Every job wants experience and experience requires a job. Bounties break that loop: open tasks from real projects, paid in stablecoins, with the work left public. Superteam Earn has paid contributors more than $10.2 million, content bounties start around 200 USDC, and the sponsors posting them are the same companies hiring full time.

Read the full article: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/web3-bounties-and-grants

CryptoJob.org helps web3 job seekers find work. Browse open roles at https://www.cryptojob.org

Apple is offering up to $280,000 for someone who understands stablecoins, and the job is on the ApplePay team.

The listing names stablecoins, tokenized deposits and blockchain. Samsung Wallet is already adding stablecoins this year, and Google is hiring for the same skills. Apple hasn't announced a thing, but 2.5 billion active devices is a lot of wallets. If even a fraction of them get a stablecoin button, it's the biggest crypto onboarding event in history.

The three companies behind nearly every phone on earth all want #stablecoins at the same time.

Pay attention 👀

🟠 Michael Saylor vs Bitcoin - The Most Convicted Trade in History

Saylor has bought #Bitcoin through every crash, every panic, every "it's over."

And he never stopped.

The numbers:
• 843,738 BTC accumulated
• $63.8 billion invested
• $75,700 average buy price
• $85,000 BTC today

📉 When the market crashed - he bought
📉 When media said sell - he bought more
📉 When everyone panicked - biggest purchase ever

His single largest buy? $5.4 billion in one week. November 2024.

Look at the chart:
The blue line = BTC price
The orange circles = every Saylor purchase
Bigger circle = more money spent

Every dip. Every crash. Every orange bubble.
The pattern has never changed.

History is being written in orange 🟠

Gate built its own Trenches. Dan Kessler on what that does to exchange jobs.

A meme trading venue inside the exchange, flat fee, KOL leaderboard, $LAPTOP in week one. Binance added stages, Gate removed them.

Dan's read: every exchange is becoming a launchpad, and the listings desk is turning into a product team.

https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/crypto-exchange-product-jobs-gate-trenches

Memecoins are back near $35 billion. The quote asset changed.

On Pump.fun, BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain, memecoins now trade against tokenized stocks. The stock trades 6.5 hours a day. The pool never closes. Dan Kessler on where that breaks and who gets hired to fix it.

https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/memecoins-priced-in-tokenized-stocks

Congress hasn't passed it yet. The job description is already written.

A House committee voted 28 to 21 on the Bitcoin reserve bill. If it becomes law, the government has to prove every year that it still controls its bitcoin. Custody, forensics and audit people: the contractors are hiring now.

https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/bitcoin-reserve-bill-government-crypto-jobs

Visa is a blockchain validator now. So are BlackRock and Mastercard.

Someone at each of them keeps a node signing blocks on Circle's Arc at 3am. Tiago Sousa on what that seat takes: HSM keys, SOC 2 controls and a plan for the day a critical patch goes public.

https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/circle-arc-validator-jobs

Same crypto job title in India. Three very different payslips:

• Large IT services firm: ₹4.5 to ₹9 LPA at junior level
• Indian exchange, startup or global capability centre: ₹15 to ₹35 LPA and up at mid level
• Remote global company: 2 to 4 times local rates

If part of it is paid in tokens, gains are taxed at a flat 30 percent plus cess, with no loss set off. Read the offer before you sign: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/crypto-jobs-india

What changed about Bitcoin Cash the day CME announced futures?

Not the token. Only who can buy it, through a regulated door. BCH still rose about 30 percent in hours, before a single contract existed. The contracts launch on October 19, pending review.

Dan Kessler on the desks every futures listing hires:
https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/cme-bitcoin-cash-uniswap-futures

"Your bundle won the auction and still lost money. How?"

That's the question that filters MEV engineers. Answer it well and research roles pay $160K to $280K base, plus large bonuses at trading firms.

Tiago Sousa on the Rust stack behind the bots: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/mev-engineer-jobs

How a rate hike reaches your job search:

1. September: a company decides to add headcount
2. October: the roles get posted
3. November: interviews
4. December or January: people start

The Fed hiked for the first time since July 2023, and bitcoin hit an eight month high six days later. Hiring reacts to both, one quarter late. Karin Holm's read: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/crypto-hiring-fed-hike-bitcoin-high

Crypto jobs in Singapore

The licensing crackdown pushed out the unlicensed firms. The licensed ones that stayed are hiring.

Mid level blockchain engineers: SGD 100,000 to 160,000
Employment Pass floor in financial services: S$6,200 a month for the youngest applicants, rising in January

Check the licence before you apply. Bex Adeyemi's guide: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/crypto-jobs-singapore

In 2022 Binance converted its users' USDC into BUSD. Now it owns $100 million of Circle.

Binance bought the shares at $80.84 each, and Circle pays it a monthly fee to promote USDC for five years. Each side bought what it couldn't build. Dan Kessler traced the deal and the partnership, localization and compliance hiring that comes with it.

https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/binance-circle-investment-usdc

One post from Vitalik.
A 900 percent day for TRUE.
Zero contracts migrated a week later.
Under $1 million locked.

Trueo said it would move to Ethereum. The token ran and the migration didn't. Dan Kessler on the oracle and dispute work that is the real hiring story: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/trueo-prediction-market-vitalik-corposlop

Polymarket's founder is 28. The CFO it hired in September is 69.

Crypto hires experience wherever mistakes are expensive: finance, compliance, risk, treasury and legal. Bex Adeyemi on presenting twenty years of experience without apologizing for it: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/polymarket-cfo-crypto-jobs-over-40

Old stock market abuses, new rails. Dan Kessler on the people paid to catch them.

This year a memecoin cornered 53 percent of a stock token, one entity held about 92 percent of SIREN and USELESS traded 11 times its spot volume in perpetuals. Kraken's parent is adopting Nasdaq's surveillance technology, and regulated venues are hiring the analysts first.

https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/crypto-market-surveillance-jobs

Crypto recruiters get hired on numbers, like everyone they screen.

"42 engineering hires in 12 months" gets the interview. "People person" doesn't. Average pay is about $135,000 and the range tops out at $242,000, with no coding required. Bex Adeyemi did the job for seven years and explains how to get in: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/crypto-recruiter-jobs

Prediction markets vs US sportsbooks

July volume: $50.6 billion, against about $14 billion a month at US sportsbooks
Kalshi's record week: $15.27 billion in contracts, $3.53 billion actually paid
Kalshi's headcount: about 120 people

Volume counts contracts at face value, so the dollars paid were about 23 percent of the contract figure. Still enormous. Karin Holm on the number that holds up: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/prediction-market-volume-vs-sportsbooks

BitMEX invented the perpetual swap. It closed with about 0.08 percent of that market.

At its peak it held an estimated 57 percent of crypto derivatives. On September 23, after eleven years, it stopped trading. The product won and the company didn't. Dan Kessler on where the derivatives jobs went.

https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/bitmex-shutdown-crypto-derivatives-jobs

Crypto breaks in public, often at 3am, and someone has to write the first statement within the hour.

It says what happened, what users should do now and when the next update comes, with no guessing at causes or amounts. Exchange comms managers were listed at about $81,000 to $161,000 and heads of comms up to $250,000. Bex Adeyemi on how to get hired: https://www.cryptojob.org/blog/crypto-communications-jobs