Ledger Signals
What crypto’s hiring data says about crypto finance.
Tool stack mentions stayed below five percent of open finance roles
Tool stack mentions landed at 1.2% today across finance roles active in the last 90 days. That comes from 2 mentions over a denominator of 169 active finance listings.
A reading this low means many teams are still posting finance roles without naming the actual operating stack. That reduces signal quality for the market and hides where tooling standards are really settling.
The next question is whether disclosure rises first in crypto native teams or in later stage operators cleaning up finance systems. That is the right canary to watch.
Source: The Crypto Tool Curve · a Ledger Signals canary
- 0.6%
- Crypto JDs naming a purpose-built crypto-accounting tool
- 219
- Regulatory-readiness signals in crypto finance JDs
1 of 169 JDs (last 90 days)
Crypto Tool Curve →across 169 JDs (last 90 days)
Compliance Canary →Where finance hiring is stalling
Share of open senior-finance roles live 60+ days, by crypto sub-sector.
| Sub-sector | Open | Stale 60+ | Stall rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| infra rpc data | 4 | 3 | 75% |
| l1 l2 foundation | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| custody wallet | 16 | 9 | 56% |
| rwa tokenization | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| crypto unclassified | 21 | 9 | 43% |
| fintech crypto hybrid | 24 | 10 | 42% |
| defi trading | 10 | 4 | 40% |
| defi protocol | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| stablecoin issuer | 0 | 0 | 0% |
- cpa76
- gaap asc49
- sox35
- big432
- finra sec22
- pcaob3
- nydfs2
- msb mtl0
- bitwave1
- taxbit1
- cryptio0
- softledger0
- ledgible0
- cryptoworth0
- lukka0