Coinbase Cuts 14% of Staff Amid Crypto 'Down Market,' AI Adoption: CEO
The story
The crypto exchange is restructuring around artificial intelligence and flattening its org chart, CEO Brian Armstrong said.
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Price data by In brief Coinbase is cutting roughly 14% of its workforce, CEO Brian Armstrong announced Tuesday, citing crypto "down market" and AI-driven productivity shifts. Armstrong said the exchange is rebuilding as an "intelligence, with humans around the edge," flattening its org structure to five layers maximum below CEO/COO. Affected U.S. employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay plus two weeks per year of service, their next equity vest, and six months of COBRA coverage. Crypto exchange Coinbase is laying off approximately 14% of its workforce, CEO Brian Armstrong announced Tuesday, framing the cut as both a response to a crypto market downturn and a deeper pivot toward an AI-first operating model.
"We are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs — we re fundamentally changing how we operate: rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it," Armstrong wrote in a company-wide email, which he subsequently tweeted on Wednesday morning.
Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we re doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this positions us for the…
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