Hey uncle, let's understand together what the story of PYTH is in simple terms. PYTH is not an abbreviation for something big or anything, it is the name of a new cryptocurrency that has emerged in the crypto world, similar to Bitcoin and Ethereum, but it has its own method and operations.
What distinguishes PYTH is that it primarily focuses on providing financial market data directly and quickly to the world of cryptocurrencies and decentralized applications (which we call DeFi). Imagine you have a large exchange with stock prices, currencies, and everything changing moment by moment, and PYTH comes to transfer this data accurately and quickly to the crypto world.
Why is this important? Because many decentralized applications need to know the current prices of assets to operate correctly. For example, lending and borrowing applications, or trading applications that rely on real-time prices to execute transactions. PYTH provides them with the "fuel" that allows them to operate efficiently and reliably.
Its mechanism relies on gathering data from many reliable sources in both the traditional and decentralized financial markets, and then it verifies and ensures that this data is accurate and not manipulated. After that, it continuously and quickly publishes this data for applications to use.
PYTH also has its own "token," which is used for network management and rewarding people who contribute.