how did you get your job in crypto? are you full time crypto or split?
Full time web2 eng + founder -> Solidity Security Fellowship -> Teaching Assistant for Fellowship -> Smart Contract Auditor -> Frax Core Engineer Middle 3 were at same company
Did the grants program as an artist, asked very very nicely if they needed someone to work for them, fast forward a year, I am now the only employee as I knew the most and can do basically anything they ask me.
Full time; was working in video games, tumbled down the rabbit hole, joined Boys Club, and found the full time role through them.
worked at trad SEO agencies for years but was always building up side projects in crypto at same time leveraged that proof of work into a full time role but had to spam applications for a few months before I got in somewhere (and also needed a great recommendation)
Full time since Sep 2022. We were pulled in by the problems in the market. Kept doing discovery with companies/funds to understand what they were trying to accomplish and couldn't. Started building a solution in Apr 2023, having discerned its critical parts. Will be launching throughout 2 quarters of this year.
started voluntary. got invited for a compensated position a few weeks afterwards. it was a bull market back then tho so a lot of work needed to be done.
full-time. some dude named @bilbo DM'd me on Twitter to say he liked my name and asked if I'd like to make some memes for him.
Originally: Bussed from Ontario to Boston in 2015 for a hackathon at MIT. Won “best crypto hack”, which happened to be sponsored by Coinbase. That led to interviewing and working there during my undergrad. Now: Quit my job and became a full time founder :)
I’m full time and got my last two gigs from founders DMing me on Discord.
initially joined a discord, was interested in the product, asked a lot of questions, created some content and team DM'd me: "continue with what you do but we pay you". started as community manager, then learned some UI/UX and replaced their initial designer project sunsetted few months ago though :(
got crypto pilled in 2021 via NFTs while in college found ENS, made sense, started tinkering around and practicing coding full time crypto grants / some web2 freelance stuff after graduating in june 2022 ENS Labs asked me to join more officially in feb this year, here I am 🫡
used to be a full time artist but that didn’t work out too well 🙃 so i’m back on the work grind
token-gated web3 jobs channel on Discord told me to DM someone on Twitter. full-time
my first job in crypto was a result of me tweeting A LOT about NFTs and Tezos reaching out and being like hey we want to do the things you are talking about, come help. my current position at CharmVerse came after being DAO-pilled and deciding I wanted to build DAO tools and I reached out to them through a friend.
Met @peterferguson.eth for a coffee when back home. Plan was to talk about physics, but he showed me a janky af prototype for an app he’d thrown together in his spare time 😂 It was enough to quit our jobs a couple of months after, and been building full time in web3 since! (Bout 1.5 years)
Full time. I pro bono wrote some smart contracts for some friends a while back. They made a company with some of my code, then hired me.
Worked in tech for years, secretly doing crypto things forever. Then had an opportunity presented that enabled the foundation of a web3 company - and I’d always wanted to build something myself - so I raised money and jumped in.
I’m full time doing the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship program rn.
2014: Bought bitcoin to purchase a fake ID 2016: Learned more about Ethereum during altcoin frenzy and was fascinated by the idea of digital ownership and identity. Stayed relatively tuned in as a retail investor/consumer. 2021: Started working in the space full-time and went deeper down the rabbit hole
followed and engaged w smart folks on twitter - got invite to consensus conference from an eos engineer (ian grigg). met the dash core group ceo. he was former tiger global and mckinsey. when he heard bridgewater he was like dude, please come help. 2017
I reached out the the project directly to get a preview of their whitepaper, at the time (2018) I was writing Google’s crypto newsletter, which was public
I haven't gotten any work in crypto, but I'm still hoping to get one. Hopefully, a work that can help me express myself as an artist🤗🤗
Did some freelance work for OKX last year, one of the projects I worked on was AirSwap, turns out they were seriously looking for contributors at the time, joined, now post-AirSwap looking for a new role.
Split. Work outside of web 3, my art practice exists mostly inside web 3.
started in college by winning a few hackathons/competitions, then decided to try to launch a network to decentralize science/academic publishing. didn't work, tried zks, TEEs, eventually got into YC and did fintech stuff. pivoted back to crypto end of last year, full time af
From a master's degree in a Public University in Spain, so networking + background + other business
Fell into the web3 rabbit hole just before my paternity leave. Decided I couldn't go back, had to go deeper. Interviewed with 6 diff web3 companies and took the best opp that was aligned with my goals 😁 never a dull day since!
gm sir - I haven't seen a fiat paycheck since 2020. 😅 good friend of mine convinced me to come work at dapper labs to help build their blockchain. its part of the reason why I am always keen to take time out of my day to onboard the next person into web3
I found my first full time job from the Surge Women job board in 2020. Before that I was contributing to DAOs and doing other freelance work. I’ve been full time ever since. I had no idea a working in crypto was an option until early 2020 when a friend in the space encouraged me to transition to full time.
I was doing full time music consulting for brands and artists for 15 plus years and once I found crypto I was like o I can just do this full time in crypto instead
i've built one of the first ios btc trading apps back in 2013 — and that's how it all started i've been a crypto entrepreneur since then while doing a lot of other stuff in the meantime
Started an anon account on crypto twitter while working at Salesforce. Posted threads on new dapps I was using. Quit Salesforce in Aug. '21 to write about crypto full time. Went turbo mode on the threads - grew my Twitter to 10k+ followers. Got offer from Chapter One. Quit C1 Dec '22 to go full time web3 creator.
