https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DQjElh_NEqP_MjVGXfGwxfvVe3izl4Nni0qNR5DTOMw/edit?usp=sharing

<aside> 💡 Heyo! I’m Eric Zhong, a Software Engineer at Uniswap Labs and a senior CS student at Mich. Blockchain is an industry with some of the smartest folks in the world. I want to break down the techniques to land a role in the field. Let’s dive right in! 👇

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❓What work would I be doing?

The crypto / blockchain field is very broad with countless niches. Here are the largest ones:

Decentralized Finance

• Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) / Automated Market Makers (AMMs)
  • Uniswap, Matcha, 1inch
• Miner Extractable Value (MEV)
  • Flashbots
• Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
  • Opensea, Blur, Zora, Looksrare
• Lending
  • Aave, Compound
• Blockchain infrastructure
  • Ethereum and L1s
  • N.xyz (indexing)
  • Layer 2s (Optimism, Arbitrum)
    • Rollups, Zero-Knowledge
• Security
  • Auditing, formal verification, whitehat
• Research
  • Zero-Knowledge

Venture Capital

• Paradigm, a16z Crypto

Centralized Exchanges

• Coinbase, Binance, etc.

There are many different positions within the crypto space. Generally, here is what I’ve seen: