XRP Ledger Foundation denies coercing operators into an emergency patch; warn that a 2-week validator vote could have exposed the bug. Patch released Sept. 25; no exploitation found; critics claim decentralization was misrepresented. An emergency patch for an XRP supply bug was reportedly not forced on operators, with the XRP Ledger Foundation denying coercion. Developers argued that a typical two-week validator vote would have risked attackers exploiting the flaw before remediation. The patch, released Sept. 25 after a bug bounty report, took effect on installed nodes; no exploitation on public networks was found. Critics, including Cyber Capital’s Justin Bons, claimed the project pressured users and misrepresented decentralization.