2025 Schedule

SmartCon Agenda

Hear from leaders at Swift, JPMorgan, Mastercard, Aave, Optimism, and more as they unpack real-world tokenization, cross-chain interoperability, onchain data, compliance, identity, and emerging use cases.

Keynotes from Chainlink Co-Founder, Sergey Nazarov, and product leaders will anchor a dynamic lineup of panels, fireside chats, and more — plus exclusive networking and community events.

More sessions to be added soon!

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10:00 AM
Tokenizing Towers and Transformers: A New Wave for Telecom Infrastructure
Pairpoint by Vodafone
Banking & Capital Markets
10:00 AM
The Data Continuum: Interoperability Now, AI Tomorrow
Tradeweb, Deutsche Börse Group, Digital Asset, FTSE Russell, an LSEG business, Chainlink Labs
Banking & Capital Markets
10:00 AM
Bridging Forex Markets With FX Price Feeds
DFX
Lightning
10:05 AM
Next-Gen Asset Management: Reinventing Infrastructure for the Onchain Economy
Wellington, WisdomTree, Invesco, Fidelity, Chainlink
Banking & Capital Markets
10:07 AM
Stake.link (SDL): Building the First On-Chain LST Index
LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Lightning
10:14 AM
India's Digital Leapfrog: How Stablecoins and Tokenization Will Power the Next Trillion-Dollar Digital Economy
Anq
Lightning
10:15 AM
Regulation: Our Success and the Future of Digital Assets
Government of El Salvador
10:21 AM
Break
Break
10:30 AM
Composability in Action: AMM, Lending, Oracles
Balancer Labs
Lightning
10:30 AM
The Power of Open Standards
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, OpenZeppelin, ERC-3643 Association, Chainlink Labs
Banking & Capital Markets
10:35 AM
When Code Becomes Capital: Securitize and the Great Rewrite of Finance
Securitize, Chainlink
Web3
10:37 AM
DualMint: The Boring Yield Layer
DualMint
Lightning
10:44 AM
How Ethereum's 10-Year Roadmap Impacts Billions in DeFi Today
Lendvest
Lightning
10:50 AM
Break
10:50 AM
Break
Break
10:51 AM
Break
Break
11:00 AM
Break
Break
11:00 AM
The Future of Onchain Rewards: Where Staking Meets DeFi
Blockdaemon
Lightning
11:00 AM
Break
Break
11:05 AM
The Future of Unified Ledgers
Euroclear, DTCC, Ernst & Young (EY)
Banking & Capital Markets
11:05 AM
How to Create a Stablecoin
Chainlink Labs
11:07 AM
The Future of Global Finance
Zoth
Lightning
11:14 AM
Becoming the Shopify of RWA Tokenization
OpenEden
Lightning
11:15 AM
Shaping U.S. Blockchain Policy
The Digital Chamber, Crypto Council for Innovation, Blockchain Association, Chainlink Labs
Banking & Capital Markets
11:15 AM
Data Confidentiality on Transparent Ledgers
21X, Aeonic Digital, Digital Asset | Canton, Chainlink Labs
Banking & Capital Markets
11:21 AM
Break
Break
11:30 AM
Keynote by Thomas Zschach of Swift
Swift
Banking & Capital Markets
11:30 AM
The Future of On-Chain Intelligence
bitsCrunch, bitsCrunch
Lightning
11:30 AM
Launch Your Token in Seconds With Chainlink CCIP
XSwap
Lightning
11:37 AM
Mint Once, Sell Anywhere: Cross‑Chain Liquidity for NFTs
NFT Bridges
Lightning
11:40 AM
Keynote by Chris Perry of Broadridge Financial Solutions
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Banking & Capital Markets
11:44 AM
Building the Golden Thread: On- and Off-Chain Credibility
Instruxi
Lightning
11:45 AM
How Stablecoins Unlock a New Era for Payments
Polygon Labs, The Network Firm, Linea, f(x) Protocol, Dune
Banking & Capital Markets
11:50 AM
Lighting Up Onchain Finance With Traditional Payment Rails
Swift, Partior, Chainlink
Banking & Capital Markets
11:51 AM
Tipping Point: The Day Crypto Takes Over Wall Street
SHIFT
11:58 AM
From Gold to Game Gold: Why Real and Digital Ownership Matter as Much as Price
Alaska Gold Rush
12:00 PM
Institutional Adoption of Ethereum
Ethereum Foundation, Etherealize
Banking & Capital Markets
12:05 PM
Lunch
Break
12:15 PM
Lunch
Break
12:15 PM
Lunch
Break
12:15 PM
Break
12:15 PM
Lunch
Break
1:00 PM
Break
Break
1:00 PM
Break
Break
1:00 PM
Keynote by Nate Holiday of MakeInfinite Labs
MakeInfinite Labs
Web3
1:00 PM
Break
Break
1:15 PM
Keynote by Sergey Nazarov of Chainlink
Chainlink
Convergence
2:00 PM
Product Keynote
Chainlink Labs
Convergence
