Pyth Network introduced Pyth Lazer, a specialized price-data service aimed at latency-sensitive DeFi and CeFi trading applications, with update intervals as short as 1 millisecond and support for 1,000+ assets. The launch positions Lazer as a separate offering from Pyth’s broader decentralized price-feed product, with a focus on ultra-fast market data rather than maximum decentralization. The context for the release is growing demand for onchain systems that can match the responsiveness of centralized venues, especially for use cases like perpetual futures and high-frequency trading, where stale data can worsen execution quality and increase front-running or latency-arbitrage risk. Pyth’s documentation later described the product line as Pyth Pro, previously known as Lazer, indicating that the service was being formalized as a subscription-style, institution-oriented data offering alongside Pyth’s decentralized feeds.

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