as well as expand potential payments or transactions based upon the use case of both
Moreover, OUSD launched across Ethereum [ETH], Solana [SOL], Base, and Tempo, thus providing a link between Pi Network [PI] and existing multi-chain platforms
Open Standard has over 200 partnerships in the area of payments, finance, tech, and crypto, including Visa, Google, and Stripe
That network provides the foundation for this partnership to be greater than just one stablecoin in operation. However, PI did not provide details about the use of OUSD in their ecosystem
Thus, the extent of the partnership’s impact depends upon whether the planned rewards result in measurable user activity
The next test of Pi Network will be whether OUSD rewards can convert a partnership’s interest in an investment into actual use by its investors. With over 17 million users having been verified as legitimate through the Know Your Customer (KYC) process
This represents a huge base to draw from to potentially engage those users in using OUSD. On the other hand, OUSD currently has an approximate total of roughly $468 million worth of supply distributed throughout the system
Also, nearly all of that supply has been placed on the Tempo platform
This high degree of concentration illustrates just how early the network still is. However, it also presents the opportunity for Pi users to both hold and trade their OUSD tokens due to the structure of the reward model
Pi Network, at this point, is testing if the OUSD news can strengthen its technical recovery. Since reaching $0.0795 in mid-September, PI created a series of higher lows and recovered back up to $0.086
Since then, buyers have attempted to push the price upward toward the resistance area around $0.0935 from the prior breakdown. However, the token came as close as $0.09116 before moving lower to $0.09001, showing resistance still exists
Furthermore, the ascending trend line continues to provide support for the recovery efforts, with the recent pullback maintaining support just below $0.088. The RSI has also moved down from 69.9 to 46.18, indicating that there is less stretched momentum
All in all, an upside breakthrough at $0.0935 may create a potential pathway to $0.099. Conversely, a loss of the trend line would weaken the recovery structure
Muriuki Lazaro is a on-chain data analyst with a B.Sc. in Data Science. Muriuki specializes in dissecting complex on-chain data into clear and accurate insights for readers in the crypto ecosystem, with a particular focus on Bitcoin
