An XRP Ledger security bug could have created 18.45 trillion XRP
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An XRP Ledger security bug discovered on September 21, 2026, could have let attackers create 18.45 trillion XRP in a single transaction—more than 184 times the token’s fixed supply. Developers patched the decade-old flaw on September 25, 2026, and found no evidence of exploitation on public networks. Key takeaways The flaw originated in payment-calculation code added in 2015. Veria AI helped uncover a way to create spendable XRP. The emergency patch shipped without public source code. RippleX engineer Mayukha Vadari warned that AI makes hidden security patches easier to reverse engineer.
Source: The Cryptonomist
