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How fast is the capital pouring into the blockchain market?
Just this week, two blockchain investment funds surfaced, and there are many big names behind them. Among them, Distributed Capital announced the official incubation of digital asset investment fund BKFUND, a digital asset fund management company registered in Cayman Islands. The investors of the first growth fund include Shen Bo, a distributed management partner, and many industry veterans. In terms of investment philosophy, BKFUND has laid out global high-quality blockchain assets.
Then, Zhang Jian, CTO of Firecoin, Yuan Daoxian Sheng, an economic advocate in Zheng Tong, and a number of venture capital elites initiated the establishment of Singing Bar Capital. As a combination of technology and capital, New Song Capital focuses on disruptive opportunities based on blockchain.
Statistics show that among the 46 venture capital (VC) institutions newly established in 20 17, 9 focus on blockchain, accounting for nearly 20%. Most of the founders of these venture capitalists are big names in the "currency circle", including the currency capital jointly founded by Li Xiaolai, the richest man in Bitcoin, and Laomao, the former chief operating officer of Yunbi.com, while the Qian Fang Fund is led by Zhang Yinhai, a famous digital asset investor. In addition, the prosperity of blockchain has triggered the anxiety and participation of traditional venture capital circles. Among the "traditional" venture capital institutions, Zhenge Fund, IDG and Sequoia Capital have long been pioneers in blockchain investment.
The reporter found that the angel round financing of many blockchain projects last year was only a few million yuan, but it is not surprising that some projects received tens of millions of yuan financing this year. Recently, the blockchain media "Deep Chain Finance" announced the completion of 654.38+0 billion RMB angel round financing, which was jointly invested by 8 funds including Meihua Angel and PreAngel. Nowadays, in the blockchain field, the proportion of medium and large investment institutions has gradually increased compared with vertical investment institutions, and there has been a lively scene of "every time a good blockchain project, dozens of investment institutions will flock". In addition, unlike the blockchain projects invested last year, which are all related to virtual currency, the recent "blockchain media" and blockchain underlying technology research and development companies have also begun to attract the attention of market capital.
From a global perspective, according to the report released by overseas institution Crunchbase News, the sharp fluctuation of bitcoin price has not stopped the steady growth of blockchain venture capital. As of February this year, the total amount of venture capital raised by blockchain companies has exceeded 40% of the total last year.
AB side of job-hopping: taking bitcoin as salary
The surge of funds will certainly lead to the "flow" of talents, and even many people from traditional Internet companies or financial institutions have jumped into this field, which has become a "global phenomenon".
Recently, Yuan Yuming, chief analyst of Industrial Securities TMT, posted in the WeChat circle of friends that he had left Industrial Securities and joined Huobi China as the dean of the blockchain research institute. In fact, this is not a case. Sir David Walker, former executive director of the Bank of England, joined Setl, a blockchain securities startup platform, as the company's chairman in 20 15. The financial market veteran has also served as the chairman of Barclays Bank and Morgan Stanley International.
The latest data released by LinkedIn shows that the global demand for blockchain talents began to grow in 20 15 years, and experienced explosive growth from 20 16 to 20 17 years. The number of people with blockchain-related skills on LinkedIn files has increased by nearly 19 times. But at present, its proportion in the total demand of the global talent market is still very low. In recent years, the industry with the fastest growing demand for blockchain talents is the computer software industry, followed by financial services and insurance.
According to the data, 38% of the technical talents related to artificial intelligence (AI) in China have more than 10 years of working experience, and 28% of the talents related to blockchain have more than 10 years of working experience. However, it does not mean that there are many senior talents in the blockchain field. Their experience and qualifications may only mean that they have some basic technologies involved in blockchain development, which does not necessarily mean that they have the thinking and practical application of blockchain development. Wang Di, vice president of technology of LinkedIn China, said that blockchain is an emerging technology model driven by the technology community, which is still in the early stage of rapid development and has not yet been completed. Therefore, the requirements of blockchain for technical talents are different from those of AI. Blockchain development needs decentralized thinking, practical application development experience and fast learning ability.
The competition of talents is naturally the competition of salary. The reporter found on some recruitment websites that blockchain technical talents occupy the "salary highland". In the future, there are various companies recruiting positions related to blockchain, including traditional Internet companies, consulting companies, e-commerce companies and game companies. Take the blockchain engineer working in Shenzhen as an example, the salary given by the enterprise generally exceeds 10000 yuan per month. On the recruitment website, the reporter also found that many companies give an annual salary of 6.5438+0 million to 6.5438+0.5 million to recruit blockchain "technical directors". The reporter's investigation also found that some so-called blockchain institutions use virtual currency as their salary. A blockchain institution in Shandong recruits jobs such as media operation and event planning, with a monthly salary of one or two etheric coins.
This is how Ding Song "jumped ship". In an interview, he has moved from a mobile payment company in Shenzhen to a training institution in the blockchain as a background engineer.
"The most popular programming languages for blockchain development are C++ and Go. People who are proficient in cryptography and distributed computing also have inherent advantages for blockchain development." Ding Song said: "I have not studied blockchain, but I have studied and studied it for a long time." For the blockchain training institutions in the new district, Ding Song revealed that the salary offered by the company is also "special": in addition to the fixed small salary, there is a floating bonus of 0. 1 to 0.35 bitcoin every month. When recruiting, "speculating money" became a plus item.
"Taking Bitcoin as a salary, to put it bluntly, even wages are full of uncertainty, just like this industry. I feel that I am still young and can gamble, but I can't see the prospect. " In Ding Song's view, the popularity of a new thing will naturally be mixed with irrational bubbles, but what survives in the end must be something of real value. However, if the probability of blind investment can be geometric?