Mike Cahill is the Co-Founder and CEO of Douro Labs, a blockchain infrastructure company advancing the growth of the Pyth Network, the world’s largest first-party oracle for real-time financial data. At Douro Labs, Cahill focuses on delivering high-fidelity, low-latency market data on-chain, unlocking new opportunities for decentralized finance applications. He also serves as Director of the Pyth Data Association, where he helps oversee protocol maintenance, manage ecosystem grants, and drive community and developer adoption of Pyth Network. Before founding Douro Labs, Cahill was the European Head of Digital Asset Sales at Jump Trading, one of the world’s leading trading firms. Earlier in his career, he spent more than 15 years in traditional finance with senior roles at Cboe Global Markets, KCG, Nomura, and Morgan Stanley, building deep expertise in FX markets, sales, and institutional trading.
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Douro Labs is a blockchain infrastructure company developing oracle tooling, products, and Web3 infrastructure to expand the Pyth Network’s decentralized data services.
The firm’s mission is to make once-exclusive, high-fidelity market data broadly accessible to all blockchain participants in real time.
Under Mike Cahill’s leadership, Douro Labs is working to solve key challenges in the oracle space, including scalability, governance, transparency, and low-latency data feed access—critical components for the growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 ecosystems.
The company builds open-source infrastructure, creates innovative products that leverage Pyth data to power DeFi protocols, and promotes transparency and community participation to establish a more trustless and accessible data distribution system.
EARLY CAREER
Before founding Douro Labs, Mike Cahill built a 15-year career in traditional finance.
He worked in FX Sales at Cboe Global Markets, Nomura Securities, and KCG Holdings, and began his career at Morgan Stanley, where he served as Vice President of FX Sales for seven years.
MEDIA PRESENCE
Cahill is a recognized voice in both finance and blockchain innovation. He has been interviewed or featured in Forbes, Bloomberg TV, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Blockworks, The Block, and Real Vision.
He also appears regularly on leading crypto podcasts and at global conferences, including The Wolf of All Streets, On the Brink, FTX Builders and Innovators, and Logan Jastremski, where he shares insights on blockchain infrastructure, oracles, and the future of decentralized finance.