Building The Modern Index Provider

PYTH · 2026-07-23

Equities and commodities stop pricing when their home markets close. Pyth Indices hold a price on them through nights and weekends. Maintaining index prices is one of the strongest businesses in finance. An index provider defines a methodology, keeps a price updated (on a set time interval), and licenses venues the right to use it. Behind this structure, the economics are strong. S&P's index division runs at a 69% operating margin on $1.85 billion in revenue. Five firms control most of the market. That concentration comes down to one thing. Building an index requires high-quality data and the rights to use it, and that data has been gated and expensive. The firms that could get to it built the business. Many stayed out. Yet there is a clear opening for a modern index provider in the current landscape: one built for markets that never close, on data built for the way markets trade now. An index provider built for the current market needs a capability the legacy model does not have: a continuous price for a single asset, sourced across venues. More than 125 trading firms, exchanges, and market makers publish prices directly to Pyth across equities, metals, FX, and commodities. The network goes where price discovery happens: on traditional venues during market hours, and on the onchain and offchain venues where these markets referencing these assets trade outside regular hours. Accessing both is what lets a Pyth index hold a price on a single ticker around the clock, on an asset that was never continuously priced before. Every asset that trades part-time in traditional markets and part-time on alternative venues (onchain) is a candidate: oil, gold, silver, ETFs, and a widening roster of US equities today. Each is a standalone index with its own published methodology which holds a continuous price on an asset that never had one before. The construction is the same in each case. An index reads the first-party prices published to Pyth for that asset, across every venue where it trades. Take SPCX. During the day its price comes from the US exchanges where it trades, anchored by its listing venue, Nasdaq. In the pre-market and after-hours sessions it comes from the venues running extended trading. And when all of those are closed (weekends), it comes from the onchain and offchain venues where markets referencing SPCX still trades. The methodology combines prices from every venue carrying meaningful volume in each asset, so no single one drives the aggregated price. The single-name US equity index or the Pyth Gold index are small pieces of a larger shift. Trading is moving toward continuous markets, on every asset, everywhere. Perpetual exchanges, prediction markets, and modern financial applications must operate around the clock for their increasingly demanding and global userbase. Users do not think in market hours. They expect to trade an equity on a Sunday night the same way they trade a token, from anywhere in the world, and these applications are built to give them that: access to every asset, on their own schedule, without the gatekeeping of the traditional financial system. That ambition runs straight into the old pricing infrastructure model. The assets users want, equities, metals, commodities, FX, are the ones where pricing becomes limited when their home markets close. An application can build the interface, the liquidity, and the global distribution, and still be stopped by the one thing it cannot manufacture: a reliable price for the asset outside market hours. That is the gap a modern index provider fills by pricing the assets and the hours they were never built to reach. A continuous price for every asset, held accurately no matter which venue carries the volume at a given moment, is what lets these applications deliver on what they promise their users. Get access to Pyth’s growing library of 24/ Indices here .

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