6 Cryptocurrency Bounty Hunting Platforms You Should Use Today

The ultimate guide to cryptocurrency bounty hunting platforms.

You can go a long way with manually searching bounties on forums, submitting your work on google forms, monitoring your submission on a spreadsheet and then waiting a long time to (hopefully) get a reward.

However, if you want to turn bounty hunting an actual source of income then you will need to use specialized a specialized cryptocurrency bounty hunting platform.

In this post, I’ll show you the 6 best bounty hunting platforms you can use today to start earning cryptocurrency.

Honorary mention to the cryptocurrency bounty hunting platform you’re actually reading this article on.

In a nutshell, Bounty0x is a bounty hunting platform where users can complete simple tasks to earn cryptocurrency.

Instead of digging through forums, blogs and social media, you can use Bounty0x to quickly find interesting bounty tasks that match your skills.

For example, filtering by “articles” shows a list of bounties that will reward you in cryptocurrency for completing a content creation bounty.

That’s not all. Instead of being limited to earning rewards in a single currency, Bounty0x supports bounties in any ERC-20 token, Ethereum, NEO, NEP-5 tokens, Waves and Waves tokens!

Add your wallet address for your currency of choice with just the click of a button.

I know that I’m not the most impartial party, but Bounty0x can be one of the best ways to get involved in the cryptocurrency space and to earn some coins.

The platform is free to use, of course.

Gitcoin is a tool to post bounties for the open source software community.

It features dozens of software oriented bounties from different blockchain companies and projects, including big names in the space like MetaMask and Decentraland.

What makes it an interesting platform is it’s focus on software related bounties. Instead of a bunch of bounties that may not be ideal for your skillset, you will only find open source development tasks.

Here, for example, are results from OpenGift and Telos Network when you search for “New feature bounties”.

The only downside is that rewards are only paid in ETH and ERC-20 tokens. This is understandable for a platform mainly focused on the Ethereum ecosystem, but it may be a bit inconvenient for individuals wanting to earn other cryptocurrencies as well.

All in all, Gitcoin is a great platform for developers to monetize their skills by contributing to open source software.

Bounties.network is an open platform for bounties supported by Consesys.

Unlike many other bounty hunting platforms, Bounties.network allows anyone to “Contribute” to a bounty by increasing the reward.

This makes it an interesting platforms for tasks where collaboration is crucial.

Unfortunately, Bounties.network also only supports ETH and ERC-20 tokens for reward payments.

At the time of writing there were only 38 active bounties. This number will likely grow as the platform continues to add new features, but it may prove to be hard for Bounty Hunters to find suitable bounties at the moment.

That being said, bounties.network is definitely a bounty hunting platform to keep an eye on if you want to support the Ethereum ecosystem.

Fundrequest is a decentralized marketplace for open source collaboration.

Similarly to Gitcoin, it is aimed at open source developers and supports linking bounties to GitHub issues.

Bounty Hunters can easily leave comments on requests to get answers to their questions or to share an observation.

The main drawback is that bounties can only be paid in FND tokens. FND is currently only being traded on two small exchanges with very poor liquidity, which makes it hard to liquidate for other more popular assets like ETH or BTC.

Furthermore, there are currently only around $2,000 worth of bounties on the entire platform, which might make it less interesting for Bounty Hunters aiming to earn larger amounts.

Open Bounty is a very minimalistic developer-oriented bounty page.

The platform is focused on software oriented bounties and the GitHub integration makes it a powerful to incentivize fixing bugs and developing simple features.

Although there are currently 100+ bounty tasks live on the platform, most have been posted by Status (the company that developed Open Bounties) and Aragon (a partner of Status).

This might make the experience of using the platform a bit less interesting for Bounty Hunters that like to work for many different projects.

That being said, some Bounty Hunters have earned up to $4,000 on Open Bounty, which might compensate for the lack of variety.

Bitcointalk is a cryptocurrency forum with a “Bounties” board.

The Bounties board of the Bitcointalk forum initially gained its popularity due to a lack of decent alternatives, but it is quickly being replaced by other more user-friendly bounty hunting platforms.

Judging by the number of comments the bounty posts receive, it seems like many Bounty Hunters have migrated away from this page in the past months.

Although the interface is not the most user friendly one and bounty hunters usually submit work through “google forms” and track it on “spreadsheets”, there are still dozens of bounties posted every week on Bitcointalk and it is definitely worth checking it out.

Over to you

Bounties are a powerful tool for aligning the incentives of large communities, and Bounty Hunters are the most important piece of the puzzle. There are many cryptocurrency bounty hunting platforms out there and the best approach is to check them all out to see which one fits your needs.

I will be updating this post as more bounty hunting platforms go live. In the meantime, check out this article on Hackernoon that dives into the mentality of a cryptocurrency bounty hunter.