{"id":74973,"date":"2023-03-03T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=74973"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:47:10","slug":"binance-plans-to-hire-500-staff-by-mid-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/binance-plans-to-hire-500-staff-by-mid-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance plans to hire 500 staff by mid-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Binance is not planning any layoffs in 2023, representatives said in a comment to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/binance-not-planning-any-layoffs-500-roles-to-be-filled-in-h1\\\">Cointelegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, the platform intends to hire 500 people by the end of the first half of the year. Binance also said that since the start of the year it has hired more than 600 new staff.<\/p>\n<p>There are 464 open vacancies listed on the company&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/muIom1OWYbr42Eo9vGkscVAVZGnHzgT7bs899jjlmEmBcQno2yW_syulfBIF2-ednKCHJBFkH9gxV2x3ZUHEuBP1bHJBbdhmgWGN7SG-k0HU_sIaw2C8RMs4g_NOf9jNaCAJdaVGrHKikZuI7X8mH-U\\\" alt=\\\"Binance plans to hire 500 staff by mid-2023\\\"\/><figcaption>Source: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.binance.com\/en\/careers\/job-openings\\\">Binance.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In June 2022, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/binance-ceo-crypto-winter-is-an-opportune-time-to-expand-the-workforce\">stated<\/a> that the crypto winter is an excellent time to hire. In the same month, in <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/01\/11\/binance-plans-15-30percent-hiring-spree-in-2023-even-as-rivals-cut-jobs.html\\\">\u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0432\u044c\u044e CNBC<\/a> he outlined plans to expand the headcount by 15-20%.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came amid widespread layoffs in the crypto industry. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coingecko-counts-january-layoffs-in-the-crypto-industry\">the CoinGecko report<\/a>, in January 2023 more than 84% of the 2,806 market-wide job cuts were linked to cryptocurrency exchanges.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/1zjxJ_OTHjrQUCWOQhcP0yAgAQ6FlLvSqmOq5jh03V_LfW36NzlWgUxZnNpiVwzCjhfbkZmZ4s-SQJvReaxRVGYA_BxhHp8OU_bjUKxKxsXt6bjTNxfhDplbVc72ZtFIBOaGXgMWCWBr_bnu_L0hfr4\\\" alt=\\\"Binance plans to hire 500 staff by mid-2023\\\"\/><figcaption>Source: <a href=\\\"http:\/\/coingecko.com\\\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, NFT marketplace Magic Eden <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-marketplace-magic-eden-cuts-staff-by-15\">cut its staff by 15%<\/a>, and Canadian Dapper Labs <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dapper-labs-to-cut-a-further-20-of-its-staff\">planned layoffs of 20% of its staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of 2023, further announcements of optimization have also been made by <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-to-lay-off-20-of-staff-in-third-round-of-layoffs\">Coinbase<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/consensys-reportedly-plans-to-lay-off-more-than-100-employees\">ConsenSys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/digital-currency-group-closes-hq-digital-unit\">Genesis Trading<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockchain-com-to-cut-a-quarter-of-its-staff\">Blockchain.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/gemini-lays-off-10-of-staff-amid-genesis-troubles\">Gemini<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dcg-backed-luno-to-cut-35-of-staff\">Luno<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-layoffs-at-matrixport-owned-by-ji-han-wu\">Matrixport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Binance reported its <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/binance-reports-2022-results\">results for 2022<\/a>, noting that the platform&#8217;s headcount exceeded 7,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Binance &#8220;is not planning any layoffs&#8221; in 2023, representatives said in a Cointelegraph comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[744,83],"class_list":["post-74973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-binance","tag-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74975,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74973\/revisions\/74975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}