Also called: Crypto Economist, Mechanism Designer
Designs the economic rules of cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects: supply, rewards and incentives.
You model what happens if a crypto project gives rewards to early users, simulate how traders might game it and redesign the rules.
Highly volatile; often paid partly in tokens.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in economics, math or computer science; game theory skills.
Ways in: 4-year college, Self-taught, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science.
Growing about average. Small, volatile niche.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI runs incentive simulations; the niche is small and volatile, tied to crypto booms and busts, and design work concentrates.
Classes: AP Microeconomics, AP Statistics, AP Computer Science.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-2099.
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