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Sergey Nazarov

Co-Founder, Chainlink

Search every verified Sergey Nazarov interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, appeared at Sibos 2026 in Miami in a series of sessions and interviews discussing the role of tokenization and AI in financial markets. He described tokenization as an accepted industry trend, with every major financial institution now building around it, and highlighted Chainlink's infrastructure—including CCIP, Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), and data standards—as central to enabling interoperability, collateral management, and payments across public and private blockchains. In a joint session with DTCC, he presented the Collateral AppChain, which he said addresses fragmentation in data and settlement systems by enabling near real-time, 24/7 movement of tokenized assets and collateral. He also discussed the DTCC’s tokenized equity as a legal "gold standard" due to its alignment with traditional ownership rights. Nazarov also addressed the intersection of AI and payments, proposing a global registry that attaches a public key and an allowed-actions file to each AI agent, enabling users to set transaction limits and receive alerts if an agent exceeds them. He argued that AI agents would gravitate toward tokenized assets because they offer efficient, programmable paths for payments and agreements. He framed the current phase as one of reaching critical mass among market participants—such as banks, custodians, and prime brokers—needed for use cases like securities lending and repo to scale. According to Nazarov, the goal is not tokenization itself but the utility it unlocks, such as 24/7 collateral movement, reduced balance-sheet risk, and lower operational costs, which he said could lead to massive growth in tokenized equity and funds.

Recent appearances

  • Future of Value: When Money Becomes Intelligent | Microsoft, Parallax Ventures, & Chainlink at Sibos

    October 24, 2026 · 📺 Chainlink

    At Sibos 2026, Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink, joined Martin Moeller, Head of Agentic AI for Finance at Microsoft, and Azor Barros, Managing Partner at Parallax Ventures, to discuss AI’s growing role in payments and how its integration will reshape the global financial system. Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional…

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  • Tokenization at Scale: Building the Next Era of Global Markets | DTCC & Chainlink at Sibos 2026

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 Chainlink

    Nadine Chakar, Managing Director and Global Head of DTCC Digital Assets, joins Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov at Sibos 2026 on The Future Is On, a podcast from Global Custodian and Chainlink. They discuss what it takes to bring tokenization to market scale, including 24/7 collateral management, interoperability, and the infrastructure connecting traditional markets with blockchain networks. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:56 What the DTCC AppChain Unlocks for Tokenized Securities 6:45 24/7 Collateral Management 10:24 Connecting Public Chains to the AppChain 12:59 Data, Interoperability, an…

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  • The Next Generation of Collateral Management | DTCC & Chainlink at Sibos 2026

    October 09, 2026 · 📺 Chainlink

    At Sibos 2026, DTCC’s Dan Doney and Sergey Nazarov presented how DTCC is collaborating with Chainlink to advance 24/7 collateral management. DTCC’s Collateral AppChain provides shared infrastructure for near real-time collateral management across financial markets and blockchains. “The problem being solved is the fragmentation of data, how everybody connects to move collateral and settle transactions, and the different systems that need to talk to each other but cannot do so quickly enough to allow intraday collateral movement.” - Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink The Collateral AppCh…

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  • Interview with Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder, Chainlink Labs at Sibos 2026, Miami

    October 06, 2026 · 📺 FinTech BoostUP

    In this exclusive FinTech BoostUP interview, we speak with Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink Labs, at SIBOS 2026 in Miami. Sergey discusses how Chainlink is helping financial institutions move from blockchain experimentation toward real-world, institutional-scale applications from interoperability and tokenized assets to 24/7 collateral management and blockchain-based payments.

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  • Sergey Nazarov: Why Hundreds Of Trillions Of Dollars Are Coming Onchain (Tokenization Supercycle)

    October 02, 2026 · 📺 The Rollup

    Sergey Nazarov says that critical mass is very close now, and when it tips, the amount of tokenized equity in existence skyrockets. He explains Chainlink's role as the interface banks use to access the Swift ledger, breaks down the DTCC collateral app chain and how settlement ties out across Ethereum and the app chain, and makes the case that nobody actually wants tokenization. Rather, they want what becomes possible once something is tokenized. Sergey Nazarov is the Co-Founder of Chainlink. The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capit…

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  • Tokenization Will Determine America's Position in Global Finance | Sergey Nazarov at CFTC Roundtable

