Pyth Data Association
Pyth Data Association supports the Pyth Network, a decentralized market-data layer that brings real-time prices from institutional publishers directly to blockchains, applications, institutions, prediction markets and AI systems through a unified API. Its stated aim is to make financial data more open, transparent, accessible and composable.
At a Glance
- Trading firms and market makers
- Global exchanges and financial institutions
- Banks, asset managers and data publishers
- DeFi protocols and blockchain applications
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AI Tools by Pyth Data Association
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Pyth Pro MCP Server
MCP Server for Market Data
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Latest News
Pyth Pro MCP Server 1.1 expands AI-agent access to live, historical, funding-rate, session and high-frequency market data.
Pyth Data Marketplace launches with institutional datasets and six new publishers, enabling direct distribution and monetization of proprietary data.
Pyth announces extended-hours U.S. equity feeds will move from Pyth Core to Pyth Pro and publishes $5,000/$10,000 monthly plan options.
Pyth introduces the PYTH Reserve to channel protocol revenue into systematic PYTH token purchases through the DAO treasury.
Products & Services
First-party, low-latency real-time price feeds across crypto, equities, FX, commodities, metals, rates, indices, NAVs and other asset classes, delivered across blockchains and APIs.
Secure on-chain random-number-generation service for games, prediction markets and protocol systems.
Paid institutional market-data service with cross-asset coverage, API access, historical data, high-frequency update channels, display/non-display rights and enterprise support.
Distribution and monetization layer for institutional datasets such as economic indicators, OTC pricing, FX benchmarks, equity/ETF, fixed-income and derivatives reference data.
Market Position
Pyth positions itself as a first-party, source-direct alternative to legacy market-data vendors and downstream oracle aggregators. It combines institutional publishers, transparent aggregation, cross-chain delivery and a unified API, competing in decentralized oracle infrastructure with Chainlink and RedStone and in institutional market data with incumbent vendors such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv/LSEG and other packaged-feed providers. Its differentiation is low latency, source attribution, broad on-chain distribution and a transparent subscription model.
Leadership
Founders
Michael (Mike) Cahill
Former Jump Trading/Jump Crypto contributor; later co-founded Douro Labs, the core contributor developing Pyth Network, and has served as a Pyth Data Association director.
Jayant Krishnamurthy
Former Jump Trading/Jump Crypto contributor; co-founded Douro Labs and is identified in Pyth ecosystem material as its CTO/core technical contributor.
Ciarán Cronin
Former Jump Trading/Jump Crypto contributor; co-founded Douro Labs with Cahill and Krishnamurthy in 2023.
Executive Team
Michael (Mike) Cahill
Director, Pyth Data Association; CEO, Douro Labs (core contributor)
Former Jump Trading/Jump Crypto contributor and co-founder of Douro Labs.
Marc Tillement
Director / Contributor, Pyth Data Association
Listed on the Association's official team page as a contributor and identified publicly as a Pyth Data Association director.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Pyth began in April 2021 as a collaboration among trading firms and exchanges that wanted to publish high-frequency, first-party market data on a blockchain rather than leave it behind closed, fragmented distribution systems. The Association was formed by Pyth Network participants to advance the network's development, research, education and technology and to help create a decentralized, censorship-resistant data future.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription and licensing revenue from Pyth Pro and institutional market-data access; protocol and on-chain product revenue from Pyth Price Feeds, Entropy, Express Relay and the Data Marketplace. Pyth says product revenue flows to the Pyth DAO, which uses treasury processes for the PYTH Reserve.
Pricing Tiers
View-only Pyth Terminal access; 10-second updates; 30 days of limited-resolution history; no API access or redistribution rights.
API key and Terminal access; up to 1-second updates; full crypto coverage and historical resolution; display rights but no redistribution rights.
API and Terminal access; up to 50ms updates; all-symbol cross-asset coverage; display/non-display rights, limited redistribution, enterprise support and SLAs.
Pyth Pro plan cited for U.S. equities coverage, including extended-hours migration.
Global cross-asset Pyth Pro plan with institutional coverage, enterprise support and redistribution rights.
Target Markets
- Trading firms and market makers
- Global exchanges and financial institutions
- Banks, asset managers and data publishers
- DeFi protocols and blockchain applications
- Centralized and decentralized exchanges
- Prediction-market operators
- DeFi lending, perpetual futures, derivatives and synthetic assets
- Centralized and decentralized exchanges and trading applications
- Institutional trading, risk, analytics, clearing and settlement
- Tokenized real-world assets and 24/7 or extended-hours markets
- Prediction markets and event-driven applications
- Government economic-data verification and distribution
- Coinbase
- Kraken
- Polymarket
- Kalshi