Dune lower 25% of its employees this week because the crypto knowledge platform restructures round AI-powered analytics and institutional demand for on-chain knowledge.
We’re restructuring Dune to heart our deal with our core knowledge merchandise, which hundreds of consumers throughout the crypto business depend on. Sadly, this week we’ve got needed to lay off 25% of our crew. These are nice folks that I can wholeheartedly advocate – please contact me if you’re…
— hagaetc (@hagaetc) Might 14, 2026
CEO and co-founder Fredrik Haga stated the layoffs are a part of a transfer to strengthen Dune's deal with core knowledge merchandise used throughout the crypto business. He stated the corporate stays well-capitalized and can deal with two main adjustments: AI and bringing establishments on-chain.
The reorganization comes as Dune expands its AI product stack. The corporate lately launched Dune MCP, a mannequin context protocol server. This offers AI brokers entry to Dune's knowledge warehouse spanning over 100 blockchains, decoded sensible contracts, and curated datasets. This instrument is designed to assist customers create dashboards and workflows with out writing SQL or managing knowledge infrastructure.
Dune stated its intensive platform helps blockchain knowledge queries, APIs, DataShare and dashboards throughout over 100 chains. The corporate's web site says it serves greater than 1 million customers and is trusted by greater than 20,000 corporations, together with clients similar to Base, OP Labs, 1inch, and Blockworks.
Haga framed the restructuring round broader market adjustments as monetary property transfer on-chain. He stated Dune is investing in a knowledge layer and extra superior institutional companies as currencies, shares, bonds, commodities and different property transfer to blockchain-based rails.
The corporate was based in 2018 and has change into one of the crucial extensively used analytics platforms in cryptocurrencies by making blockchain knowledge searchable by public dashboards and SQL-based queries.