2:30 PM
Presentation by Edward Woodford of Zerohash
zerohash
Break
2:30 PM
The Future of Tokenized Fund Operations
UBS, Chainlink
Web3
2:30 PM
Preserving the Blockchain Ethos
Symbiotic, Compound Foundation, Carlucci Consulting
2:30 PM
Lighting Talk by Frances Edwards of Avantgarde Finance
Avantgarde Finance
2:37 PM
When Bitcoin Meets Wall Street: The Next Chapter
Metis and GOAT Network
2:37 PM
Lighting Talk by Andy Boyan of Hypurrfi
HypurrFi
2:45 PM
Break
Break
2:45 PM
Expanding the Bittensor Ecosystem to Base
Coinbase, General TAO Ventures, Chainlink
2:45 PM
Seturion - Next-gen Settlement of Tokenized Securities
Seturion / BX Digital
3:00 PM
Bridging Worlds: How Standards Enable Seamless Connectivity in the Digital Asset Economy
Swift, GBBC, GLEIF, Chainlink Labs
Web3
3:00 PM
Ecommerce and Digital Assets: 24/7 Cross-Border Convergence and Infrastructure Evolution
Citi, Moody's Ratings, Alpha FMC, PayPal, Chainlink Labs
Banking & Capital Markets
3:00 PM
Node Operator Compliance: Set the Standard
NorthWest Nodes
Lightning
3:00 PM
Fireside Chat with Dan Doney of DTCC and Derek Meyer of The Graph
DTCC, The Graph Foundation, The Graph Foundation
3:00 PM
Build Your First Workflow With CRE
Chainlink Labs
3:07 PM
RWAs and the Path to Scaling Onchain Liquidity
RAAC
3:14 PM
Presentation by Felix Bengtsson of Planet IX
Planet Ix
Convergence
3:15 PM
The State of Web3 AI Agents in 2025 — and Beyond
Maiga.ai
Lightning
3:21 PM
Presentation by Christian Pusateri of Mind Network
Mind Network
3:22 PM
The Payments That Compound
XTreamly
Lightning
3:30 PM
Automating Compliance for Complex Transactions
Mysten Labs, APEX Group & Tokeny, WisdomTree, PayPal, Jefferies
Web3
3:30 PM
Onchain Equities and More: Why Tokenization Is Finally Clicking
TRON DAO, Hedera, 21.co, Move Industries, Messari
3:36 PM
Break
Break
3:45 PM
Break
Web3
3:45 PM
The State of Market Making on Solana
RPS AI
Lightning
3:52 PM
The Future Is AI-Native
Voyager
Lightning
3:59 PM
How Decentralization Solves AI's Biggest Bottleneck: Energy
Akash Network
Lightning
4:00 PM
Fireside Chat with David Mills of the Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Board, Chainlink Labs
Fireside Chat
4:00 PM
Demo: Integrating AWS With Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) Workflows
AWS
4:06 PM
Break
Break
4:14 PM
Fireside Chat with Jacob Phillips of Lombard Finance
Lombard, Chainlink
4:15 PM
Mavrik: Digital Asset Intelligence for Payments and Capital Markets
Validation Cloud
Lightning
4:22 PM
Paying People to Power Smarter AI
PublicAI
Lightning
4:29 PM
On-Chain Proof of Reserves
The Network Firm
Lightning
4:30 PM
DvP in Practice: From PoC to Production
WisdomTree, Seturion / BX Digital, Kinexys by JPMorgan, Chainlink
Web3
4:30 PM
Break
Banking & Capital Markets
4:36 PM
Break
Break
4:45 PM
Lightning Talk by Dror Gurevich of Velocity Career Labs
Velocity Career Labs
Lightning
4:52 PM
Lightning Talk by Jarryd Pretorius of Truf Network
Truf Network & Truflation
Lightning
8:30 AM
Breakfast & Registration
8:30 AM
Breakfast & Registration
8:30 AM
Breakfast & Registration
8:30 AM
Breakfast & Registration
8:30 AM
Breakfast & Registration
9:30 AM
Welcome to SmartCon 2025
Chainlink Labs, Chainlink Labs
Banking & Capital Markets
9:30 AM
The Blockworks Thesis: How Chainlink Lays the Infrastructure for Tokenized Finance
Blockworks, Chainlink Labs
Lightning
9:35 AM
Opening Keynote by Johann Eid of Chainlink Labs
Chainlink
Banking & Capital Markets
9:40 AM
Welcome to Union Square
Banking & Capital Markets
9:40 AM
Welcome to Penn Station
9:42 AM
Special Message from Rep. Bryan Steil
House of Representatives
9:44 AM
Regulation Meets Tokenization: Coding Compliance Into Finance
Brickken
Lightning
9:45 AM
From Hype to Rails: A Decade of Digital Assets
State Street, Chainlink
Banking & Capital Markets
9:45 AM
Blockchain and Chainlink Platform Fundamentals
Soundboard, Chainlink Labs
1. Grand Central
2. Union Square
3. Penn Station
4. Fulton Street
Developer Workshop
9 AM
10 AM
11 AM
12 PM
1 PM
2 PM
3 PM
4 PM
5 PM
5:00 PM
6:30 PM
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The Metropolitan Pavilion, Expo Hall
SmartCon Welcome Mixer

