Crypto trading company Jump Trading and cross-chain protocol Wormhole, which was at the center of a hundreds of millions of dollars of attacks last year, have parted ways.
Bloomberg’s According to reports based on people familiar with the matter Jump Trading And Wormhole separated from each other. Wormhole with the separation a separate company with autonomous management became.
While it was emphasized in the news presented that Jump Trading was gradually reducing its operations related to the cryptocurrency sector, it was emphasized that the reason for this separation with Wormhole was not clear.
In parallel with the developments, Wormhole CEO vCOO’sseveral including u senior company employee He also left Jump Trading. According to information provided by sources, the senior staff who resigned will continue their work to run Wormhole as a separate company.
The development in question is expected to increase the number of staff at Jump Crypto, the company’s cryptocurrency arm, by 2022. for 150 people since the peak with 50% reduction It was noteworthy that it coincided with the same period.
Wormhole bridges in the attack last year 317 million dollars He was the target of an attack.