The bug originated in 2015 and remained undetected in one of the industry's most audited codebases for nearly a decade. Liao's team used artificial intelligence to find the flaw and received a $250,000 payment, the maximum bounty available for the network.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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AI’s Discovery of $94B XRP Ledger Bug Nets $250K Bounty
Crypto10 days ago
A security hole in the XRP Ledger's code allowed the potential for infinite token creation before it was identified and patched. The vulnerability, discovered in September, put approximately $94 billion at risk and would have permitted an attacker to mint tokens from nothing, according to researcher Cayden Liao. RippleXDev stated there was no evidence the overflow flaw was exploited before the fix.
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