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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 the Aladdin software side of BlackRock, I can see both of them massively benefiting from the Chainlink Standard.

The launch of CCIP 2.0 is something we've been working on with the world's top financial institutions for a while, we have now implemented their feedback on what is needed for institutional grade bridging of data and the movement of the digital assets themselves across both public and private chains. The response from the capital markets community here at Sibos has been very positive, and it is clear that the additional compliance, risk management, configurability and network participation capabilities of CCIP 2.0 are something that institutions find attractive and useful. I think the digital asset industry will end up at a new level of risk management for their data all of their tokenized value; where digital assets that are not bridged via a secure method and/or are relying on data that can be manipulated, will be viewed as much more risky. If the digital assets that bridge via providers which are not secure by default and/or keep repeatedly losing bridging keys, then they will receive worse asset risk scores which necessarily leads to worse terms for their usage as collateral, their inclusion on a balance sheet, and various other use cases. In some cases we are already seeing that having unreliable bridging or easy to manipualte data for valuation is leading to some digital assets to not be accepted for collateral or other users cases at all. We are now working closely with top FMIs, the leading banks, top asset managers, top GSIs and various capital markets technology providers to enable digital assets to operate in a derisked way, to unlock the liquidity found in public chains and to efficiently connect the next generation of digital assets to the benefits of DeFi. coindesk.com/business/2026/0…