{"id":97121,"date":"2026-05-15T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/?p=97121"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:15:09","slug":"dune-restructures-cutting-workforce-by-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/dune-restructures-cutting-workforce-by-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Dune Restructures, Cutting Workforce by 25%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The analytics service Dune has announced a restructuring, resulting in a 25% reduction of its workforce. The company&#8217;s head, Fredrik Haga, explained the decision as a need to focus on key products.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re restructuring Dune to sharpen our focus around the core data products thousands of customers across the crypto industry rely on. That unfortunately means we\u2019ve let 25% of the team go this week. These are exceptional people I can wholeheartedly recommend \u2014 ping me if you\u2019re\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 hagaetc (@hagaetc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hagaetc\/status\/2054937771811192837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the platform will focus on two areas: the integration of AI and working with institutional clients.<\/p>\n<p>Dune has introduced Dune MCP, a tool for creating dashboards and configuring workflows without SQL knowledge or data infrastructure skills.<\/p>\n<p>The company also plans to develop services for traditional financial organizations. Dune anticipates a mass transition of stocks, bonds, and commodities to blockchain and is investing in data quality and personalized service for large clients.<\/p>\n<p>Haga emphasized that the company retains sufficient capital and continues to work on the accessibility of on-chain data, despite the layoffs. The project has previously weathered several downturns in the crypto market.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase and fintech company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-to-cut-workforce-by-14-and-focus-on-ai-integration\">Block<\/a> have also announced layoffs due to AI integration. The DL News magazine, founded by the DefiLlama team, will close at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?23\" data-telegram-post=\"forklog\/48264\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In February, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sam-altman-accuses-major-firms-of-using-ai-as-a-pretext-for-layoffs\">stated<\/a> that some companies use artificial intelligence as a pretext for layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the Snap team <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/snap-to-replace-1000-employees-with-ai-to-save-500-million\">announced<\/a> the replacement of 1,000 employees with neural networks to save $500 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dune has announced a restructuring, resulting in a 25% reduction of its workforce. The company&#8217;s head, Fredrik Haga, explained the decision as a need to focus on key products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Dune restructures, cutting 25% of workforce to focus on key products.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1708,1276],"class_list":["post-97121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-dune-analytics","tag-layoffs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Dune restructures, cutting 25% of workforce to focus on key products.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97121","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=97121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97123,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97121\/revisions\/97123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}