Blockchain Career Predictions
5 quick predictions on the future of crypto and related careers
The focus for the past few years has been on technical and market infrastructure with absurd amount of money pouring in to Layer 1 protocols (Ethereum), Layer 2 protocols, (Polygon), infrastructure (The Graph), mining (Marathon), and defi (too many to name) with all Layer 1’s, 2’s, and infrastructure supporting defi.
The next few years will be about bringing defi mainstream. Your parents will be using it as they use their current banking solution within one unified user experience. Marketing, Brand, and industry talent will be at a premium to leverage existing networks and map messaging to buyer personas within large and complex enterprise organizations.
Many projects will collapse and consolidation will occur within defi and other areas of the Web3 ecosystem. Insert career tip.
Many of your friends will go from “having some money in bitcoin” to doing more advanced defi wealth generation activities like lending assets on Aave and yield farming on Yearn Finance. Careers focused on B2C user adoption, growth marketing, and SaaS sales will increase dramatically.
Blockchain departments across all verticals will grow as the technology is now pervasive in their operation with more talent being hired to steer digital transformation and onboard customers within their supply chains. There will be more opportunities for internal transfers within candidates current companies vs. departing to crypto native organizations that work with legacy companies.
Government will create (and be more consistent with) regulations, reining in everything from tax collection to investment requirements. In some ways, this will curb innovation putting many current companies at risk. Public relations, government affairs, compliance, auditing, and legal departments will be more paramount, particularly as they relate to local laws as blockchain companies are typically borderless.
