Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov joins Sibos 2026 lineup alongside major financial institutions
Nazarov is set to speak across three sessions at SWIFT's flagship conference, covering tokenized assets, intelligent money, and interoperable finance.
Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, will appear in three separate sessions at Sibos 2026, the annual conference run by SWIFT that serves as the financial industry’s largest gathering. The event runs September 28 through October 1 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, and its theme this year is “Digital finance for AI-driven economies.”
What Nazarov will be talking about
The three sessions span the full arc of the conference. On September 28, Nazarov joins a discussion titled “Building Global Digital Asset Markets,” which will focus on how tokenized assets can function across jurisdictions and financial systems. On September 30, he appears in “Future of Value: Part Two, When Money Becomes Intelligent,” a session exploring how programmable money and AI intersect. Then on October 1, he leads a workshop centered on creating a trust layer for interoperable global finance.
Nazarov won’t be the only Chainlink representative at the event. Ryan Lovell, also from Chainlink, is scheduled to present on September 30 about AI’s ability to sustain payment systems under extreme stress.
The broader conference features over 500 speakers across more than 250 sessions.
Chainlink’s deepening ties to traditional finance
This isn’t Chainlink’s first appearance at Sibos. The company has previously participated in discussions alongside SWIFT and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), touching on corporate action processing and asset tokenization.
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One of Chainlink’s most ambitious current projects is Project Pangea, a consortium of over 50 banks working toward T+0 atomic settlement for cross-border foreign exchange. The global FX market processes over $7 trillion in daily volume.
Chainlink reports that over $340 billion in real-world assets are currently represented on-chain. Projections cited by Chainlink suggest the tokenized asset market could reach somewhere between $2 trillion and $4 trillion by 2030.
Why institutions keep showing up
Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) is designed to function as a universal translator between different blockchain networks and legacy systems. AI systems need reliable, tamper-proof data to function properly in financial contexts. Oracles, the mechanism Chainlink pioneered, are one of the few existing solutions for providing that kind of verified data on-chain.