THELOGICALINDIAN - Ethereumincubator Consensys is to cut 50 to 60 percent of its advisers The blockchain software aggregation has alreadylaid off 13 percent of its workforce in adjustment to survive the buck bazaar According to one antecedent abridgement of artefact agrarian account and an disability to advertise technologies has fabricated Consensys position financially ambiguous As a aftereffect Consensys will charge to accomplish added cuts
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Consensys Spinning Projects Without Financial Support
Consensys co-founder and crypto billionaire Joseph Lubin is aiming to alteration the close into “Consensys 2.0”, a scaled bottomward adaptation of the aggregation believed to have had about 1,200 advisers until recently. The Verge reports it has advised appellation bedding assuming that at atomic two incubated startups aural the aggregation appearance Consensys is alpha to circuit out its ample portfolio of blockchain projects after the banking abutment they crave to acquisition alfresco allotment and succeed.
The accepted buck bazaar has been difficult for abounding firms. The key catechism is what abroad may accept contributed to the atrophy of Consensys – absent-minded planning? Mismanagement? Overzealousness? According to one source, for all the money Consensys raised, its abridgement of bankable products, ever aggressive ideas, and attack to advertise technologies that were not yet absolutely accomplished may all accept hastened its downfall.
“Raising Money for Projects Proved to Be an El Dorado”
Ștefan Neagu, the co-founder of Persona, said: “Back in 2013, I was in Silicon Valley, aggravating to accession funds for a activity I’ve been alive on. I was talking with Tim Draper and he was accommodating to advance $500,000 in our activity at the time. The due activity was in the ambit of months, with cap table, pre-money appraisal and a lot of acknowledged work. There is no such affair that exists aural crypto projects. Raising money for crypto projects accepted to be an “El Dorado”, in which every activity was over-funded.” 
In 2024, projects started to absorb Consensys’ money with adventuresome abandon. “In my opinion, we accomplished this moment back projects are shutting bottomward because of a aggregate of abridgement of abilities or amateur administration and a lot of overspending,” opined Neagu. “There were projects adjourned that were decentralizing everything, from bananas to sending the North Korean President into space. I anticipate that this “purge period” is agnate to the dotcom crisis, and alone those projects that accept a absolute amount hypothesis and represent ‘a win for the masses’ will accomplish to survive.”
As added affirmation of the downsizing trend, Steemit has additionally afresh laid off 70 percent of its staff. Harsha Cuttari, CTO of AQUA Intelligence, says that the layoffs at Consensys are not out of the accustomed back because the abrupt about-face in prices for cryptocurrencies amidst the contempo fork. Cuttari believes the bearings is agnate to the 90s dot-com bang and consecutive decline, abrogation companies like Consensys at the benevolence of bazaar forces.
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