Pyth Network (PYTH)

Pyth Network is a cross-chain price oracle that aggregates first-party data from exchanges, market makers and banks into low-latency feeds used across dozens of blockchains. September 2026 brought two reinforcing catalysts: Pyth was approved as an official external distributor of Nasdaq Basic's real-time U.S. equity data, extending an earlier Nasdaq partnership, just as rival oracle Switchboard shut down entirely and pointed its integrators toward Pyth and RedStone as replacements.