In 2017, Sergey Nazarov, Steve Ellis, and Ari Juels wrote the Chainlink whitepaper. The whitepaper would eventually become the Chainlink network and make Nazarov one of the most important founders and CEOs of Web3.
In this article, we’ll be exploring Sergey Nazarov’s life and how he became the man behind Chainlink.
Sergey Nazarov Before Crypto
Sergey Nazarov is the son of Russian immigrants who moved to New York in the 1990s. His parents were engineers, and they introduced Nazarov to engineering at an early age. Nazarov quickly took to their lessons and became interested in computer engineering.
Nazarov became so good at coding that he was a finalist in the 2006 Google coding jam, where he came third. Despite being gifted in the sciences, Nazarov didn’t opt for an engineering degree for his college education. Instead, he studied philosophy and management science at New York State…
