The monopoly in finance isn’t just capital. It’s information. Bloomberg, Reuters, and S&P built $50B businesses by controlling data distribution. But monopolies get broken when technology resets the movement. DeFi already proved it once: @PythNetwork grew into the #1 oracle by transaction volume ($1.6T+), integrated across 600+ apps and 120+ blockchains, and secured 60% of on-chain perps. Now Pyth Pro takes that same model upstream, into institutions. ● Why Market Data Is Vital Every trade, derivative, and RWA protocol relies on reliable price feeds. But the old system is: ➤ Expensive: $20k–$30k per Bloomberg Terminal ➤ Fragmented: stitched feeds across venues and regions ➤ Latency lagging: minutes, not milliseconds Institutions tolerate this because there’s no alternative. Until now. ● Here’s What Pyth Pro Actually Does Instead of redistributors, Pyth Pro pipes in data directly from: > 125+ publishers: Jump, Jane Street, Virtu, Optiver, Cboe, DRW > 2,000+ feeds: spanning crypto, equities, FX, commodities, bonds > <100ms latency, <1.4bps error margin (on-chain verified) This is closer to price discovery than Bloomberg or Reuters can ever deliver. Institutions aren’t just buying data, they’re buying proximity to the market itself. ● The Flywheel Effect Every new publisher strengthens the network. Every new subscriber makes it more valuable to publish. That reflexivity is why Pyth Pro is more than a product launch, it’s a flywheel: 1. More publishers → better coverage 2. More subscribers → recurring revenue → Pyth DAO strength 3. DAO revenue → ecosystem incentives → protocol moat This isn’t a static oracle. It’s a self-reinforcing network. ● Why Now? The timing is what makes this asymmetric: ➤ rwas hit $30b onchain this year (+400% in 3 years) ➤ institutional DeFi is scaling; treasuries, credit, structured yield ➤ fed easing and etf flows pull traditional players deeper onchain. All of that demands institutional-grade data. Pyth is already the backbone in DeFi; Pro positions it to monetize TradFi flows. ● My Take $30B RWAs, trillions in DeFi volumes, and institutions probing on-chain execution all point to one bottleneck: data. Pyth already owns the crypto leg. Pyth Pro extends the moat to TradFi. For $PYTH holders, that’s not hype. It’s the definition of asymmetric upside.