🚨 XRP Ledger Just Patched a 10-Year-Old Bug—but It Was Never Exploited
The XRP Ledger disclosed and patched a critical payment-engine vulnerability that could theoretically have allowed XRP to be created beyond its 100 billion supply cap.
LIVE / CONFIRMED: The bug was found through Ripple’s bug bounty program and fixed in xrpld 3.4.1, released September 25. XRPL says there is no evidence it was exploited on public networks.
But here’s the catch: this was a theoretical risk, not confirmed excess XRP issuance. The emergency release also introduced fixBatchV1_2, which rejects Batch inner transactions using the wrong wrapper.
There’s one detail worth watching: transparency. XRPL says the security-sensitive source code has not yet been published and will be released later alongside a retrospective.
The takeaway: XRPL shipped a major security fix and activated atomic Batch transactions, but investors should separate the patched vulnerability from any claim that XRP supply was compromised.
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The XRP Ledger disclosed and patched a critical payment-engine vulnerability that could theoretically have allowed XRP to be created beyond its 100 billion supply cap.
LIVE / CONFIRMED: The bug was found through Ripple’s bug bounty program and fixed in xrpld 3.4.1, released September 25. XRPL says there is no evidence it was exploited on public networks.
But here’s the catch: this was a theoretical risk, not confirmed excess XRP issuance. The emergency release also introduced fixBatchV1_2, which rejects Batch inner transactions using the wrong wrapper.
There’s one detail worth watching: transparency. XRPL says the security-sensitive source code has not yet been published and will be released later alongside a retrospective.
The takeaway: XRPL shipped a major security fix and activated atomic Batch transactions, but investors should separate the patched vulnerability from any claim that XRP supply was compromised.
Click the $XRP widget below and check the latest developments.
$XRP
.
.
.
#XRP #Crypto #Write2Earn
Not financial advice. DYOR.