5 Rapidly Growing Crypto Startups Hiring Software Engineers in 2022
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You’d need a supercomputer to keep up with all the news about challenges confronting decentralized finance these days.
The value of Bitcoin, the OG of cryptocurrency, is nose-diving along with the stock price of Coinbase, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. Add to that high-profile hacks, software glitches, evidence that so-called “stable coins” can be anything but, and growing calls for more regulation, and there’s plenty of work ahead for the industry to address.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is an emerging financial system that uses blockchain to bypass the traditional global banking industry, making it public and peer-to-peer in nature. First developed in the 1990s, blockchain technology saw a relatively slow adoption rate during its early years and then exploded in popularity during rapid digitization triggered by the pandemic.
Seemingly overnight the world went from one main cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, to dozens of digital currencies with varying degrees of decentralization. One of the most noteworthy events of 2021 came when El Salvador became the world’s first nation to adopt Bitcoin as a national currency to increase economic growth, boost financial inclusion, and maximize remittances from abroad.
There are silver linings to the gray clouds hanging over crypto-land these days. For one, DeFi is getting more mainstream as Wall Street slowly embraces it. For another, crypto and blockchain companies are getting more VC funding than any other category in 2022, according to a recent AngelList Venture report. Besides, currencies like Bitcoin have weathered wilder swings in the past.
If you’d like to put your software engineering skills to work for a company reimagining the future of payments, check out our list of the 5 top DeFi startups hiring top software talent.
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- https://structure.fi
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- British Virgin Islands, Remote
- About
Founded by MIT & Jump Trading alumni, and backed by Polychain Capital, we are a global, remote-first team of engineers, designers, traders, and innovators of all kinds working together to build solutions for globally systemic financial systems. We value innovative ideas and encourage the audacity required to bring those ideas to life. The Structure app replaces an antiquated financial system crippled by waste and opaque by design; repackaging financial products designed for exclusivity and non-participation into assets fit for the public domain & organizational structures built for a global democratic society.
- Industries
Financial Exchanges
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://synapsefi.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- Austin, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lake City
- About
Synapse builds tools that allow companies to integrate banking products into their applications. We power everything from rental and invoicing platforms to payment apps, crowdfunding sites and currency exchanges.
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The core development team supporting the growth and success of the Goldfinch protocol11-50 Employees- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://warblerlabs.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- San Francisco Bay Area
- About
Founded by two ex-Coinbase employees and backed by top investors including Andreesen Horowitz, Coinbase, IDEO, and Kindred Ventures, Goldfinch is a decentralized credit platform that is using crypto to empower financial inclusion around the world. Our vision is to build a global, decentralized network that allows anyone to be a lender, not just banks
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Safest & easiest way to trade, custody, and transfer cryptocurrencies11-50 Employees- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://floating.group
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Singapore
- About
Floating Point Group is on a mission to bring institutional-grade services to the cryptocurrency markets. By abstracting away the complexity of interfacing with hundreds of different trading venues (each with their own idiosyncratic technology) while simultaneously pooling liquidity from across these venues, FPG's services enable hedge funds and brokerages to participate in these nascent markets with unprecedented confidence and efficiency.
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- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://nuts.finance/
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Asia
- About
Organized in 2018, NUTS Finance is a blockchain development DAO focused on building secure, composable and open source technology to enable financial applications on the blockchain. Our core team is composed of engineers, financiers, security experts and serial entrepreneurs. Our approach is open, global and blockchain agnostic. Through multiple projects, our aim is to deliver the working elements that can help shape the emerging crypto economy.
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