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  • How to bridging blockchain knowledge Gap

    Naina Grehwal

    Member

    Updated: May 16, 2025
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    How do you acquire skills in multiple blockchains like Ethereum, Polkadot, and Cosmos?
    Employers expect developers to know more than one. This shift challenges single-chain specialists.

    I spent 4 years building on Solana. Now, I face pressure to go cross-chain.
    Each platform uses different tools, logic, and community practices. Learning all feels overwhelming.

    How do you handle this?
    Do you:

    • Specialize deeply in one chain and explore others?

    • Work across multiple chains at the same time?

    Also—how do you present yourself in interviews?
    As a Solana specialist or a multi-chain generalist?

    Share your strategy. Your experience will help others adapt.

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  • Lawrence Rogers

    Member • 3mos

    I’ve been through this too. Spent years getting good at Solana, then suddenly, every job post is like, “Must know Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos…” It’s a lot.

    What worked for me was sticking to one main chain (Solana in your case) and just getting comfortable with others. You don’t need to go deep, just enough to understand how they work. Like, knowing Ethereum’s gas model or how Polkadot handles parachains helps in interviews.

    As for positioning, I usually say something like, “I specialize in Solana but have explored Ethereum and Polkadot enough to pick things up when needed.” If it’s a Solana-heavy role, I lean more into that expertise.

    At the end of the day, no one expects you to be an expert in every chain—just show that you can adapt. That’s what really matters.

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  • Shailesh Nair

    Member • 2mos

    As a protocol engineer for more than 8 years in blockchain i see the changing markets and needs and its very dynamic, a blockchain company founder is uncertain many times about the revenue that will come up from one chain and so he expects developers to be knowledgable in multi chain which is difficult sometimes but that's how the crypto industry is now.

    Focussing on Blockchain architecture and in deep areas like Smart contracts, Virtual machine, Offchain computation techs, Cross chain bridging of one main popular chain can make things easier to get understanding of other L1, L2 and L3 chains.

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  • Anita Patel

    Member • 1mo

    Hi Shailesh, Thanks for your input. Its a great question acutally asked by naina. We all somewhere struggle with it

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  • Anita Patel

    Member • 1mo

    Hi Shailesh, Thanks for your input. Its a great question acutally asked by naina. We all somewhere struggle with it

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