Odaily News: After the latest CPI inflation data was released, the market further increased its bets on Friday that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at next week's meeting. Data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that U.S. core CPI rose 0.3% month-over-month in August, higher than economists' expectation of 0.2%. Currently, market pricing indicates that the probability of the Fed raising rates by 25 basis points at its September 15-16 meeting is about 85%, compared with about 70% before the inflation data was released.

Odaily reports that enterprise AI company Clay has announced the completion of a $115 million Series D funding round, led by Wellington, with participation from Sequoia Capital, StepStone, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, and others. The post-money valuation has risen to $7.1 billion.

Clay stated that its AI agents can build real-time business and customer profiles based on internal and external data such as CRM, and automatically construct and execute workflows according to enterprise goals. Currently, companies including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Stripe have adopted its products. (Reuters)

Odaily reports that due to gasoline costs rebounding after two consecutive months of decline, US consumer prices accelerated in August, reinforcing financial market expectations that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates next week. The US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday that the consumer price index rose 0.4% month-over-month last month, following a modest 0.1% increase in July. Over the 12 months through August, consumer inflation rose 3.4%, unchanged from July's increase.

Thursday's data had already shown that the August producer price index rose, with several key components posting strong gains, and these components feed into the calculation of PCE inflation. This, combined with last week's strong August employment report, further boosted market expectations for a rate hike next week. After the release of the US August CPI data, the market estimated the probability of a Fed rate hike next week at about 90%.

According to Odaily, Jiang Zhuoer posted on X platform that he has sold 100% of his BTC position at $77,226.

Odaily: U.S. short-term interest rate futures fell after inflation data was released, as markets increased their bets on a September Fed rate hike.

Odaily News: The US August seasonally adjusted core CPI monthly rate came in at 0.3%, the highest since May this year, exceeding the market expectation of 0.2%, with the previous reading at 0.2%. The US August unadjusted core CPI annual rate fell to 2.4%, declining for three consecutive months and hitting a new low since April 2021, in line with expectations, with the previous reading at 2.5%. (Jinshi)

Odaily News: US August unadjusted CPI YoY came in at 3.4%, versus expectations of 3.40% and a previous reading of 3.40%. (Jinshi)

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, address 0xc02...3f59c bought 9.53 million Niulai tokens at an average price of $0.1153 around 8 AM this morning. Less than 10 hours after building the position, the token's market cap broke through $150 million, hitting an all-time high (currently retraced to $135 million), with its peak floating profit reaching $397,000.

Odaily News: Before the release of U.S. August CPI data, according to CME's "FedWatch": the probability that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged through September is 30.6%, while the probability of a cumulative 25 basis point rate hike is 69.4%. The probability that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged through October is 19.1%, the probability of a cumulative 25 basis point rate hike is 54.8%, and the probability of a cumulative 50 basis point rate hike is 26.1%.

Odaily reports that SlowMist has disclosed that the Liquid Network was attacked on September 6 via a Rangeproof verification cache key collision vulnerability. The attacker minted approximately 3,998.5 L-BTC without collateral — with no corresponding BTC peg-in — and then within minutes converted them to BTC on the Bitcoin mainnet via peg-out. After the incident, approximately 3,400 BTC was returned to the Liquid Federation peg wallet, but approximately 598.5 BTC remains under the attacker's control.

SlowMist noted that the root cause of the vulnerability lies in the fact that the Rangeproof verification cache key in Elements did not include length prefixes when concatenating multiple variable-length fields, allowing different parameter combinations to potentially generate the same cache key. The attacker triggered a cache collision by constructing transactions, causing nodes to hit a "verification passed" cached result, thereby bypassing secp256k1_rangeproof_verify and the minimum amount check, ultimately accepting outputs not backed by real assets and completing the L-BTC minting. SlowMist stated that it has traced the fund flows on the Bitcoin side and completed its analysis of the incident.

Odaily News: "White-haired Stock God" Serenity published a post blasting social media platform X, stating that X should crack down on all "engagement networks" that pay others to quote or comment on their posts. Some companies pay influencers to comment on or quote the company's posts; they also mass-create new associated accounts with "Finance" or country names, and once these accounts reach a certain scale, they boost engagement metrics through methods such as cross-referencing each other's posts.

Serenity added that these associated accounts could eventually accumulate tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of followers, and further leverage their influence to boost the visibility of other associated accounts. If this model continues to develop, X could ultimately be dominated by "engagement networks" marketing around company products, while independent, authentic voices on the platform would be squeezed out.

Odaily reports that according to Lookonchain monitoring, a newly created wallet BmKrss (BmKrss7...3PW) has withdrawn 22,686 SOL from Binance, worth $2.25 million; of which 17,106 SOL has been used to buy 5.41 million STONK, spending $1.7 million.

Odaily reports: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) stated that under the Demat 2.0 pilot, three issuers have raised a cumulative 102.5 billion rupees (approximately $1.072 billion) through tokenized corporate bonds. The pilot utilizes distributed ledger technology to issue, hold, and settle corporate bonds.

Among them, REC was the first to complete a 50 billion rupee fundraising on September 7, with 18 investors participating; L&T raised 50 billion rupees on September 9, subscribed by 4 investors; IIFL raised 2.5 billion rupees on the same day, subscribed by 1 investor.

SEBI stated that Demat 2.0 records corporate bonds as native digital tokens on depository institutions' distributed ledgers, and connects to wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) through the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Unified Market Interface, enabling atomic settlement of bonds and funds, which is expected to shorten post-issuance fund settlement time from the traditional 2 to 3 days to same-day.

SEBI emphasized that tokenized bonds do not constitute a new category of corporate bonds, and their ISIN, issuer obligations, coupons, maturity dates, covenants, ratings, and investor rights remain consistent with traditional electronic corporate bonds. Currently, the first phase of the pilot is aimed at institutional issuance, with secondary trading and retail investor participation to be advanced in subsequent phases. (The Block)