Coinbase lays off 18% of workers as crypto winter worsens
The company's shares are down nearly 80% year to date.
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Coinbase had hired aggressively in recent years, with its workforce ballooning by about 1,200 employees this year. The company plans to lay off roughly that amount, ending the current quarter with about 5,000 employees. Until recently, the company didn’t acknowledge the arrival of a crypto winter, even though its shares have been dropping since it went public more than a year ago. They are down nearly 80% year to date, according to Bloomberg data.
Laid-off employees will receive a minimum of 3.5 months of severance, plus two weeks for every year of employment.
The cryptocurrency downturn began soon after Bitcoin hit its all-time high in November. Earlier this year, the collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin and related Luna token erased billions of market gains. In the past week, coin prices plunged after crypto lender Celsius Network froze withdrawals amidst what many suspect was a bank-run-like event.
—Bloomberg News
