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Co-founder of @Chainlink: industry-standard for creating the verifiable web and bringing the whole world onchain. We're Hiring: chainlinklabs.com/careers

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The Visionary

Co-founder of Chainlink who talks big-picture about bringing the world onchain and building the verifiable web. A founder who straddles deep technical thinking and high-level policy influence, often showing up where tech meets government. Communicates a future where institutions, regulators and blockchains all interoperate securely.

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You’re trying to put the entire financial system onchain while following 48 people, impressive vetting skills, Sergey. It’s like ordering world domination but asking for the guest list first.

Co-founding Chainlink and elevating it into the de facto industry standard for verifiable on-chain data, plus visibly helping bring crypto conversations into rooms like the White House Crypto Summit.

To architect the infrastructure that makes off-chain data trustworthy on-chain, accelerate institutional adoption of blockchain technology, and rewire legacy financial systems so global value flows become verifiable, programmable and interoperable.

Believes in secure, reliable oracle infrastructure, the power of standards to scale technology, collaboration between industry and regulators, and that the path to mass adoption runs through institutions and clear policy. Values long-term systemic thinking over short-term hype.

Sees and designs long-term system-level solutions, has credibility with both builders and policymakers, strong network in industry and government, and an ability to translate complex infrastructure needs into strategic narratives.

Big-picture focus can come across as aloof or detached from grassroots community concerns; visible alignment with political figures risks polarizing parts of his audience; sometimes relies on sweeping futurism instead of tactical, bite-sized engagement.

On X, double down on short, high-value thread series (e.g., 'Onchain 101' and 'Policy Minutes') that break big ideas into digestible steps; host regular Spaces with engineers + regulators after major events; pin a founder thread that explains Chainlink’s concrete wins; use short explainer videos and visuals to increase shareability; engage replies strategically (answer questions, not noise) and collaborate with other crypto leaders to amplify reach while avoiding partisan framing that can fragment your audience.

Fun fact: Sergey has ~185k followers but follows only 48 accounts, extremely selective curation. He mixes technical visions with moments of philosophy (he once tweeted a Pythagoras quote about self-mastery), and he’s publicly engaged at high-level policy events like the White House Crypto Summit.

Top tweets of Sergey Nazarov

I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to attend the Crypto Summit at the @WhiteHouse today. It was a great event that had some of the top leaders in our industry in attendance, all of whom got the chance to share their views on the crypto reserve, regulation, legislation and the overall strategy for how our industry will be able to evolve in the United States financial system. Since the US financial system is the world's leading financial system and many other financial systems follow its lead, this was a truly historic day for our industry. Having the most senior members of the cabinet that cover these topics, the Secretary of the Treasury @SecScottBessent and the Secretary of Commerce @howardlutnick attending the event and actively participating before we were joined by @POTUS says a lot about the US's new found commitment to cryptocurrencies, blockchains and its own evolution as a financial system using our industry's approach. Having top legislators that have been supporting our industry for many years like Congressional Whip Tom Emmer/@GOPMajorityWhip and Digital Asset Subcommittee Chair Bryan Steil/@RepBryanSteil also in the room showed a clear alignment between the executive and the legislative branch. The executive branch and legislative branch working together to get our industry adopted by the US financial system is very important. After this summit and my recent trips to DC it has become clear to me that the large macroeconomic effects of our industry on the US financial system makes it not only a bipartisan issue but possibly even a nonpartisan issue that is obviously in both parties interests because it is clearly in the US's overall interests. This level of cooperation between both parties of the house and senate greatly accelerates our industry's ability to gain entirely new laws and regulations. It may actually be one of the most cooperative issues in the legislative process right now. I am also very impressed by the intelligence, commitment and deep industry understanding of the people that the @realDonaldTrump has chosen to plan things out for our industry from the executive branch; @DavidSacks and @BoHines are both knowledgeable about our industry and clearly very committed to helping it reach an entirely new level of adoption. They are helping bring together the most senior members of the US government to reorient the US financial system towards our industries technologies as the future. They did a great job on this summit and are doing many other great things for our industry's future as well. It is clear to me that @realDonaldTrump has chosen our industry as a critical component of his plans for the US economy. In the attached video you can clearly see him saying "I thought it was very important that we stay in the front of this one, this is a big one" in response to points about how our industry is leading to the evolution of the global financial system. As an industry we are all immensely lucky that this is now the approach that US's executive branch has towards our industry. Thank you. There were many comments made during the summit by various top industry leaders, but I found @ZachWitkoff's comments about the need to create regulatory clarity that makes all existing US institutions comfortable enough to participate in our industry, particularly insightful. I personally think that what he and the team at @worldlibertyfi are building is at the next level of DeFi and will be in a good position to take advantage of this next iteration/evolution of the US financial system.

