The team behind the popular project has released another major KYC and Mainnet migration update, clearing hundreds of thousands of previously stuck Pioneers while introducing new verification methods, including something called a palm-print trial.

The update focuses primarily on so-called “corner cases” that prevented otherwise eligible users from completing KYC or accessing their migrated balances. The largest immediate change affects accounts previously flagged as possible duplicates.

900,000+ Users to Be Unblocked?

The blog post on the project’s official site reads that after additional evaluation, the team had determined that over 417,000 users were caught in the duplicated-account review, but in reality, their accounts did not fall into that category. They can now move forward with KYC, although they must still satisfy all other applicable verification requirements.

Another fix targets an additional 497,000 users whose Mainnet balances became inaccessible because of an issue involving the Fast-Track wallets. Some received their Mainnet wallet through the project’s Fast-Track process and later used it as the destination for migration. However, these wallets sometimes lacked enough Pi tokens to cover the gas fee required to claim the migrated balance because they were created through a different route than the standard KYC process.

The Core Team noted that these issues will be addressed with an update scheduled for deployment within the next week or so. It will unblock those users and prevent the same problem from affecting similar accounts in the future. In total, the fixes should help approximately 914,000 users.

Palm-Print Verification Tested

The second major announcement in the most recent statement involves expansion plans for Pi Network’s identity-verification tools. For a trial that lasts a month, some users will be asked to complete multiple liveness checks, and the team will offer them palm-print capture as an additional authentication method.

Pi Network’s team said palm prints provide another way to verify that users are genuine humans while offering a degree of privacy because the method does not require displaying a face. As with most other Pi Network updates, more on the recent ones can be found in our dedicated article, the feature will be rolled out gradually.

Other changes include improved machine-learning-based resource management to reduce KYC processing errors, broader liveness-check compatibility for older or lower-spec smartphones, and new resubmission options for some users affected by earlier Yoti verification issues or unsupported IDs from Indonesia.

Source: CryptoPotato