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A Decade-Old XRP Ledger Bug Could Have Minted XRP Out of Thin Air

A Decade-Old XRP Ledger Bug Could Have Minted XRP Out of Thin Air

The XRP Ledger quietly patched a 2015-era payment engine flaw that could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the network’s fixed supply for just a few hundred XRP in reserves. What Was Actually Broken? The problem sat inside the code that settles payments across the

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