Crypto firms cut nearly 3,000 jobs in January despite Bitcoin’s rise
Crypto companies tightened their purse strings in the first month of 2023, with at least 2,900 crypto staff cut loose across 14 crypto firms in January.
The latest firm to reportedly initiate a layoff is the crypto infrastructure provider Prime Trust which reduced its employee count by a third according to reports.
The reduction would equate to an estimated 100 or so staff cut as Prime had 312 employees on LinkedIn at the time of writing.
Other recent cuts over the last few days include 30 staff from the crypto platform Matrixport being let go according to a Jan. 27 Bloomberg report, while an earlier Jan. 23 report from The Information said roughly 100 staff were laid off from the crypto exchange Gemini.
The largest staff layoff for the month of January was initiated by crypto exchange Coinbase which reduced its headcount by around 950 employees on Jan. 10.
Its peer exchanges Crypto.com, Luno and Huobi trailed with reductions of around 500, 330 and 320 employees respectively.
Embattled crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group (DCG) and its subsidiaries similarly saw significant layoffs with 485 workers sacked in January alone as the firm navigates a financial crisis.
The DCG-owned Luno saw the most layoffs, while DCG itself slashed 66 employees, its subsidiary lending platform Genesis cut 63 jobs and its asset management firm HQ Digital shuttered affecting 26 jobs.
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Rounding off the list were the 200 members of staff let go by crypto bank Silvergate, the 110 employees cut from the Blockchain.com exchange and the 96 staff terminated from MetaMask’s parent company ConsenSys.
Meanwhile, 20 staff members were let go from the nonfungible token (NFT)
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