But JPMorgan’s recent venture outside the walled garden isn’t due to shifts in the political winds or investors’ recent enthusiasm for crypto, said Zaltsman, the executive at Kinexys. Rather, this has been part of JPMorgan’s roadmap for years, she said. In fact, she and Sergey, the cofounder of Chainlink, first met at a conference two years ago and have been in conversations with them since.
