AI discovers XRP Ledger flaw that could mint 18 trillion tokens and put $94 billion market at risk

The decade-old vulnerability escaped years of security reviews and forced XRP Ledger (XRPL) developers to bypass established governance procedures.An AI agent uncovered a decade-old XRPL bug that could create trillions of XRP, prompting an emergency fix.The vulnerability could have let an attacker generate about 18 trillion XRP through a single payment transaction, roughly 180 times the cryptocurrency's original 100 billion token supply, according to security firm Veria Labs.Veria founder Cayden Liao said the flaw potentially threatened XRP's $94 billion market capitalization by undermining the cryptocurrency's fixed supply.The vulnerability was reported on Sept. 22 and patched three days later. RippleX later confirmed that no unauthorized XRP was created, no funds were lost, and investigators found no evidence of exploitation on public networks. The incident was publicly disclosed on Oct. 9.AI uncovers two interconnected flaws that survived a decade of auditsThe discovery emerged from Veria's AI-powered security system, which analyzed rippled, the software underpinning XRPL, and identified two weaknesses that could be combined to bypass its monetary safeguards.The first involved a...