XRP Ledger Skipped Its Own Validator Vote to Patch a Critical Bug

XRP Ledger transaction rules changed without the standard amendment vote. The emergency fix closed a flaw that could have created XRP out of nothing. Validators received compiled software before the source code was public. The XRPL disclosure reports no evidence that anyone exploited the bug on a public network. For the first time in more than ten years, the XRP Ledger changed how it processes transactions without an amendment vote.