AI discovers XRP Ledger flaw that could mint 18 trillion tokens and put $94 billion market at risk
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The decade-old vulnerability escaped years of security reviews and forced XRP Ledger (XRPL) developers to bypass established governance procedures. An AI agent uncovered a decade-old XRPL bug that could create trillions of XRP, prompting an emergency fix. The vulnerability could have let an attacker generate about 18 trillion XRP through a single payment transaction, roughly 180 times the cryptocurrency's original 100 billion token supply, according to security firm Veria Labs. Veria founder Cayden Liao said the flaw potentially threatened XRP's $94 billion market capitalization by undermining the cryptocurrency's fixed supply. The vulnerability was reported on Sept.
Source: CryptoSlate