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Was excited to meetup with @DonaldJTrumpJr from the @worldlibertyfi team at the @OndoFinance summit. It was great to hear that his personal experience with the current financial system was the driving force for creating WLFI, and that he is trying to build something he himself would want to use because it is truly tamper-proof/fair, transparent and highly secure/reliable. Excited to be working with the @worldlibertyfi team on creating this DeFi powered future and applying the Chainlink Standard to help make the financial system what it should be.

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I am truly impressed by the @realDonaldTrump administration's thoughtful approach to helping the blockchain industry achieve its full potential in the united states and beyond. I think the president's clear placing of our industry as a national priority will be seen as a critical and historic moment for our industry and for the united states financial system's role globally. This recent report highlights some of the key points that the white house has been considering. It is telling that the first few pages of the report are about oracles and clearly highlights some of the great work that the Chainlink community has been doing to bring smart contracts to the next stage of their evolution, clearly mentioning the Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP).

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Very excited about this report from Visa, showcasing how Chainlink is able to solve the three biggest problems of next generation smart contracts for institutional transactions, all in one platform. 1. Providing the critical data needed to properly price the assets in the transaction and enable transfer agents. 2. Connecting multiple chains to enable the value and the data of the transaction to move across multiple chains. Powering a public chain to private chain connection in this case. 3. Enabling compliance by providing on-chain identity proofs and matching them against various policies from two different jurisdictions and regulatory frameworks. Smart contract transactions in the institutional world are complex, they require various sources of data, multiple cross-chain connections and a reliable form of on-chain identity/compliance, all of which the Chainlink standard is able to uniquely provide in one secure and reliable platform. This transaction between ANZ and Fidelity International, two existing institutional users of Chainlink, all happening within the HKMA regulatory framework which Chainlink has now been being built work within for many years. Complicated flows like this, being executed in a compliant way, is a clear sign of the unique value that Chainlink is now able to provide. As more top institutions adopt the Chainlink standard for data, connectivity and compliance, I expect that they will begin to transact with each other more frequently, as the friction for the institutions on this comprehensive transactional standard is much less than the cost of a transaction on institutions that are on various seperate standards with multiple ways of proving data, connecting chains and creating compliance. As more and more top institutions join the Chainlink standard for institutional transactions to happen on-chain, the network and the standards become more valuable to the current participants and the ones considering joining the transactional standard. Excited about seeing more of these coming up and having Chainlink power the next stage of our industry's growth through mainstream institutional adoption. visa.com.sg/content/dam/VC…

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Great meeting today with @SenatorTimScott, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, the group working on the critical new market structure bill going to the senate. This new version of the market structure bill has many advantages over past versions, enabling our industry to rapidly grow in the US with fewer limitations. I am excited by the urgency with which Senator Scott is moving this critical piece of legislation forward and how he is focused on solidifying a long-term approach by the US government towards our industry's future growth. I think our entire industry should be grateful to Senator Scott for his great work on the recently passed Genius Act and his continued efforts to create clear legislation for our industry's bright future. Thank you Senator Scott.