Kick off SmartCon and network with attendees over drinks and light bites. For SmartCon attendees only.

Sponsored by
10:00 AM
Trends That Will Define 2026
Bloccelerate VC, Grayscale, MN Capital & MN Fund, BlockSpaceForce, Clear Street
10:00 AM
Build on Solana
Solana Foundation, EntravelX, LYS Labs, Xitadel, Chainlink
10:00 AM
Lightning Talk by Michael So of Tokenyze
Tokenyze
10:14 AM
Lightning Talk by James Wright of Multisynq
Multisynq
10:20 AM
Building Web3 Businesses That Last
21.co
Web3
10:21 AM
Break
Break
10:25 AM
LlamaGuard NAV: Accelerating RWA Adoption in DeFi With Risk-Managed Oracles
LlamaRisk
Web3
10:27 AM
Collateral Mobility: Optimizing Liquidity With Intraday Onchain Solutions
Broadridge Financial, Taurus, DTCC, Citi, Chainlink Labs
Web3
10:30 AM
Presentation by Danielle Tamasi of Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs
Lightning
10:30 AM
Fireside Chat with Jason Windawi of Ant Financial and Alex Zhang of Pharos
Pharos, Jovay
10:30 AM
How to Create a Stablecoin
Chainlink Labs
10:44 AM
Smart Contract Security 2025: Where Are Your Keys?
Cyfrin
10:44 AM
Money Market Funds in DeFi Applications
Spiko
Lightning
10:51 AM
Break
Break
10:57 AM
Break
Break
11:00 AM
Break
Break
11:00 AM
CRX by Cryptum: Powering Brazil’s Tokenization Journey to the Global Stage
Cryptum
Lightning
11:00 AM
Break
11:07 AM
The TikTok-ification of Crypto: AI, Feeds, and Financial FOMO
LYS Labs
Lightning
11:12 AM
Convergence in Motion: Where Crypto and Capital Markets Collide
Mastercard, eToro, Crypto Finance | Deutsche Börse Group, Token Relations
Web3
11:14 AM
Boosting the Chainlink Ecosystem With AIX Tokens on Base
Planet Ix
Lightning
11:15 AM
Tokenized Markets: Infrastructure in Action
Hedera Foundation, OpenZeppelin, Copper Technologies, Centrifuge and Anemoy, Media Luna
Convergence
11:15 AM
The Future of Onchain Finance: Interoperability at Scale
Coinbase, Falcon Finance, Anchorage Digital, AvaCloud, Framework Ventures
11:21 AM
Break
Break
11:30 AM
Break
11:30 AM
An Economy of Agents: Rails and Guardrails
Ampli Technologies
11:37 AM
Merging Asset Management and Market Making: Using CRE for On-Chain Fund Construction
QuantAMM
11:42 AM
Fireside Chat with Kamino Finance and VanEck
Kamino Finance, Kamino Finance, VanEck
Web3
11:44 AM
Lightning Talk by Michael Bar Zeev of SHIFT
SHIFT
11:45 AM
Chainlink Build Deep Dive
World Liberty Financial, Space and Time, Brickken, Truf Network & Truflation, Chainlink
Web3
11:45 AM
Move for Solidity Devs
Move Industries
11:45 AM
Staying Safe Onchain: The Key to Mass Adoption
Olympix, Bitwise Asset Management, Google Cloud, Bermuda Monetary Authority, LF Decentralized Trust
11:51 AM
Stablecoins and Real-World Assets With Elixir
Elixir
Lightning
11:57 AM
Keynote by Ed Felten of Offchain Labs
Offchain Labs
Web3
11:58 AM
Lightning Talk by Charles Cao of Swan Chain
Swan Chain
Lightning
12:05 PM
Lunch
Break
12:15 PM
Lunch
Break
12:15 PM
Lunch
Break
12:15 PM
Lunch
12:15 PM
Break
1:00 PM
Keynote by Lorenz Breidenbach of Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs
Web3
1:00 PM
Capital at the Crossroads: How Leading Investors Are Shaping the Onchain Economy
ParaFi Capital, Galaxy
1:00 PM
Executive Perspectives: Architecting the Onchain Financial System
Ondo Finance, Tradable, Superstate , Balcony, VanEck
Banking & Capital Markets
1:00 PM
Building Cross-Chain Apps on EVMs
Chainlink Labs
1:00 PM
Onchain FX Markets
Mento Labs
Lightning
1:07 PM
Lightning Talk by Krzysztof Urbański of L2BEAT
L2BEAT
Lightning
1:14 PM
Lightning Talk by Yonathan Lapchik of SukuPay
SukuPay
Lightning
1:20 PM
Fireside Chat with Stani Kulechov of Aave Labs and Sergey Nazarov of Chainlink
Aave Labs, Chainlink, Altcoin Daily
Web3
1:20 PM
Fireside Chat with Corey Caplan of World Liberty Financial
World Liberty Financial, Chainlink
1:21 PM
Break
Break
1:30 PM
Presentation by Ishan Vishnoi of Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs
Lightning
1:30 PM
Keynote by Ben Jones of Optimism
