XRP Ledger patches decade-old bug that could have minted extra XRP
The XRP Ledger has disclosed a critical overflow bug in its payment engine that dated to 2015.
- A critical overflow bug in the XRP Ledger's payment engine could have created XRP beyond its 100 billion supply cap.
- The patch was deployed without the standard validator voting process for XRP Ledger rule changes.
- There is no evidence the bug was ever exploited, and the XRP token supply remains intact.