Happy Monday, Blockfolians
The Lede
A bummer of a lede today, with a fresh round of layoffs at ConsenSys. The Ethereum hub is laying off over 90 people, roughly 14% of staff. This comes after another similar sized layoff in February.
The culprit this time? You guessed it. Economic insecurity from the COVID-19 fallout. As businesses and partners from all industries lock down their spending, it was probably inevitable that some of it would hit ConsenSys too.
The good news is that there are still 550+ people at the organization working to build a decentralized future.
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Highly Relevant Reading
Filecoin’s mainnet launch has been pushed back again to July/August, due to changes mandated by an internal security audit
Libra adds 50 job openings in Ireland as well as a new member to the Association in the NGO Heifer International
Coinbase picks up an ex-Barclay’s exec to head institutional coverage
Days after announcing $1.5m raise, defi platform dForce suffers $25m exploit
Community Commentary
Podcaster and Spartan Group investor Jason Choi breaks down the dForce exploit in more detail
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrongs shows 4x growth in $1200 buys/deposits the same week that the $1200 stimulus checks hit.
A Really Big Number We Should Be Paying Attention To
$6,250,000,000
That’s the aggregate market cap of Ethereum-based stablecoins - a growth of 95.38% year to date. Crypto dollarization is wild, man.
Final Thought
What a day for oil.