Ripple News: A Hidden XRPL Bug Could Have Printed 18T XRP

In the latest Ripple news, the XRP Ledger Foundation and RippleX disclosed a payment-engine vulnerability that could theoretically have created approximately 18 trillion spendable XRP in one transaction, far exceeding the ledger’s intended 100 billion XRP supply. The disclosure says there was no evidence that the flaw was exploited on a public network or that unauthorized XRP was created; it was fixed in xrpld 3.4.1. This was a supply-integrity risk, not a confirmed supply breach. Under specially constructed payment conditions, the XRPL vulnerability could have caused the ledger to credit more XRP than a buyer paid; an existing safety check failed to identify the difference. It's official. XRP Ledger patches a decade-old overflow bug in its payment engine that could have let an attacker mint about 18 trillion spendable XRP in a single transaction. pic.twitter.com/mP6Mv6fkTK — MSB Intel (@MSBIntel) October 11, 2026 Supercharge Your Trading in 2026 With BloFin AI Trading BotsXRP Ledger Payment Overflow: How the Bug Worked The payment engine can consume offers from the order book as one payment crosses a trading path. The disclosure says an unchecked integer overflow could occur when ...