OpenSea lays off 20% of its staff, citing ‘crypto winter’
The bear market in Bitcoin and altcoins has had a negative impact on staffing levels at major crypto companies, including exchanges, lending platforms and marketplaces. Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea announced mass layoffs on Thursday, joining other crypto companies in reducing headcount during one of the most volatile periods in the industry’s history. Co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer took to Twitter Thursday afternoon to disclose that his company was laying off up to 20% of its staff. In a long message conveyed to employees, Finzer blamed “an unprecedented combination of....
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Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week OpenSea lays off 20% of its staff, citing crypto winterLeading NFT marketplace OpenSea plans to lay off around 20% of its staff, with co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer citing an unprecedented combination of crypto winter and broad macroeconomic instability as the reasons behind the move. He also added, The changes....
Approximately 90 staff have been let go by the Brazilian crypto unicorn 2TM, citing ‘Crypto Winter’ or the prolonged period of flat trading following a price collapse, sources with knowledge of the matter said. 2TM is the investment firm for Mercado Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in Brazil based on market capitalization. The layoffs represent […]
The NFT marketplace no longer intends to offer customer support over Discord DMs. On Tuesday, nonfungible token, or NFT, platform OpenSea launched a server on Metalink to give the verified owners of its collections a direct channel for support, feedback and updates. In addition, OpenSea said it would no longer offer customer support over Discord DMs. Metalink is a collaboration app for NFT communities that offers users a place to view their collection's value and monitor its associated real-time transaction feed. In addition, channels hosted on Metalink are token-gated, meaning that proof....