XRP Ledger patched decade-old bug that could create billions of dollars in XRP from nothing
Researchers demonstrated how a payment could create spendable XRP without the sender funding it, prompting an emergency software release.
Source: CoinDesk
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A fixed-supply cryptocurrency turned out to have a nine-year backdoor to infinite supply. The bug exploited a counting error in the ledger's exchange function — attackers could receive XRP without the sender funding it, violating the 100 billion token cap that XRP's entire institutional pitch depends on. RippleX says it found no evidence of exploitation, which means either no one noticed for a decade or no one is saying.