How Allium hires rare blockchain talent anywhere with Deel

Allium is a Series B blockchain data company that ingests, refines, and delivers public blockchain data to customers ranging from crypto-native companies to accounting firms like KPMG and payment networks like Visa. In this market, the constraint isn't demand; it's people. Blockchain engineering talent is scarce and doesn't cluster in traditional tech hubs, so Allium committed from day one to hiring the best person for every role, wherever they live.

That commitment carried real operational weight. With 65 employees split between the US, a 13-person Singapore subsidiary, and a growing set of international hires, Allium's lean finance team faced a different tax regime, compliance obligation, and payroll process in every jurisdiction. Every hour spent on employment logistics was an hour not spent scaling the business.

When Allium evaluated vendors, country coverage was the deciding factor.

"We did evaluate other providers at the time, but Deel supported many more countries from an EOR standpoint." —Daniel Kang, VP Finance, Allium

Allium chose Deel’s EOR to hire full-time employees in countries where it has no entity. Deel acts as the legal employer in each market, handling contracts, local taxes, and statutory benefits, so Allium can put an offer in front of the best candidate anywhere without incorporating, registering, or hiring local counsel. 10 employees are already employed this way, including a growing team in France, and expansion into a new country is now routine rather than a project.

"Anytime we have a new EOR that we want to spin up, Deel makes that super easy." —Daniel Kang, VP Finance, Allium

Alongside EOR, Allium runs Deel Payroll for its Singapore subsidiary, giving the finance team a single system for employment, payroll, and compliance across every jurisdiction—instead of a patchwork of local vendors and tools.

Integration with NetSuite, which runs Allium's financials, sealed the decision. Payroll data now flows directly into the general ledger with every entry captured and coded correctly, with no exports and no manual journal entries.

"Without the integration, we would have to export, clean everything up, put it into a journal entry format, and then push it into NetSuite. Having the live connection makes a huge difference because it captures and codes everything properly in our general ledger." —Daniel Kang, VP Finance, Allium

The clearest proof is the hires themselves. Allium recently brought on an engineer in Egypt, and Kang is direct about it: "Without Deel, that wouldn't have been possible." For a company where the right experience matters more than the right location, every hire like that one is the difference between filling a critical role and leaving it open.

The operational return is just as real. Allium recovered roughly 20 hours per month that previously went to payroll administration, tax compliance, onboarding, and expense reimbursements. Employment operations stopped being a bottleneck to headcount growth, and employees across the company report a frictionless payroll experience.

In Singapore, Deel manages local tax, pension, and statutory requirements for all 13 employees automatically.

"I don't have to think about it because I know Deel is on top of it. The amount of stress that alleviates and the mental bandwidth that frees up—it's huge." —Daniel Kang, VP Finance, Allium

Ready for the next phase of global growth

Allium plans to keep hiring globally, and every offer can now go to the best candidate rather than the best-located one. There's no target country list, because there doesn't need to be one—wherever the right experience lives, Deel's coverage is already there. For a company competing for some of the rarest engineering talent in the world, that turns global talent scarcity into a global advantage.