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Ripple Warns of AI Threat After Bug That Could Have Minted Trillions of XRP

  • —The XRPL bug could have minted 18.45 trillion XRP in one transaction
  • —The flaw dated back to 2015 and was found by Veria AI on Sept. 21
  • —It stemmed from an integer overflow in XRPL's payment engine
  • —Emergency patch xrpld 3.4.1 shipped Sept. 25, with source code withheld
Why it matters: The case shows AI is accelerating the discovery of critical blockchain bugs, forcing teams to rethink how they ship security fixes.
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Source: Cryptonews.net
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