# Pythian Council Election #5 - Jayant Krishnamurthy

**URL:** <https://forum.pyth.network/t/pythian-council-election-5-jayant-krishnamurthy/2558>\
**Category:** Pythian Council\
**Created:** [May 19, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.pyth.network/t/pythian-council-election-5-jayant-krishnamurthy/2558 "2026-05-19T14:02:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@jayant](https://forum.pyth.network/u/jayant)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.pyth.network/t/pythian-council-election-5-jayant-krishnamurthy/2558/1 "2026-05-19T14:02:37Z")

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gm Pythians 👋

I am putting my name forward once more for the 5th Pythian Council.

**The basics:**

- **Wallet:** `3ouXHhNH6QgyxDRLmjgCddbTqYBkPSufLiLgTp2BVy2p`

- **Key custody:** Ledger hardware wallet

- **Name:** Jayant Krishnamurthy | @jayantkrish (Twitter) | @jayantk (GitHub) | otiosetortoise (Discord)

- **Role:** Co-founder & CTO, Douro Labs

- **Location:** North America

**Track record:**

- Pythian Council member every term since inception (Councils #1 → #4)

- Top vote-getter in Election #2, auto-renewed into Council #3

- ~5 years contributing software to Pyth across the entire codebase — oracle program, price feed clients, governance program, cross-chain verification, Lazer

- Co-founder of Douro Labs, the largest technical contributor to the Pyth protocol

**Recent contributions:**

- Helped design and ship Pyth Lazer — sub-millisecond price feeds for latency-sensitive DeFi/CeFi venues (launched Jan 2025)

- Continued contributions to the oracle program and verification programs across the chains Pyth serves

- Supported operational PIPs as a council signer — program upgrades, fee changes, PGAS delegation

- Active in technical reviews of new Lazer trusted-signer enablements (e.g. Cardano), Sui Lazer contract upgrades, and other recent OP-PIPs the Pythian Council has executed

**Why I’m running again:**

The Pythian Council is the council that signs off on the protocol’s most technical operational changes — oracle and verification upgrades, fee parameters, PGAS allocation. As CTO of Douro Labs, I’m involved with most of that code on the build side anyway, and I want to keep helping the council make well-informed decisions on the operational side. The next term will be pivotal: Lazer is scaling out across more chains, the oracle keeps expanding the asset universe, and the protocol’s economics keep maturing. Happy to keep doing the work.

**Other relevant experience:**

- Co-founder & CTO, Douro Labs (since Aug 2023)

- Software engineer, Jump Trading Group

- Long-time technical contributor to the Pyth Network across Solana, Wormhole/Pythnet, and the various target chains

Looking forward to continuing the journey with you all.