"Chainlink doesn't lose 290 million dollars."
@SergeyNazarov at Sibos, explains the difference between a bridge and reliable infrastructure.
The last cycle was defined by bridge hacks, with nine-figure losses again and again.
Sergey's argument is simple. Reliability is the product.
"Chainlink doesn't lose 290 million dollars. That's how you solve that problem."
Now @chainlink is moving on to the next set of problems: identity, digital twins, accounting and orchestration.
The bridge wars are over. Chainlink is already working on what comes after.
On Sept. 24, Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov joins leaders from BlackRock, Vanguard, and Sharplink at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Fintech Conference, moderated by the Atlantic Council’s Josh Lipsky, to discuss the future of blockchain in traditional finance.
🚨 New CLG Podcast is live 🚨
Two years since our last episode, @Crypto___Oracle and I discuss how institutional adoption is reshaping crypto and who will benefit as tokenization scales
This one was long overdue
Link in the next tweet 👇
🚨 NEW LINK:NYC SPEAKER: FRANK LA SALLA, CEO OF DTCC
This is one of the most significant names added to @Chainlink ’s LINK:NYC lineup.
Frank La Salla is President & CEO of DTCC, the financial market infrastructure responsible for critical clearing, settlement, asset servicing and post-trade infrastructure across U.S. capital markets.
And the context here matters.
@The_DTCC and Chainlink are not strangers.
Smart NAV:
DTCC worked with Chainlink and 10 major financial institutions to explore bringing trusted mutual fund NAV data onchain.
The participants included:
• American Century Investments
• BNY Mellon
• Edward Jones
• Franklin Templeton
• Invesco
• JPMorgan
• MFS Investment Management
• Mid Atlantic Trust
• State Street
• U.S. Bank
Chainlink CCIP was used as the interoperability layer to disseminate DTCC data across multiple blockchains.
DTCC concluded that the pilot demonstrated how structured data could be delivered onchain and potentially enable new use cases around tokenized funds and other digital assets.
But the relationship didn't stop at Smart NAV.
DTCC Collateral AppChain:
DTCC later unveiled its Collateral AppChain initiative, demonstrating how tokenized collateral could move across markets while existing institutional infrastructure and controls remain intact.
Chainlink infrastructure was again part of the architecture, with Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) used to orchestrate workflows across systems and blockchains.
That distinction is important.
Chainlink's role has been expanding from simply delivering external data into blockchains toward connecting and orchestrating the systems, data, blockchains and institutions involved in financial transactions.
Now put LINK:NYC into that context.
This is an invite-only Chainlink event bringing together people from organizations including:
-DTCC
-Swift
-ICE
-Fidelity
-Citi
-Wells Fargo
-Deutsche Börse
-Broadridge
-FTSE Russell
-AWS
-Gemini
-Apex Group
And now the CEO of DTCC himself is appearing at a Chainlink event.
That doesn't tell us what DTCC will ultimately deploy, nor should it be interpreted as an announcement that hasn't happened.
But it is another meaningful data point in a relationship that has already progressed through multiple pieces of institutional infrastructure.
The bigger picture is becoming difficult to ignore:
Chainlink isn't merely trying to get financial institutions to interact with blockchains.
It is positioning itself as infrastructure that allows existing financial systems and blockchain networks to communicate, coordinate and transact without requiring institutions to abandon the systems they already use.
Data → interoperability → orchestration → settlement.
And increasingly, the people responsible for some of the largest pieces of traditional financial infrastructure are showing up in the same room.
Frank La Salla, CEO of DTCC, at LINK:NYC.
Keep an eye on this one.