Major financial institutions like BlackRock, Fidelity, and UBS want access to onchain financial markets, but onchain compliance remains a significant barrier. Protocols today lack native identity, sanctions screening, and jurisdictional controls, keeping trillions in institutional liquidity sidelined and creating friction for both institutions and end users. In this fireside chat, Persona and Chainlink will explore how onchain attestations and identity infrastructure unlock compliant institutional participation in onchain financial markets. The conversation will cover how programmable, reusable identity works in practice, how it reduces fragmentation across platforms, and how it shifts compliance from siloed processes into a shared, verifiable standard. The discussion will also examine real-world adoption: who benefits first, what the most immediate use cases look like, and how the onchain financial system is set to evolve over the next few years. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how identity standards, onchain attestations, and oracle infrastructure work together to balance transparency, privacy, and security, enabling the next wave of institutional adoption.

Speakers

David Chachanko Product Architect Persona

Ishan Vishnoi VP of Product & Ops, Banking & Capital Markets Chainlink