How people actually get jobs now
Let’s face it, LinkedIn feels like a professional costume party. Everyone’s pretending to be “thrilled to announce” something, writing essays about “growth mindset,” and humblebragging about how they “failed forward.” Bro. You just uploaded a PDF and got ghosted by HR. Relax.
Now imagine a version of LinkedIn where:
- You don’t write cover letters, you ship stuff.
- You don’t “apply”, you earn.
- And instead of your ex-manager endorsing your “leadership skills,” you earn while building out your portfolio.
That’s Superteam Earn, the résumé, portfolio, and discovery engine for the Solana ecosystem. It’s like if LinkedIn, Upwork, and Replit had a baby. And that baby was allergic to cringe.
The New Résumé: Proof of Work (Literally)
Earn started as a bounty board — a place where Solana projects dropped small gigs and paid people in crypto. But somewhere between “help us write a thread” and “design our website,” it quietly evolved into something much bigger:
A reputation machine.
Every bounty you win, every grant you score, every project you touch, it all stacks up as proof of work.
Not “proficient in Excel.”
Not “passionate about innovation.”
Just: “Built a Telegram bot, got paid $400, and hired next week.”
This isn't a theory — it’s already happening.
The People Who Turned Bounties Into Careers
Earn isn’t producing “users.” It’s producing legends. Let’s talk about a few.
ChefGunny — skipped college to ship dApps
Silas Gunn, aka @ChefGunny_, was your typical student until he realised Solana was paying more than his part-time job. He crushed 9 bounties and snagged 2 grants from Jupiter and the Solana Foundation — over $5,000 total. Then he said, “You know what? University can wait.” Took a gap year. Started earning full-time online.
Samba — from writing bounties to writing checks
Samba ( @0xSJDeFi ) began by winning a few content bounties. The dude has a way with words.. Next thing you know, the Solana Foundation gives him a grant for his crypto magazine, The R Roundup.
Then, Superteam UK hires him to write their monthly newsletter. Then Flight3, one of the biggest Web3 agencies in the UK, scoops him up full-time.
This man literally turned shitposting and storytelling into a salaried career. The arc is real.
Bill Papapostolou — hacker turned founder
Bill ( @bill_papas_12 ) didn’t just collect bounties; he treated Earn like a launchpad. He wrecked hackathons, grabbed grants, and eventually founded his own startup, Unruggable. Because why update your LinkedIn headline when you can just start a company?
Nguyen Tran Dinh — from bounty hunter to media mogul
Nguyen ( @jackfrostt1221 ) joined Earn to win a few content bounties. Fast-forward to 2025, and he’s running a full-time studio called Thesensedotcom — entirely bootstrapped through grants. No investor decks. No résumé drops. Just proof-of-work receipts.
Ritik Bhatt — hired twice through Earn
Ritik ( @ritikbhatt020 ) started by doing zkProof bounties. Catoff noticed. They hired him. Then Copperx noticed him winning their bounty… and hired him, too. Every bounty on his profile is proof of his skills.
Vaibhav & Jovian — the Okto duo
Vaibhav and Jovian went bounty-hunting for Okto listings. Both crushed it. Both got hired full-time as software engineers. Forget interviews — they literally worked together before getting the job. That’s crypto hiring in action.
RoqCreates — social media stardom unlocked
Roq ( @roqcreates ) won a creator bounty by KAST on Earn. Next thing you know, they’re hired as Social Media Manager at KAST. Their entire career was built through bounties — no résumés, no recruiters, just straight vibes and verified work.
The Earn Profile: Your Wallet Is Your Résumé
Every person above has an Earn profile. It’s not a brag wall, it’s a receipt wall.
Each win = public proof you did something valuable.
Each collaboration = a new contact in the Solana network.
Each payout = instant, on-chain validation that you’re legit.
Compare that to LinkedIn, where your “experience” is whatever you can type before your coffee gets cold. Earn isn’t about what you say you can do; it’s about what you’ve already done. That’s why founders are starting to browse Earn profiles like hiring managers stalk GitHub.
Forget Résumés — Bring Proof
Traditional hiring is broken. Résumés are fiction. Portfolios can be faked. Recruiters ghost faster than your ex.
Earn fixes all of that.
Because you can’t fake:
- A verified grant from the Solana Foundation.
- A bounty payout from Jupiter.
- An actual working live project.
In crypto, your reputation is your record. And Earn is the ledger of talent.
LinkedIn is “Talk about work”. Earn is “Show, don’t tell.”
That’s the difference.
LinkedIn’s full of people talking about their dreams. Earn’s full of people building them.
LinkedIn says “Open to Work.”
Earn says, “Already working — here’s proof.”
And that shift is massive. It’s turning Web3 hiring from “who you know” into “what you can show.” When a Solana founder sees you’ve completed 10 bounties across 4 projects, they don’t need your GPA. They want to know when you can start working..
Why This Matters for Solana
Solana has always been about speed and scale, not just for transactions, but for opportunity. Earn is the human layer that matches that energy.
It’s giving creators, developers, and designers around the world a way to get discovered, get paid, and build a track record — all without touching a résumé template.
Vietnamese students, Nigerian marketers, Indian engineers, UK writers — all finding work directly through Solana projects, all through Earn.
That’s not a job board. That’s an economy.
The Résumé Revolution
If LinkedIn was the resume of Web2, Earn is the resume of Web3.
In Web2, you claim to have skills.
In Web3, you prove them.
And guess what? The ladder pays in USDC.
Every new bounty, hackathon, or grant on Earn is another chapter in this proof of work movement. A movement where your profile is your portfolio. Where your wins are permanent. And where anyone, anywhere, can go from anonymous to unstoppable.
So yeah — Earn is Crypto’s LinkedIn, but fun. It’s the anti-resume resume. The un-corporate career builder. The chaotic meritocracy we didn’t know we needed.
No suits. No gatekeepers. No “thrilled to announce.”
Just you, your wallet, your work and the entire Solana ecosystem watching. Because in this new world, the only endorsement that matters isn’t from your old boss. It’s from your work itself.