In March 2025, a key partnership was quietly announced that could reshape how the Web3 world thinks about hiring: COTI, a leader in blockchain-based privacy infrastructure, teamed up with UCTalent, a rising force in decentralized recruitment. While it may have gone under the radar at first, the magnitude of this collaboration is only now coming into full view.

This isn’t just another project onboarding onto COTI. It’s a mutual alliance between two forward-thinking platforms — one bringing privacy and scalability, the other bringing talent, traction, and community.

UCTalent’s Rise Before COTI

Before joining COTI’s Builders Program, UCTalent had already made a name for itself in the SEA/APAC regions. With over 2,700 talent registrations and 100+ hires in its pilot phase, the platform demonstrated real-world traction with its generative AI based personalized career advice, smart contract referrals, and decentralized infrastructure.

More than a concept, UCTalent became one of the few Web3-native hiring platforms with working proof.

Why COTI Was the Right Fit

As the UCTalent team prepared to scale, data confidentiality and referral integrity became mission-critical. This is where COTI V2 came in — with its Garbled Circuits, confidential AI capabilities, and zero-knowledge infrastructure.

The partnership allowed UCTalent to:

1. Begin migrating from Base and BNB testnets toward the COTI V2 mainnet
2. Launch their Genesis Key NFT collection on COTI, offering early supporters access to rewards, token drops, and private sale allocations
3. Release a comprehensive whitepaper outlining their integration strategy and vision for privacy-enhanced hiring

A New Era for Private Web3 Recruitment

This isn’t just about enhancing UCTalent’s backend. It’s about defining a new category of decentralized applications: privacy-preserving career ecosystems.

With COTI’s stack, UCTalent plans to:

1. Protect referral sources, candidate profiles, and hiring decisions from public exposure
2. Use confidential AI agents for personalized, on-chain career navigation
3. Anchor its native token on COTI to align incentives and drive utility across the network

The Market Opportunity

Decentralized hiring is a rapidly expanding vertical. As the gig economy meets blockchain, global professionals increasingly seek platforms that allow them to earn, build, and grow — without compromising privacy.

For UCTalent, the COTI integration means global scalability with privacy at its core. For COTI, the collaboration represents a real-world, high-volume use case that can drive recurring smart contract activity, community engagement, and economic value.

It’s not just about one platform using another. It’s about two strong ecosystems fueling each other.

What It Means for the COTI Ecosystem

1. Adds a powerful new vertical to the COTI Builders Program: decentralized hiring
2. Demonstrates the scalability and readiness of Garbled Circuits in live user-facing applications
3. Positions COTI as the privacy infrastructure of choice for AI x Talent x Token economies

What’s Next?

With the Genesis Key NFTs minted and the whitepaper now public, UCTalent’s roadmap on COTI is just beginning. Token launches, feature rollouts, and full platform migration are underway.

As hiring becomes one of the next major frontiers of blockchain adoption, this collaboration positions both COTI and UCTalent at the heart of it.

In a space where attention often shifts fast, this is one partnership worth watching — because the future of work might just be built in privacy, and it might just run on COTI.

UCTalent Dominated Early Web3 Hiring. COTI Could Take It Global.

Dive deeper into UCTalent’s whitepaper here.