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Cryptocurrency exchange is laying off 18% of its employees.

The layoffs will affect roughly 1,100 people at the company, which went public in one of the most highly anticipated direct listings of last year.

鈥淲e appear to be entering a recession after a 10+ year economic boom,鈥� CEOwrote in an to employees. 鈥淎 recession could lead to another crypto winter, and could last for an extended period. In past crypto winters, trading revenue (our largest revenue source) has declined significantly. While it鈥檚 hard to predict the economy or the markets, we always plan for the worst so we can operate the business through any environment.鈥�

Armstrong also acknowledged in the email that the company grew too quickly, with 1,250 employees at the beginning of 2021, and has grown 200% year over year since then.

This is the latest in San Francisco-based Coinbase鈥檚 efforts to control costs amid public market turmoil. The company first said it would pause hiring, but later began rescinding accepted job offers. Coinbase revoked more than 300 new-hire job offers, according to a tally this week by .

Coinbase isn鈥檛 the only crypto company making cuts amid a decline in Bitcoin鈥檚 price and volatility in the public markets. and have also laid off staff. The cuts are among a greater wave of layoffs in tech, which has affected companies from and to and (you can read more about tech layoffs here). More than 19,000 employees of U.S.-based tech companies have been laid off so far this year, according to a Crunchbase News estimate.

Companies appear to be taking action to control costs as a stock selloff has hammered tech companies in particular. The S&P 500 closed in bear market territory on Monday, in part due to inflation, rising interest rates and the war in Ukraine.

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