Meet our visionaries

Akuna Capital is a leading options market maker specializing in derivatives market making and sophisticated modelling. They trade options on a wide range of underlyings including Indices, Commodities, Currencies and Treasuries over a wide list of US & Asian venues including CME, ICE, CFE, CBOE, C2, BATS, EDGX, ISE, Gemini, MIAX Pearl, HKEX, KRX and NOM.

Akuna will initially contribute its unique crypto asset market data and plans to expand into underlying assets of additional options products as the Pyth network continues to scale.

Amber Group is one of the world's leading crypto finance service providers, operating 24/7 with a presence in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, and Vancouver. Founded in 2017, the Amber Group has over $1.5 billion in AUM. Since Amber Group has cumulatively traded over $500 billion, and is now integrated with 100+ exchanges and trading venues across the globe.

Through the partnership, Amber Group will contribute its first-party crypto-asset market data to the Pyth network.

Bitso is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Latin America with now regular daily traded volume surpassing $10 million. Bitso is one of the few crypto exchanges, and the only one in Latin America, to obtain a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) license from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC), a sovereign agency that has developed one of the most advanced frameworks for regulating cryptocurrency trading.

Bitso will initially publish prices of core crypto assets with plans to expand into FX and equities.

Bitstamp is the world's longest-running cryptocurrency exchange, supporting investors, traders, and leading financial institutions since 2011. Bitstamp has consistently ranked in the top 10 spot markets, in terms of volume for almost a decade and is now trusted by over 4 million customers.

Bitstamp will initially contribute its real-time crypto (BTC/USD) market data to the Pyth network and look to gradually scale its contribution to the network with other cryptocurrencies.

The Bermuda Stock Exchange is a preeminent fully-electronic, offshore securities exchange that sources its equity market data from MIAX Pearl Equities Exchange. Listed one of the world’s first exchange-traded funds designed to track digital asset investments — the Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index ETF — an open-ended investment fund that operates as a traditional ETF and tracks the Nasdaq Crypto Index.

BSX will provide equity market data originating from the MIAX Pearl Equities Exchange to the Pyth network.

The Chicago Trading Company is a leading provider of liquidity and pricing on derivatives exchanges around the world. Trades more than 20 hours a day, six days a week on exchanges over the world.

The Chicago Trading Company will initially contribute its cryptocurrency market data to Pyth network. But as the former scales, CTC plans to expand its contribution to market data for equities.

CMS is a principal investment firm focused on making investments across the cryptocurrency space. CMS is both an investor and heavy user on many of the crypto ecosystem's leading centralized and decentralized venues. CMS was founded in 2019 by three partners - Bobby Cho, Daniel Matuszewski and Julien Seguin.

CMS will contribute a wide range of data it interacts with across the crypto ecosystem, while also providing a unique perspective on what founders and developers need to build successful products.

Founded in 2013, CoinShares is Europe’s largest digital asset investment firm, managing billions of assets on behalf of a global client base. CoinShares is publicly listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market (ticker $CS) On May 19, 2021, CoinShares ETPs had a daily volume of more than $490 million. During February 2021, $250 million of daily volume was surpassed.

CoinShares will initially contribute its real-time crypto market data directly on-chain for the Pyth network.

Since 2014, Cumberland is a specialized crypto asset trading company within DRW. DRW is a well-established and diversified principal trading firm that has 25+ years of experience in traditional markets. Cumberland DRW is one of the founders of the DeFi Alliance in 2020 that aims to bring DeFi to a billion users.

Cumberland DRW will initially contribute its real-time crypto market data directly on-chain in a sub-second timescale.

DV Chain is an over-the-counter trading platform offering deep liquidity and technologically advanced solutions to institutional clients and exchanges. DV Chain is an affiliate of DV Trading, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm, and also an affiliate of Independent Trading Group, a Canadian broker-dealer. DV Chain provides 24/7 liquidity and market-making services to institutional clients and exchanges within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

DV Chain will initially contribute to the Pyth network its 24/7 real-time cryptocurrency market data.

