Tokenized stocks trade on
@solana 24/7. The stock exchange closes at 4pm.
So what is the price of the S&P 500 at 3am on a Sunday?
There isn't one. No exchange is open, so no oracle can verify one. The token still trades on Jupiter, but that number is a bet about Monday, not a price.
We hit this building Scrip (a slice of every USDC payment becomes stock in your own wallet, by itself). Our answer: the program reads a Pyth price in the same transaction as the swap, and refuses to settle without one. On a Saturday your money waits as USDC. On Monday it becomes stock.
Would you rather wait, or settle on a guess?