XRP Ledger Defends Emergency Patch for Unlimited XRP Bug
Key Highlights: An emergency security release patched a critical 2015 integer overflow vulnerability in the XRP Ledger that could have enabled an attacker to mint unbacked XRP tokens. Critics, including Cyber Capital founder Justin Bons, argued that the rapid rollout of binary updates challenged the network’s decentralized claims. The XRPL Foundation, RippleX, and independent validators ...