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One of the biggest contradictions in modern finance is that markets have already become 24/7, but much of the infrastructure supporting them still behaves as if trading stops on Friday.

Today, traders can speculate on oil through perpetual futures, react to breaking news through prediction markets, and gain exposure to equities through tokenized assets at any time of the day. Yet the pricing systems behind many of these products are still tied to traditional market hours. When major events happen over the weekend, markets continue reacting while the benchmarks they're built around often remain frozen until regular trading resumes.

Pyth Network is addressing this with the launch of Pyth Indices, a new suite of 24/7 indices covering oil, metals, U.S. equities, and thematic baskets such as AI10, Defense10, China10, and Tech100. Instead of relying on a world where market hours dictate when prices can move, these indices are designed for a financial system where trading activity never truly stops.

What stands out is just the level of adoption at launch. Coinbase is already using the thematic equity indices, Kraken has integrated them for oil derivatives, dYdX launched perpetual contracts based on the 24/7 Oil Index, and Nado is using continuous oil pricing across its trading products. When multiple major platforms go live from day one, it suggests the industry has been waiting for this type of infrastructure.

The partnership behind the launch is equally important. MarketVector, VanEck's index business with more than $100 billion tied to its indices, contributes the institutional methodology and governance, while Pyth provides the real time data and continuous pricing layer. Together, they're building benchmarks designed for markets that operate beyond the limitations of traditional trading sessions.

Keep your eyes on $PYTH

$BTC right now is moving like the market is testing everyone's patience.

Price is still reacting to macro pressure, ETF outflows, and whale movements, but it keeps holding key zones despite the fear in the market

I'm cautiously bullish 👀👀

Bloomberg Terminal costs more than some people’s yearly salary just to access market data.

And even after paying, most users still treat the data like a black box where numbers come in, and charts move
nobody really sees how the feed itself is constructed.

That entire system became normal in TradFi with opaque pricing, closed infrastructure, and limited to enterprise access only.
The data industry built artificial scarcity around information the market literally depends on.

Pyth Network Terminal is very interesting.

It removes the curtain, you open it and immediately see 3,000+ live feeds across crypto, equities, FX and commodities updating in real time.

Then you realize you can actually inspect the publishers behind the feeds themselves, toogle them on and off, compare benchmarks, and watch how the final price is formed.

That level of transparency almost never exists in traditional finance infrastructure.

Usually the process is “Here’s the data. Trust us.” while Pyth’s approach is “Here’s the data. Examine it yourself" and it matters more than people think because the future winners in financial infrastructure probably won’t just be the fastest data providers but the most transparent ones.

Feeling strong on $PYTH