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Ripple Discloses Critical XRP Ledger Bug That Threatened XRP's Fixed Supply

  • —A payments-engine overflow could have let sellers receive more XRP than buyers paid
  • —The bug sat in the codebase for over a decade and threatened the 100 billion XRP cap
  • —The patch shipped Sept. 25 in xrpld 3.4.1 with no signs of mainnet exploitation
  • —Ripple will expand bug bounties, AI-assisted scanning and formal verification with Common Prefix
Why it matters: The disclosure highlights risks in XRPL's aging code and accelerates Ripple's shift to AI auditing and formal verification.
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Source: Cryptonews.net
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