Why the Original Model Had to Break to Compete on Performance (Mike Cahill of Pyth)

Sags and Mike Cahill get into how Pyth hit the limits of its original model and had to rebuild the entire system around performance, licensing, and real revenue.Here’s what builders, traders, and operators will pull from this conversation:🔥 Why landing the biggest clients matters more than being the cheapest🔥 How Pyth moved from public feeds to paid licensed data🔥 Why 400 millisecond updates were never going to cut it🔥 What Pyth Pro changes with one millisecond pricing🔥 Why prediction markets are a natural fit for premium market data🔥 How AI looks like another licensing mess waiting to be solved🔥 Why revenue matters now more than market cap🔥 What it takes to build 24 7 market feeds people will actually pay for🔥 Why the hub matters if latency is the whole game🔥 How Mike thinks about competition as permanent evolution0:00 Intro02:04 Why Revenue Matters More Now07:13 Moving Beyond Blockchains Into Predictions and AI10:12 The Marketplace and New Data Categories16:30 Building by Iteration Not Master Plan19:00 The Metric That Matters This Year23:00 Why TheHUB Matters for Low Latency Data26:00 Wrapping Pyth, FOGO, and TheHUB TogetherConnect with Mike Cahill:https://x.com/mdomcahillPyth:https://www.pyth.network/ Connect with Sags:https://x.com/RobertSagurtonTrade without Compromise @ Fogohttps://www.fogo.io/