Had some freedom after exit on an edu business, and then 👉 1. @a16zcrypto 2020 CSS video series first gave me conviction to build in crypto 2. @arweave Foundry was amazing community for learn-by-doing 3. @farcaster has been final unlock :) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjQ9HCQMu_8wCvA0s9yW2dXg1jkFlPs7Z
Applied on Coinbase's website in 2014 (shared my cover letter here). When I did my first phone screening with them, I said I would work in any role so they ended up hiring me for a different position https://twitter.com/ljxie/status/1446334264811798534
No snark or sarcasm intended here. I don’t know how to answer this question anymore. For us at Bunches (and other consumer cos) specifically it’s akin to asking “are you full time in AWS?”
Don’t have one yet but motivated to find one. I come from a non-technical background but am deep in the weeds of Ethereum happenings and think I could be an asset to a team out there.
Did the opposite - I was involved in crypto projects from 2017-2019, but by 2020 I left web3 consulting and went back to web2. I still have love + hope for ETH community, but 95%+ of projects end up scams or sued or hacked. Feels super shitty to find out you work at one of those, it's not worth the risks to me anymore.
Started by creating a Polkadot group on Facebook. It ended up becoming the largest single social group for the network, and I met ppl through it. That lead to meeting the founder of Sarcophagus, which was looking for a CM.
back in 2017 i wanted to use blockchain tech for proxy voting at traditional brokerage firms. A top traditional Brokerage US firm liked my project and bought it from me. I told Coinbase about and worked there for a bit. Now im a founder of a platform :) doing side quest while waiting for funding.
also partnering up with a retail web3 startup to have their interface and our interface working together for payment processing- I have a coffee shop on board willing to use our wallet and payment system in exchange for crypto events at their local shops.
Full time since I found a crypto startup in early2018 and somehow managed not to get sucked into doing an ICO (shoutout to everyone who attended Malta blockchain summit in 2018, wild times 🫡) Now still in crypto full time working for Outlier Ventures, helping founders every day buidling through the 🐻
I actually have not worked any job but I wouldn’t mind one although I have worked as a collab manager for some projects.
Hired @ ConsenSys right on the Bull-market comedown in 2017-2018 to do product design for crypto projects 😅
Met GC in blockchain barrister discord — been fully immersed since
Started freelance blog writing for a small mining pool project. I got familiar with that vertical and ended up getting hired at one of the bigger mining players as a researcher. Ironically, I've done very little research and nowadays spend most my time doing typical TPM stuff that doesn't require much crypto knowledge.
joined the ens discord in late october 2021, started answering questions people had, got hired like a week later for a temporary support role, then a month later joined ens labs full time as a software engineer
Joined Bitcoin ATM company in 2017 .. then Tagomi .. then Coinbase .. full time since 2017
Proof of Work = being active in the community. And I am currently part time.
Full time, started working on a music protocol, realized how bad mobile was/is, so decided to work on ethOS.
Started running validators in incentivized testnets in 2019. Time is split doing this, helping a grants initiative and working for free on ideologic projects. Most of the revenue sources will come to an end this year. Looking to contribute and help others. If anyone knows of anything please DC 🙏🏼🙂
Sucked at trading. Started playing around with NFTs. Found DAOs, found my calling. Still holding down irl because crypto hasn’t been paying well.
Was a full time PM for what became an onchain business, which gave me incredible insight & experience on how to operate one. Managed a treasury as a well as a community. The onchain aspect was eventually sunset, as the founder wanted to take things in a different direction. Looking 2 bring that experience to a new team
I got into crypto in 2021. I started working on web3 efforts at Google in 2022 after I started organizing people into web3 within Google. Now working on AI full-time but still cooking up web3 stuff in my head.
Crypto/web3 is a weekday evenings and weekends thing for me. Day job needs too much work at the moment. But still learning and building side projects. Built an app for a web3 gaming community that I am active in. Plan to continue to build on it and build other stuff. Hoping to find a break in the process.
I tweeted that I was gonna start looking for a junior product design role, a founder I met the day before in the tweet commented, and shortly afterwards I started working there
Not in crypto and unlikely to be this decade. Come 2030 the ethos and tech will likely have penetrated my industry (healthcare) and I’ll be able to put to work learnings from moonlighting in web3 for a decade.
I’m full time and it took a lot of searching. Just know what you’re good at and signal it to a team. Whether they’re hiring or not
I invented it. Started a “blockchain” company in 2017 because I wanted it for myself and felt it solved a real problem. Never launched a token. Didn’t try to get people to ape into thing. Just built a product.
Off & on full-time crypto / split with web2 contracting Main qualifications are having acquired knowledge via 3 years of crypto addiction
only part time now on personal projects. built a mining rig in 2010 after someone on slashdot.org calculated bitcoin mining’s unprofitability due to the price per kWh. power to my dorm room was free, so i figured why not? then in the summer of 2011 the rest of the internet discovered it, and i couldn’t keep up
Cold email to a crypto CEO telling him how he should change his product A few calls, a few arguments, and ~48 hours later he offered me a job
I have never had a job in crytpo, but I’ve been fascinated by it since I discovered pgp, was politicised by it by the treatment of Zimmerman, and hardened by it when the USA tried to stop the world having SSL.
I'm FT crypto and self-employed. Love it. Joined 2 DAOs in 2021 while freelancing as a senior copy editor in academia. Attended calls, wrote summaries, and asked Qs in Discord. Got offers from 2 new clients in web3 media, one of whom I still work with today (Starbased). I'll have openings for new clients soon. :)
Starter trading OTC on localbitcoins dot com due to it being a good arb and now have an nft fund that focuses on buying and holding historically significant nfts that I do part time
I date @notdevin.eth and he roped me into his startup 2 years ago…worked random positions until I landed on design and found a love for that. have since branched off to start my own logo design & branding biz. still help him out when they need support and we’ll see if, when, and how I find my way back in :)
