According to Chengdiao Fan, creating the world's most distributed and most used cryptocurrency, $Pi, is a multidimensional challenge involving distributed systems, cryptography, economics, law, politics and social sciences. She is confident that Stanford's collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches will provide the skills needed to realize this vision.

https://stanforddaily.com/2019/09/16/stanford-grads-develop-cryptocurrency-for-smartphone-users-to-increase-its-accessibility/