🚨 XRP'S 100B SUPPLY CAP WAS ALMOST BROKEN — BUT NOBODY NOTICED FOR 10 YEARS. ⚠️
A critical bug in the XRP Ledger's payment engine, live since 2015, could have let a single payment mint new XRP out of thin air.
Researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI reported it through the bug bounty program on September 22. RippleX reproduced the attack, then quietly shipped the fix in xrpld 3.4.1 on September 25.
Here's the catch:
📊 The attack cost only a few hundred XRP to set up — nearly free to attempt.
⚠️ The ledger's own supply check used the same flawed math — it would never have caught it.
🔥 Ripple bypassed the usual 80%-validator vote — the first time in over a decade.
Thinner trust in code = wider risk in your portfolio.
This matters beyond XRP: AI-assisted researchers are finding hidden bugs across crypto at record pace this year.
Did you know your coin's "fixed supply" is just software? 👀
Not financial advice — educational purposes only.
#XRPLedgerPatchesXRPCreationBug #XRP #crypto #Bitcoin
$XRP $BTC $ETH
A critical bug in the XRP Ledger's payment engine, live since 2015, could have let a single payment mint new XRP out of thin air.
Researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI reported it through the bug bounty program on September 22. RippleX reproduced the attack, then quietly shipped the fix in xrpld 3.4.1 on September 25.
Here's the catch:
📊 The attack cost only a few hundred XRP to set up — nearly free to attempt.
⚠️ The ledger's own supply check used the same flawed math — it would never have caught it.
🔥 Ripple bypassed the usual 80%-validator vote — the first time in over a decade.
Thinner trust in code = wider risk in your portfolio.
This matters beyond XRP: AI-assisted researchers are finding hidden bugs across crypto at record pace this year.
Did you know your coin's "fixed supply" is just software? 👀
Not financial advice — educational purposes only.
#XRPLedgerPatchesXRPCreationBug #XRP #crypto #Bitcoin
$XRP $BTC $ETH