Why the Pyth Network hype?

[Captainsaudi]

Pyth network is a blockchain oracle that is designed to provide reliable, low-latency market data from institutional sources to secure smart contracts with high-fidelity oracle feeds. It is the largest first-party Oracle network for publishing financial market data on-chain, sourcing its data from over 90 first-party data providers, including some of the biggest exchanges and market makers. The network aggregates data from these sources and sends it directly to Solana nodes for aggregation, ensuring that the network provides more trustworthy data than other third-party aggregators. Pyth Network's data feeds are engineered to meet the security, accuracy, and reliability standards of DeFi, and 230+ apps trust Pyth data, including DEXs, lending protocols, and derivatives platforms.

While Pyth Network is a significant player in the Solana ecosystem, it is not the only one. Other oracle networks such as Chainlink and Band Protocol also provide similar services. 

So why is Pyth network trending? The project airdropped over 255 million tokens to up to 90k Solana wallets, this sparked a lot of interest and generated huge exposure for the project. So many top-tier exchanges have already listed the token though price dip after listing, it is expected for an airdropped project. Users who missed the airdrop have resorted to other means of earning free airdrops like the Bitget 10K deposit and trade opportunity.

[Maxicreed01]

Airdrop on exchanges are no doubt safe but do you have a prior experience of a similar event on this platform and what are the modalities. I would also appreciate knowing how long before reward are distributed 

[BashJasper]

PYTH has given the belief to look deeper into new tokens with good utility because I got some +58% from my investment in it yesterday thanks to the Solana influence though.

I'll also try to look into this airdrop to see how I can leverage it.