Safe cuts 14 team members months after Bybit’s $1.43b theft
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Months after the Bybit hack raised alarm over custodial risks, Safe has laid off 14 employees, citing coordination challenges. Safe, a self-custody crypto infrastructure provider, has laid off 14 team members as part of a major restructure, months after a $1.43 billion theft from crypto exchange Bybit was traced back to a compromised Safe developer machine. Today was the toughest day since starting Safe: We are restructuring the teams and parting ways with 14 teammates, people we deeply respect, who’ve each contributed meaningfully to our journey. We know this is incredibly hard. There’s no perfect way to do this, and no words… — lukasschor.eth (@SchorLukas) April 16, 2025 In an X post on Wednesday, Safe’s co-founder Lukas Schor said the firm is “restructuring the teams and parting ways with 14 teammates, people we deeply respect, who’ve each contributed meaningfully to our journey.” Schor added that the decision was driven by growing complexity within the company and increasing expectations from projects building on Safe. “Over the past year, complexity has grown. As the ecosystem evolved and opportunities expanded, we scaled our efforts to explore new paths. But that growth came with increased coordination challenges, and over time, it started to affect our ability to move at the pace we expect of ourselves.” Lukas Schor Schor said Safe is taking extra steps to support those leaving, listing extended garden leave, increased severance, improved token vesting terms, and job placement support within the Ethereum ecosystem. The company will now operate through three new teams: a revenue-focused product company, an innovation-focused R&D lab, and an ecosystem-focused foundation, Schor explained. Each “will have autonomy” and be “more focused, more agile, and better aligned with what the ecosystem expects,” the X post reads. The reorganization comes less than two months after the Bybit theft, which was…
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