Pyth Core is the original Pyth product, the one most blockchain developers integrate. It's the public on-chain network of price feeds: roughly three thousand instruments today, delivered via the pull model to any chain with a deployed Pyth verifier. The economics are straightforward — consumers pay a tiny update fee at the moment they need fresh data, plus their normal gas, and otherwise the network costs them nothing.
Who Pyth Core is for
- Smart-contract apps that need market data: perpetual exchanges, lending protocols, DEXs, prediction markets, options vaults
- Wallets and explorers showing token prices
- Any builder who wants market-grade data without operating their own oracle node
How it relates to Pyth Pro
Pyth Core covers on-chain consumers. Pyth Pro is a separate product covering institutional off-chain consumers (exchanges, market makers, trading firms) who need sub-millisecond latency and richer market depth than the on-chain pull model offers. Same publisher set; different distribution channel and economics. The two products coexist.
How to verify what's covered
Pythscan's /feeds is the live list of every Pyth Core feed currently active or in coming-soon state. /chains lists every chain where the Pyth verifier is deployed. /protocols is who's consuming it.