Pi Network's official moderators recently clarified what Supernodes are actually built for. Turns out, their scope is pretty specific.

These nodes handle four core responsibilities: validating transactions, maintaining network consensus, securing the blockchain infrastructure, and managing the blockchain's hierarchical structure. That's it.

What caught attention though? The explicit statement that AI operations aren't part of the Supernode design. The architecture simply wasn't created with AI workloads in mind.

This clarification matters because it sets clear technical boundaries for what the network's validator layer can and can't do. No feature creep, no mission drift—just focused infrastructure doing what it's designed for.