The Rollup Chainlink Co-Founder: Why Institutions Will 100x The Crypto Industry (And What Comes Next...)
Nov 10, 2025
In a fascinating conversation, Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink and a pioneer in decentralized oracles, delves into key topics reshaping finance. He reveals how Chainlink maintained operations during the AWS outage and the role of the Digital Transfer Agent in tokenizing assets for major players like UBS. Sergey explains how institutional smart contracts bridge DeFi and TradFi, discussing their real-world applicability through live transactions with the Central Bank of Brazil. His insights highlight the critical importance of reliability, compliance, and the future of global financial standards.
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One Standard To Unite DeFi And Institutions
- Chainlink aims to make a single standard that serves both DeFi and institutions to enable seamless capital movement.
- A unified standard reduces friction and lowers costs for institutions to interact with DeFi.
UBS Live Tokenized Fund Using DTA
- UBS used Chainlink's Digital Transfer Agent to execute a live tokenized fund transaction and avoid building its own transfer agency solution.
- Chainlink made the DTA open and saw rapid adoption because it solved legal transfer-agency requirements for tokenized assets.
Institutional Smart Contracts Are Multi-Chain Systems
- Institutional smart contracts are complex systems composed of contracts across chains plus many oracles for data, identity, compliance, and bridging.
- Chainlink defines smart contracts as the multi-chain code plus the oracle networks that power them.