Chainlink Labs

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Chainlink Labs, originally founded in 2014 in San Francisco as SmartContract.com by Sergey Nazarov and Steve Ellis, builds Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle network for decentralized finance. The network delivers Data Feeds, Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol and Functions that let smart contracts access off-chain data and cross-chain messaging with decentralized validation. Labs stewards research, node operations and enterprise adoption with collaborators including Swift and major banks, handling verifiable compute and staking research. Headquartered as a distributed global team with legal entities in the Cayman Islands and operations in San Francisco and New York, the organization emphasizes cryptographic rigor and reliable infrastructure. The team values open research, node reliability and enabling contracts to consume real-world data securely at global scale for developers everywhere.