An 11-year-old integer overflow in the XRP Ledger payment engine could have created spendable $XRP out of thin air and broken the 100 billion cap that holders treated as unbreakable.
We've all felt that pit in the stomach when an old exploit surfaces and years of conviction could vanish overnight. The fear of silent supply inflation is what keeps veterans checking every protocol after a cycle or two.
The flaw lived in the payment engine since around 2015. An attacker could stack hundreds of specially crafted offers then fire a single payment to mint new $XRP that would have circulated like any other token. Researchers reported it through the bug bounty on September 2 and it was patched before anyone could use it.
I watched similar close calls with $BTC in the early days and $ETH after the DAO. The difference between a disaster and a footnote was always who found the bug first.
This kind of scare tests whether you still believe after the code gets stress-tested in public. Eleven years is a long time for something this serious to hide.
What's your take on whether this actually strengthens $XRP or just reminds us nothing is ever fully audited?
#XRP #XRPL #CryptoSecurity
We've all felt that pit in the stomach when an old exploit surfaces and years of conviction could vanish overnight. The fear of silent supply inflation is what keeps veterans checking every protocol after a cycle or two.
The flaw lived in the payment engine since around 2015. An attacker could stack hundreds of specially crafted offers then fire a single payment to mint new $XRP that would have circulated like any other token. Researchers reported it through the bug bounty on September 2 and it was patched before anyone could use it.
I watched similar close calls with $BTC in the early days and $ETH after the DAO. The difference between a disaster and a footnote was always who found the bug first.
This kind of scare tests whether you still believe after the code gets stress-tested in public. Eleven years is a long time for something this serious to hide.
What's your take on whether this actually strengthens $XRP or just reminds us nothing is ever fully audited?
#XRP #XRPL #CryptoSecurity