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Most engaged tweets of Sergey Nazarov

I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to attend the Crypto Summit at the @WhiteHouse today. It was a great event that had some of the top leaders in our industry in attendance, all of whom got the chance to share their views on the crypto reserve, regulation, legislation and the overall strategy for how our industry will be able to evolve in the United States financial system. Since the US financial system is the world's leading financial system and many other financial systems follow its lead, this was a truly historic day for our industry. Having the most senior members of the cabinet that cover these topics, the Secretary of the Treasury @SecScottBessent and the Secretary of Commerce @howardlutnick attending the event and actively participating before we were joined by @POTUS says a lot about the US's new found commitment to cryptocurrencies, blockchains and its own evolution as a financial system using our industry's approach. Having top legislators that have been supporting our industry for many years like Congressional Whip Tom Emmer/@GOPMajorityWhip and Digital Asset Subcommittee Chair Bryan Steil/@RepBryanSteil also in the room showed a clear alignment between the executive and the legislative branch. The executive branch and legislative branch working together to get our industry adopted by the US financial system is very important. After this summit and my recent trips to DC it has become clear to me that the large macroeconomic effects of our industry on the US financial system makes it not only a bipartisan issue but possibly even a nonpartisan issue that is obviously in both parties interests because it is clearly in the US's overall interests. This level of cooperation between both parties of the house and senate greatly accelerates our industry's ability to gain entirely new laws and regulations. It may actually be one of the most cooperative issues in the legislative process right now. I am also very impressed by the intelligence, commitment and deep industry understanding of the people that the @realDonaldTrump has chosen to plan things out for our industry from the executive branch; @DavidSacks and @BoHines are both knowledgeable about our industry and clearly very committed to helping it reach an entirely new level of adoption. They are helping bring together the most senior members of the US government to reorient the US financial system towards our industries technologies as the future. They did a great job on this summit and are doing many other great things for our industry's future as well. It is clear to me that @realDonaldTrump has chosen our industry as a critical component of his plans for the US economy. In the attached video you can clearly see him saying "I thought it was very important that we stay in the front of this one, this is a big one" in response to points about how our industry is leading to the evolution of the global financial system. As an industry we are all immensely lucky that this is now the approach that US's executive branch has towards our industry. Thank you. There were many comments made during the summit by various top industry leaders, but I found @ZachWitkoff's comments about the need to create regulatory clarity that makes all existing US institutions comfortable enough to participate in our industry, particularly insightful. I personally think that what he and the team at @worldlibertyfi are building is at the next level of DeFi and will be in a good position to take advantage of this next iteration/evolution of the US financial system.

