New Pyth Data Provider: KuCoin

Pyth Network
2 min readMay 30, 2022

Welcome KuCoin, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, to the Pyth network. With this partnership, KuCoin will contribute price data directly from its platform on-chain.

Who is KuCoin?

  • Launched in September 2017, KuCoin is a global cryptocurrency exchange.
  • KuCoin offers over 700 digital assets and provides spot trading, margin trading, peer-to-peer fiat trading, futures trading, staking, and lending services to its 18 million users in 207 countries and regions.
  • In 2022, KuCoin raised over $150 million in investments through a pre-Series B round, bringing total investments to $170 million at a total valuation of $10 billion.

KuCoin CEO Johnny Lyu stated: “Bringing real-world data on-chain is one of the core infrastructural tenants of DeFi. We look forward to building a more transparent on-chain data marketplace in the blockchain industry through Pyth network as a key partner, which will help to create a new DeFi world that is more collaborative and open and accelerates crypto to mass adoption.”

We look forward to further coordinating with many amazing partners to establish a digital marketplace of institutional grade, high-fidelity financial data, and power any financial dApps regardless of their blockchain base. If you are willing to contribute proprietary information for the betterment of DeFi and the whole financial market data industry, you can apply to become a Pyth publisher here. Discover all our other top-quality publishers on the website.

KuCoin Website: https://www.kucoin.com/

Pyth Network: https://pyth.network/

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