What are the top crypto companies to work for? Of course Coinbase is far and away the most prominent but what are thoughts regarding working at other exchanges like OKEx, Kraken, Gemini or cryptocurrencies like Ripple, Solana, etc.
Gemini has Nifty gateway too…highly recommend the company
Nifty Gateway is not even considered a serious nft exchange by the NFT community.
Not sure on what basis you are recommending Gemini, but it's a complete disaster here, there is massive attrition especially in our engineering teams, and everyone wants to go work at Coinbase. Except we have an extremely broad non-compete that basically prevents you from working in crypto/blockchain/digital assets after you leave Gemini. Sure you can ignore it but the risk is that they are famous for suing. That's why most Crypto startups turn down investments from us, as there is a well documented history of this type of stuff.
I'm heard Coinbase is a shit show too. As are more hypergrowth companies cause of growing pains
My POV is that business built solely on exchanges are a race to the bottom in the long term(think eTrade). DeFI, NFTs and core blockchain tech (Layer 2) is going to be the winner in the long term. My list would be: BlockFi, Square’s TBD BTC project, Aave, Solana, Dapper, Opensea etc.
These companies don’t have to be exchanges forever though. As the market matures they’re positioned to take on new verticals.
Good point, I feel like the exchanges are making so much money consistently - they are the most resourced to expand beyond pure exchange and into new verticals