Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: Sei launches its trading-focused blockchain and SEI reaches $1.6B trading volume in the first 24 hours, per CoinMarketCap; many users criticized SEI’s airdrop  —  The buzzy blockchain project’s SEI token saw a flurry of trading as it debuted on several crypto exchanges … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: Adyen reports H1 2023 net revenue up 21% YoY to €739.1M, below €754M est., €320M EBITA, below €365M est., and defends hiring 551 new staff; ADYEN.AS drops 27%+  —  Sustained recruitment by Dutch payments company hits first-half profits  —  European payments company Adyen … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: Filings: FTX’s Alameda can make a $175M claim from the estate of similarly bankrupt crypto company Genesis, significantly below the nearly $4B FTX first sought  —  Though a sharp drop from the $4 billion originally claimed, lawyers hope it will let them get on with winding up estates. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: Analysis: Bing had 1% to 3% market share in search globally in July, the same as January 2023, despite adding Bing Chat; Microsoft calls the new Bing a success  —  The new Bing with AI chatbot is ‘cute, but not a game changer’  —  When Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered version of Bing in February … Lees verder op Tech Meme