{"id":619889,"date":"2026-06-26T00:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/crypto-infrastructure-firm-bitgo-lays-off-15-of-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T00:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:52:40","slug":"crypto-infrastructure-firm-bitgo-lays-off-15-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/crypto-infrastructure-firm-bitgo-lays-off-15-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto infrastructure firm BitGo lays off 15% of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BitGo co-founder and CEO Mike Belshe says the layoffs are \u201ca one-time action\u201d and the company doesn\u2019t see the need for further staff reductions.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto infrastructure company BitGo Holdings laid off about 15% of its staff on Thursday as its CEO pledged to focus the company on areas including trading, stablecoins and artificial intelligence-powered infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I&#8217;m sharing a hard decision: we are reducing our workforce by nearly 15%,\u201d BitGo co-founder and CEO Mike Belshe posted to X on Thursday. \u201cThe ecosystem has evolved, and the way we build financial services has changed dramatically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be sharper, more focused, and concentrate our people and energy on the areas that matter most: security, trading, stablecoins, settlement, and AI-powered infrastructure,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-infrastructure-firm-bitgo-lays-off-15-of-staff?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_medium&amp;utm_campaign=rss_feed_medium\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitGo co-founder and CEO Mike Belshe says the layoffs are \u201ca one-time action\u201d and the company doesn\u2019t see the need for further staff reductions. Crypto infrastructure company BitGo Holdings laid off about 15% of its staff on Thursday as its CEO pledged to focus the company on areas including trading, stablecoins and artificial intelligence-powered infrastructure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-619889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}