Building the New Global Financial System | Sergey Nazarov Keynote at Link:NYC 2026

Full presentation slides: https://pages.chain.link/hubfs/LinkNYC_Keynote-SergeyNazarov.pdf

At Link:NYC 2026, Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov delivers his keynote address, outlining a vision for a new global financial system that brings traditional finance and DeFi together into a unified onchain economy. He covers what gives tokenized assets true utility, how lending and credit are tokenization’s killer app, the growth of tokenized equities, how Chainlink is connecting traditional finance with DeFi, and more.

Chainlink is the standard for onchain finance, enabling high-quality data, secure cross-chain interoperability, and compliant connectivity across global markets. Chainlink powers leading tokenized assets, financial institutions, market infrastructures, and decentralized applications by providing secure access to real-world data, cross-chain messaging, and blockchain connectivity across any network. The Chainlink standard has enabled tens of trillions of dollars in transaction value and is helping unify global markets onchain.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Polymarket, Lido, Lighter, and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens…