Live Oracle Race
Oracle Speed Dashboard
Real-time Hermes round-trip to fetch SOL/USD, measured from your browser. Competitor latencies are simulated against documented median update intervals (Chainlink heartbeat, Switchboard crank cadence, Band relay). Refreshes every 5s.
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Pyth avg latency (last 30)
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SOL/USD oracle price
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Round-trip latency — lower is better
Pyth is measured live. Competitor bars are modeled: Switchboard ≈ 3.5× + crank overhead, Chainlink ≈ 8× + heartbeat, Band ≈ 12× + relay. Real on-chain latency will diverge slightly from these browser-side round-trips, but relative ranking is stable.
Pyth latency trend
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Why this matters
- Pull oracles (Pyth) push updates on demand — protocols pay gas only when they need a price, and every feed ships a confidence interval so lending can price collateral conservatively.
- Push oracles (Chainlink) keep a heartbeat schedule; fresh prices cost nothing to read but stale between heartbeats unless the deviation trigger fires.
- Confidence bands let risk engines tighten collateral factors during volatile minutes — something other oracles can't express without a second feed.