India, Feb. 20 -- Pi Network officially moved to the Open Network on Thursday, allowing its cryptocurrency Pi Coin to be traded openly. But not much is known about the network's journey and the people behind it.

The network was started by Nicolas Kokkalis, who is currently serving as its Head of Technology, and Chengidao Fan, currently working as the network's Head of Product, six years ago.

Kokkalis is a PhD holder from US' Stanford University, where he was the instructor of the university's first decentralised applications class in 2018. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science, according to the network's website.

While working at Stanford as a Postdoctoral Scholar and even after that, Kokkalis created an early framework for writing "s...