XRP’s whitepaper states that its total supply is 100 billion and will never be increased, but whether additional XRP can be issued is ultimately determined by the code. A serious vulnerability was recently discovered in the XRP Ledger’s payment engine. When aggregating order-book amounts, it used a 64-bit integer without checking for overflow. An attacker could place hundreds of orders and then consume them all in a single payment. Once the counter wrapped around, the sellers would receive the full amount while the buyer would pay almost nothing, causing the difference to become XRP created out of thin air. The patch has already been deployed, and there is currently no evidence of exploitation on the public internet. More thought-provoking is that this vulnerability may have existed for eleven years. The fact that no one did it does not mean it could not be done.

📉 XRP -10% in a Week $XRP is down ~10% on the week, trading around $1.40. Traders are pointing at open interest: 🔻 OI in dollar terms → -8.6% 🔻 OI in token terms → -4.6% dollar OI falls automatically when price falls. If price drops 10% and nobody closes anything, dollar OI drops ~10% too. The honest number is the token one: -4.6% of positions were actually closed. What else the chart shows: 🔴 Funding → flipped negative, traders now leaning short 🟢 Spot volume → rising, buyers absorbing the drop 🟢 4H RSI → bullish divergence: lower low in price, higher low in RSI Levels in play: 🛡 $1.37-1.41 → the support zone $XRP is sitting in right now ⚠ A quick wick below to sweep stops is very possible 🚀 $1.53 → the trigger that failed last week, still the first real test

🎆5 Coins Started the Same Race on May 27. Here's the Finish Every correction is basically a stress test. Everyone gets the same bad news at the same time, so it's a good moment to see what actually holds a coin up. I took five big ones and imagined it as a race: start on May 27, a shared obstacle in June when $BTC dropped to around $58K, and the finish line today. The question I had in mind: does real utility change anything here? 🟣 SOL moved from $84.28 to $110.24, about +31%. It stumbled hard in June like everyone else, but once it got up, it didn't slow down. 🔵 XRP went from $1.32 to $1.40, roughly +6%. With the crowd cheering for it all year, I honestly expected it much closer to the podium. 🟢 $WBT Coin went from $55.05 to $81.14, almost +47%, and on September 22 it even broke the tape early with a new ATH at $87.91. It recovered from the fall faster than anyone else in this group and kept running after. 🟤 ADA is at $0.23 after starting at $0.24, so it's still a step behind the starting line. 🔴 BNB climbed from $656.6 to $742.35, around +13%. Not much happened along the way, the price just slowly moved up over these four months. After looking at these numbers, my answer is yes, but not in the way people usually mean it. Utility doesn't protect a coin from a market-wide panic. What it changes is the reason people come back. Coins that are used for something every day get that demand back almost automatically, while coins that live mostly on news have to wait for the next good story.