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MAYC 1954 | 🚀 Crypto enthusiast & trader | Expect DevOps tips, Kubernetes hacks, and occasional cat memes and lots of GM’s

[thecoinmaniac.eth 🧪🦍🦇🔊 @arun1337]

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[thecoinmaniac.eth 🧪🦍🦇🔊 @arun1337]

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[thecoinmaniac.eth 🧪🦍🦇🔊 @arun1337]

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[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase:

Team,

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 future.

Why now
Two forces are converging at the same time. We need to be front footed to respond to both.

First, the market. Coinbase is well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm. Crypto is also on the verge of the next wave of adoption, with stablecoins, prediction markets, tokenization, and more taking off. However, our business is still volatile from quarter to quarter. While we've managed through that cyclicality many times before and come out stronger on the other side, we’re currently in a down market and need to adjust our cost structure now so that we emerge from this period leaner, faster, and more efficient for our next phase of growth.

Second, AI is changing how we work. Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. The pace of what's possible with a small, focused team has changed dramatically, and it's accelerating every day.

All of this has led us to an inflection point, not just for Coinbase, but for every company. The biggest risk now is not taking action. We are adjusting early and deliberately to rebuild Coinbase to be lean, fast, and AI-native. We need to return to the speed and focus of our startup founding, with AI at our core.

What this means
To get there, 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. What does this mean in practice?

- Fewer layers, faster decisions: We are flattening our org structure to 5 layers max below CEO/COO. Layers slow things down and create coordination tax. The future is small, high context teams that can move quickly. Leaders will own much more, with as many as 15+ direct reports. Fewer layers also means a leaner cost structure that is built to perform through all market cycles.

- No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams.

- AI-native pods: We’ll be concentrating around AI-native talent who can manage fleets of agents to drive outsized impact. We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role.

In short: AI is bringing a profound shift in how companies operate, and we’re reshaping Coinbase to lead in this new era. This is a new way of working, and we need to leverage AI across every facet of our jobs.

To those who are affected
I know there are real people behind these decisions — talented colleagues who have poured themselves into this company and our mission. To those of you who will be leaving: thank you. You’ve helped build Coinbase into what it is today, and I am sincerely grateful for everything you've done.

All impacted team members will receive an email to their personal account in the next hour with more information, and an invitation to meet with an HRBP and a senior leader in your organization. Coinbase system access has been removed today. I know this feels sudden and harsh, but it is the only responsible choice given our duty to protect customer information.

To those affected, we will be providing a comprehensive package to support you through this transition. US employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA. Employees on a work visa will get extra transition support. Those outside of the US will receive similar support, based on local factors and subject to any consultation requirements.

Coinbase prides itself on talent density. Our employees are among the most talented people in the world, and I have no doubt that your skills and experience will be highly sought after as you pursue your next chapters.

How we move forward
To the team that is staying, I know this is a difficult day. We’re saying goodbye to colleagues and friends you've been in the trenches with. But here’s what I want you to know as we move forward together:

Over the past 13 years, we have weathered four crypto winters, gone public, and built the most trusted platform in our industry. We’ve made it this far by making hard decisions and by always staying focused on our mission. This time will be no different – nothing has changed about the long term outlook of our company or industry. And most importantly, our mission has never been more important for the world. Increasing economic freedom requires a new financial system, and we’re building it.

The Coinbase that emerges from this will be more capable than ever to achieve our mission.

Brian

[Aave @aave]

Update on rsETH incident:

According to our analysis, rsETH on Ethereum mainnet is fully backed.

Out of an abundance of caution, rsETH remains frozen across Aave V3 and V4 and exposure to the incident is capped.

WETH reserves also remain frozen across affected markets including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Mantle, and Linea.

Aave is actively validating information and assessing potential resolutions.

[figge @mfigge]

gm

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if you are holding an unlisted

gold ape, trippy ape, megakoda, or other bayc/otherside grail

and are open to discussion about transaction please msg me

thank you

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[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

1. what 😲

[thecoinmaniac.eth 🧪🦍🦇🔊 @arun1337]

@gkisokay Got fed up with always breaking cron in openclaw and setup hermes today. Lets see how it goes

[thecoinmaniac.eth 🧪🦍🦇🔊 @arun1337]

@Teknium Codex kept going on promise-loops for me without actually doing the tasks

[Ethprofit.eth 🦇🔊 @Ethprofit]

📢 BREAKING: SWIFT confirms 25+ banks going live by June, settling on Ethereum for 24/7 cross-border payments. 🚀

Source: https://t.co/WzfGKoveKm

[Kushal Vijay @KushalVijay_]

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[thecoinmaniac.eth 🧪🦍🦇🔊 @arun1337]

@nftsasha @claudeai Which App are you using, im using telegram channel when im away from my pc to connect

[moltbook @moltbook]

is $MOLT the currency of moltbook?

👀

[figge @mfigge]

The @OthersideMeta vibe coding world goes live tomorrow.

Great to see people, who don't have a dev background, creating experiences with natural language.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Amid Slumping Sales & Sentiment, Housing Starts & Permits Jumped In December https://t.co/Z2emd8dMok

[jack @jack]

math

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

Good news, everyone! We all just got extremely lucky because Omkar Shelke dropped a dozen CKA/CKAD-styled Kubernetes scenarios on iximiuz Labs 🎉

I've already solved all of them, and they are dope - go check them out!

- Set ConfigMap Environment Variables in a Pod https://t.co/srCkUjSVlV

- Perform In-Place Updates on a Kubernetes Deployment https://t.co/9rrRHvQspe

- Inspecting and Extracting Kubernetes Kubeconfig Data https://t.co/jNzZDPXe0V

- Diagnosing and Fixing DaemonSet Placement Across All Nodes https://t.co/cvs8MsmfO1

- Set and Use Secrets in a Kubernetes Deployment https://t.co/z2yJWWjyNB

- Bootstrapping Pod Networking with Calico https://t.co/zQhffL9ICF

- Hardening Docker Containers Using gVisor Runtime https://t.co/8vxHQnTA2q

- Place One Pod per Node Without Using a DaemonSet https://t.co/FOAPSa6bfQ

- Launching the Headlamp Kubernetes Dashboard with Helm https://t.co/b8SDlgMYvH

- Multi-Container Pod Security Design https://t.co/VlfusBVhbt

- Extracting and Decoding ServiceAccount Token from Kubernetes Secret https://t.co/WfVuc3yjmM

And since these are Kubernetes challenges, solving them the visual way is double fun 👇

[thecoinmaniac.eth 🧪🦍🦇🔊 @arun1337]

@XenBH @ClawCloudx looks promising

[Clawnch 🪽 @Clawnch_Bot]

🧑 Pump Fun 24 hour volume: $146m
🤖 Clawnch 14 hour volume: $40m

Agents are coming for the launchpad crown 👑🦞

[Xen @XenBH]

The agents built themselves a launchpad

[Tomasz K. Stańczak @tkstanczak]

by the end of this year almost every person working with agents will be learning how @ethereum works