Kraken confirms layoffs and appoints board member Arjun Sethi as co-CEO

ChainCatcher news reports that a representative has confirmed that Kraken, the world's sixth-largest cryptocurrency exchange, has undergone a round of layoffs. As the news broke, board member Arjun Sethi was appointed as co-CEO to accelerate the company's growth alongside current CEO David Ripley.
In a blog post announcing Sethi's appointment on Wednesday, the co-CEO wrote: "We are also launching transformations that fundamentally change how we innovate, build, and launch products for our customers. As we achieve net revenue of over $1 billion as a global remote organization, we have fallen into the trap of building organizational hierarchies."

The article states that the company has become top-heavy, with corporate structures and decision-making leaning towards management, thus "we are making organizational discipline decisions to address this issue and eliminate hierarchies; we need to be leaner and faster."

New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac earlier posted on X that two internal sources disclosed that Kraken is laying off 15%. A representative from Kraken declined to comment on this figure.