The XRP Ledger Bug That Could Have Minted Billions of Fake XRP, Explained
On October 9, 2026, RippleX disclosed a decade-old integer overflow bug in the XRP Ledger's payment engine that could have let someone mint spendable XRP beyond the 100 billion supply cap. Here's what the bug actually did, how it was found and fixed, and why the patch skipped the normal validator vote.