Ledger Attack Spreads to EU, AI Finds ’18 Trillion XRP’ Bug: Hodler’s Digest
Engineers patched the flaw within three days and said over 80% of trusted validators installed the fix on release day.
- On September 22, 2026, researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI identified a flaw in the XRP Ledger that could have created coins more than 184 times the original supply of 100 billion XRP.
- Veria Labs warned this bug posed a serious risk to the XRP Ledger's entire market value, which stood at about $94 billion at the time of the report.
- RippleX engineers reproduced the bug and patched it within three days, while over 80% of trusted validators implemented the software on its release day.
- While XRP Ledger developers released binaries quickly, Bitcoin lacks a similar system, as its rule changes involve public processes that can take years to finalize.
- The incident reignited debates on whether AI-driven tools pose a significant threat to crypto networks or are becoming the industry's best defense against vulnerabilities.
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Tampered Ledger reported in Europe following last week’s attacks in Asia. Security firm uses AI to uncover “$94 billion” XRP bug, but receives just a $250K bounty. Hodler’s Digest
XRPL developers patched the BookStep vulnerability, which risked $94 billion and could have resulted in the minting of 18.5 trillion tokens, with the xrpld 3.4.1 patch on September 25th. There is no evidence of exploitation.
XRP Ledger Bug: Ripple Awarded Maximum $250,000 Bounty and This Happened
The $250,000 bounty Ripple awarded to Veria Labs for discovering a critical XRP Ledger vulnerability has drawn criticism from Daniel, CTO at HashLabs, who believes the payment fell far short of what the discovery deserved. Although the security team fixed the flaw before finding any evidence of exploitation, Daniel questioned whether the reward adequately reflected […]
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