
April 21st, 2025
Luno will be discarding 330 people out of about 960 employees.
With over $159 billion quarterly crypto traded volume from more than 108 million verified users, Coinbase has attracted more institutional investors during the 2022 bear market.
Gemini conducted the first round of layoffs back in June 2022. At that time, the exchange cut 10% of its workforce from around 1,100 employees. A few weeks later, Gemini reduced its staff by another 7%, citing “turbulent market conditions.”
Several crypto stocks saw considerable increases in value while others dropped, as the 2023 Bitcoin price rally continued.
Expectations are that the new rule must have been completed by midyear and adopted by that same time.
JPMorgan believes as many as 95% of Coinbase Global’s retail customers will opt in for the staking service after the Shanghai update.
The layoff will affect every aspect of its business operation and teams from corporate services, recruitment, and engineering are affected.
Coinbase says that its customers in Japan have a 1-month deadline to withdraw all holdings, as operations would cease after that.
The digital currency ecosystem is a very volatile one, and what seems to constitute the basis for the current growth trend today may not necessarily be fueling the market momentum tomorrow.
The technology sector in general is struggling now, and Microsoft has been waiting for quite a long before cutting its workforce. Other companies started to lay off their staff much earlier.
The Bitcoin market is heavily bolstered by global adoption including several institutional ETFs and the fact that it is used as legal tender in El Salvador and the Central African Republic.
Popular exchange Coinbase recently announced an 18% staff layoff to strengthen its financial position in the face of a crypto crunch.
Ondo Finance will help customers invest in deep liquidity low-risk traditional assets through blockchain technology.
The price of Bitcoin climbed higher on Monday raising hopes for a rally in 2023, and taking several crypto stocks along with it.
Jefferies wrote that Coinbase would be “acutely pressured in the near term” as retail customers withdraw from crypto after the FTX crumble.