Pyth launches data marketplace

Wall Street firms usually sell data through terminals, vendor contracts, and private feeds. On April 9, 2026, Pyth Network said firms including Fidelity Investments, Euronext, Exchange Data International, OTC Markets Group, Singapore Exchange foreign exchange, and Tradeweb are now publishing data through a blockchain-based marketplace instead. (pyth.network) This is not a marketplace for stocks or bonds. It is a marketplace for the raw information behind those markets: foreign exchange prices, precious metals prices, crude swaps data, and reference data for equities, exchange-traded funds, fixed income, and derivatives. (pyth.network) Pyth started as an oracle network, which is a delivery system that moves market prices onto blockchains so apps can use them. Think of it like a live wire that carries prices from trading firms into onchain apps that cannot see Bloomberg screens or exchange feeds by themselves. (pyth.network) The new step is that Pyth is not only carrying prices anymore. It is letting data owners package their own datasets, keep ownership, set commercial terms, and distribute them across more than 100 blockchains through the same network. (pyth.network) That changes who gets to be the seller. Instead of a data vendor buying feeds, repackaging them, and reselling them, the exchange, broker, or asset manager can publish directly to developers, trading apps, and financial firms using Pyth’s rails. (pyth.network) The list of launch partners shows how broad that bet is. Euronext brings exchange data, Exchange Data International specializes in reference data, Fidelity Investments is one of the biggest asset managers in the United States, OTC Markets Group runs markets for thousands of securities, Singapore Exchange foreign exchange brings currency data, and Tradeweb is a major electronic trading venue for rates, credit, and other assets. (pyth.network) (tradeweb.com) The pitch to those firms is simple: blockchain distribution reaches buyers that old market-data pipes do not. Pyth says the marketplace is built to send institutional datasets to blockchains, applications, and financial firms, which means a data owner can sell once and reach both crypto-native apps and traditional clients. (pyth.network) The pitch to buyers is also simple: get the data closer to the source. Mike Cahill of Douro Labs, a contributor to Pyth Network, said the model gives institutions a direct distribution path instead of routing data through layers of intermediaries. (pyth.network) Pyth has been building toward this for a while. In July 2025 it described a “global price layer,” and in late 2025 it launched Pyth Pro, a product aimed at institutional-grade market data across asset classes and geographies. (pyth.network 1) (pyth.network 2) The marketplace turns that older idea into a storefront. Instead of only asking whether a price feed is fast enough for decentralized finance, Pyth is now asking whether the whole market-data business can move onto blockchain rails, with named institutions as the suppliers. (pyth.network) (financefeeds.com) That is why the Fidelity and Exchange Data International logos matter more than the crypto branding around them. If large incumbents are willing to publish proprietary datasets through an onchain marketplace, blockchain stops looking like a side channel for finance data and starts looking more like a new wholesale distribution layer. (pyth.network) (liquidityfinder.com)