Founded in 2004, Flow Traders is a leading global financial technology-enabled liquidity provider in financial products. Historically specializing in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), Flow Traders now ensures the provision of liquidity to support the uninterrupted functioning of financial markets across multiple asset classes, enabling investors to continuously buy or sell ETPs or other financial instruments under all market circumstances.

Flow Traders will initially provide crypto asset data to the Pyth network, with plans to expand across asset classes as the Pyth network continues to expand.

FTX is one of the largest and fastest growing crypto exchanges in the world which offers innovative products including industry-leading derivatives, options, volatility products, tokenized stocks, prediction markets, leveraged tokens, and an OTC desk. Achieved a record of >$400 billion in monthly trading volume ($14 billion/day) in April 2021.

FTX will contribute its unique cryptocurrency price data to Pyth network.

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. is a diversified financial services and investment management company in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. In June 2021, Galaxy announced that it is serving as a liquidity provider for Goldman Sachs' Bitcoin futures block trades on the CME Group, as Goldman expands its cryptocurrency offering. As of July 31, 2021, Galaxy Digital Asset Management reported a preliminary AUM that surpassed $1.6 billion

Galaxy Digital will initially contribute its real-time crypto market data to the Pyth network.

Founded in 2013, the platform is one of the oldest cryptocurrency exchange in the world and serves today over 6 million users, offering over 1,700 trading pairs with 1,000 different cryptocurrencies listed on the main exchange. Since September 2021, daily spot volumes traded on Gate.io have continuously surpassed $1B, with a peak at $2.8B.

Through the partnership, Gate.io will provide real-time cryptocurrency data to the Pyth network.

Genesis Global Trading is an industry pioneer and leader in over-the-counter digital currency trading as they launched the first US OTC bitcoin trading desk in 2013. Genesis now facilitates billions of dollars on a monthly basis in digital currency trades, loans, and transactions.

Genesis Global Trading will contribute its unique financial market data to Pyth Network.

GHCO is one of the fastest-growing liquidity providers specializing in exchange-traded funds. With offices in the UK and US, GHCO is a market maker on and off all major European exchanges. Throughout a single trading day, GHCO quotes thousands of products and helps asset managers to bring even the most niche and esoteric products to market.

Through the partnership, GHCO will provide real-time cryptocurrency market data to the Pyth network.

GMO Coin was registered as a crypto assets exchange in July 2018 and now regularly has a daily volume traded of about $500 million. GMO Coin is also registered as a Type I Japanese Financial Instruments Business since May 2020. GMO Coin is part of the GMO Internet Inc. group, the latter being listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 9449).

Through the partnership, GMO Coin will contribute its first-party crypto-asset market data to the Pyth network.

GTS is one of the leading global electronic market makers as well as a Designated Market Maker (DMM) on the NYSE. GTS trades approximately 50,000 financial instruments across multiple asset classes globally and accounts for 3–5% of daily cash equities volume in the US.

GTS is ready to provide real-time equities and FX market data for the Pyth Network.

Hudson River Trading is a leading quantitative trading firm which was founded in 2002 and now employs more than 500 people around the world. HRT is a recognized leader both for on-exchange and off-exchange trading which has lead them to handle about 10% of the daily U.S. stock trading volume.

Hudson River Trading will initially contribute its real-time crypto and equities market data to the Pyth network.

IEX Cloud is the independent financial data business owned by IEX Group, Inc. which also operates the Investors’ Exchange LLC (IEX Exchange). Since launching in 2016, the exchange has grown to be one of the largest exchange operators globally, by notional value traded with an average daily volume of more than $12B. In one year after its launch, IEX Cloud managed to gather more than 100,000 registered users from 120 countries.

IEX Cloud will initially contribute its real-time market data originating from the IEX Exchange to the Pyth network.

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider widely regarded for its proprietary trading models and quantitative computing power that places them at the forefront of market structure in equities, bonds, options, and ETFs globally. Over 2020, Jane Street has traded more than $17 trillions worth of securities

Jane Street will initially contribute its real-time crypto market data to the Pyth network with plans to later expand into equities and other products as the network continues to scale.

