Chainlink co-founder Nazarov speaks on a Federal Reserve fintech panel
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov joined a Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia fintech conference panel with BlackRock, Vanguard and SharpLink executives.
Why it matters
For a chain whose main product is supplying price data to tokenized assets, the Ondo integration is the concrete commercial thread, since it places LINK infrastructure inside products designed around BlackRock strategies. A second consecutive year of panel appearances at a Federal Reserve Bank conference puts an oracle network founder in front of large asset managers and the central bank, though the evidence contains no policy outcome from the panel. Only BTC-ECHO reported the price move, and no source attributes it to the conference.
Where the sources disagree
Status of Nazarov's Philadelphia conference appearance
scheduled to speak
Crypto News (CryptoNews.net)
participated
Crypto News (CryptoNews.net)
Crypto News reported the panel appearance as scheduled for Sept. 24, while a second Crypto News item described him as having already participated in the conference.
New independent information
syndicated, no new facts
Crypto News (CryptoNews.net)
independent, LINK and Ondo Finance
BTC-ECHO
The second Crypto News item is flagged as syndicated and adds no new facts, so the set contains one profile outlet and one independent report covering a different subject.
Key facts
Crypto News separately described Nazarov as having participated in the Federal Reserve conference, with discussions focused on blockchain adoption in traditional finance.
Reported by Crypto News (CryptoNews.net)
Chainlink supplies price data for Ondo's tokenized stocks and ETFs and provides the CCIP infrastructure for transfers between blockchains.
Reported by BTC-ECHO
BTC-ECHO reported the LINK price traded between 13.10 US dollars and 14.17 US dollars in the past 24 hours, with the last 4h candle closing at 14.09 US dollars.
14.09 USDReported by BTC-ECHO
Nazarov co-founded SmartContract.com with Steve Ellis in September 2014, which partnered with Cornell Tech professor Ari Juels on a decentralized oracle network that became Chainlink, introduced in 2017 with a white paper.
Reported by Crypto News (CryptoNews.net)
Before Chainlink, Nazarov was a teaching fellow at NYU's Stern School of Business, co-founded the peer-to-peer marketplace ExistLocal in 2009, worked at FirstMark Capital, and started the early-stage fund QED Capital in 2011, which launched CryptaMail and the Secure Asset Exchange in 2014.
Reported by Crypto News (CryptoNews.net)
What happened
Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of the Chainlink oracle network, was scheduled to speak on a panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 10th Annual Fintech Conference on Sept. 24, in his second consecutive year at the event, alongside executives from BlackRock, Vanguard and SharpLink, Crypto News reported. Crypto News also published a profile tracing his path from a teaching fellowship at NYU's Stern School of Business through ExistLocal (2009), QED Capital (2011) and the 2014 founding of SmartContract.com with Steve Ellis, which partnered with Cornell Tech professor Ari Juels on a decentralized oracle network that became Chainlink in 2017. Crypto News separately described Nazarov as having already participated in the Federal Reserve conference, with the discussion focused on blockchain adoption in traditional finance. BTC-ECHO covered a different thread, reporting that Ondo Finance presented three tokenized portfolios on Thursday whose strategies were developed by BlackRock, that Chainlink supplies price data for Ondo's tokenized stocks and ETFs and provides CCIP cross-chain transfer infrastructure, and that LINK rose 15 percent to about 14 US dollars. BTC-ECHO also tied the move to recent institutional partnerships and renewed real-world-asset tokenization narrative; nothing in the evidence links that move to the Philadelphia conference.
How the story developed
- First report
First report by Crypto News (CryptoNews.net)
Sergey Nazarov: The Man Behind Chainlink
- Update
Nazarov scheduled for Federal Reserve fintech panel
Second consecutive year on a panel with BlackRock, Vanguard and SharpLink executives.
- Independent corroboration
Independently corroborated by BTC-ECHO
RWA-Narrativ treibt die Kurse: Chainlink profitiert von Ondo-Partnerschaft
- Update
Ondo Finance presents three tokenized portfolios
Strategies developed by BlackRock; Chainlink supplies price data and CCIP cross-chain infrastructure.
- Update
BTC-ECHO reports LINK up 15 percent to about 14 US dollars
Attributed to the Ondo connection, recent institutional partnerships and renewed tokenization narrative.
How coverage built up
Independent sources over time, counted the way the consensus panel counts them: a republication of a wire story does not move the line.
- 24 Sept 2026, 20:07 UTC: Crypto News (CryptoNews.net) — 1 independent source, 1 reports
- 25 Sept 2026, 10:14 UTC: Crypto News (CryptoNews.net) — 2 independent sources, 2 reports
- 25 Sept 2026, 12:00 UTC: BTC-ECHO — 3 independent sources, 3 reports
Affected entities
Also mentioned: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Aave
Original sources
| Publisher | Report | Role | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crypto News (CryptoNews.net) Aggregator | Sergey Nazarov: The Man Behind Chainlink | Original | |
| BTC-ECHO Crypto media | RWA-Narrativ treibt die Kurse: Chainlink profitiert von Ondo-Partnerschaft | Independent | |
| Crypto News (CryptoNews.net) Aggregator | Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov Joins Federal Reserve Fintech | Syndicated |
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