ConsenSys Plots Massive Expansion Following 0M Raise
ConsenSys is girding for battle in crypto’s super-hot jobs market with $200 million to spend on up to 400 new hires after a funding round that valued the Ethereum backer at $3.2 billion.“There’s a war for talent going on,” ConsenSys chief strategy officer Simon Morris said in an interview, “and we are going to make sure that we can grow our team, acquire some teams, acqui-hire some teams,” to stay competitive on the Ethereum front.Brooklyn-based ConsenSys is already a force to be reckoned with in the Ethereum ecosystem. It develops hyper-popular crypto wallet MetaMask and manages a handful of developer…