Sergey Nazarov
Co-Founder at Chainlink Labs
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSergey Nazarov is a visionary entrepreneur and technologist with over a decade building foundational Web3 infrastructure, best known as Co-Founder of Chainlink, the leading decentralized oracle network powering trillions in transaction volume across DeFi, insurance, gaming and NFTs. He has repeatedly launched middleware that connects smart contracts to real-world data and payments—from Secure Asset Exchange and CryptaMail to SmartContract and Chainlink Labs—demonstrating a persistent focus on tamper-proof, auditable contractual execution. His work bridges deep technical design and enterprise adoption, positioning cryptographic truth as a practical risk-mitigation and trust-building mechanism for high-value financial agreements. Sergey combines product intuition with operator experience, having scaled live decentralized systems that processed hundreds of thousands of orders and supported real-time revenue-sharing use cases. An NYU-educated founder with a background in venture investing and teaching, he pairs philosophical rigor with a maker’s discipline, quoting Stoics alongside engineering maxims. Less obvious: his portfolio reflects an early and consistent bet that smart contracts would evolve from niche experiments into universal infrastructure for commerce.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Philosophy and Management, B.A. Philosophy and Management at New York University
Github Skills (22)
computation9
solidity9
chain9
blockchain9
ethereum9
chainlink9
hardware-wallet8
oracle8
golang8
bitpay8
zcash8
bitcoin7
wallet7
erc206
obsolete6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
smartcontractkit/schemas
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 10 months
specificationblockchain
smartcontractkit/chainlink-ruby
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Easily connect your applications to blockchains
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push in 1 day
ethereumblockchainoraclechainlinkblockchain-network
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