Blockchain Engineers
Maintain and support distributed and decentralized blockchain-based networks or block-chain applications such as cryptocurrency exchange, payment processing, document sharing, and digital voting. Design and deploy secure block-chain design patterns and solutions over geographically distributed networks using advanced technologies. May assist with infrastructure setup and testing for application transparency and security.
$116,580 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).
of the working time. Estimate.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 2%. Today's estimate: 4%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 17 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assess blockchain threats, such as untested code and unprotected keys.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 9% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days | 8%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Update client and server applications responsible for integration and business logic.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 9% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days | 8%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Implement catastrophic failure handlers to identify security breaches and prevent serious damage.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 4%Half by Dec 2027 | |
| Test the security and performance of blockchain infrastructures.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 4%Half by Dec 2027 | |
| Automate the deployment of software updates over geographically distributed network nodes.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 1 work week | 2%Half by Apr 2028 | |
| Design and deploy blockchain design patterns to make transactions secure, transparent, and immutable.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 9% | 2.5 work days5 h to 1.7 work weeks | 1%Half by Aug 2028 | |
| Design and verify cryptographic protocols to protect private information.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 9% | 3.3 work days6.7 h to 2.5 work weeks | 0%Half by Nov 2028 | |
| Develop a maintainable code base using object-oriented design principles, practices, or patterns.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 3.3 work days6.7 h to 2 work weeks | 0%Half by Oct 2028 | |
| Design and develop blockchain technologies for industries such as finance and music.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.7 work weeks2.1 work days to 1.2 work months | 0%Half by Jun 2029 | |
| Evaluate blockchain processes or risks based on security assessments or control matrix reviews.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 7% | 6.7 h2.5 h to 2.5 work days | 9%Half by Jul 2027 | |
| Run infrastructure tests to examine the behavior of large peer-to-peer networks.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 1 work day3.3 h to 3.3 work days | 6%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Design and implement data repositories to integrate data.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 1 work week | 2%Half by Apr 2028 |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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