SmartCon

Aave’s Stani Kulechov On Embedded DeFi’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity

SmartCon 2025 featured presentations from more than 100 web3 pioneers and financial leaders, who gathered to highlight the theme,“From Crypto to Capitol Hill.” To delve deeper into the most groundbreaking topics from this year’s event, Nasdaq TradeTalks’ Jill Malandrino interviewed some of the most influential speakers on-site...

Unstoppable Domains Envisions A Future Powered By Decentralized Identities

Cryptocurrency’s mainstream adoption depends on making crypto peer-to-peer (P2P) payments easier for people to trust and understand. Unstoppable Domains is a blockchain-based protocol...

Chainlink Labs’ Zak Ayesh Shares How To Become A Smart Contract...

The future is being shaped by blockchain technology. Hybrid smart contracts that execute on-chain agreements using tamper-proof off-chain data from decentralized oracle networks...

Prominent Founders Examine Chainlink Keepers’ Role In DeFi’s Evolution

Chainlink Keepers is a decentralized service that allows developers to reliably automate regular smart contract triggers, eliminating the time, resources and risks involved...

Top NFT Projects Explore Chainlink VRF’s Role In Building The Metaverse

Randomness is an inescapable phenomenon in everyday life but it’s also key to building the metaverse. During a SmartCon panel discussion titled Evolution...

Chainlink Data Providers Explain Why Hybrid Smart Contracts Demand High-Quality Data

As the industry-standard decentralized oracle network, Chainlink provides developers with the largest collection of reliable, high-quality data sources to power advanced hybrid smart...

How Flexa Realizes Decentralization’s True Value

On Day Two of SmartCon #1, Flexa Co-founder Tyler Spalding delivered a keynote about how the Flexa’s digital assets payment network taps into...

How Blockchain Unlocks Ownership Of New Artistic Experiences

Many artists and fans believe collaboration is an essential part of the artistic process. Often, collaboration stems from chance or serendipity. Think of...

Balaji Srinivasan Explains The Pivotal Shift From Fiat Information To Cryptoinformation

“Our information supply chain is broken.” During a riveting keynote speech on the first day of SmartCon #1, angel investor and former CTO of...

Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov And Swift’s Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé Examine The Evolution...

In an illuminating follow-up to his talk with Swift’s Director of Capital Markets Strategy, Matthieu de Heering, at June’s Smarter Securities event, Chainlink...

Sergey Nazarov Introduces CCIP As A Pivotal Moment In History During...

During a heartfelt keynote speech on Day One of SmartCon #1, Chainlink Co-founder Sergey Nazarov announced two groundbreaking pieces of news: Chainlink Keepers...

Tiingo CEO Rishi Singh Will Distill The Importance Of Clean Data...

Rishi Singh is the founder and CEO of Tiingo, a platform built on providing clean, reliable financial data. As part of Chainlink’s leading...

Nifty Royale’s Karen Sheng Aims To Inspire New Talent At SmartCon...

Karen Sheng is Co-founder of Nifty Royale, a novel NFT marketplace using Chainlink VRF and Chainlink Keepers to power provably fair blockchain-based battle...

Chainlinked Podcast: Episode 01

Welcome to Chainlinked: A Chainlink ecosystem podcast, Episode 01. SmartCon #1 is right around the corner. This episode brings you Keenan Olsen and Josh...

Axie Infinity Is Making The Metaverse Mainstream

Over the past year and particularly the past few days, “the metaverse” has become a more alluring destination. Nebulous and far off as...

Dr. Andy Boyan Talks Chainlink Live, SmartCon #1 And The New...

Dr. Andy Boyan is a writer and researcher at Chainlink Labs. He also hosts the illuminating and entertaining Chainlink Live series featuring influential...

Inside SmartCon #1’s Lineup Of World-Changing Panelists

Tomorrow marks three weeks until the start of Smart Contract Summit #1, the premier smart contract and DeFi conference and the largest annual...