    August 20, 2026 · 📺 Chainlink

    On August 20, 2026, Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov spoke at the inaugural meeting of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Innovation Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C., on regulatory clarity, the tokenization of equities, and what the speed of that shift means for the U.S. position in global financial markets. The Innovation Advisory Committee was created to advise the Commission on issues at the intersection of technology, law, policy, and finance. Executives from Nasdaq, Coinbase, and CME Group were also in attendance, along with CFTC Chairman Mike Selig, who sponsors the…

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  • Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov Dissects The World of Tokenization

    August 09, 2026 · 📺 DHN CRYPTO

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  • #181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks

    August 04, 2026 · 📺 Family Cartoon

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  • POV it's 2018 and you're listening to Sergey Nazarov's Chainlink keynote while on holiday in Arizona

    May 31, 2026 · 📺 Dreamscape Terminal

    POV: You’re on vacation near the Grand Canyon in 2018 and Sergey Nazarov is explaining the future of Chainlink before most people understood what was coming. A nostalgic dreamscape archive for the LINK Marines — part road trip, part crypto time capsule, part lost terminal file from 2018. Put this on in the background, lock in, and relive the alpha. ~/2018/LINK_MARINES #Chainlink #SergeyNazarov #LINK #Crypto #CryptoNostalgia #DreamscapeTerminal #LINKMarines #Blockchain #Web3 #OracleNetwork

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  • Blockchain in Finance: How Chainlink Is Powering the Future of Banking

    April 29, 2026 · 📺 FF News | Fintech Finance

    How is blockchain transforming global finance? At the Singapore FinTech Festival 2024, Sergey Nazarov from Chainlink explains how smart contracts, interoperability, and tokenized assets are reshaping the financial system. From SWIFT integration to institutional adoption, this quick snapshot explores what’s needed to make blockchain a global standard. Read the full interview on FF News: https://ffnews.com/fintech-tv/event/2024/singapore-fintech-festival-2024/this-company-is-making-blockchain-happen-chainlink-singapore-fintech-festival-2024/ @SingaporeFinTechFestivalTV

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  • Why TradFi & DeFi Use Chainlink | Sergey Nazarov

    March 11, 2026 · 📺 Chainlink

    Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov explains how the Chainlink platform’s security and reliability make it the standard infrastructure for leading fintechs, neobanks, financial institutions, and DeFi protocols. #crypto #blockchain #learning #chainlink

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  • Unlocking the Full Potential of Smart Contracts | Sergey Nazarov

    January 29, 2026 · 📺 Chainlink

    Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov explains how Chainlink Runtime Environment accelerates the development of advanced smart contracts across multiple blockchains, real-world data sources, identity and compliance systems, and traditional enterprise infrastructure, all in a privacy-preserving manner. Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“What you really need is a global registry with a public key that is attached to every AI agent and then a file that says what this agent is allowed to do. So the user of the agent will be able to say, 'My agent is allowed to transact up to $100,000 on Mastercard's agent pay system.' And if it asks to transact a million dollars, a) tell it no, b) contact me. So you need a global registry of what agents are allowed and”

“I think tokenization will create a parallel system for onchain cash, onchain equity, onchain funds. I think that parallel system will be very efficient and very accessible to AI agents. AI agents will simply choose the path of least resistance and the path that achieves their stated goal quickly and efficiently. And tokenized cash, equity, funds, tokenized whatever is really looking to be that path. If you just do ba”

“I think the fact that there will be highly reliable institutional grade tokenized equity available is like a critical starting point for all this. I think it's critical that that tokenized equity can move to many places efficiently and that the cost of movement and the risk of moving it is low, that's hopefully what we can help with with CCIP and interoperability. And then I also think there need to be venues and all”

“I think a nuance that not enough people understand is really the legal entitlement and how tokenized equity from DTCC is different from the other forms of tokenized equity that might exist out there and how the DTCC tokenized equity is really the gold standard because it creates the same or very similar relationship that they have with untoized equity but in a tokenized form. And so those legal guarantees in my mind ”

“The very concrete benefits here for the capital markets are the ability to have intraday management of collateral at a minimum and ideally 24/7 365 management of collateral. You also have the ability to manage your balance sheet with much less risk. Now even at the end of the day, you can shift around risk, you can shift your assets from your balance sheet to wherever you want to hold it. You can optimize for yield. ”

“The problem that I feel we are solving here is basically fragmentation. Fragmentation of data, fragmentation of how everybody connects to move collateral and settle transactions. Fragmentation of all the different systems that need to talk to each other and aren't able to talk to each other quickly enough to allow intraday collateral movement, to allow the proper moving of collateral 24/7 365, and the ability to shar”

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