XRP Ledger Security Fix Addresses Critical Supply Vulnerability

XRP Ledger Security has been questioned following the issuance of a patch by the developers in response to a critical bug that had the potential for malicious parties to generate further spendable XRP tokens despite the fixed quantity of 100 billion on the network. The bypassing of the regular two-week validation voting system was justified by the fact that waiting would give time to the exploiters to exploit the weakness. XRP Ledger Security was rolled out three days after the report of the bug bounty, with immediate effect.