Jump Trading Group is a proprietary trading firm with a focus on algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies. The firm has over 700 employees in New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, London, Shanghai, and Singapore and is active in futures, options, cryptocurrency, and equities markets worldwide.

Jump Trading Group will contribute its one of a kind crypto, equity and FX live market data to the network.

KGI Securities (Singapore) is a pioneer Securities & Derivatives, Trading and Clearing Member of Singapore Exchange as well as a pioneer member of ICE Futures Singapore & ICE Clear Singapore. KGI Securities (Singapore) is one of the several regional of KGI Securities Co. Ltd., which is the second largest securities firm in Taiwan in terms of market share of the brokerage business and a wholly owned securities arm of TWSE-listed China Development Financial Holding Corporation.

KGI Securities (Singapore) will initially contribute real-time FX market data to a node on the Pyth network, and plans to later expand into equities.

LMAX Group is a leading operator of institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading. Uniquely positioned to offer institutional investors market access to both, FX and crypto assets, LMAX Group is shaping the future of global capital markets. With average daily volumes in excess of $30 billion (including over $2 billion/day in spot crypto assets), LMAX Group builds and runs its own high performance, ultra-low latency global exchange infrastructure which includes matching engines in London, New York and Tokyo.

LMAX Group will directly publish its best-in-class FX and cryptocurrency data to the Pyth network, supporting Pyth’s vision of distributing readily available, real-time, and verifiable data using high performance blockchains.

Founded in 2019 by diverse members of the global financial community, Members Exchange is an innovative, customer-centric market operator, focused on creating and promoting a fair, transparent, and efficient experience for all investors. In its first year of operation, MEMX grew to be the largest independent exchange with the sixth-largest market share of the sixteen U.S. equity exchanges.

MEMX will help the Pyth network scale by providing robust, trusted, and verifiable equities market data on-chain.

OSL is the world’s first and only insured and SFC-licensed digital asset platform, providing prime brokerage, custody, exchange and SaaS services for institutional clients and professional investors. The company offers OTC, iRFQ and electronic trading services giving traders access to the world’s deepest liquidity pools, as well as secure and insured wallets to ensure the safekeeping of digital assets with timely transaction settlement.

OSL will provide real-time cryptocurrency market data to the Pyth network.

Serum is a decentralized exchange and ecosystem built on Solana that brings unprecedented speed and low transaction costs to DeFi. The protocol provides composable fully on-chain central limit order book to builders.

Serum is publishing to the Pyth network its live data originating from their own Solana / Serum markets.

SIG DTI is a company part of Susquehanna International Group of Companies, with the latter being one of the largest proprietary trading firms in the world and one of the leading member of the DeFi Alliance. Susquehanna International Group is one of the largest trader of listed stock options in America and moves over 130 million shares daily across 50 countries.

SIG DTI will start by providing to the Pyth network its Bitcoin market data and look to further expand into other cryptocurrencies as the whole network scales.

Virtu Financial is one of the worldwide leaders in trading and execution services as it provides liquidity for over 25,000 securities, spread over 235 venues and 50+ countries, handles ~30% of market orders placed by retail investors in the US and accounted for nearly 10% of the total US stock trading volume in December 2020.

Virtu Financial will contribute its unique financial market data across equities, FX, and cryptocurrencies to Pyth Network.

XR Trading is a proprietary market-making firm that provides liquidity in a full range of financial instruments across multiple asset classes. With an innovative trading strategy that integrates technology with a quantitative automated market-making approach, XR Trading is a leader in the global derivatives marketplace.

XR Trading will initially provide its crypto asset data with plans to expand into other asset classes as the Pyth network scales.

0x Labs are the creators and core contributors to the 0x Protocol, a decentralized exchange infrastructure for the internet. Founded in 2017, the project has been used by many digital asset businesses to incorporate exchange functionality into their applications and create new markets for digital assets. Since its inception, the 0x Protocol has enabled the exchange of more than $94 billion in tokenized value across approximately 18 million crypto trades.

0x Labs will provide real-time crypto pricing data from the 0x network to the Pyth network.