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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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Discuss and plan systems with solution architects, system engineers, or cybersecurity experts to meet customer requirements.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Implement catastrophic failure handlers to identify security breaches and prevent serious damage.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Test the security and performance of blockchain infrastructures.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Assess blockchain threats, such as untested code and unprotected keys.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Design and deploy blockchain design patterns to make transactions secure, transparent, and immutable.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Design and verify cryptographic protocols to protect private information.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Evaluate blockchain processes or risks based on security assessments or control matrix reviews.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Run infrastructure tests to examine the behavior of large peer-to-peer networks.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Discuss data needs with engineers, product managers, or data scientists to identify blockchain requirements.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Automate the deployment of software updates over geographically distributed network nodes.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss31%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
97%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 87% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
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