XRP Ledger Pays $250,000 Bounty for Infinite Supply Vulnerability

The XRP Ledger paid Veria Labs its maximum $250,000 bug bounty after the company reported a vulnerability that could have created 18.45 trillion XRP in a single transaction, prompting criticism from blockchain investigator ZachXBT. The flaw could have produced about 184 times the ledger’s stated 100 billion-token supply, with the process repeatable. It was an integer overflow in the payment engine that had existed since 2015. Veria Labs reported the vulnerability Sept. 22 after discovering it Sept. 21. The XRP Ledger released an emergency update Sept.

Source: TokenPost