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About IPTS
IPTS is an on-chain talent company focused on connecting talent with roles in frontier technology fields such as AI, blockchain, and hardware. Its core business is to evaluate candidates' actual skills and contributions by analyzing their public activities on blockchain and GitHub, rather than relying on traditional resumes.
Its core competitiveness lies in its "Builder Score" evaluation system, which uses on-chain data to verify real work achievements, addressing the pain point that abilities are hard to quantify in traditional recruitment and that talents from non-traditional backgrounds are often overlooked.
In the past six months, IPTS acquired Talent Protocol in August 2026, obtaining its accumulated 6.6 million builder profiles and 86 million event data, and plans to open Builder Score as a public good, allowing more companies and individuals to use this evaluation tool. Meanwhile, the company continues to post job openings, indicating business expansion.
IPTS (Interplanetary Talent Services) is a talent company focused on Web3 and frontier technology. It was incubated from the Protocol Labs ecosystem in late 2023, with a core mission of using on-chain data to drive talent matching.
In August 2026, IPTS acquired Talent Protocol, integrating its 6.6 million builder profiles and 86 million on-chain events, and turned Builder Score into a verifiable public good—running locally in the browser based on GitHub and four blockchain data sources, with scores publishable as attestations on Base. Talent Protocol's API, Talent+ and other commercial services were subsequently shut down, and the team did not join IPTS.
These two milestones mark IPTS's transition from a recruitment agency to a talent reputation infrastructure, reshaping Web3 talent discovery and verification through the accumulation of on-chain behavioral data.
In the past six months, IPTS (a chain-native talent company) completed the acquisition of reputation platform Talent Protocol, gaining 6.6 million developer profiles and 86 million on-chain activity records for recruiting in frontier fields such as AI, crypto, and decentralized systems. After the acquisition, Talent Protocol's Builder Score will continue as a verifiable public good, based on GitHub and four blockchain data sources, allowing users to publish scores on Base. Its commercial API and Talent+ product will shut down by the end of August, the original team will not join IPTS, and the $TALENT token is not included in the deal.
IPTS officially stated that it will focus on technology that advances humanity, such as AI safety, AI security, and decentralized infrastructure, with more strategic directions to be announced in the coming weeks. The company emphasized leveraging the acquired data to build more transparent and evidence-based talent matching infrastructure.