New Pyth Data Provider: PEAK6

Pyth Network
2 min readFeb 22, 2022

We are very pleased to welcome PEAK6, a financial technology business that is at the frontier of innovative transformation of the investment and capital market landscape, to the Pyth network.

Who is PEAK6?

  • Founded in 1997, the firm established its first tech-based solution to optimize options trading. Over the past two decades, the same formula has been used across a range of industries, asset classes, and business stages to consistently deliver superior results.
  • Headquartered in the heart of financial markets in Chicago, PEAK6’s core brands include PEAK6 Capital Management, PEAK6 Strategic Capital, Apex Fintech Solutions, PEAK6 InsurTech, Evil Geniuses and Poker Power.

PEAK6 joins more than 45 prominent data publishers across various asset classes, including digital assets, equities, and FX. Participants in the Pyth network include Cumberland DRW, Flow Traders, FTX, Galaxy Digital, Jane Street, Jump Trading Group, LMAX, Two Sigma Securities, and Virtu Financial among others.

PEAK6 will contribute its real-time cryptocurrency market data to the network.

“At its core, PEAK6 is committed to investing in and partnering with transformational organizations that are building a better world through the power of technology, which is why joining Pyth was an obvious decision,” said Tom Simpson, Chief Executive Officer, PEAK6 Capital Management. “We look forward to contributing to the success of DeFi and the fast-evolving transformation of the financial markets through this important project. Together, we will work to make crypto and traditional financial market data accessible in an innovative way.”

We look forward to further coordinating with amazing partners to establish a digital marketplace of institutional grade, high fidelity financial data to power any financial dApps regardless of their blockchain base and offer the best data to the world.

PEAK6 Website: https://peak6.com/

Pyth Network: https://pyth.network/

Press Release: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220216006245/en/PEAK6-Joins-the-Pyth-Network-to-Bring-Digital-Asset-Market-Data-On-Chain

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