With the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies, the blockchain industry is also booming. According to the professional networking platform LinkedIn, job postings in the crypto segment grew nearly five-fold last year. Funding for crypto-related firms has increased and with this these firms have also increased hiring.
Rohas Nagpal, author of the Future Money Playbook and Chief Blockchain Architect at the Wrapped Asset Project, said that there are career opportunities in many areas related to the crypto segment. These include Finance, Investigation and Law, Technology, Content Creation and Community Management. These include developing financial models for decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions such as algorithmic stablecoins, derivatives, insurance, staking and synthetics, creating financial models and tokens for crypto projects, and increasing hiring in functions such as fund raising.
Do you have the Aptitude for this? You can study two projects – Aave and Uniswap to find out. If you understand their financial models and find them interesting, then crypto finance can be a good career option for you. Millions of dollars are being lost in fraud cases involving cryptocurrencies. Crimes related to crypto-assets are on the rise. A cryptocurrency investigator has to investigate crimes such as darknet markets, money laundering scams and hacking.
There are also a lot of career opportunities in Blockchain technology. A blockchain developer manages crypto assets, integrates blockchain APIs and develops DApps, smart contracts. The blockchain architect chooses the best blockchain framework for a specific use and designs the blockchain networks. A blockchain security professional secures blockchain networks as well as audits smart contracts. New areas of blockchain technology include bridges, cross chain protocols, DAOs, metaverses, NFTs, and Web 3. Do you have Aptitude for this? Go deep into Ethereum to find out. Create a token on the testnet, learn how to integrate APIs, and test the code for the open-source Trust Wallet. Apart from this, good career opportunities can also be found in content creation and community management.