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Cycles are a normal part of the crypto industry, what is important is what those cycles reveal about how far the industry has progressed and what next stage/trends of adoption/value creation will go on to define the industry. So far this cycle reveals two key things for me: Firstly, there have been no large risk management failures leading to large institutional failures or widespread systemic risks. In the previous cycle you had FTX and multiple lenders cleaned out through large price drops, this time around I am pleasantly surprised to see none of that or at least none of it at any system wide scale. If the crypto industry and its systems are able to successfully weather large drawdowns in price and liquidity issues then it is a more reliable place to put both retail/client capital and institutional capital. This time has been much better managed than last time. Secondly, real world asset migration on-chain continues to accelerate regardless of Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency prices, signaling that having real world assets on-chain is not tightly coupled to crpytocurrency prices but provides its own unique value that can grow irrespective of market pricing of Bitcoin or other crypto assets. We have seen RWA issuance continue to grow and we've seen leading on-chain perp markets rival tradfi perp markets for very traditional commodities like silver, especially in periods when trading in permissioned traditional markets became harder or more risky vs trading in on-chain permissionless markets. As more and more RWA data goes on-chain to make perps work correctly for more asset types and as more on-chain value is generated as RWAs themselves, I expect these dynamics to only increase regardless of crypto prices. These are both very positive signals for the assumptions I have been making about three key trends I am expecting to work together to reshape our industry in the next stage of its growth into mainstream adoption. Firstly, on-chain perps about real world assets and tokenization of the assets on-chain has unique and durable long-term value which is growing regardless of any other dynamics. It is the value of 24/7/365 markets, on-chain collateral management and on-chain data. Secondly, institutional adoption of our industry will be driven by the fundamental/technology value it provides, accelerated by access to permissionless/always on markets in DeFi, which will grow massively as a result. Thirdly, the infrastructure that will make RWAs possible will be experiencing much more demand as more of the real world finds itself on-chain. As more RWAs have to go on-chain as perps via on-chan data or tokenization itself and as those RWAs are increasingly complex in how they need to work on-chain, more systems will need to interface with chains to enable those RWAs. The first two trends are inevitable market forces that are now accelerating regardless of cryptocurrency prices, that is the real insight I see from this part of the cycle. The third trend is where Chainlink is providing the key global standards/protocols/infrastructure that is needed for providing the data, connectivity and orchestration that accelerates the first two trends. Data is what allows most RWAs to exist on-chain at all. Market data for on-chain perps e.g. on-chain silver markets, Proof of Reserves for Stablecoins, NAV for Tokenized Funds to operate on-chain and many other examples touching every category of RWAs. Chainlink is the largest provider of data to the leading blockchains by far and is successfully servicing the vast majority of DeFi for all their data needs with 70%+ market share. Our new launches with leading institutional data providers like S&P, ICE and many others put Chainlink in a similar position in the growing institutional RWA world. Connectivity to both other chains and existing backend/accounting/risk management systems is key for liquidity. The ability to connect to the other chains as a system of record/source of liquidity and to the existing centralized systems of record/sources of liquidity are key for scaling RWA adoption globally. Chainlink is the leading provider of these capabilities to institutions and has been chosen by the leading security teams in Web3 to be their official bridging provider due to a superior reliability/security track record. Chainlink is also the only system that successfully pulls TradFi payments into on-chain transactions across multiple chains, integrating existing sources of liquidity and new sources of liquidity into one interoperability layer. Orchestration is the process of coordinating multiple systems into one workflow/transaction that defines the core value an application is providing to its users. Coordinating between multiple chains, multiple off-chain systems, multiple market data sources and now multiple AIs is a key function that some system needs to play for the more advanced RWAs to function properly. The Chainlink Runtime Environment seems to be the only environment in which you can currently run a workflow that can coordinate all of these key systems into a single application, already in use by enterprises and with advanced integrations into many key systems. Orchestration has an additional critical component of creating privacy, which there are now new and exciting solutions for being built on CRE. More to come on truly useful privacy as a key feature of CRE's orchestration. If these trends continue I believe what I have been saying for years will happen; on-chain RWAs will surpass cryptocurrency in the total value in our industry and what our industry is about will fundamentally change. This shift will also lead to cryptocurrency's growth as an asset class that benefits from more capital on-chain, but RWAs is how all of this goes mainstream. I have never been more excited about our industry's potential to become the way a better version of the global financial system works to benefit all of us.

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Was excited to meetup with @DonaldJTrumpJr from the @worldlibertyfi team at the @OndoFinance summit. It was great to hear that his personal experience with the current financial system was the driving force for creating WLFI, and that he is trying to build something he himself would want to use because it is truly tamper-proof/fair, transparent and highly secure/reliable. Excited to be working with the @worldlibertyfi team on creating this DeFi powered future and applying the Chainlink Standard to help make the financial system what it should be.

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With Swift, multiple leading market infrastructures and the largest major financial institutions now clearly seeing the value of tokenization, we are nearing an inflection point for blockchain adoption in capital markets. Chainlink and CCIP are key infrastructure to enable this transition out of the proof-of-concept phase and into production-level usage for real value, three key use cases will be: 1. Enabling secondary markets for tokenized assets across multiple institutional counterparties and banks, by allowing easy asset movement across any blockchain, public or private via CCIP. This means that even if a token is created on one chain, it can be bought from many chains. For example, facilitating Delivery vs. Payment (DvP) with stablecoins/cash/deposit tokens by performing transactions with the exchange of assets across blockchains. 2. Synchronizing on-chain to off-chain systems by supporting communication between legacy infrastructure and blockchains, greatly reducing the integration burden for large pools of capital by enabling existing institutions to interact with assets on any blockchain. 3. Creating a golden record that is updated by various Chainlink services, easily moved across multiple chains into multiple markets and consistently updated as it moves across those chains. For example, a RWA gold coin that uses Proof of Reserves to prove its holdings and has identity data attached to allow large institutions/pools of capital to purchase it in line with their existing legal requirements, transfer it across multiple chains using CCIP, and keep its key characteristics updated throughout. These use cases will help financial institutions create large, multi trillion dollar, global and on-chain markets, while also gaining the large operational efficiencies of blockchain technology. It’s now clearer than ever: the next frontier of finance is on-chain, and Chainlink is the gateway. blog.chain.link/tokenization-f…

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