By Isaac • October 10, 2026 7:07 am •
The XRP Ledger just closed one of the most dangerous kinds of blockchain bugs: a flaw that could have broken the promise that no more than 100 billion XRP can exist.
The good news is just as important as the vulnerability itself. Developers say they found no evidence that anybody used it on a public network, and the fix was already widely deployed before the technical details became public.
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According to the official XRP Ledger vulnerability disclosure, the problem lived in the payment engine that routes transactions through the ledger’s built-in exchange. An attacker could have prepared hundreds of deliberately distorted offers and then consumed them in one payment.
When the software added the amounts together,
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