Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov Is About to Sit at the Same Table as BlackRock and Vanguard

A seat among the giants

Chainlink just got a pretty big flex moment. Founder Sergey Nazarov is set to join executives from BlackRock, Vanguard, and Sharplink at a meeting hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank later this month, on September 24.

For a project that started out as an "oracle" solution mostly known inside crypto circles, sharing a room with some of the largest asset managers on the planet is a pretty clear signal of how far institutional adoption of blockchain infrastructure has come.

Why this matters

Chainlink has spent years positioning itself as the plumbing connecting traditional finance to onchain systems, and appearances like this back up that narrative. When the people managing trillions in assets are sitting down to talk shop with a crypto native founder, it suggests the conversation around tokenization and real-world assets is moving from theory to actual infrastructure planning.

Worth keeping an eye on what, if anything, comes out of that meeting.