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Race for blockchain engineering talent hots up as crypto ban cloud clears

Startups and IT majors alike are angling to recruit the best and brightest in the technology

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Deepsekhar ChoudhuryShivani Shinde Bengaluru/Mumbai
Harsh Rajat has recently hired a software programmer who has not even completed his engineering degree yet. And is paying the fresher a package of Rs 60 lakh per annum. 

Rajat, who is the founder of blockchain start-up Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS), says that he does not even know which college the programmer is studying at.

“I don’t care which college or city he is from. How does it matter?”

The blockchain gold rush in India has only just begun with startups like EPNS attracting a lot of investor attention from the venture capital (VC) world, say experts. 

“The

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