Sergey Nazarov
Sergey Nazarov is best known as the Co-Founder of Chainlink Labs, the industry-standard Web3 services platform used by global enterprises and leading Web3 projects at the forefront of the blockchain industry. He is a smart contract developer and programmer recognized for his contributions to the development of smart contract technology and decentralized oracle services. Since joining the crypto movement in 2011, he has become a prominent figure in the blockchain and crypto space and a thought leader in the DeFi community. He features on almost every list of people who could be Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s inventor. He is also the Co-Founder of SmartContract, a leading provider of secure and reliable open-source oracle solutions. In addition, he has worked with major banks, insurance companies, and large technology firms on the creation of externally connected smart contracts.
Sergey Nazarov Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder
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Teaching Fellow
Academic History
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BA in Philosophy and Management
CRYPTO
Since starting to develop Chainlink, Nazarov’s career in the blockchain industry skyrocketed.
Both 2019 and 2020 marked the years of partnerships and integrations between Nazarov’s creation and other cryptocurrency platforms.
For a large part of the crypto community, Nazarov serves the role of a ‘meme icon,’ partly due to his success in developing a functional interoperable ecosystem for transferring data between on-chain and off-chain systems via smart contracts.
SATOSHI
Evidence suggests that Sergey could have had links to Satoshi through the smartcontract.com domain, which was transferred just 6 days before the Bitcoin Whitepaper was released in 2008.
A CoinTelegraph article also revealed that the IP address that Satoshi used (hidden with a Russian proxy) was also used by a man called Sergey in Russia.
EARLY CAREER
In 2010, he served as a teaching assistant to NYU Professor Lawrence Lenihan, the founder of Firstmark Capital.
He had a six-month stint at Firstmark, responsible for due diligence on tech startups and building peer-to-peer marketplaces.
He served as a general partner at QED Capital, and Co-Founder and CEO of CryptaMail, the first implementation of blockchain-based messaging.
He was also the Co-Founder and CEO of Secure Asset Exchange, a web-application that enables buying, selling and issuance of cryptobonds, cryptoequity and cryptocontract.
MEDIA
He has spoken at numerous blockchain conferences and has contributed to discussions on the future of smart contracts and decentralized finance.
He has been profiled or featured at CoinDesk and Cointelegraph, among others.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.