Coinbase lay off 1,100 employees, 18% of the total. BlockFi, Crypto.com and Gemini are among the companies that lay off hundreds of people. — Coinbase Global, which operates one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platforms, will lay off about 1,100 employees as part of a plan to reduce announced this week, according to CoinDesk. Coinbase, a listed company in New York, initially announced in May that it would slow down the pace of…