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Building @Chainlink since Day 1 | Senior Director, Comms | Connecting the world’s largest financial institutions to onchain infrastructure | 2,900+ days running

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As I sit here in DC this week, we are closer to something I was not sure I would ever see. I have been working in this industry since 2015. For most of those years, the defining feature of crypto in Washington was not policy. It was the absence of it. A gray zone where serious people built serious things under a constant cloud, never quite sure which rules applied or whether the ground would move beneath them. This week the CLARITY Act sits on the Senate calendar. A federal framework for digital asset market structure, the thing this industry has wanted for the better part of a decade, is closer than it has ever been. It is not law yet, and there are real hurdles left. But the distance between where we stood a few years ago and where we are sitting today is hard to put into words. I keep thinking about the work that got us here. Over the past year I watched Chainlink move from outside these conversations to inside them. Sergey at the White House for the signing of the GENIUS Act. The Department of Commerce putting government economic data onchain. Meetings with the SEC that became real interpretive guidance. Conversations with the lawmakers now writing the rules. None of that happens by accident. It happens because people keep showing up, year after year, and make the case in rooms where it is not yet obvious. And there is something fitting in it. The entire premise of what we build is verification. Making truth provable. Removing the question of what is real. The work here in DC is the same thing in a different form. Trading a decade of ambiguity for something the industry has never actually had. We are not at the finish line. But sitting here, it is hard not to feel the weight of it. The gray zone is ending. What comes next is something this industry has never had. Clarity.

As I sit here in DC this week, we are closer to something I was not sure I would ever see. I have been working in this industry since 2015. For most of those years, the defining feature of crypto in Washington was not policy. It was the absence of it. A gray zone where serious people built serious things under a constant cloud, never quite sure which rules applied or whether the ground would move beneath them. This week the CLARITY Act sits on the Senate calendar. A federal framework for digital asset market structure, the thing this industry has wanted for the better part of a decade, is closer than it has ever been. It is not law yet, and there are real hurdles left. But the distance between where we stood a few years ago and where we are sitting today is hard to put into words. I keep thinking about the work that got us here. Over the past year I watched Chainlink move from outside these conversations to inside them. Sergey at the White House for the signing of the GENIUS Act. The Department of Commerce putting government economic data onchain. Meetings with the SEC that became real interpretive guidance. Conversations with the lawmakers now writing the rules. None of that happens by accident. It happens because people keep showing up, year after year, and make the case in rooms where it is not yet obvious. And there is something fitting in it. The entire premise of what we build is verification. Making truth provable. Removing the question of what is real. The work here in DC is the same thing in a different form. Trading a decade of ambiguity for something the industry has never actually had. We are not at the finish line. But sitting here, it is hard not to feel the weight of it. The gray zone is ending. What comes next is something this industry has never had. Clarity.

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#Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov: “I think the whole global financial system will be run on blockchains, period. Everyone here will be in the blockchain industry, eventually” during The Future of Value panel at Sibos.

#Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov: “I think the whole global financial system will be run on blockchains, period. Everyone here will be in the blockchain industry, eventually” during The Future of Value panel at Sibos.

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The banking world is taking notice. Chainlink's decentralized oracle networks are the key to the next financial evolution

The banking world is taking notice. Chainlink's decentralized oracle networks are the key to the next financial evolution

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CHAINLINK @ SIBOS BREAKING NEWS FROM MAIN STAGE Swift + top global banks are rolling out a blockchain ledger to innovate global digital finance. It builds on the interoperability Chainlink delivers: connecting tokenised assets, banks and blockchains into one seamless system.

CHAINLINK @ SIBOS BREAKING NEWS FROM MAIN STAGE Swift + top global banks are rolling out a blockchain ledger to innovate global digital finance. It builds on the interoperability Chainlink delivers: connecting tokenised assets, banks and blockchains into one seamless system.

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[ CHAINLINK @ SIBOS ] Day One Clip of Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov during his keynote @ Sibos “Building on earlier pilots, Swift also will add capability to support interoperability across existing and emerging systems for various use cases" ➡️

[ CHAINLINK @ SIBOS ] Day One Clip of Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov during his keynote @ Sibos “Building on earlier pilots, Swift also will add capability to support interoperability across existing and emerging systems for various use cases" ➡️

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First the banks do custody, then the banks will do DeFi. “Put pedal to metal and get me DeFi access” - Chainlink Co-founder Sergey Nazarov

First the banks do custody, then the banks will do DeFi. “Put pedal to metal and get me DeFi access” - Chainlink Co-founder Sergey Nazarov

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"TradFi is DeFi's biggest customer" - Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov

"TradFi is DeFi's biggest customer" - Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov

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Everyone will become a Link Marine. Welcome, Recruit No. 777. See you at Chainlink’s SmartCon.

Everyone will become a Link Marine. Welcome, Recruit No. 777. See you at Chainlink’s SmartCon.

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Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, presents to the Riyadh Chainlink community in Saudi Arabia, explaining the impact of tokenization and real-world assets on the region and the global landscape.

Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, presents to the Riyadh Chainlink community in Saudi Arabia, explaining the impact of tokenization and real-world assets on the region and the global landscape.

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Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov says “I think the whole global financial system will be run on blockchains, period. Everyone here will be in the blockchain industry, eventually” during The Future of Value panel at #Sibos.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov says “I think the whole global financial system will be run on blockchains, period. Everyone here will be in the blockchain industry, eventually” during The Future of Value panel at #Sibos.

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“We want the whole world to run on blockchains” - SN from Chainlink

“We want the whole world to run on blockchains” - SN from Chainlink

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