Career artifact · Chainlink era

NYC Lunch & Learns

Teaching onchain finance, two hours at a time.

Starting in spring 2025, I led a recurring, in-person Chainlink series for finance and fintech professionals—making stablecoins, tokenization, real-world assets, and blockchain interoperability concrete enough to use.

June 2025 Chainlink Lunch and Learn title screen naming Dave Isbitski and the topics digital assets, tokenization, and stablecoins — The June 27, 2025 session in New York City. The official invitation describes a 120-minute program for developers in financial institutions, banking, and capital markets.

From concepts to working context

A room built for questions

The sessions were deliberately small and practical. I could meet people where they were, build a shared foundation around digital assets and smart contracts, then connect the technology to the financial workflows and institutional use cases they already understood.

Each two-hour program moved from digital-asset foundations into stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets, and interoperability. Lunch made the format approachable; the room made it conversational; and the time after the formal agenda made space for deeper industry relationships.

The two-hour arc

The building blocks of onchain finance

Digital assets

Smart contracts, blockchains, and the core infrastructure beneath new financial workflows.

Stablecoins

Why institutions are exploring programmable money for payments, settlement, and markets.

Tokenized RWAs

How real-world value can be represented, moved, and composed through tokenized assets.

Interoperability

How Chainlink and CCIP connect digital assets, data, and value across blockchains.

Inside the series

Teaching the room, not the slide deck

Dave Isbitski teaching a room of finance and fintech professionals about why stablecoins matter — Connecting stablecoin adoption to the needs of financial markets and institutions.

September 25, 2025 Chainlink Lunch and Learn title screen for Dave Isbitski — The September 25 session continued the recurring program.

A full New York City classroom watching Dave Isbitski teach a Chainlink Lunch and Learn — A discussion-sized room with space for hands-on learning and follow-up conversations.

Why the room mattered

The relationships continued after lunch.

These sessions did more than transfer knowledge. They created repeated, in-person conversations with people working across financial services. One of those relationships helped open the door to my Swift opportunity, while others became lasting contacts across the industry.

Official records

Explore the event invitations

Chainlink Global Events · Luma June 27, 2025 · Digital Assets, Tokenization and Stablecoins Open the official invitation → Chainlink Global Events · Luma September 25, 2025 · Introduction to Tokenized Assets Open the official invitation →