Critical XRPL Flaw Could Have Let Hackers Mint 18 Trillion XRP, Here’s More

RippleX and the XRP Ledger Foundation fixed a major security bug that, if exploited, could have printed an unlimited amount of assets. The fix, however, has raised community questions about security, network centralization, and more. The team revealed the fixed vulnerability on the network without it being exploited on a public blockchain. It traces to a critical integer overflow bug that lets bad actors create more XRP, breaking its fixed supply. Balances are stored as 64-bit integers, and when a sum exceeds, it wraps to a smaller number rather than fail.