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title: "Why did Pi Network drop 1.9% on October 24, 2026?"
language: en
canonical: "https://whycoinmoves.com/en/coins/pi-network/2026-10-24"
date: 2026-10-24
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# Why did Pi Network drop 1.9% on October 24, 2026?

On October 24, 2026 (UTC), PI went from about $0.07857 to $0.07712 (-1.87%) on OKX · USDT, trading between $0.07578 and $0.07899. For the closed-hour 24h window: PI's move is partly market-wide, with a residual that does not identify a cause. PI fell further than this on 5 of the past 29 days. Pi Network moved down while some other tracked coins moved the same way, and part of the move is in line with Bitcoin. The rest of the move is not explained by any identified cause. No recent report about the coin explains it, so the cause is unresolved. Trading activity was near its usual level.

- Day open / close: $0.07857 → $0.07712 (24 hourly candles, OKX · USDT)
- Day range: $0.07578 – $0.07899
- Versus Bitcoin: -1.87% / BTC -0.38%; -1.5 pts left after BTC × its hourly beta 0.91
- Versus the past month: 5 of the past 29 days fell further; Closed-hour 24h move -1.87%, 1.4× its prior 30-day median of 1.3%.
- 30-day range: 17.7% below the high · 4.2% above the low; From hourly highs and lows on the same venue
- Other tracked coins: 13 of 23 moved the same way; 1 moved the other way
- 24h volume: 0.8×; of its prior 30-day daily average

Computed from OKX · USDT hourly candles for the 24 hours to 25/10/2026, 00:00 UTC.

## Still open

- Whether any project statement, blog post or developer update accompanied the day's move, to be settled by an official Pi Network announcement.
- Whether exchange notices or listing changes affected the coin, to be settled by venue announcements.
- Whether on-chain or app-level activity changed, to be settled by published network data.

Prices, market readings and reports are shown side by side; timing alone does not show what caused a move.

## Same-day movers · 2026-10-24 (UTC)

- [Irys (IRYS) -47.17%](<https://whycoinmoves.com/en/coins/irys/2026-10-24>)
- [Quantus (QTC) -13.56%](<https://whycoinmoves.com/en/coins/quantus/2026-10-24>)
- [Sui (SUI) -2.28%](<https://whycoinmoves.com/en/coins/sui/2026-10-24>)
- [Ondo (ONDO) -2.17%](<https://whycoinmoves.com/en/coins/ondo-finance/2026-10-24>)
- [Zcash (ZEC) +2.13%](<https://whycoinmoves.com/en/coins/zcash/2026-10-24>)

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