Hashed Out V60: Will Web3 Replace LinkedIn?

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It’s Issue 60. This week we are piggybacking on last week’s look at blockchain and the world of work. LinkedIn is the undisputed hub of professional networking, but how might that change with the fast moving growth of web3 technologies? Read on and discover how the emergence of digital identities will impact the world of work.

Editorial: Your Career Shouldn’t Live on One Platform

For nearly two decades, LinkedIn has served as the professional layer of the internet. It gave workers a place to maintain a digital resume, build professional networks, and signal credibility to employers and colleagues. In many ways, it solved a real problem: before LinkedIn, professional identity online was scattered and difficult to verify.

But LinkedIn also reflects the architecture of an earlier internet. Your professional identity lives inside the platform itself. Your network, endorsements, and work history exist within a company’s database, subject to its rules, algorithms, and business model. If the platform changes direction, your professional identity changes with it.

This model has worked well enough for the past twenty years, but the nature of work is changing. Careers are becoming more fluid. People move between companies more frequently, take on project-based work, collaborate across borders, and build reputations through portfolios and contributions rather than through job titles alone.

At the same time, new digital identity technologies are emerging that allow credentials, work history, and reputation to become portable and verifiable. Instead of living inside a single platform, professional identity could travel with the individual, verified by institutions and contributions rather than curated profiles.

That doesn’t mean LinkedIn is disappearing anytime soon. Platforms with large networks rarely vanish overnight. But it does raise an interesting possibility: in the future, LinkedIn may become just one interface for viewing professional identity, rather than the place where that identity actually lives.

In other words, the next evolution of professional networking may not replace LinkedIn — it may simply move the foundation of professional identity underneath it.

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