Sergey Nazarov, co‑founder of Chainlink, posted on X after speaking at BlackRock’s Aladdin Client Forum. He praised the Aladdin platform and BlackRock’s leadership in finance, noting their growing interest in on‑chain asset management and fund tokenization. Nazarov explained that AI will interact with multiple blockchains and that Chainlink’s Cross‑Chain Reporting (CCR) infrastructure is designed to orchestrate data across chains, which he believes will help BlackRock safely manage tokenized funds and integrate AI tools. The post matters because it signals a potential partnership between a leading oracle provider and the world’s largest asset manager, hinting at broader institutional adoption of blockchain‑based finance.

“Very excited to have spoken at the Aladdin Client Forum. I am very impressed by both Aladdin and the BlackRock team overall, they are some of the smartest people in global finance that I have ever met and I can clearly see why they have the market share that they do. It is clear that BlackRock has a huge roll to play in on-chain asset management, fund tokenization and the overall growth of on-chain finance as the new preferred way that assets are managed by the top institutions. AI is clearly a tool that will interact in many useful ways with BlackRock systems and multiple chains, adding a new layer of complexity that needs orchestration for agents to efficiently and safely use various chains; the Chainlink ecosystem has built CRE to solve exactly these multifaceted orchestration problems. I am excited about what Chainlink can offer both the BlackRock tokenized fund management side and”

— Sergey Nazarov (@SergeyNazarov) on X · X ↗

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