A Decade-Old XRP Ledger Bug Could Have Minted XRP Out of Thin Air

Crypto Insight Summary: The XRP Ledger quietly patched a 2015-era payment engine flaw that could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the network’s fixed supply for just a few hundred XRP in reserves. What Was Actually Broken? The problem sat inside the code that settles payments across the XRP Ledger’s built-in decentralized exchange (DEX). According to […] Crypto Insight Analysis: Direction: Bearish XRP Impact: Minor Impact Horizon: Short-term (1-3 days) Reasoning: Security flaw discovery undermines trust in XRP's technical foundation.