Researchers demonstrated how a payment could create spendable XRP without the sender funding it, prompting an emergency software release. A flaw dating to 2015 could have allowed attackers to create and spend new XRP, violating the cryptocurrency’s fixed supply of 100 billion tokens. The vulnerability exploited a counting error in the XRP Ledger’s built-in exchange, allowing hundreds of accounts to receive large amounts of XRP while the buyer paid almost nothing. RippleX said it found no eviden…
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