Optimism
Web3
1:35 PM
From Wall Street to Main Street: Making RWAs Work for the Other 7 Billion
Move Industries
Web3
1:40 PM
SOL Season: Why Institutions Are Choosing Solana
Galaxy, State Street Investment Management, Solana Foundation
Web3
1:44 PM
Lightning Talk by Kubilay Ozcelik of Matrixed.Link
Matrixed.Link
Lightning
1:45 PM
Props: Using Oracles for Machine-Learning Security
Chainlink Labs
Web3
1:45 PM
Building the World's Trust Network: The ZK Revolution for Enterprises
Matter Labs
Web3
1:51 PM
Break
Break
1:52 PM
Introducing Amp: Enterprise-Grade Onchain Data: Real-Time, Verifiable, Compliant, and Secure
Edge & Node
Break
2:00 PM
Keynote by Joe Sticco of Cryptex Finance
Cryptex Finance
Web3
2:00 PM
Presentation by Aakar Shroff of Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs
Lightning
2:00 PM
The Chainlink Stack: The Developer's Edge
Move Industries, Cyfrin, Tenderly, thirdweb, Chainlink Labs
Web3
2:14 PM
Australian Story: From Securing Chainlink Oracles to Securing Networks
Pier Two
Lightning
2:15 PM
The New Market Primitives
Ondo Finance, Chainlink
Web3
2:21 PM
Break
Break
2:28 PM
Keynote by Jakov Buratović of Lido
Lido
Web3
2:30 PM
Break
Break
2:30 PM
Break
2:30 PM
Presentation by Kostiantyn Dmitriiev of Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs
Lightning
2:35 PM
Break
2:35 PM
Break
Break
2:44 PM
Lightning Talk by Ryot Seo of Xitadel
Xitadel
Lightning
2:45 PM
Finance Rewrites Itself: A Conversation with Coinbase Institutional
Coinbase
2:45 PM
Stablecoins and the Evolving Financial Stack
Elixir, Mento Labs, OpenEden, Avant, Tokenized Asset Coalition
Convergence
2:50 PM
Cross-Chain Interoperability on Solana
Chainlink Labs
2:50 PM
Keynote by Jason Lau of OKX
OKX
2:51 PM
Break
Break
2:57 PM
How CRE Connects TradFi, DeFi, and Tokenized Assets
Banco Inter, Hadron by Tether | Pointsville, Bridgetower Capital, Kiln, Chainlink Labs
Web3
3:00 PM
Research Talk by Kostis Karantias of Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs
Lightning
3:05 PM
Folks Finance: Cross-Chain Lending Powered by CCIP
Folks Finance
3:12 PM
Brickken: Building the Future of Tokenization With Chainlink
Brickken
3:14 PM
Master's Class on State Price and Market Depth
Blocksize
Lightning
3:15 PM
From Weeks to Minutes: Building With Chainlink CRE
Swapper Finance, Concero, Instruxi, Llama Risk, Chainlink
Convergence
3:21 PM
Break
Break
3:22 PM
TradFi x Crypto: Building Winning Products in a Converging World
Spiko, Maple Finance, Hadron, Backed Finanace, Chainlink
Web3
3:30 PM
Private Smart Contracts: Technology and Use Cases
Chainlink Labs
Lightning
3:45 PM
Keynote by Shea Ketsdever of Flashbots
Flashbots
Web3
3:50 PM
Developer Speedrun
Chainlink Labs, Chainlink Labs
3:51 PM
Break
Break
3:52 PM
Bermuda's Leadership in Digital Finance Adoption & Regulation
Government of Bermuda, Government of Bermuda / Penrose Partners
4:00 PM
Tokenization on Legal Rails: Revolution or Evolution?
Fireblocks, Ava Labs, Latham & Waktins, Chainlink Labs
4:00 PM
Research Talk by Phillip Schindler of Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs
Lightning
4:00 PM
Building for DeFi Summer 2.0
Euler Finance , LFJ, Avantgarde Finance, Aptos, Fortune
Web3
4:07 PM
A New Institutional Standard: What TradFi Needs to Join the RWA and Stablecoin Economy
Aptos
Web3
4:14 PM
10 Thoughts on Community
CryptoMondays
Lightning
4:21 PM
LIghting Talk by Hannah Yang of Terplayer
TerpLayer
4:22 PM
Keynote by Scott Dykstra of Space and Time
Space and Time
Web3
4:28 PM
Presentation by Florent Sollier of Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs
4:30 PM
Institutional Adoption of DeFi
Matter Labs, RAAC, Polygon Labs, Blueprint Finance
4:30 PM
The Speed Wars Are Over
Sonic Labs
1. Grand Central
2. Union Square
3. Penn Station
4. Fulton Street
Developer Workshop
9 AM
10 AM
11 AM
12 PM
1 PM
2 PM
3 PM
4 PM
5 PM
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
|
The Metropolitan Pavilion, Expo Hall
SmartCon Farewell Mixer

