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About IPTS
IPTS (Interplanetary Talent Services) is a recruiting firm for frontier technology fields including crypto, AI and decentralised systems, serving startups that need to build technical teams and practitioners looking for roles. It addresses the fact that frontier technical roles cannot be assessed by job title, academic credentials or resume: employers need people with rare engineering abilities, while verifiable evidence of output is scattered across code repositories and on-chain activity. IPTS offers success-based search, executive search and subscription search, and produces job descriptions, compensation benchmarking and interview process design.
It acquired the reputation platform Talent Protocol, gaining a dataset of 6.6 million builder profiles and 86 million activity records for candidate screening; the TALENT token and legal entities were excluded from the transaction, and the original Builder Score became a public good that anyone can compute and verify from public blockchain and GitHub data. Clients include decentralised technology networks such as Protocol Labs, with roles extending into AI safety, cryptographic engineering and hardware.
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.
On May 12, 2026, Interplanetary Talent Services (IPTS) posted several roles including ecosystem growth and operations on the Protocol Labs job platform, covering Web3, AI and AI safety, neurotech, biotech and other frontier technologies, and stressing that it helps teams build organizations that retain people. The firm matches proven operators through a deeply embedded network in these fields.
On the expansion side, IPTS acquired the reputation platform Talent Protocol, gaining 6.6 million verified developer profiles and 86 million activity records for recruiting in AI, crypto and decentralized systems. After closing, Talent Protocol ceased commercial operations, its Builder Score self-service app became a public good, and the TALENT token and legal entities were excluded from the transaction.
IPTS will fold Talent Protocol's developer data into the recruiting workflow, build a reusable candidate assessment system, and keep expanding the talent network through the InterPlanetary Talent newsletter.
Ian Brunner — Co-founder & CEO; over a decade in technical recruiting at Meta and Protocol Labs, where he scaled the team from 90 to more than 400.
Jeremy Kloth — Co-founder & COO; nearly a decade in recruiting operations, runs IPTS's daily operations and data-driven hiring processes.