Oct 29, 2026

Agenda

Programming is designed for industry leaders across banking, capital markets, institutional investing, and government. Each session is built around the decisions shaping market structure and digital asset adoption — focused, practical, and forward-looking. 

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1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Keynote by Sergey Nazarov

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Sergey Nazarov

Co-Founder, Chainlink

Security Standards for Onchain Markets

Automated exploits now execute faster than any human response cycle. This panel examines what institutional-grade custody looks like over the next few years: full-stack architecture across governance, key management and recovery, AI in security operations, post-quantum migration, and the standards supervisors expect in a 24/7 market.

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

The Future of Money and Markets in an Onchain Dollar Era

This panel explores how stablecoins, tokenized cash, and programmable infrastructure are reshaping monetary transmission, reserve demand, collateral mobility, bank funding, deposit behavior, and sovereign cash operations. Geared toward a capital markets and institutional finance audience, the discussion moves beyond whether digital assets matter and focuses instead on how public sector operating models may evolve as tokenized money and tokenized government liabilities become more systemically relevant.

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Data, Oracles, and the Future of Financial Truth

As financial markets move onchain, data quality becomes increasingly critical to the success of global markets. From pricing and NAV to interest rates and identity, secure data is the backbone of onchain finance. At the center of this shift are oracles: the infrastructure delivering offchain financial data into blockchain environments. This session will explore how institutional-grade data is being brought onchain securely and what it means for the future of financial infrastructure.

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Parallel Systems, One Market: The Future of Interoperable Finance

As digital assets and tokenized finance scale, markets are fragmenting across blockchains, platforms, and existing systems. The next phase of financial innovation will be defined by the infrastructure that connects them. This panel explores how cross-chain interoperability enables seamless asset movement, reducing fragmentation, and driving the convergence of TradFi and DeFi into a unified global market by connecting to existing infrastructure rather than replacing it.

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

The New Money: Tokenized Deposits, Stablecoins, and Programmable Cash

Stablecoins and deposit tokens are becoming part of a broader digital cash architecture shaping how money moves, clears, and is programmed across the global economy. This panel looks at how digital dollars are changing payment velocity, how AI-driven agentic payments and agentic commerce are transforming the transaction lifecycle, and how the market can build interoperable, trusted systems for clearing and programmable cash.

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

From Hype to Infrastructure: Making Tokenized Assets Work

Tokenized assets have captured attention, but what does it actually take to make them work at scale? This panel dives into the lifecycle of digital assets, examining the operational, technological, and regulatory considerations of servicing digital assets after issuance. 

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Tokenization at Scale: Building the Full Financial Lifecycle Onchain

Tokenization's shift from experimental programs to production-ready systems introduces new challenges. The real complexity of tokenized finance lies in managing the full lifecycle: from origination and issuance to distribution, servicing, and redemption. In this panel, we'll explore how responsibilities are divided across the stack, from issuers and banks to infrastructure providers and oracle networks, and how coordination across these layers impacts security, reliability, compliance, and performance.

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

The Road Ahead: How Leaders Are Shaping the Next Phase of Digital Finance

After years of experimentation, digital assets are entering a new phase where real-world execution and measurable outcomes take center stage. In this executive panel, CEOs will share how they are navigating the next 24 months of digital asset development—where they are doubling down, where they are pulling back, and how they are separating signal from noise. 

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Securing the Agentic Economy: Why AI Needs Cryptographic Truth

AI and blockchains are moving into live market infrastructure. As autonomous AI agents transition from generating content to executing economic actions, they face a critical bottleneck: today's internet and financial systems were not designed for autonomous software. This panel explores the emerging infrastructure of the agentic economy. Industry leaders will discuss how agents can safely transact, coordinate, and create value across digital markets, and what infrastructure must exist before autonomous commerce becomes mainstream.

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

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Co-Founder, Chainlink

Oct 29, 2026
NYC

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