Here is an accurate and natural translation of the text into English: According to a security report published Friday, a vulnerability in the XRP Ledger payment system could have allowed an attacker to create huge amounts of new XRP tokens at no cost, violating the cryptocurrency’s fixed-issuance rule. The bug, which is believed to have existed since 2015, was discovered by researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI, who reported it to the internal team on September 22. Engineers at RippleX (Ripple’s developer-focused division) reproduced the attack on an isolated server and confirmed that the newly created XRP could be spent in subsequent transactions. RippleX said it found no evidence that the vulnerability had ever been exploited on public networks. All 100 billion XRP were created when the ledger launched in 2012, and its software is designed to make issuing new tokens impossible. However, this security issue could have allowed an attacker to create XRP out of thin air and sell it on exchanges, undermining the maximum supply limit relied upon by institutional investors using the network. The attack was carried out through the ledger’s built-in exchange, where users place offers to trade one token for another.

Poloniex has closed XRP withdrawals on the XRP network. Historically, this kind of pause has often marked routine maintenance or a venue problem, but that is only a pattern and not a forecast. $XRP