Referral Team & Invitation Code

How do I get more members for my referral team?

Your referral team is made up of your Inviter and the people that you invite. So, you can build your own referral team by giving your invitation code to others. If you go to the Referral Team page, click on the purple “INVITE” button, which will allow you to send your invitation code to your phone contacts, or you may “USE OTHER CHANNELS” to send your invitation code. 

You are allowed to post your invitation code on social media, and you may find other creative solutions to post your invitation code. Please do not post your invitation code in Pi Chat rooms because everyone in the chat rooms are already Pioneers previously invited by someone else. Invitation code is meant for you to invite new members to Pi Network and forming your referral team with them.

Can I change to a different referral team? 

A Pioneer cannot transfer to a different referral team because the change of referral team would trigger complex retrospective re-calculations of all previous mining rates in every single mining session of the new inviter, the old inviter and the Pioneer who wants to switch to a different referral team. So we do not support this process that is not only wasteful of computing power but also creating inconsistent user experience and balances for the Pioneers other than the requester.

Remember that your referral team is made up of your Inviter and the people that you invite. So, you can build your own referral team by inviting others. 

If you have a friend with a large referral team with a high mining rate, joining your friend’s team does not change your own referral team or mining rate because your mining rate is based on your referral team members, not your friend’s team members.

My invitee made a mistake with the invitation code and did not end up on my referral team. Can I get my invitee back to my referral team?

A Pioneer cannot transfer to a different referral team because the change of referral team would trigger complex retrospective re-calculations of all previous mining rates in every single mining session of the new inviter, the old inviter and the Pioneer who wants to switch to a different referral team. So we do not support this process that is not only wasteful of computing power but also creating inconsistent user experience and balances for the Pioneers other than the requester.

May I remove a member from my referral team?

Technically no, especially for all real human members of the referral team, because referral team structure not only relates to mining bonus, but also captures the history of who invited whom into the network.

However, you can remove a member from your referral team chat, or report a referral team member as a fake account to the system, if you really think they are fake accounts. The report-fake feature also automatically removes them from your referral team chat. Then you can use the Filter feature to “Hide reported” to make them disappear from your referral team interface.

If you have an inactive team member, you can hide an inactive team member with the use of the filter feature on the Referral Team page.

If you have someone harassing your referral team chat, you can remove a member from your referral team chat by going to the menu in the upper right corner in your referral team chat and click on “Remove from chat”.

Is there a limit to the number of people I can invite?

There is no limit. You can invite as many people as you want. 

What happens if I have referral team members that are inactive?

Your mining rate increases when your referral team members are also active and mining along with you. If members of your referral team are inactive, then you do not get the mining bonus, but there is no negative effect to your mining rate. 

You remind your referral team members to mine by clicking on “PING INACTIVE,” and inactive members of your team will receive a notification reminder.

What happens if I have referral team members that are fake accounts?

If you have referral team members that are fake accounts, then the mining bonus earned from them will be deleted before going to the Mainnet in Phase 3. 

We recognize that it may be unfortunate to see a reduction of your balance due to deletion of such bonuses. However, it was an unfair gain in the first place because Pi Policies have defined that Pi only goes to real human beings with one account per person, and stated that all Pi mined or incurred by fake accounts will be destroyed. If it is unfair for people to keep Pi that is earned from fake accounts. Imagine a bad actor who created many fake accounts to earn Pi at a higher rate. In order to maintain trustworthiness and fairness in our network, we cannot allow anyone to earn Pi unfairly through any types of rewards from fake accounts.