🚨 XRP LEDGER HAD A BUG THAT COULD PRINT XRP FROM NOTHING This one is wild. The XRP Ledger just disclosed a bug that could have created brand new $XRP out of thin air. Yes, the coin with a fixed 100 billion supply. What happened? An integer overflow inside the XRPL payment engine, the part that settles trades on the built-in DEX. An attacker could open hundreds of accounts, post offers selling a tiny amount of a token for a huge amount of XRP, then hit all of them with one single payment. The total got too big for the software to count, so the sellers got paid in full while the buyer paid almost nothing. Result = fresh XRP that never existed, spendable like normal XRP. Worse, the safety check that runs after every transaction to make sure no XRP is created used the same broken math, so it would have missed it. Who found it? Researcher Cayden Liao with Veria AI, reported through the XRPL bug bounty on Sept 22. RippleX, Ripple's dev arm, reproduced it, rated it critical and the fix was merged by Sept 23. When was it fixed? xrpld 3.4.1 shipped on Sept 25, quietly, without saying what it fixed. Over 80% of default UNL validators were running it the same day. Public disclosure came Oct 9, and the code has been there since 2015. Most important part: RippleX says there's NO evidence it was ever exploited on any public network. Supply is safe. Why it matters for price: the 100B cap is the whole story institutions buy into. A real exploit would have been a disaster. Instead we got a quiet fix and a clean disclosure, so this is a FUD headline, not a supply event. Don't panic sell a patched bug. CMP: 1.403 (+1.3% 24h) 24h range: 1.377 – 1.412 | Week low: 1.318 ⏱ Short term Hold 1.38 = bounce stays alive Reclaim 1.415 = push to 1.45, then 1.50 Lose 1.377 = retest 1.318 week low

An AI agent from @verialabs found a now-patched XRP Ledger flaw that could mint 18 trillion $XRP in one transaction. RippleX found no evidence of public-network exploitation. The emergency fix bypassed the usual validator vote. via @hardeyjumoh