Close out SmartCon and network with attendees over drinks and light bites. For SmartCon attendees only.

Sponsored by
9:00 PM
12:00 AM
SmartCon After Dark

The official closing party for all SmartCon attendees.

Sponsored by
November 3
8:00 AM
10:30 AM
Chainlink Run Club with Blockchain NYC

Part of Chainlink's Community Day

Sponsored by
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NYBW
12:00 PM
3:00 PM
Chainlink Hotpot Social with HotpotDAO

Part of Chainlink's Community Day

Sponsored by
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NYBW
4:00 PM
GLEIF Hackathon 2025
Sponsored by
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NYBW
7:00 PM
10:00 PM
Chainlink SmartCon Kickoff Party

Part of Chainlink's Community Day

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NYBW
November 4
5:00 PM
6:30 PM
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The Metropolitan Pavilion, Expo Hall
SmartCon Welcome Mixer

Kick off SmartCon and network with attendees over drinks and light bites. For SmartCon attendees only.

Sponsored by
SmartCon
6:00 PM
9:00 PM
BitAngels Pitch Competition and Fireside Chat during Chainlink SmartCon
Event Details
NYBW
6:00 PM
9:00 PM
Rayo Capital NYC Fall Mixer
Event Details
NYBW
9:00 PM
12:00 AM
Welcome to the Sea-Suite 🦪 🥂 Hosted by Akash Network
Event Details
NYBW
November 5
7:00 AM
11:00 AM
Welcome tRWAFi.RAW: Builders & RWA Rooftop Meetup – NYC Editiono the Sea-Suite 🦪 🥂 Hosted by Akash Network
Event Details
NYBW
6:30 PM
8:30 PM
The Lion Does Not Concern Itself (October Edition): Founders Dinner hosted by Avalanche
Event Details
NYBW
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
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The Metropolitan Pavilion, Expo Hall
SmartCon Farewell Mixer

Close out SmartCon and network with attendees over drinks and light bites. For SmartCon attendees only.

Sponsored by
SmartCon
9:00 PM
12:00 AM
SmartCon After Dark

The official closing party for all SmartCon attendees.

Sponsored by
SmartCon
November 6
4:00 PM
7:30 PM
Chainlink x Sei: NYC Happy Hour
Event Details
NYBW